After graduation from Law School, Mr. Brodsky became an executive with Thompson Corporation’s BAR/BRI Bar Review Division as the Director of the Eastern Region where he managed hundreds of salespeople and passed the bar exam in Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Michigan, Delaware, Connecticut, Colorado, and the District of Columbia. He also taught Administrative Law, Personal Property Law and Professional Responsibility and Ethics.

Mr. Brodsky joined Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) in late 1999 when it was still a rapidly growing private company and held various roles within its sales organization and quickly rose to Vice President of Sales for its Government and Corporate Division, now a $60m plus operating unit of the company.

In 2005, Mr. Brodsky founded Washington Sports and Event Management LLC to bring high profile mass participation events to the District of Columbia. As a successful Ironman and ultra endurance athlete, he built The Nation’s Triathlon brand into the largest triathlon in North America and the Washington DC Triathlon brand into the fastest growing triathlon in North America. Through these two branded events, tens of thousands of participants have advanced their goals of leading healthy lifestyles. To date, he has competed in more than 100 endurance events.

In 2007, Mr. Brodsky founded Achieve Kids Tri Inc. a 501(c) non-profit organization that produces youth triathlon summer camps. As Chairman of the Board of Achieve, he has overseen the organization as it has become the largest and most successful youth triathlon summer camp of its kind in the country. He has also guided Achieve through partnerships with USA Triathlon, the DC Department of Recreation and other public/private partnerships in camp locations in Atlanta, Waterbury, CT, and Houston, TX. Achieve youth triathlon summer camps are six weeks long, five days per week and four hours per day. At camps’ end each athlete competes in a USAT sanctioned triathlon and receives a Presidential Active Lifestyle Award for their effort during camp.

In 2010, Mr. Brodsky became a founding shareholder and Chief Financial Officer of Triathlon America Inc., a for profit triathlon industry council founded by a coalition of industry leaders who saw the need for the triathlon business community to come together in an organization dedicated to promoting the sport and the business of triathlon. Triathlon America’s mission is to leverage the knowledge, talent, and resources of industry leaders in triathlon to the benefit of the sport by increasing and retaining advocates of triathlon and by fostering a positive image of the sport.

Mr. Brodsky has also held the position of Chairman of the District of Columbia Alcohol Beverage Control Board where he served for more than three years. In this position he oversaw all of the alcohol sales and distribution in the District of Columbia as well as responsibility for enforcement of alcohol laws, rules and regulations with an Agency staff of 50 and an annual budget just over $5m.

Jeff Flynn has over thirty years of business experience with proven abilities in consulting, senior human resource management, operations and project management.

Current

Utilizing the specific and overall business understanding resulting from his cross-functional experience with large corporations, he started Global Trade and Capital Network in 1999. This is a consulting practice that initially focused on overseas healthcare recruiting strategies and recruitment for U.S. healthcare institutions and then migrated to international project management, development, finance and trade. His consulting practice included assignments for domestic as well as international projects in healthcare, manufacturing, hospitality resort development and transportation, taking him to 20 countries. One of his clients retained him as the lead project manager for a 1 billion dollar mass transportation project in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where he spent almost three years supporting the investor/developer to win the concession agreement for this large infrastructure project.

Past

From 1997-1999, he worked or Aon Consulting, a $5 billion consulting and insurance brokerage company. His responsibilities included the development of Aon’s human resource consulting practice for clients in a variety of industries including financial services and manufacturing.

Prior to joining Aon, Jeff was the Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer for Service America Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of G.E. Capital for 10 years. He started his career in human resources with the Marriott Corporation in operations as a manager in their restaurant division and was promoted over a 15 year career through various division staff and corporate assignments, ending his career as the Corporate Director of Employee Relations; his department acted as internal consultant to all of the business units during a period of multiple acquisitions. He and his team worked on several major acquisitions and they were responsible for contract negotiations for 160 collective bargaining units.

