Rick Fowler
Principal and Executive Coach
- Location
- Greater Denver Area
- Industry
- Management Consulting
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Rick Fowler's Overview
- Current
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- Principal and Executive Coach at Kahler Leadership Group
- Past
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- Special Advisor at Cuddlephish
- Senior Business Analyst at Acquity Group, LLC
- Vice President at Kahler Consulting Group
- Software Development Manager / Technical Project Leader at Zefer Corporation
- Software Engineer at Neoglyphics Media Corporation
- Software Engineer at Motorola, Inc.
- Software Test Engineer at Microsoft Corp.
- Education
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- Fielding Graduate University
- The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
- Various
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Various
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IBI Free Enterprise Forum
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MBA PowerPak
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University of Colorado
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University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
- Recommendations
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3 people have recommended Rick
- Connections
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500+ connections
Rick Fowler's Summary
I provide business development, sales, and coaching for Kahler Leadership Group. We help leaders and managers who believe in developing their employees but have little or no time to provide the coaching and development.
Our specialty is showing managers in fast-paced, high-pressure environments how they can build both performance and development of staff and ultimately save themselves time.
We've refined and tested Coaching on the Go™ in sales, customer service, service-to-sales, quality management, and regulated call center environments. Managers coach effectively in minutes, not hours, while reducing demands on their time. Employees increase performance and feel more engaged.
Specialties
Consulting and coaching for leadership development and human performance improvement.
Leading teams, building collaboration and knowledge sharing, change management, group and individual transformation.
Organization network analysis
Rick Fowler's Experience
Principal and Executive Coach
Kahler Leadership Group
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry
August 2009 – Present (2 years 6 months)
We help companies launch and develop coaching capabilities in their organization to increase human performance and engagement.
My priorities are sales, business development, and coaching, and I do marketing, finance, operations and anything else that needs to get done.
Special Advisor
Cuddlephish
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
June 2009 – June 2010 (1 year 1 month)
Cuddlephish helps developers turn mobile applications into profitable businesses. We provide mobile application development training, business incubation, and new venture strategy services for developers of mobile device applications.
Senior Business Analyst
Acquity Group, LLC
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry
August 2006 – December 2008 (2 years 5 months)
Leader of strategy execution initiatives.
- Developed digital marketing capabilities for global consumer electronics manufacturer.
- Executed global deployment of consumer websites for local and regional markets in Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the US.
- Developed and refined management systems and processes to direct the offshore team in India.
- Developed staff to take over daily management.
- Provided information technology strategy execution roadmap for marketing organization of global auto parts company.
- Developed organizational strategy with cultural assessment and social network analysis to improve collaboration and knowledge sharing for professional services firm.
- Developed methodology for organizational change management services.
Vice President
Kahler Consulting Group
October 2001 – August 2006 (4 years 11 months)
Startup providing sales, leadership and customer relationship training and consulting. Responsible for sales and marketing strategy and execution, business development, market research, service strategy, consulting and coaching.
- Managed scope, schedule and consultants to create new brand and market strategy, doubling average revenue per engagement and providing access to larger clients.
- Program manager to create, market, and deliver small business seminar series to improve leadership and sales performance. Also provided coaching and consulting.
- Revamped client’s sales strategy, increasing revenue by 138% within twelve months.
- Developed objectives and schedule and managed consultants to develop and promote marketing workshop for 150 prospects resulting in 20 new clients.
- Developed client’s customer experience scorecard and performance metrics by facilitating management meetings to determine business needs and strategic plans.
Software Development Manager / Technical Project Leader
Zefer Corporation
Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry
April 1999 – April 2001 (2 years 1 month)
600 employee, $113 million national consultancy providing Internet business strategy, custom software development and systems integration. Led technical teams of up to 16.
- Led team on multi-phased, full life cycle project to deliver secure web-based applications with systems integration for a $2 million project.
- Led team to develop web-based education system integrated with a PC application.
- Gathered and documented business requirements, architecture, and technical specifications using use cases, data models, object models and UML.
- Reduced risk of cost and schedule overruns by developing configuration management plans and automating integration, build and deployment procedures.
