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We have assembled a team of highly professional men and women of character. Each of our team members and associates is fully committed to exceeding your expectations. Our clients frequently comment on our interactive, friendly approach. Our team will feel like an extension of your own team providing access to incredible resources and greater bench strength. Please take a moment to get to know us as we are ready to serve.
Ron Kaminski, Founder and CEO of Corporate Quest, holds his BA in Marketing. Prior to founding Corporate Quest, Ron enjoyed 10 years of success in sales in the technology and software industries, including a position as Director of Business Development in a subsidiary of a large public software company. While there he built, maintained, and facilitated senior level implementation teams with a focus on productivity and sales effectiveness. Ron is recognized as a Strategic Partner of Self Management Group and is a Certified Self Management Coach with a senior executive client base. Since founding Corporate Quest in 2002 Ron and the CQ team have served thousands of employees within dozens of companies. Ron’s vision for CQ is that the firm will continue to partner with clients for the purpose of creating high performance teams and cultures that attract and retain top-performers where people and profits can thrive. Ron believes that technology has leveled the playing field so much that true competitive advantage requires the development of powerful teams. The need for companies to maximize human performance has never been greater. Ron believes the issues of talent screening, selection, development and retention of top performers are only gaining momentum thanks to the "brain drain" our economy will experience as a result of the impending baby-boomer retirement wave. Ron’s vision required assembling a team of the best organizational development gurus, team development facilitators, performance focused coaches, trainers, and the most proven talent selection and retention tools in the market. “I am so proud of the team of all-stars we have assembled. We can now provide our clients with phenomenal bench strength in the areas of individual, team, and organizational performance” says Ron. When asked the reason for the tremendous growth of CQ, Ron says, “We listen. We do not tell our clients only what they want to hear. We are focused on producing results. We love our work, and we care deeply about the success of our clients.” Ron resides in Bay Village, Ohio with his beautiful wife Maria, their son Casey and daughter Mallory. Ron is an avid sports fan and enjoys coaching youth sports. He is an advocate for the non-profit Nuhop Center for Experiential Learning, and runs charity marathons as a member of Team Leukemia. Dr. Marshall (Psychologist) is a well recognized and sought after, author, key note speaker, coach, organizational psychologist and innovative thought leader. He is the President and founder of The Self-Management Group and has a doctorate in Psychology from York University where he also worked as an Assistant Professor. Over a 25 year period, John has helped hundreds of organizations develop into self-managed, high performance cultures. Using advanced statistical methods and principles of applied organizational psychology, tens of thousands of self-management program participants have increased their personal and professional effectiveness by developing the critical success habits that lead to performance and results. His ground-breaking key note presentations have a profound impact on any audience. Participants leave with a new understanding of their strengths and think diferently about their commitments, their responsibilities and their role as a partner, mentor, coach or performer. John's doctoral thesis was on the effects and influences of competitive environments, of which he has first hand knowledge from his background as a hockey player in the Philadelphia Flyers organization (1967-68), and while coaching hockey at York University and in Italy. John has developed several unique programs which deal with attitude management, motivation, commitment, effort and team development. He authored and co-authored several books and articles on the subjects of organizational growth, training, competition in sports and business. Having sold over 30,000 copies, each of John's books is supported by a state-of-the-art training program. These include: Hiring Winners: Selecting Sales Professionals Principles of Self Management Managing Effort: Getting Results Personal & Professional Longevity Under Stress John was involved in the development of all of SMG's profiles. These profiles and screening tools have evaluated over 3.5 million job seekers and employees. SMG profiles include the Personal Orientation Profile (POP), the Management Pro, the Professional Pro, the Customer Care Pro, the Service Pro, the Supervisor Pro, the Contact Center Pro, the Admin Pro, the EQ Pro, the Franchise Pro, the Career Pathing Guide, the Career Interest Profile, the Career Management Pro, the Quality Service Profile, the Sales Pro, the Sport Profile, the IT Pro, the SMG Organizational Effetiveness Survey, the On-Demand 360 E-Referencing tool, th E-Exit