David D. "Griff" Griffith

An experienced entrepreneur with a strong bias for sound decision-making and action. A leader able to impart a vision, motivate and build purpose-driven teams focused on success. A creative person, skilled at communicating and an insightful listener.

A multi-disciplined person experienced in sales, marketing, consulting, negotiating, training and coaching. Likes to travel and enjoys working with people.

Reputed as a trusted and respected team player; a businessperson who consistently applies sound ethics and principle centered values of honesty, open-mindedness, willingness, fairness, loyalty and integrity in all decisions and actions. A husband, father and family man involved in church and community.

A natural leader continuously seeking growth and improvement..

Vision
Being at stake, standing for others, steering a true north course together toward an unprecedented future. Empowering and inspiring towards a truthful and abundant future. Helping to create a world where sowing is its own reward.

Mission
Committed to steering individuals and groups from the private sector, firms and organizations, toward finding and experiencing real transformation and unprecedented results. Using all available resources, and continuously seeking to provide excellence, the legacy is visible now; seen in the people we have the opportunity and honor to stand with.

LEADER
L = Learner with a beginners mind
E = Ears to hear, a listener
A = Adaptable and flexible
D = Direction, vision and purpose
E = Enroller, able to inspire
R = Responsible for results

E-mail me ♦ ddgriffith@ddgriffith.com

David D. "Griff" Griffith’s Specialties:

Author, Lecturer, Consultant, Trainer, Coach, Mediator, Negotiator, New Business Developer, Salesman, Marketeer and Social Media Expert...

Individual and Business Group Leadership Training, Personal, Middle / Top Management, Personal and Business Success Coaching and C-Level Executive Lifestyle and Leadership Coaching, Business Consulting, Marketing, Negotiation and Mediation. Social Media Strategy and Implementation.

David D. "Griff" Griffith’s Experience

Co-Founder and Principal

Social Media University

(Privately Held; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)

Hands-on, crash-course educational training workshops to help businesses unlocked Social Media's ability to generate endless leads and close substantially more business.

Provide insider secrets and strategies to leverage TIME, RESULTS and PROFITS using the top social networking platforms...getting companies, organizations and entrepreneurs back on the fast track to growing their business, their brand and their bottom line profits.

Attendees hit the ground running and leave with a STRATEGY, an ACTION PLAN, TANGIBLE RESULTS they can point to and an understanding of best practices for use with Social Media Marketing and how you integrate it into their sales and marketing plan.

Mission is to provide an advantage to hard-working, entrepreneurial people and organizations, helping them win the competitive battle for Sales & Market Share.

Program consists of continuing education products that put companies on the fast-track to success.
Principal

Rockford Media Group

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

July 2009 — Present (5 months)

Rockford Media Group events are designed to enable participants to immediately understand and engage in interactive digital media and marketing in its many forms. They are for all who need an understanding of Internet advertising best practices, ad programs, vocabulary, how ads are delivered and measured, how to differentiate and use branding versus direct response ads, and to understand the opportunities and limitations of what can be accomplished with online advertising and how this benefits advertisers. A limited number of participants are allowed in each course, so each participant can be assured of maximum interaction and learning and robust program presentation and curriculum, comprehensive manual and experienced instructors...in a setting that allows for greater interaction between facilitators and speakers and participants, providing more immediately relevant dialogue and information for each individual participant.
Owner
DD Griffith Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

Returned to the United States to Champion the turnaround and multi-million dollar acquisition of a group of carrier class broadband companies by Midwest private investor.

Developed networks of B2B relationships, wholesale, retail and e-commerce business contacts, academic, government and media contacts, in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Indiana.

Advised businesses, academic bodies and government agencies with best practices for implementing broadband fiber optic and wireless technologies as a means toward growth enterprise and wealth building.

Sold and successfully organized, marketed and drove attendance to several physical events and to virtual events making use of Marketing 2.0 and Web 2.0 best practices.

E-mail me ♦ ddgriffith@ddgriffith.com
Executive Coach / Trainer / Consultant

Culture ROI

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Develop and deliver custom designed culture change initiatives with executive teams for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small businesses around the world.

We specialize in negotiations, sales, leadership and service trainings. We are a boutique consultancy firm that produces results. Our referrals say it all.