- Saved $700,000 in development tool costs by using open source software.
- Implemented process improvements including estimating tools, requirements management, configuration management, integration, and code review.
Software Engineer
Neoglyphics Media Corporation
June 1997 – April 1999 (1 year 11 months)
Responsible for designing, developing, testing and delivering software for clients.
- Developed reusable sweepstakes system for multinational retailer. Reduced development time by 95%.
- Developed bilingual web application system allowing multinational retailer to build custom web site supporting Spanish and English.
- Created first software requirements management process ensuring the delivery of the right solution to clients.
- Created first configuration management process ensuring systems under development had the right components at the right place and time.
- Co-developed initial QA process for new Quality Assurance Department.
Software Engineer
Motorola, Inc.
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; MMI; Telecommunications industry
June 1995 – June 1997 (2 years 1 month)
Fortune 100 manufacturer of wireless and broadband technology and services.
Designed, developed and tested mobile phone software with a large, worldwide team.
- Developed first color graphics display cellular telephone.
- Worked on early prototype of mobile phone with voice recognition features.
- Created test tool reducing cycle time for software development and testing by 90%.
- Increased quality and improved usability of software engineering tools by creating a standard framework for tool development.
- Instituted SEI Level 3 Requirements Management software quality process.
Software Test Engineer
Microsoft Corp.
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry
August 1992 – December 1992 (5 months)
As an intern, I created and executed software test plans for Unix network server software.
Rick Fowler's Education
Fielding Graduate University
Graduate Certificate, Evidence Based Coaching
2011 – 2012 (expected)
Executive coaching theory and practicum
The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
MBA, Strategy, Finance, Organizational Behavior
2007 – 2010
Activities and Societies: Incoming Student Mentor, Chicago Consulting Club, Chicago Booth Innovation Group: Runner Up-2009 CBIG Case Competition, Booth Leaders Group (founding member), Net Impact, Private Equity and Venture Capital Club, Local Optima Consulting Team: Market and pricing strategy consulting project for Chicago-area non-profit, Business valuation and market strategy project for a Eastern U.S. non-profit
Various
Project Management
2006 – 2006
Information Technology Project Management (American Management Association)
Project Management Professional Review (Project Management Institute)
Various
Organizational Behavior, Adult Learning, Training, Development and Performance Consulting
2005 – 2005
Telling Ain't Training, Harold Stolovitch seminars, ASTD-Portland, 2005
Training Ain’t Performance, Harold Stolovitch seminars, ASTD-Portland, 2005
Organizational Behavior and Change, Portland State University, July 2005
Fundamentals of Training Series: Training Methodologies, ASTD-Portland, 2005
Activities and Societies: American Society for Training and Development - Finance Committee Member - Executed Internal Financial Review - Programs Committee Member - Provided marketing, speaker coordination and registration assistance.
IBI Free Enterprise Forum
business plans, raising capital, marketing, sales, finance, etc.
December 2002 – April 2003
MBA PowerPak
Executive MBA Program by former AT&T Executives
March 2001 – April 2001
University of Colorado
Bachelors, Music
August 1989 – May 1995
I played classical guitar professionally for weddings and a restaurant in Vail, CO many times while in school.
Activities and Societies: Classical Guitar Ensemble Classical Guitar Performance Class Ensembles with Guitar, Flute and Violin
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Bachelors, Electrical & Computer Engineering
August 1989 – May 1995
Activities and Societies: Ultimate Frisbee Team, 3 years, captain 2 years, regional championships, 2 years Boulder Men's Ultimate Frisbee Team, 2 years, National Championships 1 year
Rick Fowler's Additional Information
- Interests:
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- Disc Golf - I like the mountain disc golf in Colorado - Competed in Grand Masters Ultimate Frisbee National Chamionships in 2011 - Competed in Ultimate Frisbee National Championships for 8 years, captain for 2 years - Captain of U of Colorado Ultimate Frisbee team 3 years - Captain of Chicago Ultimate Summer League teams 5 years - Classical Guitar 25+ years
- Groups and Associations:
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International Coach Federation (ICF)
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