The Team

WORLD-CLASS CONSULTANTS

Our consultants have a breadth of experience designing and delivering world-class global leadership development programs for multiple Fortune 100 companies. A number of our consultants are former members of the custom design and delivery faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), and currently partner to design and deliver programs with the Ken Blanchard Companies. All have significant experience designing and delivering leadership development programs to populations ranging from front-line managers to top-level leaders.

What differentiates our consultants is that they have been selected not only for their design and classroom delivery skills, but also for their keen observation and facilitation skills. We understand that the most impactful learning for program participants happens during moments of reflection and feedback generated by skillful facilitation of the group. Ask participants what they learned from a Goal Success program and most often it is a personal realization or self-observation that was part of a facilitated debrief, not a scripted classroom module. We are confident that our consultants are among the best in the industry at using their facilitation skills to make each individual learner gain insight into themselves that they can, in turn, use to advance their skills and the organization as a whole.

While our experience ensures that our process for developing program is sound, it is the strength of the team we will bring to our solutions that ultimately make them a success.

DAVID JACOBSON, M.A.

David Jacobson is the founder of Goal Success Consulting (GSC). GSC designs, delivers and consults on the creation of innovative leadership development, team building and executive coaching programs for many Fortune 500 companies. David regularly trains, consults and speaks to a broad array of executive audiences.

David has over 15 years of experience in the design and delivery of leadership programs for new managers to senior executives. During his tenure at the Center for Creative Leadership, David was involved in the design and delivery of both open enrollment and customized programs. The programs he develops regularly utilize 360 feedback, executive coaching, simulations, case studies, peer coaching, and numerous other learning methodologies. Some of the organizations for which he has done custom program design and delivery include Newell Rubbermaid, Dell, John Deere, Qualcomm, Xerox, GTE/Verizon, Bank of America, Nokia, H.P., General Motors, S.C. Johnson Wax, SAP and many others.

David is the author of Inspiration to Perspiration: The Four Essential Steps to Achieving Your Goals. By combining GAIN Planning™, a proven process David developed for achieving goals, with lessons from Team In Training, the world’s premier endurance sports training and fundraising program, readers learn to apply strategies that have already enabled thousands of people to reach goals they never before dreamt possible.

David spent several years as a consulting partner at the Ken Blanchard Companies, and he remains an active adjunct faculty member at the Center for Creative Leadership.
David has a Master of Arts degree in leadership studies from the University of San Diego and a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology, with an emphasis in communication, from Washington University in St. Louis.

MATTHEW TREGER, M.B.A.

Matt Treger brings over ten years of consulting experience in the design and delivery of customized leadership solutions through the integration of assessments, action learning, applied business skills, simulations, and group process facilitation. His work is complemented by five years of technical writing expertise and he is co-author of Managing Smart: 325 High-Performance Tips Every Manager Must Know, which provides fast, practical answers for solving common workplace situations faced by today’s managers.

Matt has designed and delivered leadership initiatives across the globe, including India, China, the Philippines, El Salvador, Mexico, France, Canada, Ireland, and throughout the United States. His most recent clients include Dell Computer Corporation, Newell Rubbermaid, John Deere, TJX Companies, and Qualcomm.

Matt is also an adjunct facilitator and coach at the San Diego campus of the Center for Creative Leadership for both their Leadership Development Program and Foundations of Leadership, in addition to numerous custom programs.

Matt received his masters in business administration from San Diego State University in addition to graduate work in behavioral science and a bachelors of science degree in biology from the University of California at San Diego. He is a recipient of San Diego’s Tournament of Driving Forces Award and serves on the Executive Board for the Business School Alumni Association at San Diego State University.

He was also recognized by the Kauffman Foundation for outstanding achievement in working with rapidly growing, and entrepreneurially-spirited, organizations.

DAVID B. BALDWIN, M.S.

David comes to Goal Success Consulting with over 12 years of experience in leadership development. David has spent the bulk of that time at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), where he began in 1995 as a full time faculty member. At CCL his responsibilities have included managing client relationships for customized leadership programs and interventions, managing the Emerging Leaders online research project, managing global blended learning initiatives and facilitating the Center’s Foundations of Leadership and Leadership Development Programs (LDP)®. He has enjoyed delivering and designing leadership programs in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, England, France, Ireland, and throughout the United States to more than 5,000 participants. He founded the organization San Diego Communications Group and transitioned from his full time faculty position with CCL in 2007. He remains an active adjunct faculty member with CCL working across the enterprise. In addition to being certified in 15 behavioral assessment instruments, David has co-written books on influence tactics, visioning, and leadership networking.

Prior to joining the Center, David worked in the television broadcasting industry in news and production with CBS and ESPN. In addition to working for two retail organizations, he has taught university level interpersonal communication courses and conducted research at Caterpillar, Inc. examining the characteristics of Transformational Leadership — charisma, intellectual stimulation, inspiration, and individual consideration — which contributed to Ken Blanchard, Paul Hersey and Dewey Johnson’s seventh edition of Management of Organizational Behavior.

