Dear Betsy:

Your facilitation of our work groups has enabled us to re-engineer processes and tools in a more effective fashion. Our annual sales training event you designed resulted in our most productive training activity to date. Your expertise in designing and facilitating participant-centered group tasks is world-class.

Your ability to assimilate strategic design criteria for a group task, engage in the task while continually monitoring group progress toward the objective, and seamlessly modifying the original plan where course correction is required enable you to lead our work groups and training activities to our objectives in a very efficient path.
 

My thanks for an outstanding Executive Leadership course. As you know, I have been both a serious student and practitioner of leadership principles for many years. In my previous employment, I was a senior officer in the United States Armed Forces and recently retired with 30 years active service.

Your course was the best I have experienced. I was particularly impressed by the integration of professional and personal
introspective techniques. When you say "you must know yourself before you can effectively lead others", you mean it. This is something which I have not seen done in all my previous leadership training programs. Likewise, the worksheet to help the individual, as well as executive groups, work with a systematic approach to a solution was very enlightening. In this regard, I particularly appreciated the "Goal Planning Sheets".

It, of course, goes without saying none of this fine material would work without your effective ad thoughtful presentation. Your knowledge of the literature and real world experience added a real depth and texture to the presentations. In addition, your experience made our one-on-one counseling sessions a true cut above all others I have experienced.

In short, thank you for a very fine course and excellent presentation.

I engaged Betsy to transform our adult learning environment, challenge our healthcare professional training approach at the Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute and assist with in-class launch planning. The results were remarkable and moved our organization to new levels and dramatically improved post-launch student satisfaction and comprehensive levels. Betsy is results-oriented, client focused and a great problem solver. She is amazing and demonstrates compelling facilitating learning and decision-making in groups. Standing out for me is how good she is at listening and helping the group stay focused on results. In addition, she was fun to work with over several months of intense design and change activities. It was my pleasure to work with Betsy to successfully launch the J&J Diabetes Institute in 2008 and seeing the subsequent significant impact of her work.

Betsy is one of the most intelligent, strategic, and insightful people I've ever met. Her brilliance, mixed with her charming personality, would be an asset to any organization lucky enough to work with her.

I've had the opportunity to attend numerous training sessions facilitated by Betsy and each time blown away by her expertise, knowledge, and ability to impart a similar passion in others. Betsy is a true professional and someone I would highly recommend if you're looking for someone to make an immediate impact within your organization.

Betsy’s facilitation style allows you to dig deep into the issues at hand and uncover the root cause. Her questions are powerful yet her communication style is soft and comforting. She has the ability to help you find innovative solutions to your most costly business problems directly affecting the bottom line.   July 29, 2009

I had the pleasure of working with Betsy on the "Project Management" course she delivered for PSI in 2007. Betsy not only managed to adjust the course to the company's needs in a short time, but did an amazing job meeting the expectations of a diverse audience. She is an extremely knowledgeable professional, and a very enthusiastic trainer and facilitator, which allows her to share her knowledge with the group, and influence them into moving on and thinking outside of the box well after the course is finished. I would be thrilled to work with Betsy again, and I hope the opportunity will present itself.

I just wanted to give you my personal feedback. I thought your facilitation of "Leadership: An Art of Possibilities" fit exactly with the direction I am leading the county, fits very well with our strategic planning process. Thanks again, enjoyed it immensely.

Betsy Allen is more than a coach – she is a strategic planning partner – and a caring, objective third party. If you or your business suffers from malaise, malcontent, poor performance or you just aren’t happy in your work, I highly recommend scheduling a program with Betsy.

She has helped breathe energy, enthusiasm and crucial analysis into our company and improved our partnership. Make no mistake, it takes work and effort on our part so be prepared, but the results are rewarding and we are more excited about the future than we have been in several years. We are grateful for our renewed passion for our careers as a result of our working with Gaining Results.

Thank you so much for putting on a great presentation on performance last night for the SWFL IIA. Your meeting style is very engaging and quite unique. We look forward to having you at future events.

Betsy,

We wanted to thank you for the help you have given to the HMA group.   Your coaching has helped me personally as well as our members to reach our current and future goals of providing quality of care to our patients.

You have become a vital part of the success we will have in 2011.  I already knew prior to us working together your approach and assistance with keeping the important things at the forefront will improve the difference between average results to exceptional results.

Thanks for all the support and helping us as an organization reach our full potential.

“Very engaging program led/ facilitated by a true professional who knows her subject matter like a champion and allows the participant to learn through doing.”
-Tracy Hopper, Marketing Director

“Interestingly, even with a ton of other things on my mind, I lost track of time because of all the great info and constant interaction! I want my future audiences to feel that way.”
- Alana Darden, Product Manager

“This was the most impactful training course I’ve been to. I learned so much from others, the instructor and about myself.”
- Kelcy Heringer, Product Manager

“This presentation workshop really highlights the value of audience content/ presenter led presentations having much more impact. The interactive learning was very eye-opening.”
- Gwen Murphy, Sr. BDM

“I felt the process proved to be insightful and will serve as a catalyst to reflect more as to how to improve my presentation skills. There were many pearls with which to implement in future trainings.”
- Blake Comeaux, Field Training Manager

“I really enjoyed the class and will be able to use on Thursday. We should have this class at foundations training.”
-Dan Keller, BDM
 

“The Gaining Results individual leadership program is outstanding. Each program component helped me to be better organized, focused, and productive in all areas of life—professional, personal, and family. Betsy is inspiring, thoughtful, and creative and I would recommend her program to anyone seeking to improve and reach toward higher personal goals.”

I had the largest enrollment of meeting attendees during the 2 one-hour sessions on Motivational Interviewing I did for KP's annual Diabetes Symposium. There were over 400 in the first session and more than 250 in the second session. So almost all of the 764 attendees were in one of my breakout groups. Many were physicians.

The meeting coordinator took me aside at the end of the day and told me the ratings of participants in those sessions were among the highest in the program.

Your input for large group meetings was invaluable. I really appreciate the collaborative work you did with me and others in Dallas!

Kindest regards,

Thank you for a breakthrough session this week. I was invigorated, inspired and proceeded to have a most productive and provocative conversation with my business partner. I couldn’t believe how well the conversation flowed. We shared so many outstanding ideas, and had frank discussions, all in a positive light. It looks like our revenues are up 50% over last year while maintaining a solid net margin.

We appreciate your sincere interest in helping our business grow and encouraging us to achieve our dreams. You are really good at your profession, and it’s been a blessing to have you on our team.