Interview tool, and most recently the Successor Pro and the new enhanced POP 7.0 for seletion and development of high performing, self-managed sales professionals. *Self Management Group is a world leader in screening, selecting, training and retaining high performing managers. For over 25 years, SMG has partnered with the world's leading companies to develop high performance, self-managed cultures. Bob McHardy is the President of The PLUS Corporation Canada and PLUS USA and is a principal in The Self Management Resources Corporation. He is an accomplished public speaker, management trainer, sales trainer and consultant. He knows the world of sales, sales management, training and development, having spent his entire career working in these areas. Since 1990, Bob built the PLUS Corporation into a major training organization working with some of North America's largest and most respected Banks, Trusts, Life Insurance, Pharmaceutical and Computer Sales companies. Much of the success of PLUS is attributed to the widespread acceptance of their unique training programs, called "Managing Effort," which focuses on the development of "self-managers" from both the management and employee perspective. Jay Kipps is a Certified Self-Management Master Coach, Trainer, experienced facilitator and a sought after marketing and business advisor. Jay's business advice frequently appears in training and business related publications. He has owned/operated several successful business and he has helped many leaders and their companies reach their marketing and revenue goals. Jay is widely recognized as a leading Experiential Team Building expert, trainer and performance coach. Jay's past appointments have included President of Flint & Steel Inc, Program Director for Lead America's Leadership University Program, Director of Canada's largest team development center, President of the Challenge Course Advisory, and senior consultant to the Trainers & Developers Advisory. He was also program director for Above & Beyond and lead facilitator for both Summit Training & Development and The Frontier Group. As Self Management Group's resident Business Development Advisor & Marketing Director, Jay's personal mission is to integrate science and measurement into the art of training, team building and coaching. He has committed himself to helping others build high performance "will do" cultures through the installation of the Self-Management System. *Self Management Group is a world leader in screening, selecting, training and retaining high performing managers. For over 25 years, SMG has partnered with the world's leading companies to develop high performance, self-managed cultures. Keith Hall has over 25 years experience in training and development and performance management. Keith specializes in customizing facilitation processes and workshops that enable individuals to grow and develop their skill sets to maximize their effectiveness as leaders. He is the President of Leadership Advantage, a company that provides training in skills sets that make a difference in the growth and development of leaders. Prior to starting his own firm, he was a VP for Auxilium Pharmaceuticals in Philadelphia, PA. He was employed by GlaxoSmithKline and took an early retirement from his position as Director for Medical Sales Training and Development for GlaxSmithKline Consumer Healthcare. Phil Zitelli is the president of Zitelli & Associates. He has the professional background and personal style that more than 5,000 executives have found successful in developing themselves and their people. Phil is the past Director of Leadership and Professional Development for GlaxoSmithKline pharma. He served as the strategic advisor to sales management and directed hundreds of professional development initiatives. Phil has a B.S. degree in Management and Finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University and is a graduate of Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government's widely acclaimed University Associates Program in Organization and Human Resource Development and an alumna of the Advanced Level Leadership Educators Program. Richard Headley has worked with senior executives from the United States and a dozen other countries in Latin America and Europe for over 30 years to develop leaders and build more competitive organizations. He has served a diverse set of organizations, ranging from a global energy company where he helped increase its managerial bench strength, to preparing a R&D driven company to compete for non-government customers and enabling a growing mid-size manufacturing firm to implement a leadership and succession planning system. Organizations that want to attract, train and retain top talent turn to Dick for executive coaching and strategic human resource development. Michael Settonni has earned a national reputation for excellence as a television reporter and producer. He has earned 8 Emmy awards, 4 Golden Microphone awards and more than a dozen Press Club awards for his television work locally, nationally and internationally. Mr. Settonni has worked for NBC, CNN, The Walt Disney Company and network affiliated television stations in Boston, San Diego, Cleveland and Portland. Mr. Settonni is President and CEO of