Nigel A.L. Brooks

Nigel A.L. Brooks has over thirty years of business experience as an entrepreneur, business owner, executive, and management consultant, ranging from small businesses to large corporations. He is a recognized ‘local to global’ visionary thought leader with experience in the Americas (North and Latin), Europe, and Asia-Pacific in high growth environments.

Mr. Brooks practices in wellness consulting, strategic management consulting, executive coaching and professional development training.

Mr. Brooks’ entrepreneurial competence includes:

• Host: Introduction to Enterpriship Seminars – a systematized approach to building enterprises (businesses, not-for-profits, and government agencies)

• Host: Lifetime Wellness Seminar – motivational seminar aimed at improving physical, financial, environmental, and personal wellness

• Host: Nigel Brooks Seminar – motivational seminar aimed at developing entrepreneurial, leadership, and managerial competencies to build sustainable advantage from vision to value

• President – The Business Leadership Development Corporation, a professional services firm that practices in strategic management consulting, executive coaching, and professional development training; building sustainable advantage “from vision to value™” to entrepreneurs, business owners, executives, and managers and the enterprises they serve

• President emeritus – Javazona Cafes, Inc. dba Java Centrale – Metrocenter, a European-style gourmet coffee café and catering business with ecatering capabilities

Mr. Brooks’ leadership competence have includesd:

• Co-chair emeritus – Rotary Means Business – San Francisco

• Chairman emeritus – Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce Business Technology Forum

• Various board and committee positions with the Arizona Leadership Roundtable, Arizona Technology Council, American Electronics Association, The Enterprise Network, The Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, The IndUS Entrepreneurs, and with local businesses in Phoenix, Arizona and San Francisco, California

Mr. Brooks’ managerial competence have included:

• Senior Vice President – Technology strategy and reengineering – American Express Company
  (co-scoped major reengineering project with Andersen Consulting)

• Vice President – Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. (now Booz and Company) – principal client: American Express Company

• Partner/practice leader – Andersen Consulting (now Accenture)

Mr. Brooks’ functional and technical competencies include planning and policy development, program management, marketing, operations, finance, human resources, information technology and performance measurement in the financial services, food service, high-tech, manufacturing and distribution, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, professional services, wholesale and retail, and transportation industries.

His principal interests are physical, financial, environmental, and personal wellness education, and entrepreneurship.

Mr. Brooks’ community activities include:

• Rotary Club Paul Harris Fellow

• Ambassador – San Francisco Chamber of Commerce

• Radio Show Co-host – “I am on the radio” – KPXQ, Phoenix, Arizona

• Past school board member: ReInventEd Charter School

• Past contributing editor: Bank Management Magazine

• Speaker and author: entrepreneurial and information technology issues and trends: American Banker, American Marketing Association, DeVry Institute of Technology, Enterprise Network,
  The IndUS Entrepreneurs, Thunderbird – School of Global Management

• Judge/mentor: Thunderbird Innovation Challenge, ASU Fulton School of Engineering Entrepreneurship 2004, and Arizona High School Science Olympiad

• Internship supervisor: Thunderbird – School of Global Management

Mr. Brooks is a graduate of the University of Exeter, Devon, UK, and holds a certificate in global leadership from Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona, USA.

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