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and tell me about your vision.

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So my vision was to move from corporate America

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into consulting so that I could give back

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and help other organizations

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through executive coaching, consulting,

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and take my technical knowledge

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as well as my human knowledge

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for building strong teams and leaders.

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And after spending 30 years in corporate America

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and take that out to work with other organizations

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and small companies that didn't have $10 million budgets

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like I had when I was managing

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Intel's management leadership development programs.

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Can you tell me more about that?

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So about the programs or about the kind of the vision

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for the transition.

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Whatever you'd like to share.

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Yeah, so I guess, you know,

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one of the things that I had done was,

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you know, I had done all my undergraduate work

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in engineering and business, then my MBA,

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and then I went off and I found a passion for leadership.

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So I did all my doctoral work

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in organizational leadership and management.

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And that really set me up to be able to take

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the experiential knowledge that I got

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from working in large corporations

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and getting some great training,

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running managing teams, managing small divisions,

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to be able to kind of match the experiential piece

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with the academic piece.

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And in 2007, I left the corporate world voluntarily,

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kind of retired.

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My goal was to do that at age 50,

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and I actually did it at 51.

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And I took two of my colleagues with me

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and we started up a company called

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Magno Leadership Solutions.

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And for the last 17 years,

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we have been providing management leadership solutions

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to companies around the world,

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and really helping the small and medium sized organizations

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that don't have extensive budgets to spend,

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and they really want to help develop their leaders.

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And actually hire and retain the best people,

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because I know one of the big challenges

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for many organization is the turnover.

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And reducing the turnover, cutting it in half,

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is very, very doable for a fraction

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of what it's costing you to lose those people.

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So every day I get to wake up

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and help other organizations and give back.

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And each day is new and different.

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So I feel very, very blessed.