
Bryan is a servant leader with diverse expertise solving global operations challenges in critical markets and coaching lean, visual methods to obtain high levels of customer intimacy and drive growth. He is a results driven executive with a strong background in developing effective and beneficial advisory boards throughout his corporate career. He is experienced establishing and leveraging key partnerships to achieve goals and bring new opportunities.
Bryan has a best-in-class executive MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, complemented by two Bachelor of Science degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Bryan has a strong background in business leadership with a 20-year history of success in aligning people, process and technology to drive business growth. He has rescued orphaned businesses, turned around negative trends, restructured organizations, achieved significant cost savings, delivered projects under strict deadlines and developed key processes and systems.
Bryan’s career has built experience in all the “dark” sides of a full business as an owner and has led teams in operations, sales, purchasing, project management, engineering, business development, commissioning, support, and marketing across the globe. These teams have introduced many new products to market, added revenue through new customers, conducted market surveys through tradeshows and on-site visits, established long term customer relationships making technical presentations and demonstrations. Key to these successes has been the incredible teams with Bryan as a servant leader removing barriers, training and mentoring the experts to enable business and personal success.
Phil is a TAB Business Owner, business coach, and peer group facilitator (TAB Northern Colorado, Partner), as well as a member of the franchise development team with The Alternative Board (Worldwide). His mission is to help local business owners and qualified franchise candidates make fully informed decisions about whether TAB is the right vehicle to achieve their personal vision of success – whether as a local TAB advisory board member or as a new TAB Business Owner.
Phil’s passion for business and people has taken him to more than 15 countries to conduct sales training and to help others launch new business ventures. His strengths include training and consulting in sales process, sales skills, and sales acceleration, along with team leadership, performance coaching, and team conflict mitigation. His extensive experience brought him to TAB in 2014, initially as a sales trainer, then as Director of Membership Acquisition. He personally supported the on-site launch of more than 50 TAB business units in the US, as well as 9 master franchisees in Mexico, Spain, France, Austria, South Africa, and India. His recent partnership in TAB Northern Colorado will allow him to bring his passion and experience to serve business owners of Boulder County and Northern Colorado.
Phil joined the private sector in 2004, after a 20-year public agency and non-profit organization career to launch Flame Communications, LLC., a business development consulting firm. From 2010 to early 2014, Phil led business development for Novo Energy and Oilfield Distributing, where he helped develop energy projects and managed equipment and professional service sales throughout their US and international markets.
My biggest financial win so far with TAB is generating over $50K in new revenue from existing clients based on applying wisdom from my fellow board members. What really fires me up though is the greater client impact I've been able to have as a direct result of deepening and expanding these consulting engagements.
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