Wayne Breitbarth

Current

• Office Furniture Dealership President & Owner at M&M Office Interiors
• Board Member & Volunteer Instructor at Make A Difference-Wisconsin
• Board Member at The Community Warehouse

• Linkedin Speed Training Instructor at Linking People Together
• Volunteer High School Mentor at Urban Promise Lunch Club

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Past

• Volunteer Youth Leader at Eastbrook Church
• Executive Vice President at Russ Darrow Automotive Group
• Vice President at Heiser Automotive Group

• Manager Small Business Division at Arthur Andersen & Co

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Education

• Marquette University
• University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
• Dodgeland High School

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Recommended

26 people have recommended Wayne

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Furniture

Wayne Breitbarth’s Summary

I am proud Owner and President of M&M Office Interiors a full service interiors provider with products and services including commercial office furniture, raised floors, moveable walls, carpeting, interior design, space planning, project management, installation and delivery of office furniture. We are the exclusive distributor of Haworth office furniture and architectural interiors products (raised floors-TecCrete, and moveable walls) in southeastern Wisconsin. Haworth is one of the largest manufacturers of office furniture in the world. We have been providing office furniture solutions to the southeastern Wisconsin marketplace for almost 50 years. We have the area’s largest office furniture showroom with over 11,000 square feet of display area so that when you bring your team in to “check it out” you can really “test drive” products in a very unique environment. We are located at W233 N2833 Roundy Circle West, Suite 100 Pewaukee, WI 53072.
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I am also very passionate about helping train people on the business social networking platform Linkedin. I have trained thousands of people for FREE, on how to effectively use Linkedin offering a class called “Linkedin Speed Training”. You can contact me if you would like to attend one of my upcoming classes. I also have a weekly Linkedin Tips & Helps that is being received by thousands of subscribers also for FREE, let me know if you want to be on that list.
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I am also a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and am very active in several charitable organizations and believe strongly that we all have an obligation to give back to the needy and underserved in the greater Milwaukee area. I have recently started a once-a-month lunch mentor program for business professionals who want to help an MPS high school student with increasing their “social capital”, consider joining us?

Wayne Breitbarth’s Specialties:

M&M Office Interiors represent more than 200 manufacturers including, Haworth(exclusive), Office Furniture USA (OFUSA), OFS, LaCasse, Hon, Paoli, and many others.I am also very involved in Linkedin, Networking, Social Media, and Business Development. KEYWORDS: Office furniture, Haworth, interior design, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Linkedin, Christian, Accountant, CPA, interiors, furniture, raised floors, moveable walls, Social Media, Trainer, Teacher, Instructor, Brietbarth

Wayne Breitbarth’s Experience

• Office Furniture Dealership President & Owner

  M&M Office Interiors

  (Privately Held; Furniture industry)

  May 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)

  What we do at M&M Office Interiors is we give you "The Space You Want and The Experience You Deserve". What this means is that when you embark on the journey of changing, remodeling, moving, or downsizing your interiors and the furniture included we will provide not only the solutions (office furniture, moveable walls, raised floors and related products) but we also consult with you so that that space is what you need now and in the future and that it represents who you are as a brand and image.
  
  We are proud of the clients we serve representing some of Southeastern Wisconsin's largest businesses but equally proud of the projects we have done for start up businesses and one office start ups.
  
  Haworth is our exclusive brand in the Milwaukee area and have been certified by them as one of the select Premier dealers in the United States. We also have over 200 other brands to help complete your project including Hon, OFS, LaCasse, Paoli, Indiana Desk, Mayline. We are one of over 160 dealers across the US who are members of OFUSA (Office Furniture USA) who bring a value segment of the office furniture market offering quick, affordable product solutions and a related high quality interior design, space planning, installation and delivery services with the great products.
  
  Winner of Waukesha County Top 10 Business in 2006 & 2007, 2007 & 2008 Inc. Magazine 5000 fastest growing companies in United States, 2007&2008 Business Journal Mid-Market Growth Award, 2007 & 2008 Small Business Times Future Fifty Top Companies in Metro Milwaukee Area

• Board Member & Volunteer Instructor

  Make A Difference-Wisconsin

  (Education Management industry)

  2001 — Present (8 years )

  Helping Milwaukee Public School Juniors learn more about their money and how to stay our of trouble using it...What a priviledge I consider this!

• Board Member

  The Community Warehouse

  (Civic & Social Organization industry)

  January 1999 — Present (10 years 11 months)

• Linkedin Speed Training Instructor

  Linking People Together

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  November 1996 — Present (13 years 1 month)

  No charge, Free, nada, nothing but love......that is what I charge for my 90 minute Linkedin Speed Training Course that has been attended by over 4000 business professionals from all disciplines and occupations...Reviews have been stellar, why don't you join us! New class is Leveraging Your Linkedin Network-Advanced Linkedin Speed Training to be offered throughout the Milwaukee area at several locations. Weekly Linkedin Tips & Helps are being subscribed to and read by over 1800 busy business professionals. If you would like to get my Linkedin tips just contact me at wbreitbarth@mmoffice.com and I will sign you up.
  