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Miles LeHane News

Communicating to YOU! Over the last few months we have been very active in revamping our general communications approach. We  have added Constant Contact as our preferred method of emailing our news and updates. For this Spring 2011 newsletter, we are sending it both by U.S. mail as well as by email through Constant Contact. For some, you will receive this letter twice. For those receiving it in each version, this will confirm for you that you are on our email communications list. In the future we plan only on sending two printed copies of our newsletter each year while we will send all event announcements and two additional newsletters only by Constant Contact emails.  If you did not receive this electronically and would like to, or you thought you were signed up for our electronic mailings and have not received the email version, please go to our website at www.mileslehane.com and click on the sign-up box for our newsletter and submit your contact information so we may add you to the list.  Please check your spam filter or junk mail file also.  We only send email copies if you request to be on the list.  Thank you. New Website As we expand and refocus, it became necessary to redesign our web presence and social media presence.  While in the early stages of social media presence, our new website has been active for the last couple of months. Please check it out and give us your thoughts and suggestions:  www.mileslehane.com.		Our Expanded Focus Listening to the Customer and responding in a positive way is the hallmark of a successful business.  We have asked many questions and you have given us your time and thoughtful answers.  With that as the background, we have made significant enhancements to our service offerings.  Today Miles LeHane Companies is focused as a Strategic Management and Talent Management Consulting Firm, offering full-service, cutting edge solutions in the following areas: Strategic Management Planning, Career Transition, Coaching, Executive Search, and HR Products to organizations worldwide. News and Events Leadership Breakfast ‘ This event has been renamed from our E Breakfast.  It seemed only appropriate to maintain the prior format, but have the Leadership Breakfast more representative of the program presentations.  These events are open to all.  Look for email announcements.  Our last event was held in early March featuring Renee Lewis.  Please save May 3 for our next Leadership Breakfast. See website for details. Women’s Forum ‘ This forum continues to be a key event for us, drawing a wide variety of women from many different organizations, companies, and personal endeavors.  The wide variety of focus has kept interest high for all participants.  Our last session was held at the end of March.  Wanda Alexander spoke on ‘What I do for a living does not define who I am, but how I perform in that space reflects exactly who I am.’
The Four Pillars of Employable Talent: Recruiting for Success Author:  Dr. David C. Miles, Expected Release:  Summer 2011 Over the first decade of the new millennium, we all have  experienced cataclysmic events that have reshaped our daily lives and the world of work/employment. These events have dramatically changed the rule book on navigating one’s career and, in addition, the advice we give our family, friends, co-workers, and children. Based originally on my Doctoral dissertation research and additional ongoing reviews and analysis, I wrote this book to share my perspectives on the new drivers and understandings that are required to maximize your personal career approach as well as attracting the top talent for your organization. Today we all are competing with a global workforce, shorter cycles than most individuals can remain responsive to and adapt, and an unending series of events which change the game without notice. Yet you and I either personally or within our organizations must be able to adapt and adopt to the new environment. The ‘Four Pillars of Employable Talent’ is my contribution to helping you understand the playing field so you can respond proactively. What This Book Offers As  a result of reading ‘The Four Pillars of Employable Talent’, you will be better able to identify, recruit and retain job candidates with unique sets of skills needed to support organizational objectives. You will further be able to develop your own leadership skills and advance in your career because of your understanding of what constitutes employable talent and how to help that talent recognize its own genius and the specific contributive value it has to offer to the organization. You will gain a thorough understanding of the concepts of Resilience, Balance,  Strategic Career Planning, and Active Financial Planning.  You will also have a better idea of the unique contributions, skills, predispositions, and expectations of the current workplace generations. Finally,  you will gain a broad understanding of the new employment contract between employers and today’s employable talent, how the new contract differs from the old contract, and how to meet the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities as a result of the dramatic shifts in the workplace.

Karen Ryan is President of the Karen Ryan Group, a communication consulting firm offering a wide variety of services including communications strategies, public relations and marketing, and media and presentation coaching to company CEOs and executives. The firm works with a diverse clientele of Fortune 500 companies, public sector agencies, non-profits and small and medium-size corporations.

When Karen is not coaching she is consulting, producing or writing for corporate clients’ communication needs. This includes electronic media kits, newsletters, satellite media tours, marketing videos and media outreach.

Karen has worked in the broadcasting industry for more than two decades, as an anchor, reporter and producer for ABC, NBC, and CNN networks, as well as numerous cable and local stations. Much of her career has focused on reporting business and economic issues for major news organizations. She was President, producer and anchor for Business Now Television, a national news show focused on technology and emerging growth companies which was seen on nationally on ABC stations.

Before joining Business Now, Karen worked as a reporter for The Nightly Business Report (NBR), America’s most-watched daily business news program broadcast on PBS.  While at NBR, she covered breaking business and economic news, including the demise of Pan Am and the economic impact of Hurricane Andrew.  She also interviewed many CEOs and prominent leaders in the financial community.

When not covering the national business beat, Karen worked as a producer for ABC and NBC networks covering major national stories, including the bombing of Centennial Park at the 1996 Atlanta summer Olympics and the O.J. Simpson trial.

