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How do you know if they're the real deal who can prove that they've helped businesses achieve real results? See what clients are saying about them. This is just a small sampling of actual customer testimonials for TeamWorks International. Ready to get started on your business' success?
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‘Growing Pain’ Consultants Executive Education High Performance Organizations

"Let me start with this: I wish I had this program for my management teams 20 years ago. It takes me, the CEO, out of the day to day grind into thinking about the team. You help me think out of the box and focus in on the important topics of leadership and managing my team. I don’t want to understate that. It’s vital for me to focus on my team’s effectiveness and working together in improving our execution. It is extremely critical for us to have the ability to engage in candid and critical conversations with our peers. I had board members a few years ago who didn’t want me to spend money on this and now a number of them think this was the best money we’ve ever spent; and this is from just seeing my executives every three months, and again, I wish I had this 20 years ago."

Barry Phelps

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Empower RF Systems

Inglewood, California

"One of our most successful engagements (at the division director level and at the senior executive level) has been with TeamWorks International. We had been looking for an approach to leadership and team development that emphasized involvement, action, and results.
TeamWorks significantly enhanced our business results through highly engaging and purposeful management development. Their work very quickly generated heightened clarity of focus, relevant discussion and effective management interactions helping us to advance our key organizational objectives.

Personally, we found their work extremely useful to our efforts in sustaining key senior and middle management teams, as well as the company’s overall direction. Further, while strengthening our individual managers,
they also gave us some of the most useful and effective tools to gain timely focus, perspective, and acceleration of our performance. TeamWorks leadership approach and team development have been refreshing, simple and powerful. Their work points to a bright future for business where the attainment of company results indeed can be reached through people".

Glenn Grindstaff

Senior Vice President

Human Resources

Spirent Communications

Calabasas, California

"Eric and Athena are world-class consultants.
Working with them is like watching my dreams come to life. I know that I need our team to transform, and I see the behaviors that do not belong, but I find it hard to communicate my vision of teamwork to my staff. Eric and Athena took the foundations of what I thought I needed and created relevant, fast-moving group activities that really drove the discussion for needed change. By dinner on the first night, my team was acting like a championship NBA team. Laughing, caring, and engaging like they had known each other forever. Such a large change in such a short time."

Susan OppSector President

Space and Power Systems

L3 Technologies

Salt Lake City, Utah

"I have known Eric and Athena for over ten years now. First, as a VP of Marketing at Spirent Communications for our Calabasas, Sunnyvale, and Hawaii offices where they provided outstanding leadership and team development to our executive and mid-management teams. Second, and more recently, while the CEO of Sunrise Telecom at my Silicon Valley corporate HQ. Over the course of a year and a half there, they facilitated two perfectly timed and compelling strategic offsites for my executive team. I have found they have a unique combination of excellent understanding of both the business and the leadership challenges facing executives and middle management. They are among the few I have met that are truly effective in helping the people side of business click and be more productive."

Bahaa Moukadam

Founder | Head Coach

SeeMetrics Partners

Westlake Village, California

"Actually, tremendous. Eric Smith and Athena Lou delivered the right message at the right time for our organization. Their engaging, hands-on style established immediate rapport with our audience. They excel at helping organizations build team and the right direction for the future."

Dr. Heidi Pace

Deputy Superintendent

Academy School District 20

(U.S. Air Force Academy and surrounding community)

#1 Academic School District in Colorado

Colorado Springs, Colorado

"You know what man, this was powerful and really useful. Thank you again. Aloha."

Wally Wally “Famous” Amos

Founder

Famous Amos Cookie Corp.

Pioneer of the Gourmet Cookie Industry

Lanikai, Hawaii

"Mid-Manager Series (14 participants) "Remarkable and significant. TeamWorks’ Facilitated Results™ has propelled my company to new levels. The program has helped me to make fundamental shifts in alignment, engagement, trust and execution.
Our ROI over the extent of the Facilitated Results program has been excellent. We experienced inventory reductions in excess of $1M, cost reductions that more than paid for the training and improved on-time deliveries. We expect to leverage extensively these projects further in the next 24 months through reduced time-to-market for our development programs and significant product cost reductions."

Barry Phelps

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Empower RF Systems

Inglewood, California

Executive Team Series (Five participants)

"It is with great pleasure that I offer this endorsement for TeamWorks and their signature training series, Facilitated Results™ (FR). When we began the program, our leaders and their management systems were stretched beyond capacity. We had no idea how transforming this series would be on us and our company. To say that FR completely changed our perspective on how to collaborate and win together, better, faster and with greater synergy, is an understatement. It is not difficult to pencil out an ROI for this program. Collectively, the signature projects alone will deliver $500,000+ in near-term financial impact.

Our company has a culture of high achievement, but we did not always work together as a team in a highly synergistic manner.
FR created an environment that helped our leader team build trust in one another, which we believe has been instrumental in our company experiencing extraordinary results this year. The leader team of GCommerce recommends this program enthusiastically and without reservation."

Steven Smith

President and CEO

GCommerce Inc.

Des Moines, Iowa

Middle Management Series (16 Participants)

"Our engagement of TeamWorks to deliver tangible results to the University far exceeded my goals. Their customization of the program throughout helped my sixteen leaders measure, deliver and document results in critical areas on campus.
The collective value of the program through the coming three years will be well over three million dollars!
Thank you Eric and Athena for bringing this powerful toolkit to the university."

Bill Chen

Vice Chancellor

University of Hawaii at Hilo

Hilo, Hawaii

Executive Team Series (Five participants)

"Facilitated Results™ provided a heightened sense of the power of synergy and specific management tools to not only work together as a cohesive team, but to very quickly identify and start generating additional revenue and key gains in efficiency. The sessions were direct, entertaining, and extremely thought provoking. Facilitated Results is a great program and I would highly recommend this fast paced program for any management team. I think I speak for us all when I say that the training that you provided for us has been extremely helpful. You have given us the tools to really expand our abilities as Managers."

Thad Calciolari

Director

Four Seasons - Hualalai Sports Club & Spa

AAA 5 Diamond Resort, World’s Best Places to Stay – Gold List

Zagat Survey – Rated #1 U.S. Resort Kohala Coast, Big Island, Hawaii

"Thank you very much for dramatically improving the level of teamwork at the Hualalai Grille. Our partnership in this project proved to be very effective and rewarding for all. We appreciate your personal commitment to attaining measurable results. Eric Smith and Athena Lou created a series of team development sessions that were tailored for our staff, meaningful and highly effectual.
The Hualalai Grille will enjoy the rewards of these sessions for months…and hopefully years!
We look forward to another opportunity to partner together on future projects and continually developing our team. Ultimately, developing Hualalai Resort as the best-focused, effective and motivated team in Hawaii! Mahalo."

David Oliver, Vice President, Operations

Patti Aoki , Director of Human Resources

Four Seasons - Hualalai Resort

AAA 5 Diamond Resort, World’s Best Places to Stay – Gold List

Zagat Survey – Rated #1 U.S. Resort

Kohala Coast, Big Island, Hawaii

Mid-management Team Series (15 participants)

"TeamWorks not only met the basic criteria … but also added much, much more to our engagement. We were able to customize and develop a very practical and effective approach in meeting our leadership development needs. The rapport that TeamWorks was able to develop with our staff was truly the “icing on the cake” and contributed immensely to the resulting success or our training and development efforts."

Del Kleckner

Vice President

Human Resources

Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corporation

Kea`au, Big Island, Hawaii