E-mail me ♦ ddgriffith@gmail.com

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." -- Aristotle
Principal

DD Griffith Training & Coaching

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

DD Griffith Consulting offers executives and entrepreneurs an efficient and uniquely interactive experience in radical change. Our team has decades of experience in the training field. We work with companies globally, across all industries.

With conventional training the context is focused on personal growth. DD Griffith Consulting isn't about personal growth. We offer a unique context that makes use of interaction, education, and discussion, that is a breeding ground for transformation.

What we offer is transformational because it does not merely augment what is already known, understood, or practiced.

With personal growth you need a map, with transformation a compass. Where do you want to go? The neighborhood where you’ve already been? . . . or somewhere unprecedented?

DD Griffith Consulting is not a training only company, but supports clients with coaching as a means to transfer their training, increasing effectiveness four fold.

E-mail me ♦ ddgriffith@ddgriffith.com
Owner
DD Griffith Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

September 1992 — Present (17 years 3 months)

Developed networks of B2B relationships, wholesale, retail and e-commerce business contacts, academic, government and media contacts, in the United States, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Worked extensively with businesses in B2B sales of computer hardware and software, advertising and media, internet hosting, e-commerce, fast moving and durable consumer goods, hardware, textiles, packaging, gifts, retail, consumer services and industrial manufacture.

Sold and published over 100 fiction, non-fiction, albums, periodicals, consumer lifestyle and B2B magazines, casting, licensing characters, co producing content and editing as necessary.

Advised and trained printers and publishers on best practices in implementing the integration of new technologies into conventional printing and publishing processes.

Sold, architected, engineered, developed, and copyrighted software, hardware, and techniques for best practices for publishing content and for the fulfillment of publications.
Champion

ROC-net

(Internet industry)

September 2007 — July 2009 (1 year 11 months)

ROC-net provides broadband communication infrastructure to businesses, organizations and individuals using world-class, fiber-based services.

We are committed to providing the highest speed, lowest cost fiber connectivity and broadband service available and will continually re-invest to achieve these goals, helping companies and individuals communicate, collaborate and coordinate information throughout the world.

Our many clients range from governmental entities and healthcare facilities to manufacturing and service organizations.

We believe that communities leading in high-speed fiber optic connectivity will reap the benefits of economic growth, increased productivity and a better quality of life.

E-mail me ♦ david.griffith@roc-net.com
Director

Tot Heil des Volks - "For the Salvation of the People"

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

January 1990 — September 1992 (2 years 9 months)

Directed and managed 'The Shelter', a 200 bed, Christian youth hostel ministry, with a staff of 35, in the center of the Red Light District of Amsterdam.

Successfully worked getting street teens, homeless, prostitutes, alcoholics and junkies off the streets, in cooperation with non for profit and government agencies, finding temporary and permanent placement, and indoctrination back into society.

Advised and trained non for profit and government agencies in the best practices for care and treatment of alcohol and chemically dependent persons.
Case Manager

Swedish American Hospital

(Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)

1988 — 1990 (2 years )

Non-profit, health care hospital system dedicated to providing the highest value care to those who are sick, and the most effective prevention strategies to those who are well.

Worked in a multi-disciplinary model, doing ‘intakes’ and counseling, together with medical doctors, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, various members of clergy and parents in the in-patient treatment of teens and young adults with diagnosed social, behavioral and drug and alcohol related issues.

Consulted independent and government agencies regarding methods of care and treatment of alcohol and chemically dependant persons.

Member of R.A.S.A.C. (Rockford Area Substance Abuse Council).
Sales Manager / Construction Expeditor / Vice President

Round Tree Inc

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Construction industry)

1978 — 1988 (10 years )

Full service construction company providing architectural drafting, building materials and general contracting.

Real estate sales, development and construction company.

Architectural drafting of single- and multi-family residential buildings.

Wholesale sales of building materials in residential, commercial, industrial and urban remodeling and renovation markets.

General contracting and sales team leadership in sales of single- and multi- family residential buildings, including designs, materials, and construction.

General contracting and sales team leadership in sales of agricultural, commercial and industrial buildings, and urban remodeling and renovation.

Coordination of new home sales teams.

Proudly worked alongside every trade, digging footings, soldering pipe, pulling wire, hammering nails, hauling shingles and driving trucks and forklift trucks of all weights, classes and sizes.

