“It was awesome…the best event I’ve ever attended…I can’t wait until next year’s,” said Anne Kelly, Director of the Federal Consulting Bureau in Washington, DC. No, she wasn’t referring to the Super Bowl or the Academy Awards, but rather to Dottino Consulting Group’s Benchmark 2003 which was held on February 28th at St. John’s University, Manhattan Campus Auditorium.
Anne added, “The high level of enthusiasm from the presenters was refreshing and genuine. I learned so much from them. For example, practical skills and ideas on leadership and process management that I could take back to our workplace.”
Tony Dottino was so adroit at highlighting the individuality of each presentation and what they were doing in their organizations to achieve their positive results in meeting their challenges. Dottino said, “The purpose of the DCG Benchmarking is that the audience and the presenters as well walk away with some fresh ideas to apply to their own situations to achieve similar success.”
A testimonial to Tony and DCG are the awards his clients have received – ConEdison has 2 Best Practice Awards and is currently Fortune Magazine’s most admired in the utility industry… United States Tobacco has been honored by being selected to participate in a national study for leadership… and Stamford Housing Authority is an acknowledged leading authority for affordable housing for low and medium incomes. Dottino said, “The folks who took in the day will be the leaders of nurturing the human assets that are indigenous to the success of every organization.”
Tony Buzan, key note speaker, literally took us through the earliest stages of life on earth, then on to man’s development throughout civilization (what a time travel!) … and proved to us via a series of historical milestones that we have learned 90% of the brain’s mechanisms in the last 10 years! He said, “In comparison with other planetary development, man is a mere infant. We are also learning how little of our brain we use.” To substantiate this, Buzan showed us a sampling of hundreds of magazine covers from all over the world that only within the last several years are focusing on the brain and the dramatic findings surrounding it.
Buzan gave praise to the presentations he witnessed and said, “You are the pioneers in developing and learning about the human mind and the development of intellectual capital which will continue to insure the future prosperity of companies.”
“I was most impressed by The Federal Consulting Group’s passionate adoption of these principles and practices. Their groundbreaking work with the INS truly demonstrates that each and every enterprise has both the need for and capacity to grow using these simple and effective tools.”
Bob Rickenbach, Managing Director, Fine Light
