and tell me about your vision.
So my vision was to move from corporate America
into consulting so that I could give back
and help other organizations
through executive coaching, consulting,
and take my technical knowledge
as well as my human knowledge
for building strong teams and leaders.
And after spending 30 years in corporate America
and take that out to work with other organizations
and small companies that didn't have $10 million budgets
like I had when I was managing
Intel's management leadership development programs.
Can you tell me more about that?
So about the programs or about the kind of the vision
for the transition.
Whatever you'd like to share.
Yeah, so I guess, you know,
one of the things that I had done was,
you know, I had done all my undergraduate work
in engineering and business, then my MBA,
and then I went off and I found a passion for leadership.
So I did all my doctoral work
in organizational leadership and management.
And that really set me up to be able to take
the experiential knowledge that I got
from working in large corporations
and getting some great training,
running managing teams, managing small divisions,
to be able to kind of match the experiential piece
with the academic piece.
And in 2007, I left the corporate world voluntarily,
kind of retired.
My goal was to do that at age 50,
and I actually did it at 51.
And I took two of my colleagues with me
and we started up a company called
Magno Leadership Solutions.
And for the last 17 years,
we have been providing management leadership solutions
to companies around the world,
and really helping the small and medium sized organizations
that don't have extensive budgets to spend,
and they really want to help develop their leaders.
And actually hire and retain the best people,
because I know one of the big challenges
for many organization is the turnover.
And reducing the turnover, cutting it in half,
is very, very doable for a fraction
of what it's costing you to lose those people.
So every day I get to wake up
and help other organizations and give back.
And each day is new and different.
So I feel very, very blessed.