Monthly Meeting

Date: March 18th, 2010
Time: 7:30 am to 9:00 am (registration begins at 7 am)
Location: Danversport Yacht Club
Topic: Climate and Leadership
Speaker: Michael D. Maginn, Singularity Group, Inc. Hamilton, MA
Price: $25.00 Members, $30.00 Guests

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About Speaker Michael D. Maginn, Ed.D.

Michael D. Maginn is the president of Singularity Group, Inc., a Hamilton, Massachusetts-based management consulting firm founded in 1983.  Dr. Maginn helps senior teams implement strategic plans through successful processes, performers and teams.

Dr. Maginn has over 25 years of experience as a management consultant assisting organizations achieve sustainable strategic outcomes and improving performance.  Dr. Maginn is the author of Effective Teamwork. Managing in Times of Change,  Making Teams Work (McGraw-Hill), and 5 Skills of Master Salespeople.  He has written many management and sales articles identifying high-performer competencies as well as commercially available video-based training programs.  He is also publisher of SingularityManagerZine, an electronic commentary.  He designed and co-facilitated the Gettysburg Leadership Experience for The Conference Board.  As past Vice President, Research and Development for the Forum Corporation, he designed and developed Influence, a multi-million dollar success story in the training industry that teaches cross-functional, team-oriented skills.  He also designed a series of flagship leadership programs for the Tom Peters Company.

Dr. Maginn has coached executive teams facing challenges in working together, in deciding priorities and in aligning themselves behind a strategic plan.  He has also provided advice to senior executives on their personal presence, impact, effectiveness and promotability.  Most recently, he has developed a process for the rapid prototyping of strategy that reduces the time and effort required to develop and implement new direction.  He has also created C-Lens Index, a new assessment platform that measures the value customer receive from the sales process.  He is also using the concept and measurement of organizational climate as a focus for leadership priorities.

He has recently delivered consulting and design services for  Fifth Third Bank, Credit Suisse, UBS Investment Bank, T. Rowe Price, Liberty Mutual, CIGNA, CNA, State Street Bank, J.P. Morgan, Coca-Cola, IBM, UBS Financial Services, Inc., MBNA America, Continental Insurance, MCI, Chase Manhattan Bank, Sears, Keystone Investor Resource Center, Time, Inc., Fidelity Investments, Prudential Securities, Marriott, Bank Indonesia, Archstone-Smith Communities, Fleet Private Clients Group, Pitney Bowes, Pepsi-Cola, BayBanks, CIEE, Toronto Dominion Bank, Matsushita Electronics Corporation of America, GRE Insurance, and others.

Dr. Maginn has an AB in English and MS in Education from Syracuse University, and an Ed.D. from the University of Southern California in Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology.  After completing his doctorate, he spent a year in Asia teaching in USC’s Overseas Master’s Program.

Dr. Maginn has extensive international consulting experience, including extended assignments in Asia, Europe, and North America.  He also has a USCG Master’s license.  He lives with his wife and two children in Hamilton, MA., and enjoys sailing, cross-country skiing, cycling and playing the guitar.

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