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The Westlake Leadership Academy
Great leaders aren't born, they're made.
-Vince Lombardi
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The Westlake Leadership Academy is available to anyone in the local business community who wants to develop and enhance their leadership capabilities. The Academy is composed of 10 separate educational workshops designed around the SERVE Leadership Model. The monthly workshops are on-going and will be held from 9:00am to 12:00pm on the first Friday of each month. Students may elect to purchase attendance to the entire 12-month series or on a class-by-class basis.
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'It allowed me to recognize my strengths and weaknesses while giving me the tools and knowledge to build a system of management skills for a success Team, and promote a healthy relationship between me and those I work with. I have gained a greater confidence in my ability to BE a Manager.' Jackie Sweeten
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'I have attended 3 different leadership classes since I became a Westlake Chamber member and have been very pleased with the quality of the classes and the information I have learned. In every case, I walked away with valuable skills to start applying immediately! The value is there as well, its much more cost effective to go to a class versus one to one coaching. I have been very pleased.' Terry Morper
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OUR INSTRUCTORS
Teri Hill, M.Ed., is the President and lead Consultant with T.H.Enterprise. She is an Expert Speaker and Trusted Advisor with Vistage, the world’s leading Chief Executive development organization. Teri brings over 20 years of experience coaching leaders, training top talent and consulting organizations across the globe for numerous Fortune 500 companies, state and federal agencies and non-profit organizations. Her mission is to lead, inspire and nurture people to be all they were created to be.
- Over 20 years experience working as a coach in both corporate America and independently.
- Over 20 years experience training & developing sales people, leaders, and managers.
- Designed and facilitated over 250 multi-rater(360 degree) assessment and development programs in a variety of industries.
- Managed Sales Training for 3 different sales divisions at Dell, Inc.
- Presented to over 2000 Dell Sales Account Executives and over 500 Global Executives from Dell.
- As Director of Corporate Development, set up formal HR systems and assisted in hiring, coaching and training the LeadershipTeam to grow profitable sales in $20 million manufacturing company
- Trained over 75 Leaders in the State of Texas to LEAD in times of natural disaster and other crises.
Jamie Bihl is a natural innovative and resourceful leader with an expansive knowledge base and positive track record of client driven improvement methods. “Right-Hand-Man” meets “Jack of all Trades”, this collaboration manifests in a self-driven, ethical, hard working and reliable person that quickly and easily learns, translates and utilizes new complex concepts. As a skilled visionary with a profound commitment to people, making a difference and having every moment count, produces unprecedented results.Michele Sweeten,CPA, founded the Sweeten CPA accounting firm in 2002 as a one woman operation. Since then she has grown the firm through her hard work and vision to a staff of 16 CPAs, accountants, and bookkeepers with over 500 clients in a wide array of industries including construction, retail, professional services, and education. Michele designed the accounting certificate program at Austin Community College, where she taught on a variety of small business topics to entreprenuers for 7 years
Lisa Bargsley, CPA, MBA has worked and consulted with small business owners and entrepreneurs on business systems management, work life balance, and federal income tax requirements for more than twenty five years. Similarly, she has worked with individuals in meeting their family’s federal income tax requirements as well as consulting with them when significant life events occur. Her real-world experience of owning a successful CPA practice is enhanced by having grown up in a family business. All of this has provided her with many stories that she easily incorporates into the many presentations she has given during her CPA career.
Today, Lisa is frequently invited to speak at business seminars and other functions. She has a unique style of bringing her real stories to life while speaking about the dynamics of family owned businesses, essentials of tax and accounting records, or decision making models and thinking tools. She believes that the crucial components for the foundation of a successful family business include defining the mission and vision of the business, developing leadership to uphold those values, and systematic and routine collection of financial data and its consistent communication to family members.
Lisa is passionate about helping entrepreneurs and small business owners to be successful in their businesses as well as helping individuals and organizations recognize and develop their leaders. This passion has led her to step away from the daily operations of the CPA practice and start a new company, Sage Speaking LLC.
Sage Speaking LLC was formed to bring ideas and real life stories together in fun and informative ways to enlighten entrepreneurs, leaders and individuals with tools and theories to manage their businesses and organizations better. Presentations and trainings are customized and designed in the areas of tax and accounting systems for small businesses and individuals, leadership development, systems theory, creative thinking, and motivation. Lisa shares her insights through her stories and introduces thought provoking theories encouraging those ah-ha moments.
Lisa holds an MBA degree from the University of Texas at Austin and has been licensed as a CPA in Texas since 1994. Lisa was recognized as the 1996 Distinguished Alumna of the Year at Thomas College located in Waterville, Maine and is where she earned a B.S. in Business Administration. Lisa is a Certified Trainer in the de Bono Thinking Systems, Six Thinking Hats, Lateral Thinking and Focus On Facilitation tools, and a Certified Trainer with Fred Pryor Seminars/CareerTrack. She has participated in a study group focused on Bowen Family Systems Theory and its relationship to leadership development and organizations. Lisa believes the combination of her academic education, her continued quest for knowledge in Bowen Theory and certifications in the de Bono Thinking Systems, her business and personal life experiences, provides for a unique training experience for participants.
Lisa is originally from upstate New York and now resides in Austin, Texas with Don Dudley, her husband. She enjoys gardening with Don at their Austin home as well as walking the beaches of Cape Cod where they have a summer cottage.
Megan Tull is an Entrepreneur Success Strategist, an in demand Certified Business and Life Coach, National Speaker and Transformational Leader. She is also CEO and Founder of Silverlining Concepts, LLC, a business coaching and consulting firm. She is the best-selling author of 'The Passion Belief Method™ – Own Your Value and Earn Your Worth in Business'. She offers a life changing message showing her clients how to create the income they desire while living an authentic joyful life based on balance and self-care.
A lifelong student of personal and business development, Megan brings a powerful entrepreneurial background, one that exemplifies perseverance, talent ingenuity and an “outside the box” thinking mantra. Recognized as one of the top trainers in the United States for the highly competitive health and skincare industry, she was brought in to transform and revitalize the sales teams of three of the top spas in the country, and in the process increased their yearly sales quota’s by an average of over 30%! After tragically losing her husband and the father of her only son at the age of 30, she was determined not to be a victim, and made a promise to herself to make the most of her life and her entrepreneurial passion and set out to achieve personal and financial goals and objectives most would have found daunting. However, by increasing her focus on financial freedom and success, Megan TRIPLED HER INCOME in her first year in business… and watched it climb ever since.Megan has her own Web TV show, called Own Your Value and Earn Your Worth, which airs weekly. She also shares her expertise as a regular contributor for the Huffington Post. Megan lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and three children.
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