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About Us: People
Bill Stepansky, MBA
President
Bill Stepansky has been facilitating workshops for over 30 years. Subjects include financial and business acumen, sales, customer service, project management, communications, time management, holding effective meetings, team building, problem solving, decision making, leadership, communications, and many others. Bill has an engineering degree from Southern Illinois University. At Firestone he was Plant Manager, Sales Manager, and Administrative Assistant to the President of the Firestone Industrial Products Division and Manager of the Executive Leadership Development Department. He served as President of Alcam Video Products, Inc, a video retail business, and Celemi, Inc., a business learning company. Bill served on the adjunct faculty at the University of Michigan, RPI, and Springfield College.
Bill splits his time between Suffield, CT and Beckett, MA with his wife Marge, and his son and daughter.
860-668-6020 Email Bill.
Bill splits his time between Suffield, CT and Beckett, MA with his wife Marge, and his son and daughter.
860-668-6020 Email Bill.
Dan Topf, CPT
Senior Vice President
Dan Topf is a Certified Performance Technologist with 20+ years experience in program facilitation, instructional design, and human resources consulting. He's a certified facilitator for all the Celemi learning programs. He's facilitated over 200 Celemi Tango programs alone. Further, he has extensive experience in designing and delivering online and table-top customized business simulations for clients.
Most of his clients blend simulation learning tools into their strategic learning programs. Dan has integrated simulations into executive development, management training, project manager training, customer service initiatives, and cash flow programs. Dan holds a BA and MA degrees, and has served on the faculty of the Drake University School of Education in Des Moines, Iowa USA. He also teaches in Executive MBA Program at the University of Iowa, a Top 30 business school. Dan's an active alumnus of the Leadership Iowa Class of 2011-2012, and is involved in the International Society for Performance Improvement and the Association for Talent Development.
515-292-2602 Email Dan.
Most of his clients blend simulation learning tools into their strategic learning programs. Dan has integrated simulations into executive development, management training, project manager training, customer service initiatives, and cash flow programs. Dan holds a BA and MA degrees, and has served on the faculty of the Drake University School of Education in Des Moines, Iowa USA. He also teaches in Executive MBA Program at the University of Iowa, a Top 30 business school. Dan's an active alumnus of the Leadership Iowa Class of 2011-2012, and is involved in the International Society for Performance Improvement and the Association for Talent Development.
515-292-2602 Email Dan.
Marge Stepansky
Senior Vice President
Marge Stepansky has been facilitating leadership and employee training for over 25 years. She specializes in leveraging workplace style assessments, team building tools, and high energy follow through tactics to drive performance improvement with her clients. She's a certified DiSC facilitator.
Before joining MDI, Inc., she served as Senior Trainer for The Employers Association of the Northeast, Vice President of Training for National Training Associates, Regional Training and Human Resource Manager for LensCrafters, Inc. and Director of Training and Development for Albert Steigers, Inc. a regional department store chain. She has designed and delivered highly acclaimed professional development programs for companies in the manufacturing, retail, financial, hospitality, and health care industries. She has designed and implemented comprehensive customer service initiatives, problem solving teams, executive development programs, and performance management systems.
Marge has earned a Master of Science Degree and an Educational Specialist Certificate from the State University of New York at Albany. 860-478-6020 Email Marge.
Senior Vice President
Marge Stepansky has been facilitating leadership and employee training for over 25 years. She specializes in leveraging workplace style assessments, team building tools, and high energy follow through tactics to drive performance improvement with her clients. She's a certified DiSC facilitator.
Before joining MDI, Inc., she served as Senior Trainer for The Employers Association of the Northeast, Vice President of Training for National Training Associates, Regional Training and Human Resource Manager for LensCrafters, Inc. and Director of Training and Development for Albert Steigers, Inc. a regional department store chain. She has designed and delivered highly acclaimed professional development programs for companies in the manufacturing, retail, financial, hospitality, and health care industries. She has designed and implemented comprehensive customer service initiatives, problem solving teams, executive development programs, and performance management systems.
Marge has earned a Master of Science Degree and an Educational Specialist Certificate from the State University of New York at Albany. 860-478-6020 Email Marge.
Brent Snow
Brent Snow serves as a senior associate for MDI, Inc. He is an expert in the world of strategic business simulations and the design and facilitation of interactive leadership development experiences. His work has been written about in Fortune, Fast Company and CIO Magazines, and has been televised internationally by the International Institute for Learning.
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Bryan Rimmer
Bryan serves as a senior associate for MDI, Inc. With over 15 years experience as a lecturer and consultant in Finance, Strategy and Marketing, Bryan specializes in teaching financial concepts to "non-financial" managers, explaining complex financial concepts in a simple and down-to-earth manner to managers at all levels.
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Kathy Larson
Kathy Larson serves as a senior associate for MDI, Inc. based in Denver, CO. She is an expert in business acumen, leadership, sales, and technology. She has experience as a senior sales professional, tech entrepreneur, and consultant. Kathy also has extensive experience in facilitating, designing, and building business simulations.
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John Edmondson
John serves as a senior associate for MDI, Inc. based in Canada. He is an experienced manager and executive with strong leadership experience. John has served on the board of many publicly traded companies as well as serving as a board member of numerous charities and sporting associations. John has led successful sales teams and has implemented numerous sales training and performance improvement initiatives.
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Rob Hoskin, Ph.D.
Dr. Hoskin serves as a senior associate for MDI, Inc. He specializes in financial statement analysis instruction primarily to non-financial managers in companies in the insurance, banking and manufacturing industries. He has more than thirty years of teaching experience and more than twenty five years as a faculty member at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and the School of Business, University
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Maria Volante
Maria Volante serves as a senior associate for MDI, Inc. She brings with her a tremendous wealth of knowledge, sales and marketing experience, and a proven track record of managing and developing successful teams. Maria has over 25 years of leadership experience and brings a real-life practicality to all of her work.
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