Mr. Stiff has developed, conducted, and certified training
programs for managers, experienced sales professionals and college graduates. He has recruited and lectured on major college campuses to hire job candidates into top companies.

Mr. Stiff has successfully negotiated contracts in the hardware, medical, manufacturing, financial, computer, energy, and accounting industries. In addition, he has extensive working knowledge of teams as a project leader, volunteer team leader, intact functional team leader, and participated on various cross-functional teams.

Leadership has been a focus and a passion during his corporate career. He is certified in several major Leadership training and development programs including:

A. Ken Blanchard's Situational Leadership,
Situational Self-Leadership, and High Performing Teams.

B. Center for Creative Leadership's "Benchmarks" instrument and Myers Briggs' type indicator

C. LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ Real Time Identity for building teams and Real Time Strategy for building business strategy.

While he was with NCR corporation he learned the importance of great training and the customer's viewpoint. During his tenure as Director of Training for Black and Decker, the company was named the Top Industrial Company in its Classification, by Sales and Marketing Management Magazine.

This rating was a direct result of the strong training program
Mr. Stiff developed for Black and Decker field sales force and
management team. Additionally, he has written Product, Sales, and Leadership training programs, trained in Singapore and Europe, and has been honored with the top Sales Performance Award.

Mr. Stiff holds an undergraduate degree in Business Marketing/ Education from Montana State University. He sat on the Board of Directors for the Sales and Marketing Trainers Association and is a member of the Training Executive Advisory Board for the National Account Management Association.

Additionally, Mr. Stiff actively contributes to his community by
assisting in the Habitat for Humanity renovation of Sandtown-Winchester community in Southwest Baltimore. Mr. Stiff is involved with Family Life Parenting Conferences and is active in Leadership Community at Grace Fellowship Church in Timonium, Maryland. He resides in Baltimore, MD with his wife and 2 sons.