President

Ravenwood Consulting Group, Inc.

 

Ravenwood Consulting Group is an international development and consulting firm focused on individual and organizational sales effectiveness. He also is co-founder of Innofen, LLC, a design and manufacturing firm providing products and services to the window and door industry where he remains a member of the company's board of directors.

Prior to forming Ravenwood and Innofen, Mr. Boylan co-founded Sales & Marketing Services Group, LLC and served as the firms Managing Partner until January of 2005. Before starting his entrepreneurial ventures, he served as Chief Operating Officer and Director of Casco International, Inc., a publicly traded services firm. Mr. Boylan was Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Jancor, Incorporated, part of Citigroup Venture Capital's investment portfolio of high growth manufacturing companies.

Mr. Boylan's 20 years of experience also includes international markets. As Vice President of International Marketing for a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, he managed the firm's entry into Central and South America, Southeast Asia, and Western Europe. Prior to the aforementioned professional engagements, he held a variety of sales and marketing positions with Certainteed Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of building products.

He also serves on the faculty of The American Management Association (AMA) and co-authored Market Research: How to Get the Right Data to Make the Right Decisions, Win-Win Strategies for Effective Sales Compensation, and Pricing Strategies: Capturing and Sustaining a Competitive Advantage. He authored Managerial and Supervisory Leadership Strategies, Effective Channel Management, Principles of Professional Selling, Sales and Marketing Integration Strategies, and Architectural Success Insights™. He also led the firm's development of two core programs for sales professionals: Diagnostic Sales Strategies™, and Diagnostic Sales Management™.

Mr. Boylan is a member of the Board of Advisors to the Pamplin School of Business at Virginia Tech and serves on the Charlotte, NC Chamber's Executive Committee. Mr. Boylan is also a member of Leadership Charlotte Class XXVII and serves as a speaker and facilitator for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Management and Professional Development Group.

Mr. Boylan earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing Management from Virginia Tech, his MBA from Wake Forest University, and is currently a doctoral candidate at NC State University.

 Managing Partner

Greenroom Communications, LLC                       

 

Kim spent ten years as a television journalist following the big stories in Florida, New York and with WRAL-TV in Raleigh, NC.

As a reporter in West Palm Beach she witnessed the fallout from the greatest election story of our generation.  When she moved to Orlando, four hurricanes ripped through Florida in less than a month.  Both events have made Kim an expert on performing in front of the camera under immense pressure with millions of eyes watching.

After Florida, Kim became a national correspondent for the syndicated magazine show Inside Edition.  She interviewed celebrities like George Clooney, Tom Cruise, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lopez and Donald Trump.  She mastered the art of making these celebrities comfortable enough to relax, open up and show their genuine side.

Not only has Kim conducted hundreds of interviews asking the tough questions, she's also had the experience of sitting in the hot seat opposite Bill O'Reilly and has even fielded questions live from Howard Stern.  The result is a seasoned journalist who has encountered every possible situation that involves lights, cameras and action.

Now Kim brings both her experience and her upbeat teaching style to Greenroom Communications LLC.

 

President

Association Solutions, Inc.

 

Association Solutions is a full service association management and consulting firm headquartered in Minneapolis, after serving over 20+ years in senior association executive positions.

 At the center of Jim's facilitation approach is the philosophy of linking strategy with leadership. This thinking is brought to life in his high energy strategic planning and leadership development work with associations and other not for profit organizations.

 Association Solutions, Inc's consulting client list includes the American Society of Association Executives, the Russian REALTORS Guild and over 150 national state and local professional societies and associations.

 A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a masters degree in mass communication, Jim earned the prestigious Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation presented by the American Society of Association Executives in 1991.

 

Charlotte, NC

 

Tom Martin graduated from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio with degrees in English and Education. After entering real estate and enjoying a successful selling career, he accepted a position as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Ski Country Enterprises in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Over the next seven years, he created and built a profitable multi-faceted general real estate and development marketing company, achieving a number one market share in just over two years. 

