Event Details

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Rich Manders, Founder & CEO of Third Eye Coaching will be speaking about the power of having a set of clear goals and objectives for yourself and then tying them to your company’s vision. Through personal experience and the experience of peers’ stories, Rich will share the results of how being clear about what you want and tying that to the company vision can produce amazing results. Develop a your plan for success and find out how to create your vision and be a more effective leader.

Rich Manders is a certified Gazelle International Coach (http://gicoaches.com/bio/Richard-Manders/). Through his company Third Eye Coaching he provides CEO coaching, training and advisory practice which is focused on bringing out the best in the middle market firms and their leaders.

A serial entrepreneur, Rich is dedicated to helping fellow entrepreneurs realize their vision through coaching and development backed by more than 30 years of experience. Among his other previous companies, Rich co-founded iAutomation, leading the organization from $0 in sales to becoming the industry leader with 140+ employees and nearly $80M in sales. iAutomation was profitable and from the third quarter forward for more than 12 years at 5 the times the industry average. iAutomation’s focus remains to help manufacturers of automated equipment thrive through clever, competitive and quality components and solutions in the automation and mechatronics space. Rich successfully sold iAutomation to the leading middle market private equity firm, Riverside. Following the sale he worked with Riverside to grow the company eight-fold. The company remains profitable in the top decile of the industry for more than 60 consecutive quarters. Rich has played key roles in seven acquisitions and dozens of evaluations. He has a deep understanding of how to value, qualify for strategic fit, merge, optimize and grow combined enterprises. As a lifelong learner, he has attended hundreds of seminars, read more than 1000 books on business's and worked with many thought leaders on Business Management, Sales, Personal Development, Coaching, People Skills and Negotiation.

In addition to his impressive career path, Rich comes from a large family and is happily married with four children. He graduated from Lakeland High School and went on to join the Air Force, which instilled his deep love of travel and engineering. An avid athlete, he mountain bikes long distances regularly, runs, swims, hikes, snowshoes, kayaks, you name the activity and he does it! He completed his first North America Iron Man in 2013 (which you can see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FDkdjj7e-U), followed shortly by a half iron man in October of 2013. He consistently strives to better himself and set an example for his children, and to better the world we live in. Rich continues to expand his horizons, traveling nationally and internationally for business and sport.

Sponsor:

Ethan Allen Workforce Solutions offers job seekers and employers the most complete, leading- edge employment services in the Hudson Valley. Whether you’re looking for employment opportunities, quality employees or off-site personnel services such as payroll, employee benefits or risk management, we’re expert in meeting the needs of workers and companies across the Hudson Valley!

Ethan Allen Recruitment is the Professional Placement Division of Ethan Allen Workforce Solutions. Nationally recognized, our extensive regional and national contacts ensure the right candidate for your professional opening — or the right employer for your skills and background.

Ethan Allen Staffing the Temporary Staffing Division of Ethan Allen Workforce Solutions provides quality temporary and contract staffing services to companies throughout the Hudson Valley.

Ethan Allen RPO the Recruitment Process Outsourcing Division of Ethan Allen Workforce Solutions offers a cost effective way to take advantage of internet recruiting.

Ethan Allen HR Services (Staff-Line, Inc.), is a full-service Professional Employer Organization (PEO) offering complete personnel services to small and medium-sized companies, supplying personnel services which were previously only available to large corporations with in-house HR departments to large corporations with in-house HR departments.

This program has been approved for recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.

In addition we are also approvoed for SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP credit hours.

“Mid-Hudson Human Resource Association is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.”