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About Us

Representative Clients Include:

3M

 

Cadbury Schweppes

 

Southwestern Bell

Abbott Laboratories

 

Ernst & Young

 

Ford Motor

AXA Advisors

 

JC Penney

 

Texas Instruments

Bank of America

 

Johnson & Johnson

 

Texas Society CPAs

Bechtel

 

Knoll Pharmaceutical

 

Today’s Temporary

HCA

 

Lowe's

 

US Data

City of Plano

 

Marriott Corporation

 

Verizon

Coca-Cola

 

Lehigh University

 

VHA

The SpectraComm Team

Marc Schwartz

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Marc Schwartz is founder and Managing Partner of SpectraComm. Marc uses over twenty-five years of business experience to help organizations, teams and individuals break down the barriers to success and create a positive, measurable impact on productivity and personal satisfaction.

Marc has worked with a wide range of client companies, including Verizon, Bank of America, Kodak, Brinks, and Johnson &Johnson as well as a number of entrepreneurial organizations within industries as diverse as medical, telecommunications and retail.

Since 1988, Marc has presented seminars, workshops and lectures to over 30,000 people on Communication Styles, Sales, Team Development, Conflict Resolution, Strategic Planning, Coaching, and Building a Quantum Organization. Marc's primary focus is to help individuals find and develop their natural strengths so they can experience higher levels of personal satisfaction and greater growth opportunities.

Marc has a BBA in Management and Marketing and is certified as a Corporate Coach, and COREMAP Facilitator.

Bruce Chodosh

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Bruce Chodosh is a Managing Partner of SpectraComm and specializes in executive and personal coaching, leadership development, organizational improvement, and working with entrepreneurs...

Bruce has over 30 years of experience working with organizations that range from small entrepreneurial businesses to Fortune 100 corporations in the area of executive coaching, leading with emotional intelligence, customer service, sales training, and management consulting skills. His industry expertise includes high-tech, health care, telecomm, banking, insurance, consumer products, government, and manufacturing.

Background - As s former Director of Professional Training at EDS, Bruce created an account leadership program that developed a diverse team of global leaders, which enabled the company to improve service delivery and to grow existing business by 20%. He is highly experienced and knowledgeable in consulting skills and has managed a large organization that trained over 1000 information technology professionals to be high-level Management Consultants. He has provided consulting and executive coaching services to clients including EDS, Coca-Cola, Cadbury Schweppes, City of Plano, HCA, Lehigh University, Resources Connection, Verizon, Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, and Westin Hotels.

Bruce has a M.B.A. from Boston University and a B.A. from Lehigh University. He is also a Professor in a Dallas area Executive MBA Program, and teaches courses on Coaching and Mentoring around Emotional Intelligence. Bruce is certified as a Corporate Coach, CORE MAP and Psych-K Facilitator, and has helped over 700 people achieve success, balance, and passion in their lives.

Jill Pickett

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Jill Pickett, a Partner of SpectraComm, is a high-energy, results-based, formally trained executive coach with an extensive background in broadcasting as a radio news reporter and two award-winning decades as a television executive in branding, communications management, and production. Through delivering Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Diversity, Communications Styles for Teams, Internal Coaching Techniques, and Leadership Training she provides what one CEO calls her "innovative personnel development technology, powerful communication skills, and ability to lead people to new levels of excellence," all allowing her business clients to excel exponentially faster.

The on-going search for the finest tools that yield rapid and unprecedented results for her corporate and individual clients led her to become the first Master Certified Coremap consultant in the world. She takes one of the most uncommon, cutting edge tools to new heights of practical business use in communications refinement and personnel development. She is also a certified 4-S Coaching Model facilitator and trainer. Her recent corporate, municipal, and educational clients include Sterling McCall Toyota, Baylor College of Medicine, Cornerstone Mortgage, The City of Houston Mayor's Office, Sterling Capital Mortgage, and KSN Television Network.

Her private international coaching practice includes executives, business owners, managers, psychologists / therapists, college professors, designers, broadcasters, coaches, medical professionals, and other professionals looking to tap the next edge of their own professional and personal excellence.

Her mission is providing measurable transformation with bottom-line benefits for every client. Her community contributions focus on child abuse prevention, advocacy for the disabled, and literacy advancement.

Johan (Johnny) C.G. Zilliacus

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Mr. Zilliacus has many years of broad experience as a business leader in the USA and Europe. He gained valuable experience and skills in all aspects of marketing, sales, and distribution at Esso (Exxon) Finland. After Esso, he joined the Caterpillar dealership in Finland as Vice president of Sales and Marketing and later was the Managing Director of the dealership. Upon his return to the oil industry, Mr. Zilliacus held senior executive positions in marketing, sales, and communications with the Neste Corporation, an international integrated oil and chemical corporation based in Finland. He moved to the chemicals division where he was responsible for worldwide communications. Eventually, he moved to the United States upon his promotion to President of Neste Polyester, one of the leading manufacturers of polyester gel coats. Since the sale of Neste Polyester Mr. Zilliacus works as an International Management and Business Consultant in Dallas, Texas.

Mr. Zilliacus has served on the board of numerous sports, social, and professional organizations in Finland and the USA. He is past Treasurer and board member of Irving Sister Cities International and past board member of the Finnish American Business Guild in Texas. He is a Fellow of the Legacy Center for Public Policy, and serves on the Associate Board of SMU Cox School of Business. He is a member of the CEO Netweavers in Dallas. Mr. Zilliacus received his Bachelor’s degree from the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland. In addition, he completed the Neste Corporation’s Global Business Program in International Executive Management.