 

Needing a new challenge, Tom then organized a seven office commercial, residential and development real estate company on the western slopes of Colorado, concentrating on the rapid growth of the energy impacted areas of the state. Three and one-half years later, he added Tom Martin and Associates, a real estate investment firm in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

 

After moving to Georgia for a change of pace and new challenges, Tom was again recruited to be Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for a 7000 acre golf and lake development successfully turning an average sales organization into a highly productive team consistently exceeding all goals and expectations while markedly increasing property values. He currently holds the position of Senior Vice President for Coldwell Banker United, Realtors responsible for 25 offices in the Carolinas Region stretching from Statesville, North Carolina to Charleston, South Carolina.

 

Tom has always been an active practicing Realtor and continues to own and operate his specialized real estate company. He is constantly referred to and sought out, nationally and internationally, by high-end planned unit ski, golf, and lake developments, specialized niche companies, large single and multi-office brokerages, and growth-oriented salesmen, brokers, owners, and managers throughout the world.
 
In addition, Tom has been contracted by medium and large real estate organizations for his expertise in performance management, training, sales and marketing. He is recognized in the industry for his leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills, troubleshooting abilities, and creative organizational and planning capabilities.
 
Tom has received numerous credits for his continued involvement in the local, state, and national Realtor associations, having been elected and appointed to several offices and chairs on each level. He was honored by the Northwest Colorado Board of Realtors as Realtor of the Year and is a Past President of the Colorado Association of Realtors and a recipient of their Distinguished Service Award.
 
Tom has been recognized as CRB of the Year by the Colorado-Wyoming Chapter and was voted “Coach of the Year” by his peers (the only time it was ever awarded) by the faculty of the National Real Estate Brokerage Managers’ Council where he holds Master Instructor status. He is a Past President of the CRB Managers’ Council and is one of only five CRB’s nationally to ever receive the coveted “Eagle” Award. In addition, Tom has been recognized by the National Association of Realtors for his long-term sales, leadership, training, and management contributions both nationally and internationally.
 
 
Sharon Delaney McCloud
Greenroom Communications LLC
Managing Partner

Sharon is an Emmy Award winning journalist who brings 18 years of media experience to her clients. She reported on the news in markets across the southeast with her last stop in front of the camera at NBC 17 in Raleigh, NC.
 
From the Persian Gulf War to John Glenn's historic return to space to the Super Bowl to hurricanes, floods, politics and entertainment, Sharon has covered thousands of stories that have affected people's lives on a daily basis. She has moderated gubernatorial and mayoral debates and she's done one-on-one interviews with the likes of Martin Sheen, Jerry Orbach, Nick Lachey, Martha Stewart and Diane Sawyer.
 
Now Sharon uses her experience in front of the camera to coach others how to deliver powerful presentations and winning interviews as a part of Greenroom Communications. Whether it's preparing a CEO for the White House Press Corp or coaching an author who's ready to launch a new book, Sharon helps clients make the most of their public speaking and media opportunities.
 
Sharon serves on the Board of Directors for the Pay It Forward Fertility Foundation, the Sisko Foundation and the Nickelby Project.  She also serves on the Advisory Council for  the Assistance League of the Triangle and the Communications Committee of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce.  In addition, Sharon volunteers for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the St. Baldrick's Foundation.
 
Sharon and her husband Mike McCloud have three children and live in Raleigh.
 
 
EDWARD J. McMILLAN, CPA, CAE
 
Ed is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Association Executive and has spent his entire career in not-for-profit financial management, having served as the Controller of the national offices of Associated Builders and Contractors and the American Correctional Association.
 
He left management in 1993 when the United States Chamber of Commerce named him Faculty Chair for Finance for their Institute for Organization Management program. He also speaks regularly for the American Society of Association Executives, the International Association of CVBs, the American Chamber of Commerce Executives, the American Bar Association and the American Institute of CPAs.
 
Ed has authored four books on not-for-profit financial management, published by John Wiley & Sons:
 
Model Policies and Procedures
Budgeting and Financial Management
Accounting, Tax and Reporting Requirements
Preventing Fraud in Nonprofit Organizations
 
Ed now concentrates on speaking writing and consulting on financial management topics, he lives near Baltimore, Maryland, enjoys coaching youth sports and motocross racing and has written a novel, THE AUDIT.