INSTRUCTOR: Gordon Miller

Senior Partner/Dovetail Solutions

Gordon Miller is a nationally recognized career coach and workplace expert and currently directs the Executive Leadership Strategies practice at Dovetail Solutions, a Denver-based PR and Marketing Communications firm). He has appeared in over 500 radio shows, national television (including CNN), and leading business publications such as: Wall St. Journal, Fortune, Harvard Business Reports, Washington Post, and Kiplinger. He is also a best-selling author (Random House/Doubleday). His first book, Quit Your Job Often, was on the business books best-sellers list at the Tattered Cover in Denver for 18 straight weeks. Numerous industry resources have quoted his second book, The Career Coach.

For the last 6 years, Gordon has appeared weekly on KWGN-TV in Denver as The Career Coach. Nationally, he has been a guest on CNN-TV numerous times, including one interview where he was referred to as America’s Career Coach.

Gordon has helped under-served people find rewarding careers via numerous Workforce Development Offices in Colorado, including disadvantaged teen girls and convicted felons entering the workforce. He provides training workshops and speaks to various schools, associations, and non-profits. He has been involved with local Boys Club, Rotary, School Partners, and other service organizations.

INSTRUCTOR: Keith Robinson

Founder New Path Partners

Keith Robinson has a track record of success across high profile consumer and brand-driven companies such as Leo Burnett, Frito-Lay, Quaker Oats and Boston Market.  Robinson has extensive experience and expertise in developing customer and business insights and then transforming those insights into strategies and programs that drive business results and build brands. 

Mr. Robinson founded New Path Partners consulting in 2008, bringing with him a uniquely diverse background with experience ranging:

• from marketing research, to brand management, to cross-functional business unit leadership, and to business process redesign and change management;
• from marketing research, to brand management, to cross-functional business unit leadership, and to business process redesign and change management;
• from established blue chip brands and companies, to rapid growth start-ups, and to struggling brands looking to find a way to rekindle the magic; and
• from the agency business, to consumer packaged goods, and to multi-unit retailing.

Robinson’s strong grounding in the consumer and insight aspects of the business started at the outset of his career with positions in marketing research with Leo Burnett Advertising and Frito Lay.  Drawn by the desire to leverage those insights into a direct decision making role, Robinson then made the transition to the brand marketing side of the business moving through positions of increasing leadership and cross-functional business responsibility at both Frito-Lay (Doritos-launching Cool Ranch Doritos, Tostitos, Lays and Ruffles) and the Quaker Oats Company (Cap’n Crunch, Quaker100% Natural, Quaker Oats brand hot and cold cereals).

Robinson then moved into the retail arena with 12 years at Boston Market in a variety of roles ranging from VP New Products, to Chief Marketing Officer for the restaurant business, to developing and then leading the supermarket retail business—a line of fresh, all natural, heat and serve sides, soups, and entrees sold in grocery stores.

Robinson has an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and BS in Marketing and Finance from the Ohio State University.

INSTRUCTOR: Mike Faber

Keynote Speaker, Trainer and Certified Professional Coach

Mike Faber is a speaker, trainer and certified professional coach who has taught thousands of business leaders to communicate passionately and effectively.  Mike brings the lessons of a 30-year career in sales, management and broadcasting to audiences in a unique style that combines humor, candor, and lessons that can be applied to all walks of life. He is the author of three books, including 89 Seconds to Sales Success and 89 Seconds to Leadership Success, published by Broadcast Your Best™ Publishing.
 
Mike is an Anthony Robbins Companies Elite Coach and is a professional member of both the National Speaker’s Association (Director of Marketing for theColorado Chapter) and the International Federation for Professional Speakers. Mike is an industry arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers. Mike is an active member of The Colorado Sales Association. Mike is a regular pledge host at Rocky Mountain PBS, and has been a volunteer fund-raiser for public television since 1984. Mike resides in Parker, Colorado with his wife Terry and their two young sons. Reach Mike at (720) 851-5208 or http://www.mikefaber.com/.

INSTRUCTOR: Thomas Cogswell

Certified Personal and Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC)

Thomas (Coach) Cogswell is a Certified Personal and Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC). He has been serving the entrepreneurial spirit for business owners and professionals in the rocky mountain west for over 20 years. He specializes in helping develop best business practices for his clients, focusing on their financial as well as staff development objectives.
  
He has a strong foundation in business management, including 13 years of production, warehouse and operations management for a fortune 500 company. He has 6 years of experience of managing smaller privately held companies.   

A leader in his community, a past winner of the Landmark Education Inc’s award for Community Leadership, past president and current membership chair for a Denver B2B networking chapter and the past president of a Denver chapter of Toastmasters.

In his spare time Tom has enjoyed the Colorado Mountains, especially extreme challenges like hiking Longs Peak. It is through these marathon hikes that he discovered his knack and passion for coaching. He came to the realization that coaching a first-timer up and down the mountain was much more satisfying that going solely with experienced hikers. Tom has supported several others in reaching the summit of Longs Peak 13 times out of 15 attempts