Levy N. Rivers

Current

Principal at Phronesis, Inc.

Past

Project Manager at General Board of Pensions and Health
Listed in Description at Xerox

Education

Cornell University
Yale University
DePaul University

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Industry

Professional Training & Coaching

Levy N. Rivers’s Summary

• Experienced manager, reputation strategist, and project leader with a strong track record of delivering results in complex organizational settings.

I have worked with clients to realize their goals and dreams in the shortest possible time. I use a practical, results-driven approach, combined with giving insightful feedback and straightforward communication, which facilitates and enables rapid behavior change. My clients can rely on deft questions to clarify what is important, as well as identifying actions that will generate growth and create structures to sustain it.

As a result, me clients develop ways of leveraging their best opportunities, obtaining clarity concerning the unique processes that support their goals, and then getting into action to achieve those goals. I bring sales and marketing acumen, personal insight, intuition, and a sense of humor to all of my relationships.

Prior to founding Phronêsis, I held several managerial positions at Xerox, United Methodist Pension Fund, and Wellington Avenue Local Development Organization (WALDO).

As Branch Major for Xerox Levy directed sales, service and systems analysis personnel.

For the United Methodist Pension Fund he held the position of Strategic Planner and Project Manager implementing cross functional organizational pension redesign and then assisted in the campaign to convince the denomination to adopt the suggested major reforms.

As the Executive Director and Founder of WALDO, Levy work with community groups to assist them in organizational efforts to reclaim their communities from blight and despair.

I have worked with both private and public organizations and their leaders to improve the changes they deemed necessary and required. I have conducted workshops, seminars to assist in spreading the change focus from the leadership throughout the organization, reinforcing his clients ability to produce the results required.

Levy N. Rivers’s Specialties:

-Reputation Strategist
-Executive Leadership
-Social Networking Strategist
-Strategic Partnership Development
-Facilitation (both in person and online)
-Project Formulation and Execution
-Collaboration and Social Networking
-Market Analysis, Management Consulting and Planning
-Coaching

Levy N. Rivers’s Experience

Principal

Phronesis, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

September 1986 — Present (23 years 3 months)

Focus: business plan development, virtual project development, market consumer forecasting, planning and implementing of new programs for B2C and B2B developed performance-based marketing outcomes including web presence development, email lead generation, affiliate program design and conducting panel assessment.

Select projects include:
• Developed an Alpha Web site with embedded processes that included Email, Search Engine Optimizing and other forms of marketing strategies, which I had to self-teach from the basic technology of HTML down to PHP and other web design techniques.
• Designed and ran an RFP process featuring system and physician cost saving incentives to renegotiate and select insurance health benefits for 10,000 employees spread over 15 corporate clients. Result: Reduced costs by 20% ($1,200 per employee), saving the 15 corporations an aggregate $12,000,000 per year.
Project Manager

General Board of Pensions and Health

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Investment Management industry)

February 2000 — September 2003 (3 years 8 months)

The General Board of Pension and Health Benefits is one of 14 general agencies of the United Methodist Church and is charged with "…the general supervision and administration of the support, relief, and assistance and pensioning of clergy…lay workers of the various units of the Church, and their families.

• Designed and facilitated denomination-wide political support strategy for implementation of pension and health care plan reforms for 125,000 people in 6 months.
• Provided project management for 84 initiatives in the three (3) pensions groups, which entailed changing hundreds of processes and documents across 7 major systems and retraining the staff of 16 of 19 departments, which were completed on schedule and budget in twelve months.
Listed in Description

Xerox

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1975 — June 1984 (8 years 9 months)

Branch Manager
• Managed branch operations, sales, systems analyst and service; hired trained and supervised 10 employees.
• Results: Branch finished 3rd in the Midwest (of 12 branches) and 6th in US (of 50 branches), achieving 135% of sales plan and keeping costs below 80% of budget.

Data Communications Specialist
• One of five Regional Specialists. Our job was to support the USA field sales force primarily for Major Accounts (Fortune 100) on data communications, Ethernet, networking, or what was generally known as “office automation

Sales Representative
• Results: Ranked 6th in revenue and 2nd in total units sold among 500 sales representatives.

Additional Information

Levy N. Rivers’s Interests:

Reputation strategy, Organizational development, Corporate Governance, leadership,Philosophy,personal development, knowledge management systems, social networking, executive coaching, organizational culture, organizational behavior, systemic intervention, corporate governance, jazz, hip hop culture, post modern art, poker, and risk