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ZEHREN♦FRIEDMAN's Team of Training Specialists and Consultants

 

Small by design and non-bureaucratic in approach, ZEHREN♦FRIEDMAN is a select team of skilled professionals who draw on a broad range of experience in sales, sales management, training and education. We are agile and flexile in managing our client relationships and responding to client needs. In the classroom, we are supportive and tough in helping our seminar participants move to higher levels of skill and performance.

 

David Zehren

David served ten years as Director of the Evening MBA program at the University of Chicago.  He also sold computers for IBM, managed training activities for First Chicago, and started a training/consulting firm that grew into ZEHREN♦FRIEDMAN.

 

Joe Friedman 

Joe has over 20 years experience in sales, training, and consulting.  Joe's career path has taken him from the faculty at Northeastern Illinois University to First Chicago, to another training firm before joining his friend David (who kept calling, and calling, and calling) to form ZEHREN♦FRIEDMAN.

 

Blanche Roberts

Blanche joined us in 2007 as our newest Senior Consultant.  She has extensive client development experience in the professional and financial services industries including work with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Arthur Andersen and ABN-AMRO.
 

Jock Murray

Jock has extensive sales, sales management, and training experience in both the for-profit and non-profit arenas.  Jock joined us after 11 years at Abbott Labs, where he was a top performing sales representative, sales trainer, and sales manager in the Diagnostics Division.

 

Tom Rosenak

Tom honed his selling skills working for Gateway Outdoor Advertising and 3M Media.  He then transferred those skills to a non-profit organization, where he marketed and delivered seminars focusing on interpersonal skills development.  When the corporate world beckoned again, the winner was… ZEHREN♦FRIEDMAN.

 

Lee Melchior

Lee has over 20 years of experience in the skills training and consulting business.  For much of that time, she served as Vice President of Design and Instruction for a national training firm that specializes, as we do, in selling skills, negotiation skills, and presentation skills.

 

Bobbie Thomas

Bobbie has over 20 years of experience in Sales, Sales Management, Consulting, Training, and Program Design. She is also on Faculty with Loyola University where she teaches in the MBA and Executive MBA Programs. Previously, Bobbie was the Senior Vice President of Sales for a leading management consulting and training firm. Her vision and leadership turned a failing sales force around to significant success. Bobbie's current responsibilities with ZEHREN♦FRIEDMAN include consulting with clients who will benefit from

 

Barry Kaufman

Newsweek magazine called Dr. Barry Kaufman "…one of the best health reporters in the country."  For 15 years, Barry was full-time health reporter for WMAQ-TV, NBC, Chicago.  Barry created, produces and hosts several award-winning health promotion and wellness features for radio and provides presentation, media, and crisis communication training.

 

Judith Begoun

Judith is our Vice President and General Manager, responsible for client services and marketing operations.  Before blessing us with her presence and her skills, Judith worked as manager of treasury operations for Rand McNally and as CFO for an insurance industry service provider.

 

Nancy Hulme

A Microsoft PowerPoint expert with more than 15 years of graphic design experience, Nancy sharpened her PPT skills in the presentation trenches of San Francisco. She now provides the “Tips & Tricks” piece of our Presentation Skills workshop and hopes someday to be stumped by a participant’s question.