Bill Treasurer

Current

• Chief Encouragement Officer at Giant Leap Consulting

Past

• Executive at Accenture
• Vice President of Program Services at Executive Adventure

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
• West Virginia University

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Connections

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Industry

Management Consulting

Bill Treasurer’s Summary

Bill Treasurer founded Giant Leap Consulting in 2002. The company's mission is to help people and organizations be more courageous.

Bill is the author of COURAGE GOES TO WORK (Berrett-Koehler, 2008), the first book about how to build workforce courage. His first book, RIGHT RISK (Berrett-Koehler, 2002), focuses on helping people make the right bold moves. Bill is also the chief editor of POSITIVELY M.A.D. (Berrett-Koehler, 2004), a compilation of stories from over 50 leading experts.

Giant Leap specializes in customizing courage-building and leadership development programs. GLC's clients include: Accenture, Walsh Construction, EarthLink, SPANX, Aldridge Electric Inc., Manheim, the Centers for Disease Control, UNICEF, and the U.S. Veteran's Administration.

Prior to founding Giant Leap, Bill was an executive in Accenture's change management practice. Before that, Bill traveled throughout the world as a member of the U.S. High Diving Team, peforming over 1500 high dives from heights that scaled to over 100 feet.

Bill Treasurer’s Specialties:

Courage Building Workshops, Leadership Development, Team Building, Facilitation, Custom Training Solutions, Strategic Planning, Succession Planning, Curriculum Development, Executive Development, New Product Ideations, Facilitation.

Bill Treasurer’s Experience

• Chief Encouragement Officer

  Giant Leap Consulting

  (Management Consulting industry)

  August 2002 — Present (7 years 5 months)

  Bill Treasurer is the founder and president of Giant Leap Consulting, Inc. His primary job is to instill courage (encourage) people and organizations, by driving out fear.

• Executive

  Accenture

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Management Consulting industry)

  1996 — 2002 (6 years )

• Vice President of Program Services

  Executive Adventure

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  January 1993 — January 1996 (3 years 1 month)

Bill Treasurer’s Education

• University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

  M.S. , Administrative Science (Organizational Development) , 1989 — 1991

  Activities and Societies:

  National Dean's List electee. 4.0 student. Thesis nominated for thesis of the year.

• West Virginia University

  B.S. , Sports Management , 1980 — 1985

  Activities and Societies:

  Co-captain of the swimming and diving team, 1983 & 1984. Full scholarship athlete (1980-1984). Outstanding Swimmer Award (1982).

Additional Information

Bill Treasurer’s Interests:

Loving my children, helping others to be courageous, conducting training workshops, making money, whitewater kayaking and sauntering around Asheville!

Bill Treasurer’s Groups:

American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), National Speakers Association (NSA), founding board member of the Berrett-Koehler Authors Cooperative.

•    SpeakerMatch
•    Organization Development Network, OD Network, ODN
•    Pfeiffer
•    Bookends - The Discussion
•    Berrett-Koehler Authors Community
•    Pfeiffer Partners
•    Conor Neill Professor of Public Speaking
•    Giant Leap Consulting Alumni

Bill Treasurer’s Honors:

Author of Courage Goes to Work (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008) and Right Risk (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003). He is also the chief editor of Positively M.A.D. (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004).

Bill Treasurer’s Contact Settings

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