Jack Pyle, The Face-to-Face Maximizer, helps people improve leadershp communication. He is a professional speaker, trainer and executive speech coach who helps people improve their personal and professional lives one step at a time. He brings to coaching more than 40 years of professional experience with global corporations, small business and nonprofit organizations.
Jack's training helps people build trust by improving face-to-face communication. He is nationally recognized for his innovative relationship-building strategies to improve results for organizations. His emphasis on building bridges of understanding and support through coaching, training, advisory groups, speakers bureaus and public dialogue has resulted in award-winning programs for his clients.
Jack specializes in leadership development programs and team building. He created a 10-day Leadership Institute for Michigan OSHA and co-wrote a 5-day leadership program for a General Motors plant that emphasizes teamwork in manufacturing Cadillac automobiles in Lansing, Mich.
He has been teaching leadership skills to Lions of Michigan for more than 20 years. He led workshops for the American Management Association throughout the United States. Jack has coached countless professionals to improve leadership skills and communicate effectively face-to-face, especially by listening to staff, the public and customers.
Jack has been a spokesman in hundreds of interviews with news people. His training helps executives, small business owners, educators and public officials to be more confident and persuasive in presentations and in media interviews.
He has supervised corporate and government crisis responses during toxic chemical leaks, hazardous waste emergencies, oil spills and transportation emergencies.
Jack created public relations programs for more than 25 years for Shell Oil, Dow Chemical, General Motors and the Michigan Department of Transportation before establishing his company, Face to Face Matters, in Mason, Michigan, in 1988. He has been a speechwriter for CEOs and vice presidents of companies among the Fortune 100 list.
He is author of Building Community Support for Schools, published by Kendall/Hunt, and Get Jacked Up on Leadership Communication. National magazines and newsletters have published his articles.
He mediates problems for his clients and trains employees in conflict management skills. Jack is qualified as a mediator by the State of Michigan to handle mediations for small claims court cases and family court.
In 1995 he was elected a Fellow by the Public Relations Society of America for his "unusual and exceptional contributions to the field of public relations."