SELF The Vast World Behind Your Words - Paperback

Kimmel, Joel B.: - Joel Kimmel is a leading expert in ontological design and how it impacts individuals, high-performance teams, and corporations. He has focused his career on building teams, organizations, and individuals, grounded in efficient, powerful, and effective communication technology. His promise to individual clients is that they will experience the benefits of personal creativity, an intimate sense of community, and an expanded commitment to building honest and authentic relationships in careers and personal lives. His consulting has included start-ups and long-term management of viable, successful businesses, franchises, and international organizations. Joel's diverse background includes being a retail business owner, keynote speaker, business consultant, executive consultant, individual mentor, world-class athlete, Vietnam veteran, and the recipient of the Presidential Call to Service Award. Joel has worked with numerous high-performance consulting firms including Turning Point Inc., BizFutures, Sportsmind, The Williams Group, The Human Potential Project, and others. He has extensive experience leading corporate trainings, consulting on problem solving, team intervention, and coaching individuals on personal performance and authentic action. Joel is an experienced one-on-one coach for executives and their teams as well as working with executives during times of career or corporate transition focusing on Innovation, Identity, and Design. Joel's coaching has encompassed a broad spectrum of life, from corporate executives to outreach programs for inner-city youth. His clients include such noted businesses as US Bank, Shell Oil, Wells Fargo Wealth Legacy Group, Mattamy Corporation, Itron International, the Charles Schwab Foundation, Allianz Life, and many others. His perspective, whether as a keynote speaker or a personal coach, brings a fresh new approach to individual and corporate change. Joel currently lives joyously in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Judy.Kimmel, Judy a.: - Judy Kimmel, mother of their two grown daughters and wife of Joel, grew up exploring the world and living in various countries throughout her father's diplomatic career. She spent her earlier life working in the areas of education, marketing, personal growth, and transformative management. Her career encompasses the fields of elementary education, retail and franchise management, business coaching, and nonprofit organizational expansion and strategy. Being an accomplished artist and avid rower, she has a unique, creative perspective on life. Judy has played strategic roles in Hawken Day School, in Supercuts Corporation as franchisee and marketing consultant, in Primo's Coffee Company as owner of eleven retail locations, and in Kimmel & Company as consultant and coach. Her nonprofit engagement includes The est Foundation, the Beyond War Foundation, The Peace Alliance, and the Marin Rowing Association, establishing and expanding their outreach and national impact. She has been featured in Inc. magazine, MARIN magazine, and CBS 60 Minutes Bay Area and is the Recipient of the Marin County Democratic Peacebuilder Award. Her passion will always be coaching and inspiring good management in the public sector as well as serving on a number of different nonprofit boards. Judy is dedicated to expanding understanding and fostering powerful yet nurturing relationships within her family, her community, and business partners.