Intel Leadership Initiative

Secures 3-year contract with Intel Corporation to launch a leadership development initiative.

Begins teaching Management, eBusiness Strategy, Business Ethics, and Entrepreneurship at College of the Canyons. Is highest rated professor on the campus.

Launches consulting firm, Leadership Development Systems. Secures engagements with Princess Cruises, Kinko’s, Northrop Grumman, Bell Helicopter, Builder Marketing Society, Nestle, Pearson NCS, Boeing, Össur, City of Burbank., JD Power & Associates, Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce, to name a few.

Establishes first ever formal sales training initiative at the Los Angeles Times.

Is mentored by Peter Drucker while studying Management at Claremont Graduate University.

Sets sales record at Bertelsmann AG, doubling his sales quota.

Is mentored by Stephen R. Covey, the author of the best-selling business book of all time, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, his first boss out of college.

Graduates from Brigham Young University

Becomes youngest member of National Speakers Association, age 24.

First major speech, delivered on the evening of his graduation from Los Altos High School. Over 4,000 people attend.