Team Leadership (APPEL-vTL)

Bill brings a broad background in line management, organizational consulting, and profit center responsibility. Starting his career with investment firm Waddell & Reed, he later became a dealer manager for Royal Business Machines, and later joined Development Dimensions International as a national marketing manager. Bill then opened DDI’s U.S. West Coast office as regional vice president. In 1988 he joined The Forum Corporation as a senior vice president and Western Division manager, leading revenue/profitability growth, and expanding Forum’s footprint in the region. Currently Bill partners with AchieveForum as a senior faculty member and consultant, focusing on senior leadership initiatives and coaching business leaders, from CEOs to line managers. Bill hasconsulted in London, Paris, Rome, and Singapore, and at the College of Continuing Education at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Among his clients are Argonne National Laboratory.

Bringing more than 20 years’ experience as a leadership development consultant and coach, Liam Abramson works with first-, mid-, and senior-level leaders in a range of organizations. He specializes in conflict management, team development, and performance management, as well as communication and negotiation skills, coaching performance, diversity awareness, and change leadership. As an executivecoach, Liam helps individual leaders develop skills and implement techniques and tools to increase their productivity. Born in South Africa, Liam lived and worked in the U.K. for 28 years before settling in the U.S. in 2005. A graduate of the University of Buckingham Business School, he worked in the aviation industry before joining the University of London as a lecturer in Business Studies and pursuing a consulting career.

Kelly Leiker with more than a decade and a half of training, coaching, and consulting experience in a broad range of industries including marketing, hospitality, travel, insurance, mortgage, finance, retail, grocery, oil, medical device and manufacturing, Kelly is no stranger to understanding the unique business needs of her customers.

Kelly has trained thousands of executives, managers, and employees in leadership, customer service, and sales programs. In addition to her training expertise, she has a passion for working with executive leadership to create and implement programs that will maximize the value and impact of training.