David holds a masters of science degree in communication studies with a focus on organizational behavior from Illinois State University, and a bachelors degree in speech communication with an emphasis in television broadcasting and social psychology. Currently, he is completing a PhD in intercultural communication.

DAVID FACER, M.S.

As an executive coach and trainer, Mr. Facer’s purpose is to help executives expand their awareness of leadership from the point of view, experience, and needs of those being led, and to use that awareness to enact behaviors that successfully engage not only the rational minds of their employees, but their hearts, too…all in service of the organization’s purpose. Mr. Facer’s special primary research interest area is motivation. Prior to his career shift to coaching and training in 2000, Mr. Facer held management positions in product and corporate marketing with EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) and, later, with Virgin Cinemas, part of Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, both in the US and Europe. After relocating to San Diego, he also invested in a number of micro businesses.

Mr. Facer has coached executives from many organization types, nationalities, ethnicities, and backgrounds, and most recently, delivered a five-module leadership development program to a cohort of senior executives in Dubai, UAE. Mr. Facer earned an undergraduate business degree at Villanova School of Business and completed a Masters degree in executive leadership at University of San Diego. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D in leadership sciences at USD’s School of Leadership and Education Sciences. He recently received the 2009 inaugural Joseph Rost Memorial Excellence in Scholarship Award.

ROSA GRUNHAUS-BELZER, Ph.D.

Dr. Rosa Grunhaus-Belzer has more than 22 years experience in training and consulting in the fields of psychology, leadership development, executive coaching, organizational assessment, and diversity training. She has worked as an adjunct at the Center for Creative Leadership since 1999, where she is an executive coach and trainer, working with clients from a variety of fields including biotechnology, IT, finance, manufacturing, services industry, health care, communication, utilities and the military. Rosa works in custom programs with international companies and has worked globally with executives in Europe, Canada, Mexico, and South America. Rosa has also served as a mentor for new coaches trained at CCL.
As a consulting psychologist, Rosa has worked with leaders to maximize their impact in organizational effectiveness and productivity. She helps translate data gathered through assessment tools and 360 degree feedback instruments into concrete action plans that enhance their unique leadership styles. Her experience with diversity training and conflict resolution helps organizations develop programs to increase workplace sensitivity to culture and gender issues and to identify communication patterns and conflict resolution dynamics that increase trust, cohesiveness, and empowerment.

Rosa’s multicultural background provides a platform for her global consulting skills. She was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela. At age sixteen she moved to Israel where she lived for five years. She pursued her education at Tel Aviv University, earning a BA in psychology and philosophy in 1977. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego in 1984. Rosa is fluent in three languages including Spanish and Hebrew.

SHANE DONOHOE, B.A.

Based in Ireland, Shane is a specialist training and development consultant who holds an honours degree in behavioural science and is accredited in the application and interpretation of a broad array of psychometric, ability and suitability tests. He works with organisations in undertaking training needs analyses, designing customised training programmes, assessing employee capabilities/developmental requirements and providing employee mentoring. He has developed and delivers integrated programmes in e.g. strategic agility, communications, command skills, business acumen, effective negotiations, conflict resolution and cultural relations/diversity.

Shane has in excess of 15 years’ operations, HR and learning and development (management) experience which has been gained with various blue chip multinational organisations. He is also qualified in the application of six-sigma process improvement methodologies and has delivered significant financial savings through the implementation of associated programmes.

GARY RHODES, M.A.

Gary specializes in the design and delivery of high impact executive leadership development programs for teams and organizations from a systems perspective. His job experiences across the spectrum of economic development, talent management, community building, social support networking, entrepreneurial business process, and corporate initiatives for change, have culminated in his latest publication, Transforming Your Leadership Culture, co-authored with John B. McGuire. His goal is to assist others in realizing the power of intentional choices in the pursuit of organization change and culture transformation. He has been involved for 40 years in providing leadership and transformation services and has worked with hundreds of leaders and organizations from a variety of industries in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa.

Gary was general manager of a retail gourmet food and party business. He was also a tenured professor of social administration and public policy at the University of Louisville where he founded and managed the Human Services Management Assessment and Training Center and later the University of Louisville Labor Management Center, a joint venture of the Schools of Business, Law, and Public Affairs. Gary holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of California at Los Angeles, and an Interdisciplinary Master of Philosophy in Social Science and Social Policy from the University of Michigan Social Work from the University of California, Los Angeles and an Interdisciplinary Master of Philosophy in Social Science and Social Policy from the University of Michigan. He is also co-author of the textbook, Competent Supervision: Making Imaginative Judgments

JEFF SABO, M.B.A.

Jeff has 17 years of diverse HR experience, holding a variety of HR generalist and specialist roles with organizations such as Life Technologies, Dell, Home Depot, and the US Army. He has also served in line leadership positions as a Lean Consultant, Manufacturing Senior Manager, and Mergers & Acquisitions Planning Specialist. Jeff holds an MBA in Strategic Leadership from Penn State University.