Board Activities and Awards

Karen sits on the board and is the Vice President of Communications of Women In Film and Video DC, a non profit organization with over 1200 members of the leading media industry professionals. Karen has received two prominent national awards – the Champion Media Award for Economic Understanding, and the Janus Award for a series of reports she produced on the food industry.

Curt Beardsworth joined The Miles Lehane Companies in June 2010 as a Consultant with the primary responsibility of developing resumes for his clients. Curt has accumulated 36 years of professional experience in Marketing, Education, Government, and Banking and Finance. Curt has gathered the necessary transferrable skills, which has empowered him to become a leader as well as a productive teammate in his capacity for firm. Critical Thinking and Marketing Skills has equipped Curt to be highly effective in the role as the organization’s expert in the area of Resume and Cover Letter Development. With a diverse background in many areas of job classifications, he will be able to assist you in the role of resume development to present your expertise in a professional manner and assist you in your career development.

Curt has been fortunate to associate himself with organizations such as Goodyear Corporation, The 3M Companies, Xerox Corporation, Baltimore County Office of Workforce Development, and The US Census Bureau that has empowered him to gather valuable experience in today’s economy and job market. I and the entire team of The Miles Lehane Companies can effectively market a client’s professional experience. It will be a privilege to serve you in your next step of your professional and career development. As an Adjunct Professor for the University of Phoenix, Curt has had the opportunity to mentor students in both Undergraduate and Graduate level courses that has included areas in Marketing, Management, Leadership, Business Ethics, Senior Level Negotiation, and Team Collaboration. Curt has also served as a professional tutor in Writing Skills and Presentation Development for the University of Phoenix further developing his students as well as his professional writing skills and creativity.

Education and Certifications

Curt has earned a BS in Marketing and Management from Bloomsburg University in 1974 and furthered his education receiving an MBA from the University of Phoenix in Technology Management in 2005. Recently Curt successfully completed a curriculum in Project Management enhancing his skills in collaborative teamwork and leadership. Curt received a Certified Professional Resume Writer certification in 2009.

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Larry has a demonstrated and highly successful record of accomplishment in negotiating the sales and licensing of complex hardware and software systems, mergers and acquisitions, strategizing the development and marketing of sophisticated computer systems for sale and licensing worldwide, arranging joint ventures, international distributorships and OEM relationships.   He has personally negotiated billions of dollars in computer related transactions globally.  In addition, he successfully managed over 200 lawsuits, ranging in size from $100,000 to $6 billion, involving Northern Telecom.

Before his retirement on January 1, 2005, Larry was a member of the Senior Management Team (Senior Vice President-Corporate Affairs and Corporate Secretary) of NAVTEQ Corporation (NYSE:NVT) (Formerly Navigation Technologies Corporation), the world’s leading geographic map data supplier to the automotive, wireless and computer industries.  Previously, he was a senior member of the Andersen Worldwide legal group and President and General Counsel for a division of NORTEL (formerly Northern Telecom Inc.).

Education

Graduating from the University of Rochester with a BA in Psychology, Mr. Chesler later received his law degree from the University of Buffalo and an MBA (Dean’s List) from the William E. Simon School of the University of Rochester.

Board Activities

Larry is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Computer Law Association, past Director of the American Corporate Counsel Association, former member of the Editorial Board of The Computer Lawyer, former member of the Editorial Board of International Computer Lawyer, former member of the Board of Trustees of WXXI Public Broadcasting Council.

Professional Memberships

He is a member and officer, both past and present, of numerous professional and civic groups.  A representative sampling includes:  Fellow of The New York Bar Foundation, past chair and current member of Executive Committee of the Corporate Counsel Section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), vice-chair of Committee R (High Technology Section) of the International Bar Association, past member of the House of Delegates of the NYSBA,, and past chair of Troop Committee, Boy Scouts of America ‘ Troop 19, Tay House.

• CFP  Board of Standards, Inc., Certified Financial Planner practitioner
• College for Financial Planning, Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor
• Boston University, Financial Planning Certification
• McDaniel College (formerly Western Maryland College), Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Business Administration, Political Science

Experience

• Financial industry experience since 1994
• Instructor for the State of Maryland pre-retirement program
• Educational Consultant/Financial Planner for outplacement firms, foundations, and S&P 100 companies
• WBAL ‘ TV ‘ featured as a Financial Consultant
• Published financial planning articles in Senior Digest and Baltimore Business Journal

Associations

• Community College of Baltimore County Foundation ‘ Board of Directors 2003-2008
• Past President ‘ Oak Crest Community Association
• Greater Catonsville Chamber of Commerce ‘ Board of Directors
• Greater Catonsville Chamber of Commerce ‘ Economic Development Committee Chairperson
• The Financial Planning Association ‘ Maryland Chapter, Member