David D. "Griff" Griffith’s Education

Rockford East High School

1972 — 1976
Culture ROI

Leadership Trainers Academy
Purdue University
Rock Valley College

Additional Information

David D. "Griff" Griffith’s Interests:

• Leadership, Success and Personal Development Training and Coaching • Essay and Creative Writing • Reading, Films, Photography • Teaching Secondary Level English • Youth Soccer Training and Coaching • Personal Fitness and Training • Golf (Handicap 15) Additional Skills and Interests: • Macintosh and PC • Computer Building and Network Assembly • Commercial Copywriting and Editing • Image Editing and Desktop Publishing • Internet Web Site Development • E-Commerce Web Platform Construction Software: • Adobe – Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Go Live, Image Ready • Corel – WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Presentations, Paradox, CorelDraw, Paint Shop Pro, Painter • JASC – Paint Shop Pro, Animation Shop • Macromedia – Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash • Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook • QuarkXpress – QuarkXpress • Symantec – Antivirus, System Works, Utilities, Internet Security, WinFax Pro, Partition Magic

David D. "Griff" Griffith’s Groups:

• Rockford Chamber of Commerce
• Rockford Area Economic Development Councel
• International Coaching Federation (ICF)
• International Coaching Association (ICA)
• Toastmasters International
• Heartland Community Church
• Hilversum International Christian Community (HICC)
• Compassion International – Christian Child Sponsorship Organization
• Bunschoten Township Church Workgroup on Youth Affairs
• SWGN – Stichting Welzijn Gehandicapten Nederland
(Organization supporting the needs of the mentally and physically challenged)
• LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/ddgriffith)
• Facebook
• Goodreads (http://www.goodreads.com/profile/ddgriffith)

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Rockford Chamber of Commerce
Link to Chicago
American Advertising Federation (AAF)
TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
Heartlanders
InvitesWelcome.com (Open Networkers)
Online Lead Generation Community
Social Media Marketing
Marketing 2.0 Community
SalesBlogcast.com
SOBCon SOBCon2010
LION500.com (Open Networkers)
The Official Toastmasters International Members Group
Print Industry Networking Group
Rockford Linked
WordPress
Windy City Connect
LiveBig Weekend: Attracting & Retaining Talent to the Rockford Area
theKbuzz
PCMA - Professional Coaches & Mentors Association
CleanTech Region
Rockford River District Association
Rockford Area Convention & Visitors Bureau
Balance & Fulfillment for Business Leaders
Global Networking Group
Rockford Writers & Editors
KMK Media Group
Twittering
Social Media Club Rockford - Rockford, Illinois, USA
Chicago Twitter & Social Media
#journchat
Web815
nCENTER
Social Media Club Chicago
Ragan UnConference
The CAST
AAF District 6
Northwest Illinois Blackhawk Express
Linked Local in Rockford, IL
Fasterestest by Clinkenbeard - Speed to Market Group
Social Media University
Business to Business of Rockford
GetMoving! in Rockford
Social Media University Alumni
Orange Tree Open Networkers
Forty Two Eighty Nine
Social Media University Twitter Workshop Alumni
Social Media University Facebook Workshop Alumni
Social Media University LI Workshop Alumni
Social Media University YouTube Workshop Alumni
Social Media University WordPress Blog Workshop Alumni
CSRA Innovation

David D. "Griff" Griffith’s Honors:

• Author of (3) Walt Disney Company Illustrated Children’s Books
• Author of (1) Children’s Television Workshop Illustrated Children’s Book
• Author of (14) Independent Illustrated Children’s Books
• Author of (3) Transformational Training Workshops

• VIP / Co-Sponsor Disney Children’s Summit to UNESCO

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David D. "Griff" Griffith’s Experience

Co-Founder and Principal

Social Media University

Principal

Rockford Media Group

Owner

DD Griffith Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

Executive Coach / Trainer / Consultant

Culture ROI

Principal

DD Griffith Training & Coaching

Owner

DD Griffith Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

Champion

ROC-net

Director

Tot Heil des Volks - "For the Salvation of the People"

Case Manager

Swedish American Hospital

Sales Manager / Construction Expeditor / Vice President

Round Tree Inc

David D. "Griff" Griffith’s Education

Rockford East High School

Culture ROI

Purdue University

Rock Valley College

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