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FAMILY BUSINESSES: How will your leadership team build sustainable personal and business growth?
Get your team the tools and experts they need to perform at their peak and overcome daunting challenges.
Phil Cohen, Founder and President, Cohen Architectural Woodworking
Cohen Architectural Woodworking
We all sleep better at night. We take guilt free, uninterrupted vacations. We’ve secured relationships with large, excellent companies who bring us millions of dollars in sales each year. In 2011, when Bill started working with us, our revenue was $4.1 million, with 35 employees. 2015-2017, we have averaged $11.5 million with 80 employees. Our…
Brian Quinn, Attorney at Law
I had no experience in the business world, and Bill assisted me with meeting the unique challenges I faced as the next generation just coming into a family business. He helped me grow from a young professional just coming into a business to a business owner and entrepreneur. He has a genuine passion for helping…
Stanley Allen, President, Allen Foods, Inc.
President, Allen Foods, Inc.
Bill’s vast knowledge played a huge role in the changes that took us from a very entrepreneurial company, to one that maintained the previous culture, yet was able to grow and expand with careful planning and targeting. Bill grew our sales organization to in excess of 100 sales people and numerous support personnel. Yet the…
Stephen M. McMullen, MS/MIS, Clinical Information Systems Analyst, Citation Computer Systems, Inc.
MS/MIS, Clinical Information Systems Analyst, Citation Computer Systems, Inc.
I worked with Ann at Citation Computer Systems, Inc. I always felt Ann carried herself as a professional in presentation and actions. She knows her craft.
Peggy Fisher, Chief Strategy and Operating Officer, The Stelter Company
Chief Strategy and Operating Officer, The Stelter Company
Of all the valuable talent we have tapped, Bill Prenatt stood out for his ability to decipher our company’s culture and strategy quickly and without pretension. Originally hired as a sales coach, Bill’s skill for analyzing the business and inspiring each member of the management team on a personal level opened the doors for a…
Ray Edwards, President and CEO AAIM Employers’ Group
AAIM GM and SVP
Bill helped AAIM reach extraordinary sales and service performance goals by creating a new level of professionalism for our sales team. He established valuable sales measurement tools and helped us to set high standards for performance. He was instrumental in guiding us to select high quality sales representatives and sales leaders for our organization. He…
Tom Griffin, President Griffin Personnel Group
President Griffin Personnel Group
We originally engaged Bill Prenatt of Simply Successful to examine our family owned business and make suggestions on how we could increase revenues. Bill quickly assessed our situation and offered efficient, effective solutions that reduced our operating costs and increased sales. I would quickly recommend Bill Prenatt and Simply Successful to any business owner who is…
Bob Herdler, Principal Symphony Financial
Principal Symphony Financial
As a result of our working together, Bill helped us better understand how to work as a team, each with our own well-defined roles, and grow our business. Now we have an Organizational Chart, Operational Standards, and an effective internal Communications System. We also have systems to identify prospect priorities, develop existing customers into client, and…
David Coverstone, AAIM GM and SVP
President and CEO AAIM Employers' Group
Bill Prenatt helped us build our specific selling skills (prospecting, communicating our value proposition, handling objections, closing, etc.) but more importantly he helped us understand how the sales function integrated into everyone’s role in the organization. Bill is not your typical “consultant”. He learned our business ‘hands on’ and supported our mission as a true…
Mark S. Wrighton, Chancellor, Washington University
I worked closely with Ann Prenatt when she served Washington University as Vice Chancellor for Human Resources. She is a problem solver, as demonstrated by sensitive and caring resolution to many complex personnel issues. She is an excellent listener and able to understand all sides in working to bring a good outcome from human conflict.…
What Is Whole Brain Leadership?
In uncertain times, THIS is what we know for sure about family businesses:
When your company struggles, you likely face two main roadblocks:
- constant change
- family dynamics
Does your leadership team sabotage its own success without knowing it? How will team members get the tools they need in order to anticipate change and build better relationships?
Like an iceberg, the biggest part of our challenges and their solutions are unseen.
Symptoms are apparent, but we don’t see the root causes. We use only a fraction of our natural capacity to solve the problems we face.
Healthy relationships are the key to productive business systems. We help our clients sustain a culture of achievement and trust. By focusing on personal and professional growth for individuals, we see leaders begin to operate at the top of their game and transform into results-oriented teams.
We blaze a better trail to success.
Whole Brain Leadership Resources provide expert coaching from experienced and like-minded entrepreneurs.
Using proven and curated assessments and coaching resources, we help individuals develop critical thinking skills that help them anticipate, manage, and think differently.