Licenses

• Series 7 ‘ General securities license
• Series 9 & 10 ‘ General Securities Sales Supervisor ‘ Branch Manager
• Series 63 ‘ Uniform State Exam
• Series 65 ‘ Investment Advisory Agent
• Life and Health insurance licensed

Debi Is a Certified Executive Coach who specializes in assisting executives and leaders with exploring unrealized goals and personal strategic plans. She helps them focus on leadership attributes, emotional intelligence and communication skills in a challenging and objective environment. Her rich enthusiasm, knowledge and operational experience spans over 30 years in the hospitality industry.  As a founding corporate officer of Bon Appetit Management Company and at various positions in Saga and Marriott Corporations, Debi served such clients as Oracle, HP, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, The Getty Center and Pac Bell Park.  She is an adjunct professor at The Culinary Institute of America, serves on the Advisory Board at UNLV’s Harrah’s College of Hotel Administration and is a Conti Professor in the Hotel School at Penn State. Debi was recently named the Conrad Hilton Distinguished Lecturer at San Diego State University.

Awards

Debi has been recognized for her contributions by IFMA with The Silver Plate Award, by being selected to be a Hennessey Traveler for the United States Air Force and was named Woman of the Year in 2000 by The Roundtable for Women in Foodservice.  She has been a featured speaker at conferences in the U.S. and Europe.

Myron J. Radio is the founder and president of The R Group, LLC.  Previously he was an executive with Mobil Corporation, now ExxonMobil, where he honed his leadership skills as head of groups in finance, information systems, project development and organizational effectiveness across multiple global business units.  While there, he was widely acknowledged for developing and executing successful strategies, revitalizing organizations and delivering bottom-line results.

Mr. Radio formed The R Group, LLC, in 2000 to leverage his achievements in these areas. The group brings together seasoned professionals who employ a unique approach to the design, delivery and execution of corporate strategies. Together, The R Group and their clients create and deploy successful management teams by embedding change, transformation, transition and alignment into their everyday practices within the organizations they lead.

Mr. Radio’s clientele represents a broad range of industries, including information technology, entertainment, hospitality, healthcare, energy and federal government services. The R Group clients cover a broad spectrum of industry, global and Fortune 500 leaders including: Microsoft, DOW Chemical, ConocoPhillips, AOL, ExxonMobil, ABC, Sunoco, Constellation Energy, PricewaterhouseCoopers, ManTech and Northrop Grumman.  Mr. Radio also served Federal Government clients, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Commerce, and the Department of Transportation (DOT). Additionally, Mr. Radio is affiliated with Duke University’s Corporate Education group, where he serves senior-level global clients across the full business spectrum.

Education/Certifications

Mr. Radio received his BA from DeSales University and his MBA from Amber University (Texas Christian). He holds certifications as a Professional Behavioral Analyst (CPBA), Professional Values Analyst (CPVA), Attributes Index Analyst (CAIA), and TriMetrics Job & Talent Benchmarking.  He is also certified in the highly acclaimed Leadership Circle Profile, a leadership transformation tool.  Mr. Radio co-authored Inside Out, a book on personal and professional development, and has published numerous white papers on organizational and operational effectiveness.

As the Director of the Penn State School of Hospitality Management he is responsible for all operational, academic, personnel and budgetary matters, as well as for providing long-term strategic leadership with regard to curriculum, alumni affairs, development, internationalization and industry relations.

With a strong belief in the value in international relations, Bert brings a wealth of experience in international collaboration to the table, having forged international partnerships on four different continents and in twelve different countries. He has consulted and lectured on issues of operational effectiveness with various hospitality organizations in the US and was involved in the development and delivery of on-line training for hospitality managers in the U.S. National Park Service.

Bert has authored over one hundred articles in academic and trade publications, has edited a textbook entitled A Host of Opportunities: Introduction to Hospitality Management (2nd Ed.) and is the Executive Editor of the Hospitality Management Essentials Series of hospitality textbooks. He has served on the executive boards of both the Pennsylvania Restaurant Association and the Pennsylvania Tourism and Lodging Association, as well as on the industry advisory boards of the hospitality programs at Southwest Minnesota State University and the Universidad del Este, Puerto Rico.

He received his Ph.D. in public administration from Arizona State University in 1996 and his master’s degree in hospitality management from the University of Houston in 1992. He also received bachelor and master degrees in English Language and Literature from the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands in 1982.