So Kevin 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, you know 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
You know that didn't have ten million dollar budgets like I had when I was managing Intel's management leadership development programs
Can you tell me more about that
So the about the programs or about the kind of the vision for the transition
Whatever you 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
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 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 the experiential piece with the academic piece
and in
2007 I left the corporate world
Voluntarily kind of retired it 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 magna 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
Their leaders and actually hire and retain the the best people
Because I know one of the big challenges for many organization is the turnover
And you know reducing the turnover cutting it in half is very very doable
You know for a fraction of what it's costing you to lose those people. So so every day I get to wake up and and help other
organizations
and give back and
Each day is new and different. So I feel very very blessed
Thank you for sharing that Kevin. Where would you say that this vision of leaving the corporate America and
going into helping businesses
and people come from
Well, I was fortunate enough to have an awesome mentor and coach at Intel. I spent almost 18 years there
And one of the things that she did with me was, you know, we created a 10-year plan
You know when I was 40 was to take a look at you know where I wanted to be 10 years from now
You know and there were steps in between, you know
where you want to be at two and five and seven and so forth and ultimately by her
you know providing this level of coaching and
Thinking about things much more beyond just the kind of the immediacy
It really kept me focused on doing the right things and I think the right things were, you know
Investing wisely
Getting you know additional education
Taking positions that ultimately I could transfer that knowledge
into
into the consulting world not just taking a position for an additional title or
additional
financial gain and by kind of staying that route and
You know continually checking in on a regular basis. I think it really provided it maintained
The vision so that I made better decisions
Than I would have if I just did everything kind of year to year
Thank you for sharing that Kevin
Where
Where do you see your vision going?
Where would you say you're trying to take it?
Well, ultimately my goal was by the time I was 70
You know, I would have everything in place
and really be able to
Do the third phase of my life, you know the first I guess there's a whole series of phases
There's the there's the up through high school phase. There's the college phase
There's the first and second third maybe job phase
You know where and it's you know, it's also bringing the family in right? So, you know, I got married
I was around 25 had kids in my late 20s
And now I have grandkids. So so
My next corporate fate or next business phase
after I left Intel was to do the
The consulting work
And I will turn 69 in about a month
So I am just about
Up to the 70 mark
Which will be the kind of I think the final phase
And I think the final phase the way it's playing out is I've really developed a an exceptional
Book of
Great people to work with who are executives and coaching and to ultimately move into
Where I can provide, you know the additional executive coaching and a mentoring for them
To help them with their careers
Where they are now
Where I was essentially 20 years ago
Thank you for sharing that do you currently have
You said you you have two of your friends that came with you to start the consulting business
And do you have other members in your team that work with you guys?
In doing all that?
Yeah, actually the original two members that we founded a magna leadership ultimately went off
One about four years into the into the partnership
And then the other one left about 10 years after
For great positions, you know working with different companies that they had done such great work with
That ultimately they they tore them away from us and and it was the right thing to do
It was great opportunities for them. So we've added so I have a
Consortium there's lots of people that are working with us
And we're a consortium. There's lots of people like myself, you know when I was working in intel managing intel's management leadership development programs
we used to do uh
2500 managers and leaders in 10 different countries each year when I had retired from intel in
2007 we had just finished training our
40,000th manager
so I got quite good at that and
Many of the facilitators that either work for me or work with me have left
And over the last 10 years, we've built this consortium of about 25 of us
You know so that as I need to pull in additional people for large
Projects I can do that and since I've worked with all of them before
And we all have a similar mindset and we're all doing similar things
There's lots and lots of synergy. So so I get pulled in to to help them out
They pull me in to help
I pull them to help me out
And you know, it's a really truly a win-win situation. It's one of the things that that I would
Encourage people that are thinking about kind of leaving the corporate world and kind of doing their own thing is to make sure you've built that network
So that when you need help
That it is available for you and it's worked really well for for us at least for 17 years
That's a very great point
I can testify for that
Because I did not build my corporate
Structure when I left the corporate world. I did not build that
So there's a lot of things that can come from that
And I I can I can see
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