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<div>[[Category:Boot Boards]]<br />
[[Category:Subgroups]]<br />
== Diversity/Valley of Death BOOT BOARD ==<br />
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=== Mission Statement ===<br />
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The Diversity/VoD bootboard's mission is helping one another get through the Valley of Death. Diversity is a good thing, but we use it, rather than focus on it.<br />
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; Next meeting:<br />
* August 4, 2006 from 2-5 PM<br />
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Please note that we have settled the current group. Other Boot Boards may form using the same processes and principles. We're happy to advise.<br />
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== Facilitators ==<br />
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=== Michelle Ewalt ===<br />
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; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition<br />
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; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com<br />
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; Phone: 512.762.8568<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
; Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state<br />
; Interested Categories: <br />
# Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.<br />
# Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.<br />
# Transformational change<br />
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; Other Information:<br />
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.<br />
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change. <br />
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.<br />
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.<br />
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer<br />
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.<br />
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.<br />
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin<br />
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=== Stan Tyler ===<br />
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; Company: [http://www.champions-edge.com Champions Edge]<br />
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; Email: [mailto:stan@champions-edge.com stan@champions-edge.com]<br />
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; Phone: 512-289-0604<br />
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; Company Size: 2 founders<br />
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; Stage: (Valley of Death)<br />
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; Location: Lake Travis<br />
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; Interested Categories:<br />
# Retention and referral development<br /><br />
# Web business development and operations assistance <br /><br />
# Contract relationship design and management - associates <br />
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; Other Information:<br />
* Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf <br />
* Learning from our granddaughters<br />
* Rowing <br />
* Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years <br />
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== Members ==<br />
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[Sorted alphabetically by last name]<br />
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=== Chris Garrigues ===<br />
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; Company: [http://www.Trinsics.com/ Trinsic Solutions]<br />
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; Email: [mailto:cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com]<br />
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; Phone: 512-322-0180<br />
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; Company Size: Myself and a few contractors<br />
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; Stage: Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)<br />
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; Location: Central Austin (14th and West)<br />
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; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B Marketing<br />
* Customer Satisfaction & Retention<br />
* Managing growth<br />
* Relationship-based businesses<br />
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; Other Information:<br />
* Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995<br />
* Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.<br />
* Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.<br />
* I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.<br />
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=== Ash Maurya ===<br />
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; Company: [http://www.wiredreach.com/ WiredReach]<br />
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; Email: [mailto:ash@wiredreach.com ash@wiredreach.com]<br />
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; Phone: 214.914.8658<br />
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; Company Size: 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]<br />
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; Stage: Late Valley of Death<br />
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; Location: Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas<br />
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; Interested Categories:<br />
* User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software<br />
* Collaboration Technology<br />
* Starting Up<br />
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; Other Information:<br />
* New to Austin<br />
* Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002<br />
* weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com<br />
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=== Mike O'Krent ===<br />
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; Company: [http://www.lifestoriesalive.com/ LifeStories Alive]<br />
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; Email: [mailto:mokrent@lifestoriesalive.com]<br />
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; Phone: 512-431-8166<br />
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; Company Size: 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)<br />
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; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
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; Location: Round Rock<br />
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; Interested Categories:<br />
* Baby boomer target marketing<br />
* Personal Historian<br />
* Starting up<br />
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=== Tonja O'Neill ===<br />
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; Company: [http://www.soverex.com/ Soverex]<br />
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; Email: [mailto:tonja@soverex.com tonja@soverex.com]<br />
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; Phone: 512-257-2185<br />
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; Company Size: Small<br />
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; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
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; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
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; Interested Categories:<br />
* Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business<br />
* Software / High-Tech Industry<br />
* Crisis Management<br />
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=== Nancy Schill ===<br />
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; Company: [http://www.executiveintelligentcoaching.com/ Executive Intelligent Coaching]<br />
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; Email: [mailto:nschill@executiveintelligentcoaching.com]<br />
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; Blog: [http://eicoachingblog.blogspot.com]<br />
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; Phone: 512-947-5447<br />
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; Company Size: 1 person<br />
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; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
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; Location: Austin<br />
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; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B marketing<br />
* sales techniques<br />
* sole proprietership business support<br />
* valley of death strategies<br />
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; Other Information:<br />
* Founder and Executive Coach<br />
* B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)<br />
* extensive experience in behavior change, assessments (qualified to administer all assessments, unlike other coaches), goal development and attainment, working with and understanding people of all types.<br />
* working with professionals and executives on:<br />
** professional growth strategy<br />
** strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices<br />
** emotional intelligence skills improvement<br />
** strengths development<br />
** organization and client communication<br />
** prioritizing demands for greater productivity<br />
** balancing priorities of work and personal life<br />
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=== Dave Pinckney ===<br />
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; Company: [http://www.egeriadesign.com/ Egeria Design]<br />
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; Email: [mailto:egeria@austin.rr.com Egeria Design mailbox]<br />
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; Phone: 512-833-8634<br />
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; Company Size: Small<br />
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; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
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; Location: North Austin<br />
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; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing virtual staff<br />
* Non-standard business models<br />
* Structures of financial transactions<br />
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; Other Information:<br />
* Info systems veteran<br />
* Founded in 2001<br />
* Docent: [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ Blanton Museum of Art]<br />
* Unofficial Photographer: [http://www.centraltexasballooning.com/ Central Texas Ballooning Association]<br />
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