In 1979, Dr. Beverly Kaye started Beverly Kaye & Associates, Inc. (BKA) as a management consulting company specializing in the creation, delivery and strategic management of talent in organizations. Career Systems, which later evolved into CSI, was subsequently added to create and supply state-of-the-art instruments for use in our workshops. Today, the product and service operations have been integrated into a single international enterprise under the marketplace banner (dba) of CSI; BKA remains as the parent company and corporate umbrella of CSI.

Cutting edge thinking and continuous improvement efforts have kept the award-winning Dr. Kaye a leader in the career development field for 25 years. She is the author of the classic career development book, Up is Not the Only Way, and the co-author (with Sharon Jordan-Evans) of the international bestseller on retaining talent, Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay, and the workplace satisfaction sequel, Love It, Don't Leave It: 26 Ways to Get What You Want at Work.

 

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Barry Levitt has been the CFO of Beverly Kaye & Associates ever since its inception in 1979. However, for 31 years, his day job was as a bona fide rocket scientist engaged in communications research at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Hard pressed to handle the day-to-day financial operations of BKA in his spare time, Barry was thrilled when Nanci Hendrickson, the VP of Finance, took over that job in 1996.

After taking early retirement from JPL in 2001, Barry was again available to play a more active role in our organization. As CFO he is ultimately responsible for the economic health and long-term financial planning for the enterprise. He also took over the task of creating and maintaining this website several years ago, during which time his web design skills have increased steadily.

Barry is formally Dr. Barry Levitt, having acquired his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1971. During his "other life" at JPL, he contributed to the design of telecommunications links for unmanned satellite missions and did fundamental research on advanced communications techniques for the Defense Department. And he fondly recalls being one of the original members of the technical team supporting the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

During his communications career, he co-authored a ground-setting book in his field entitled Spread Spectrum Communications, and he published and presented over 40 technical papers based on his research. However, he readily admits that his life is much more enjoyable now.

Fred has held senior sales management positions with leading high tech and training organizations during his illustrious 30-year career. His most recent positions were as Senior VP of Sales for North America at Development Dimensions International (DDI) and founder of Trinity Consulting, a sales consulting company. He was founder and CEO of CWG & Associates, a management consulting firm providing technical and software development services to Fortune 100 and public sector organizations. He has also held senior positions at IBM, Compaq Computers and Honeywell Corporation.

Fred has served on national and local boards of directors, on the Membership Committee of the City Club at Bunker Hill, and on the Advisory Board of the Inglewood Philharmonic. He is founder of the National Association of Technical Assistance for Minority Business and a member of the National Urban League.

He completed a special IBM/Harvard University co-sponsored executive program and did graduate work in Information Technology Systems at Duquesne University.

He makes his home in Laguna Niguel with his wife Julie and their four children.

Nanci Hendrickson truly lives the premise of Love It, Don't Leave It having been with CSI for over 11 years. As CSI has grown, so have Nanci's roles and responsibilities. She is now in charge of all aspects of CSI's day-to-day financial operations while also managing the fulfillment function in Scranton and the IT support team.

Prior to joining CSI, Nanci managed operations for several smaller consulting firms, including customer service, IT support, and accounts payable and receivable. She has a practical, no-nonsense approach to management, an extremely capable can-do attitude to every challenge confronting her, and she believes strongly in the power of CSI's solutions to positively transform individuals and organizations.

Nanci has a BS in Political Science as well as an MBA from the University of Scranton. She enjoys gardening and has a deep interest in personal health and fitness. She resides in Northeastern Pennsylvania with her husband, Kris.

Marilyn has been a marketing and sales specialist with CSI since 1995. Her sales territory is the Northeastern United States, which encompasses New York, New Jersey and Connecticutt.

A graduate of Temple University with a BA in communications, she began her career in Philadelphia as an amateur actress and has appeared in local and regional theatres in Fairfield County, Connecticut, where she currently resides with her husband, Lew.

Passionate about empowered career management and talent development, Marilyn is a certified trainer in Career Power™; Career Power for Coaches™ and the Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em Workshop. She has a warm and humorous, and slightly irreverent, style and enjoys involving the audience in her presentations.

She has delivered keynote addresses in the areas of career development and talent retention to management and leadership audiences at Fortune 500 companies, including Lucent Technologies, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Pershing, Putnam Investments, Premier Health, British Airways, New York Life Insurance Company and many others. She has also been a guest lecturer at The University Of New Haven and Quinnipiac College.