Broadcast Media Ideas, a Cleveland-based full-service creative agency that works with companies and organizations - both large and small - to maximize jointly developed ideas using broadcast, CD-ROM, DVD, Internet web-streaming and non-traditional communication channels. "Come Join Our Success," an interactive video CD-ROM produced for the City of Cleveland, was awarded the prestigious AEGIS award for national excellence. Mr. Settonni served as Communications Director for the successful Jane Campbell for Mayor of Cleveland campaign and as Chief Campaign Strategist for the successful Mark Elliott for Mayor of Brook Park campaign, as well as dozens of Local Mayor, Judicial and School Levy Campaigns. Michael was recently honored by the Center of Mental Retardation with the Media Award for his contributions to creating awareness about the needs of those with disabilities. United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Cleveland also named Mr. Settonni volunteer of the year in 2001. Dr. McNally (Psychologist) received his Ph.D. from the University of Akron, where his educational and research initiatives helped the collaborative Program in Counseling Psychology to achieve a #3 ranking in two recent analyses of research productivity and overall excellence in applied psychology training programs. Since entering the field of psychology in the late 1990's, Dr. McNally has publilshed regularly in professional and academic journals while also co-authoring one textbook and several book chapters. His most recent appears in the Journal of Counseling and Development (2007), and The Counseling Psychologist (2008). Dr. McNally's primary areas of interest include scale construction and validity concerns in personality asessment, human resource networks and contextual applications of psychological theory, and integrative approaches to multiculturalism/diversity training and intervention. In 2005 Dr. McNally was honored by Division 18 of the American Psychological Association for his work in the area of public service psychology. Prior to becoming a psychologist, Dr. McNally worked as a news reporter and production supervisor in the Media Services division of The McGraw-Hill Companies. In his work for Corporate Quest he incorporates a unique sensibility that derives equally from his work with Fortune 500 companies and his expertise in the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of a wide variety of interpersonal and personality concerns. Dr. McNally retains memberships in the American Psychological Association (APA), the Ohio Psychological Association (OPA), and numerous divisions of the APA. He currently teaches in the Department of Psychology at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. Bonnie Kaminski believed in the Corporate Quest vision the moment it was presented to her back in 2002. Her first response was, "Tell me what I can do!" Bonnie joined Corporate Quest as Director of Client Services at CQ's Corporate Headquarters in Cleveland, bringing to the table a strong background in Information Technology and Customer Service working ten years as a Desktop Support Specialist for a private University, and Journalism serving as a free lance beat reporter for two of Ohio's largest newspapers as well as authoring numerous feature, news and free lance publications. In addition to her administrative services, Bonnie became certified as a CQ Facilitator for corporate team building events. Eventually, experience and training led to a Lead Facilitation role, in addition to recruiting and training new members of the CQ Facilitator family. Bonnie is currently in the process of assisting in the opening a new branch of Corporate Quest in the Charlotte, North Carolina area serving national and local clientele. Her skills are varied and she wears a number of hats at Corporate Quest. The role she enjoys the most is face to face interaction with the client, because "I always see enlightenment and satisfaction staring back at me. It's a good company in that its focus is on individual growth and value. I'm proud to be part of it all." Tara Charobee joins the Corporate Quest Charlotte Team as Business Development Officer. She brings a strong background in marketing, customer service and an entrepreneurial spirit. Tara graduated with honors from Ohio's John Carroll University, double majoring in Communications and Spanish. She went on to teach high school Spanish while at the same time establishing a translation services company. Among those services, she developed industry specific curriculum to help managers better communicate with their Spanish speaking employees. This was her first exposure to a small area of corporate team building, and once she saw the potential, was hooked. "I witnessed the organizational and individual effects of a negative environment, and at the same time saw the potential a positive environment could afford." Tara also has considerable experience in marketing and Customer Service having managed some of Charlotte's largest accounts in the medical sales and insurance field. In addition to being a resource in a bi-lingual capacity, Tara is assisting in the expansion of Corporate Quest to the Charlotte regional area..
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