Leadership Development

KEYGroup® is a management consulting and training firm in Pittsburgh, PA. It’s group of professionals include Fortune 500 executives, health care administrators, manufacturing managers, government/military supervisors, and community leaders who consult and train in the areas of performance management, employee development, and leadership. Jan has been designing and delivering customized management training programs for the firm since 1984 and serves as KEYGroup’s President.
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John Amatt has made presentations to over 1800 corporate and professional audiences representing well in excess of 750,000 people in 49 countries around the world. Building on his lifetime of adventure and entrepreneurship, including as a leader and climber on Canada’s first successful Mt. Everest expedition, John Amatt uses the adventure metaphor to inspire and motivate audiences. His most popular presentation topics include No Mountain Too High: Challenging Change with the Adventure AttitudeTM, and Climbing Your Own Everest: What It Takes to Get to the Top.  John has been described by International Celebrity Management (Australia) as “The World’s best adventure speaker.”
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Kate Driesen, President of Driesen & Associates, specializes in helping employees sharpen their critical leadership skills to achieve performance excellence. These include training and speech topics that address management and leadership development, coaching, communication, and managing stress. The content of each of her program topics is enhanced by her superb presence and an almost magnetic rapport which she establishes with every group. Kate who has worked with companies throughout the U.S. and in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Great Britain, includes among her clients, Bristol-Myers Squibb, McGraw Hill, Toyota Motor Company, Verizon, Chevron, DKNY, Salvation Army, and numerous federal, state and local government agencies.
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Jill D. Kanter, principal of Jill Kanter Associates, is a management consultant and executive coach with expertise in leadership development, team effectiveness and organizational change. Jill’s clients include both large dynamic and small entrepreneurial organizations in financial services, healthcare and higher education. All are unanimously impressed by her skill and the positive impact she has made in their organizations. Jill is certified to administer the Center for Creative Leadership’s 360 assessments, Korn Ferry Lominger International’s Voices 360, DiSC Personal Profile System, EQi and FIRO-B instruments. She earned her B.A. in Education from the University of Massachusetts where she focused on counseling and career development. At Harvard University, Jill was awarded her Ed.M. specializing in organization development and corporate education.
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Michael Kipp formed his management consulting firm in 1989 and has helped more than 100 companies design and facilitate high impact work sessions that support corporate strategy, business innovation, organization design, new marketing initiatives, and the cultivation of more effective executive teams. As a former Chief Executive Officer, Mike has coached executives and their teams through market repositioning, corporate transformation, and personal growth. He regularly consults in a variety of operating environments, frequently in emergent or turnaround situations and plans and manages large group interventions. Mike presents regularly for business, trade and professional gatherings. His provocative leadership development keynotes include The Accidental Leader, Seven Lessons in Strategy, Self Inflicted Change and From Transaction to Consultation.
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David Silver conducts customized training programs covering management and supervisory training, leadership development, and mentoring. The expertise David imparts is a direct result of more than 20 years experience in a variety of senior human resources management positions with such organizations as Gentiva Health Services, Aventis, Amerada Hess Corporation, The Bank of Tokyo and the Federal Government. Since 1987, David has provided consulting and training services to over 200 client organizations representing both the public and private sectors.
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John (Jack) Stack is the founder and CEO of SRC Holdings Corporation, an employee-owned company which currently includes 22 subsidiaries covering businesses from banks to engine manufacturing plants. Stack is the author of the best-selling business books on unlocking the power and profitability of open-book management, The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome, and is an Inc. Magazine columnist. As well as leading SRC Holdings Corp., Stack travels across the U.S and around the world delivering speeches and educating companies about the benefits of open-book management and how it can positively impact people’s lives and the company’s bottom line. He has received numerous recognition awards for his revolutionary style of management including The National Business Ethics Award and Top 100 Companies to Work For in America.
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