Marilyn is devoted to improving the quality of individual work lives through training in career self-reliance, managing for development, mentoring and talent retention and engagement. She is a contributor to the best-selling retention book, Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay, as well as co-author of Mentoring to A ‘T’ and The Kept-On Workforce: The New Survivalists, with Bev Kaye.

Donna became part of the CSI sales team in January 2005. Operating out of Atlanta, GA, Donna helps organizations in the Southeastern United States (i.e., North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida) create unique solutions to address their talent management issues.

Prior to joining CSI, Donna had a variety of sales and sales management roles, primarily in the technology industry with companies such as Radiant Systems, ExecuTrain and Digital Equipment Corporation.

She is a board member of the Herring Foundation of Hope, an organization committed to making a difference in people's lives by providing current and accurate information on cancer prevention, treatment options, and, above all, hope.

Donna resides in Alpharetta, GA with her husband Jeff, where they are both active members of North Point Community Church.

We at CSI first met Stacey as a very savvy internal customer in one of our client organizations. After she left that company to go out on her own, she dedicated her career to helping leaders and organizations motivate, retain and engage the "new workforce" of the 21st century.

She has had extensive experience partnering with business leaders to assess, design, develop and deliver cross-functional retention and engagement and leadership interventions that maximize the "human capital" in their organizations. She is an OD specialist and a strategic planner with a strong ability to interface with all levels in a wide variety of organizations.

Her innovative approach has helped her former employer and her current clients to develop clear strategies to retain and engage talent to ensure their competitive advantage within their organization and/or industry. She enables leaders to focus their energies on results by introducing practical, sustainable, repeatable and measurable talent management strategies/tools to ensure retention/engagement of their key talent.

Beyond the talent management arena, Stacey's track record includes extensive experience evaluating, constructing and executing the development/growth of several large-scale work units.

As a senior CSI consultant/trainer, she has delivered keynote addresses on our talent management competencies and has been instrumental in the development of many of our Love 'Em and Love It solutions.

Stacey holds a B.S. from Albright College and a M.Ed. from West Chester University. She lives just outside of Philadelphia with her husband and two children.

Rosalind Sago is an experienced consultant specializing in the areas of organization, employee and human resources development. Her career spans a variety of industries, including, but not limited to, financial services, information technology, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing.

Rosalind is CSI’s subject matter expert in the area of career development and coaching and was recently appointed to the position of Director of Development Solutions. As a senior consultant and master trainer for CSI, she provides expertise in the areas of mentoring and oversees the certification of facilitators for program delivery and solutions. She is also the instructional designer for the organization’s web-based e-learning programs.

Rosalind holds a Masters degree in Organizational Management from Antioch University, Los Angeles, with a concentration in Human Resources Development where she also became an adjunct faculty member. She makes her home in Sacramento, CA with her husband O’Harrall.

As our Director of Solutions Delivery, Audrey Sloofman supports our clients by ensuring that we are providing you with world-class talent when delivering any of our training or consulting solutions. Previously, Audrey has served as the Director of Training and Development for an international organization development consulting firm, where she hired, trained and managed a team of trainers and consultants. Together they assisted Fortune 500 companies in designing, developing and managing major change initiatives and cultural transformational processes. Early in her career, Audrey dealt with many of the challenges her clients now face as a manager at Prentice-Hall, which provides her with an insight to their needs and expectations.

As a Senior Consultant and Master Trainer with CSI, Ms. Sloofman has spent the last decade providing outstanding customer service to our clients with engaging workshops, thoughtful consulting, creative solutions and powerful coaching in a wide span of industries from financial, pharmaceutical, technological, and manufacturing.

Audrey has a bachelor’s degree in Communication, is a certified Gestalt Psychotherapist, and has been honored by the American Business Women’s Who’s Who for 2005. She has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show and numerous national radio shows. In addition, Audrey has served on the Board of Directors for ASTD, is a member of the OD Network and has served as adjunct faculty for Mercy College.

An accomplished "hands on" executive, aware of the importance of motivation, and the involvement of all participants in the generation of goals and objectives. A pragmatic TQM manager with (P&L) responsibility who successfully developed & implemented business plans & budgets. Managed sales, marketing, manufacturing, and engineering organizations utilizing the TEAM concept that have operated within plans or exceeded expectations. Major strengths are:

• Team Building
• Strategic Planning
• Start-Up Experience
• International Sales & Manufacturing
  
• Turn-Around Experience
• Mergers and Acquisitions