A culture of achievement is born when managers expand their capacity and lead with their whole brain. As a result of their amazing growth, they
- Think more strategically
- Make better decisions
- Lead more effectively
Over time, we have witnessed remarkable transformations that continue to inspire us. With a better understanding of themselves and a common language, individuals can develop powerful whole-brain leadership skills. Instead of working randomly, family leadership unites to create a culture of achievement and sustainable growth.
Whole Brain Leadership Resources
Bill Prenatt
Simply Successful, LLC
Bill’s methodology as a sales leader was instrumental in growing annual revenues from $100 million to $280 million for a family-owned, midwestern company headquartered in St. Louis. From the earliest days of his career, Bill’s passion has been to serve others well. He helps people and organizations achieve their maximum potential through leading by example, coaching, and mentoring.
Ann Prenatt
Simply Successful, LLC
As the Vice Chancellor for Human Resources for Washington University, Ann served as a member of the senior leadership team and led a team of 53 human resources professionals. They focused upon the development, design and delivery of strategic support and services for the University’s faculty and staff. Ann has a quiet determination to help organizations function at higher levels by solving problems related to the human side of the equation.
Dale Furtwengler
Teaching Confidence
The best solutions are often the opposite of what we expected. Counterintuitive thinking and confidence are key elements in getting to these solutions quickly. As is your ability to tap into the power of your subconscious mind consciously and at will.
Glenda Woolley
5 Star Leadership LLC
What if you could tap into your greatest motivations, dramatically improve your relationships and accelerate your results? Everyone you encounter is motivated differently, communicates differently, and views tasks and relationships differently. The John Maxwell DISC Profile assessment will help you achieve greater success when you learn to value your strengths as well as those of others.
Mary Kutheis
MCK Coaching
Successful business owners never settle for good when they can be exceptional. And exceptional businesses need skilled and inspiring Leaders. The evolution from Owner to Leader is built on the framework of the E3 Shift: Effective Priorities, Emotional Intelligence and Exceptional Teams
Deanna Phelps
The Hadron Group Inc.
Do you believe it’s possible to restore and reenergize a low functioning workgroup into a “dream team?” Imagine aligning and leveraging brain strengths with tasks, increasing productivity, having more fun and experiencing effective and respectful communications. Since 1992, time-tested practical neuroscience tools and coaching deliver powerful and immediate results.
Will Hanke
Red Canoe Media
Will Hanke has two passions: supporting our US veterans and helping businesses tell their story online – providing them with increased exposure, more customers, and higher revenues. For over twenty years, his company, Red Canoe Media, has helped mom & pop businesses, startups, and multi-million-dollar companies with their digital marketing strategies.
Navigating Leadership in a Quantum World
Tapping the Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Neuroscientists have measured the conscious mind’s speed to be the computer-equivalent rate of 30 to 60 bits per second depending upon the complexity of the task. They’ve measured the subconscious mind’s speed at 10 to 12 million bits per second.
Imagine the competitive advantage you, your staff and your organization will gain when all of you learn to access that power, consciously and at will.
In this program you’ll discover that the subconscious mind is the quantum element of our humanity that enables us to achieve things that cannot be achieved consciously. You’ll learn how to tap into your subconscious mind to dramatically enhance your leadership capabilities in four areas:
- Mental capacity – mental capacity increases dramatically as you and your staff employ both your conscious and subconscious mind simultaneously.
- Emotional awareness – productivity increases as you and your staff learn to convert emotions into productive behaviors.
- Energy management – you’ll discover your natural energy flow and how to align tasks to that flow to dramatically increase your productivity and that of your staff.
- Creativity – creativity requires connections between seemingly disparate concepts which the subconscious mind does more quickly and effectively than the conscious mind; enhanced creativity assures an ongoing competitive advantage.
The presenters for this program are:
Deanna Phelps
Deanna is the co-founder of the Hadron Group, an organization dedicated to applying the benefits of neuroscience to the enhancement of leadership capabilities and organizational excellence.
Dale Furtwengler
Dale is the founder of Teaching Confidence. The third level of confidence deals specifically with the subconscious mind and how to tap into its power consciously and at will.
To become the envy of your industry, gain a long-lasting competitive advantage, and be recognized for operational excellence, request program information.
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About Us
Driven with a passion to help others succeed, Bill and Ann Prenatt draw from decades of experience and their own professional successes. Working in concert, they take a customized approach to offer an uncommonly powerful ability to help their clients tackle the mounting “growing pains” of business. The result is the kind of success that entrepreneurs know is possible but struggle to achieve.
While their depth of expertise allows them to solve complex problems, their methodology is simple. Long term success is the goal; they work methodically with principals and their teams while transferring knowledge to key players. They then continue as coaches while the business team capitalizes on their potential.