Diebold Ventures

A creative/analytical/strategic hands-on business, brand & user experience consultant creating experiences that drive profits and delight customers with extensive experience that has helped such well-known companies as Apple, NBC, TV Guide, 20th Century Fox, MGM, Sony Pictures includes:

➢ Five years as a Brand/Business Strategist, Art Director, User Experience Consultant for entrepreneurial and mid sized companies across various industries

➢ Five years as a founding principal/team leader of IT consultancy spearheading major initiatives in high-tech

➢ Five years additional experience includes writing, directing, producing, editing commercials/videos, story analysis & development in entertainment-based businesses

> Five years as Certified Coach with strong interpersonal skills & experience working with diverse groups of people & cultures.

UNIQUE SKILLS

• Crystallizing Brand: Articulate an organization’s purpose and how it creates value in uniquely compelling messages that differentiate competitively. Execute initiatives relentlessly. Organize and execute projects.

• Understanding Markets: Develop a deep and intuitive understanding of markets and customers and how buying decisions are made. Leverage the insight into targeted messages and initiatives for results.

• Developing Strategies: Exploit strategies to leverage market positioning and develop initiatives to capture market share. Execute across different opportunities to increase footprint. Collaborate to leverage outcomes.

• Exploiting Technology: Utilize the Internet & emerging technologies to deliver messaging. Form alliances to shape product, company, and identity so that a broad brand presence is created. Integrating new technology into business initiatives

• Creative Ideation: Bootstrap resources, ideas & creative research to create a big-company presence on a shoestring budget. Synthesize disparate ideas together to create new breakthroughs.

• Ian Fisk wrote (2 years ago):

  The William James Foundation has announced 8 competitions that together provide $100,000 in cash and in kind support for sustainable entrepreneurs. Entrants can be of any age or from anywhere in the world. First round deadline is December 4th. Details at: www.williamjamesfoundation.org/press.

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