  I am experienced at and available for consulting, training and public speaking on all type of Social Media and how businesses can use them to brand and market products and services. I am a experienced business guy who "gets this stuff" and doesn't just show you how to do it but tells you WHY you should invest the time with these new tools.

• Volunteer High School Mentor

  Urban Promise Lunch Club

  (Philanthropy industry)

  October 1996 — Present (13 years 2 months)

  We meet at Ronald Reagan High School an MPS School on the southside of Milwaukee. We have lunch, a short talk/speaker and then meet with students one on one to help them with things of life, college selection/criteria, jobs and whatever the student wants to talk about.

• Volunteer Youth Leader

  Eastbrook Church

  (Religious Institutions industry)

  January 1997 — August 2009 (12 years 8 months)

  What fun.....Junior High students..Small group leader, sunday school teacher, weekend retreats, and on and on.

• Executive Vice President

  Russ Darrow Automotive Group

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Automotive industry)

  October 1995 — May 2002 (6 years 8 months)

• Vice President

  Heiser Automotive Group

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Automotive industry)

  August 1985 — October 1995 (10 years 3 months)

• Manager Small Business Division

  Arthur Andersen & Co

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Accounting industry)

  May 1979 — August 1985 (6 years 4 months)

Wayne Breitbarth’s Education

• Marquette University

  MBA , 1980 — 1985

• University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

  BBA , Accounting , 1975 — 1979

  Activities and Societies:

  Delta Sigma Pi, Beta Alpha Psi

• Dodgeland High School

  1970 — 1975

Additional Information

Wayne Breitbarth’s Interests:

Travel to Carribean Islands and the Rocky Mountains, Scuba Diving, Reading, Music (I love my ipod), Concerts, Hiking, Volunteer Leader for Youth Group, and spending time with my wife of 29 years and my three special daughters. Trained over 4000 members of my professional network on the uses and benefits of Linkedin. Have also authored a weekly tips and helps on Linkedin with over 2000 Linkedin subscribers. The Linkedin classes I have written and taught are: Linkedin Speed Training, Leveraging Your Linkedin Network-Advanced Linkedin Speed Training, Linkedin Speed Training for College Students, Linked Speed Training for NonProfits and Linkedin Speed Training for JobSeekers.

Wayne Breitbarth’s Groups:

Wisconsin Institute of Certified Public Accountants (WICPA), American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Eastbrook Church, Make a Difference Wisconsin, Golf Committee Member for Timber-lee Christian Camp, Pinnacle Forum, Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), Financial Executvies Institute (FEI), High Performance Dealer Alliance (HPDA), Member of the Accounting Advisory Committee for Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC), Urban Promise Lunch Club

•    Linked n Chicago
•    UW-Whitewater Business School Alumni
•    Link Up Milwaukee
•    Marquette Alumni Professionals
•    Association for Corporate Growth
•    Marquette University Alumni Association (MUAA)
•    EGLI Alumni
•    MKELive - Connecting People
•    UW-Whitewater Alumni, Students & Friends - UWWFriends
•    Community Warehouse
•    Metropolitan Builders Association
•    Wisconsin Top Networkers
•    Alumni of UWW
•    Milwaukee Business Professionals
•    facebook innovators Innovation & Creativity Face Book Network
•    Waukesha County Chamber of Commerce
•    IFMA | Southeast Wisconsin Chapter
•    MMAC - Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce
•    Commercial Association of REALTORS® Wisconsin
•    Linked Strategies
•    Haworth Corporate Office Furnishings Network
•    Global Networking Group
•    Office Furniture Dealers Alliance - OFDA
•    Make A Difference - Wisconsin volunteers
•    BizTimes Media
•    Success With Linked !n
•    NAIOP Wisconsin
•    Link Up Wisconsin
•    Positive Breakthroughs
•    Milwaukee Business Book Club
•    WICPA Wisconsin Institute of Certified Public Accountants
•    Leveraging Social Networks
•    IIDA Wisconsin
•    Southeastern Wisconsin Christian Business Network
•    Friends of LinkedIn
•    Wisconsin LEED Accredited Professionals
•    Success With Twitter
•    Gravity Marketing - Milwaukee
•    WCTC Small Business Center
•    Business Professionals for Scott Walker
•    Link Up Waukesha
•    BIZremedies.com
•    UWM Small Business Development Center
•    Windmill Networking (Global Open Networkers)
•    Milwaukee B2B networking group
•    Eastbrook Community
•    Southeastern Wisconsin Christian Nonprofit Professionals Network
•    Facebook & Twitter For Business
•    Eastbrook Church
•    The Social Media Forum

Wayne Breitbarth’s Honors:

2009 WICPA Public Service Award
Waukesha Chamber Top 10 Business Award 2007 & 2008,
Business Journal Mid Market Growth Award 2007 & 2008,
Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America 2007 & 2008,
Small Business Time Future Fifty 2007 & 2008

Wayne Breitbarth’s Contact Settings

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