Cheryl Gross
President, Cheryl Gross & Associates
Boston, MA

Cheryl Gross is a 20-year veteran of the financial services industry and a sought-after expert in Project Management and Facilitations. As President and Founder of Cheryl Gross and Associates (www.cagassociates.com), she helps her clients create economic value and sustainable productivity gains by providing outstanding project management expertise, leveraging internal resources and offering objective perspective.

Cheryl’s areas of expertise include Implementation, Process Improvement, Project Revitalization, Outsourcing Analysis and Coordination, and Change Management. She recently managed the outsourcing conversion of an 80,000 account loan portfolio and implemented a comprehensive start-up consumer finance company. Building on her growing national and international client base, she directed the implementation of a new product for a multinational company with 110,000 participants in 90 countries.

Among Cheryl’s keynote presentations and guest lectures are Managing Risk in a Consumer Loan Portfolio, The Importance of Community Involvement in Local Charitable Organizations, and CRA - A Marketing Opportunity. She wrote The Boston Five Savings Bank’s White Paper on the Federal Truth-in-Savings Regulation for review by federal regulators as well as the Disaster Recovery Plan for Consumer and Commercial Banking, and is the author of the Consumer Loan Chapter of Fundamentals of Banking, published by Simon & Schuster.

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Dick Eaton
Chief Energizing Officer, Leapfrog Innovations
Boston, MA

Dick Eaton is the Founder of Leapfrog Innovations, which develops and delivers a broad spectrum of proprietary programs ranging from team development interventions to experiential learning simulations, to structured events with the sole objective to generate a "riotous release of energy." “In a nutshell”, he says, “Leapfrog is about Ribbeting Experiences that result in Leaps in Performance!”

As Leapfrog’s founder, Dick designs and delivers deeply engaging experiences that create ‘coach-able moments’, bring to life 360 feedback, activate training content, and build relationships that result in enabled networks. Programs such as It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Hunt™, Enginuity™, Leading the Way™, To Market To Market™, and Launch!™ help break down barriers, encourage innovation, foster collaboration and help people and their companies work and learn more effectively through accelerated sharing of information and best practices.

Clients include AT&T Wireless, Bose Corporation, Center for Creative Leadership, Deloitte & Touche, Fidelity Investments, Hewlett-Packard, John Hancock, Perrier, Procter & Gamble, Raytheon, Tyco International, Sun Microsystems and Wyeth. Dick’s work has been featured in various media including the Wall Street Journal, Training Magazine, Fortune Magazine, the New York Times, The Tom Peters Group newsletter: On Achieving Excellence, Boston Business Journal, and Mass High Tech.

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Dan King
Principal, Career Planning and Management, Inc.
Boston, MA

Dan King is principal and founder of Career Planning and Management, Inc., a career coaching and consulting practice in Boston (www.careerfirm.com). With over 20 years experience in coaching, training and career development, he designs and manages programs and services to align individual career goals with organizational performance objectives, working with such diverse clients as IBM/Lotus, Marriott Hotels, Weber-Shandwick, Mass General Hospital, NStar, Wyeth, Bank of America (formerly Fleet/BankBoston), Canyon Ranch and Harvard University.

Dan is the resident career expert on Boston's Personal Finance Radio appearing regularly on the program, Hire Frequencies, (www.hirefrequencies.com) and is a regular contributor to the Career Connection column at JobFind.com. His articles have appeared in numerous publications and websites, including the Boston Business Journal, Mass High Tech, CareerBuilder, JobMonthly, and HR.Com.

A frequent presenter and seminar leader for HR meetings and conferences, he has designed and presented such workshops as Navigating Your Career in Today’s Changing Workplace, Winning at Organizational Politics Without Losing Your Soul and Coaching Careers and Performance. Dan has earned recognition as a Career Management Fellow (CMF) from the Institute of Career Certification International. He is also a Master Career Counselor (MCC) recognized by the National Career Development Association.

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