"I want to thank you for the course today. You were phenomenal. I have been to several sales classes over the last 25 years and other than the 3 month Dale Carnegie course, I never found them to be much value – most have been like boring college classes with a disinterested teacher reading from a book. When I read your course outline I was definitely intrigued and, now, so glad I attended. Your class was interactive, focused, organized and flowed very well. I learned (or at least refreshed my memory) things that I could be doing better in pursuing clients with all of my businesses. Great job!!
--Cheryl Hawes
About Us
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Dana Barz |
Dana Barz is the founder of danamics and a native of Germany. She holds a German 5 year program master degree in adult education and organization development. Dana has worked in Training & Development for 15 years, managed training functions internally for over 7 years and has been working as an independent consultant delivering training and implementing initiatives to foster organizational effectiveness for 10 years. When she worked as an “internal” she was recognized for her natural talent of building strong and dynamic groups. She created world-class programs in a short period of time.
Dana brings a wealth of acquired knowledge to her projects and a genuine desire to assist others to see them grow and to fully tap into their potential.
She is also an exciting, dynamic speaker with a fresh perspective on leadership development, management skills and customer service. No wonder—that she is a highly sought after key-note speaker delivering speeches within Oregon, Washington and her native country Germany.
Dana has worked with numerous organizations and Fortune 100 companies across the globe, and has made a positive impact on quality improvement. Dana is committed to enhancing people’s performance in all areas of their lives.
Sue Annis Hammond is a Change Management Consultant with a unique combination of extensive consulting experience, academic training, and entrepreneurial success. She has over thirty years of consulting experience and over ten years entrepreneurial experience in founding and running a business (www.thinbook.com). Sue worked at Principal Financial Group and Meredith Corporation for the first ten years of her career and has been an external consultant for the past twenty years. She has worked in a wide range of industries for many Fortune 500 companies including American Airlines, Accenture, Mary Kay Inc, JC Penney, Pearson, and Coca-Cola NA.
Sue is also a nationally recognized expert on Appreciative Inquiry, a change process that looks for what works in organizations. Over 150,000 copies of her book, The Thin Book of® Appreciative Inquiry have sold. Sue is also the co-author of The Thin Book of® Naming Elephants: How to Surface Undiscussables for Greater Organizational Success. Because of the original thin book’s success and requests from customers for more thin books, Sue founded Thin Book Publishing Co. This company is devoted to publishing “just in time” cutting-edge knowledge to organizational clients. The latest book, The Thin Book of Smart People Skills: 8 Tools for the Savvy Leader has just been released. Additional titles are in progress. Sue has also created a series of innovative products to provide research-based and best-practice tools for other consultants.
Sue’s key areas of consulting expertise and service are change management, organizational alignment through managing organizational culture with organizational goals, leadership development, and executive coaching. Sue completed a Master’s of Organizational Development at Bowling Green Graduate School of Business, where she was the 1991 Minninger Foundation Fellow. She also holds a BA and MA in English. She has continued her development with many certification programs in coaching, facilitation, and negotiation.