Mentees

After selling my most recent company I am now focused on my role as a HEMP mentor and in philanthropic support of the KC community, women's personal and professional health, education, and children. In addition I occasionally accept consulting projects.

Gradual, incremental and continuous improvement through transformational training and coaching.

Lux Research is an independent research and advisory firm, providing strategic advice and ongoing intelligence on emerging technologies. Science-driven innovation is a cross-cutting key to success in today's business environment. In an increasingly crowded competitive landscape, decision makers need critical advice about markets, technologies, and strategy – both to position existing business for growth and to launch new businesses wisely. Emerging technology fields are fertile hunting grounds for new business opportunities, and corporate executives, investors, policymakers, and entrepreneurs across many industries look to these areas to drive growth. Whether it is cleantech or conventional oil and gas, advanced aerospace or consumer packaged goods, electronics or agriculture, the industries we serve are highly dependent on innovative materials, processes, and strategies to lower costs, increase revenues, defeat competitors, and serve customers. However, emerging technology markets are also uniquely challenging to understand and to take advantage of – Lux Research analysts are specialists in understanding and assessing these complex and rapidly-changing fields. Our research products are: Driven by proprietary primary research, not just publicly available data. We conduct over 5,000 interviews annually with company management, customers, partners, and outside experts, including on-site visits and facility inspections in 45 countries Based on a deep understanding of technology and markets. Our researchers are not generalist consultants or market researchers, but domain experts (most with advanced degrees in science and engineering), familiar with issues and trends in these technology areas. At the same time, our analysts aren't simply technologists, but are well-versed in assessing business implications of emerging technology Factual, detailed, and numerate. We don't indulge in vague generalizations, but support conclusions with specific data, examples, and case studies. Lux Research reports and other deliverables are not merely qualitative, but provide specific numbers – market sizes, figures of merit, price/cost, revenues – to help make decisions Bold and opinionated. We do not simply take claims or reports at face value, but apply critical analysis to cut through the hype and get to what is really true. We do not just report data or information, but say what it means – and put a firm stake in the ground in recommending what clients should do.

Cohen-Esrey is a family of companies involved in apartment management, affordable housing development, apartment acquisition and ownership, tax credit syndication and construction. Harris is also the managing member of iiM, LLC, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage companies in the animal health, agribusiness and human health verticals. Cohen-Esrey operates on a nationwide basis with 450 employees and associates.

I owned Stouse Inc for 38 years and recently sold it in November of 2015. Stouse was a specialty printer specializing in screen printing, flexography, foil stamping, embossing, digital printing. Stouse in 2015 had approximately 330 employees located in Gardner Kansas . The facility consisted of 20,000 office space with 160,000 manufacturing space. Stouse sold through resellers located nationally with approximately 16,000 active distributors. Stouse products sold through a 130 page cataloglue. The primary product were decals and posters, banners.

RC Royals & Associates, LLC is a global consulting firm specializing in improving the operating performance of our customers. Our focus is financial services that encompass a broad range of companies that deal with the management of money. Among these organizations are banks, credit card companies, consumer finance companies, stock brokerages, investment funds, and some government sponsored enterprises. The company is uniquely positioned to creatively transform your financial performance of mid­-market companies.

An E.S.O.P. company that is an outsource for sales and marketing for various, non-competing manufacturers in the electric utility, telecom and contractor-industrial markets in a seven state territory.