People

Mr. Caveney is a serial entrepreneur, starting with TeleSynergy a call accounting company, the account base of which was sold to SAI, Inc. in 1987.

He founded Market Answers, a customer satisfaction market research company, which automated feedback by interconnecting with customer management systems. In 2001 he co-founded precisionpath, to do high-end brand research for advertising agencies and brand strategists and tacticians in New York and San Francisco.

In 2008 Mr. Caveney began working with a middle school, eventually leading to authorship of a book, SCHOOLING For Readiness And Drive, and then ultimately, the development of the Lead out method, a new method for working together in K-12 school districts.

Master Facilitator, Strategic Learning Design and Development, Executive Coach

Anne Griswold is a coach, mentor, consultant, facilitator, designer and adjunct faculty in the fields of organizational development, leadership and learning. At its core, Anne’s work is to create environments where people “wake-up” moving them from everyday habitual responses to mindful, conscious behavior. This assures greater collaboration, influence, and impact.

With more than 25 years of experience in developing leaders at every level of organization and across multiple industries, Anne has worked with hundreds of executives to implement change using initiatives which range from 1:1 coaching, mentoring and team initiatives, to change management, organizational development, design & facilitation of corporate-wide programs and processes.

Anne has held many roles over the years being both an internal executive, a sole proprietor of her own consulting firm as well as an adjunct professor in a variety of Universities. She has also held many positions on volunteer boards. She is a master facilitator certified in many assessment tools and specializing in the HBDI® and Whole Brain Thinking®.

Her contribution to transforming education with Schoolio® beyond her passion for “waking people up” includes designing and implementing leadership, learning and development systems both within Schoolio® and in the educational system. She creates environments for individuals, teams, cross-functional divisions, and entire systems to be effective and efficient about profits, processes, people, and possibilities that support sustainable change and transformation.

Anne has earned a B.A. in Communications from the University of Maine, an M.S. in Management Science/ Organizational Development from the Antioch New England Graduate School, and a M.A. in Organizational Leadership through the Graduate Institute. Recent organizations she has worked with include Herrmann, Samsung, Altera, American Express, Johnson & Johnson, University of NH, Nike, Blackrock, University of Miami in Ohio, Roche Molecular, Santa Clara Swim Club, C&S Groceries, ATD, Symbotic, Goodwill Industries, PwC, EY and Varian Medical.

Mitchell Goozé is the president and founder of Customer Manufacturing Group. His broad scope of business experience ranges from operations management in established firms, to start-up and turn-around situations and mergers. A seasoned general manager, he has headed divisions of large corporations and been CEO of independent firms, always focusing the company strategy on the most important person in business . . . the customer. Prior to founding Customer Manufacturing Group, Mitch was president of Teledyne Components, a division of Teledyne, Inc., for five years.

Mitch’s unique expertise in determining strategic positioning at the corporate or product level has resulted in the cornerstone element of the Customer Manufacturing System – Value Specification. For years he has used his Who, What and How assessment methods to help companies define what their customers are buying that they can’t get from anyone else. As a recognized expert in marketing, strategic business planning, and customer relationships, Mitch has been invited to speak by business groups across the globe. His ideas have helped thousands of senior executives to gain a competitive advantage in their market through the assessment and redesign of their System to Manufacture Customers.

He has served as an outside director on the board of several companies including Aquatrols, Hunter Associate Laboratories, Ikonos and Telesensory Systems. Mitch is a past member of the Board of Directors of The American Electronics Association and ASUCLA, and The Board of Advisors of the Leavy School of Business at Santa Clara University, The Northern California New Media Center, and the Board of Advisors of Customer Satisfaction Improvement, Inc. He has been an invited guest lecturer at The Columbia University Graduate School of Business and at Stanford University.

Mitch has been an invited guest speaker and published author for over fifteen years. His first book on marketing, It’s Not Rocket Science: Using Marketing to Build A Sustainable Business, was first published in 1997 and was released in newly updated paperback edition in 2008. His second book, The Secret To Selling More was initially released in August 2001, and published in a newly updated paperback edition in 2005. And, he is the co-author of Value Acceleration. Mitch holds a B.S. Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and an MS and MBA from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Howard Zolty is the founder of High Achievement Educational Services, an organization focused on innovative educational technology solutions for both in school learning and at home learning. He is also the director of technology and educational services for the Reading Friends Children's Library and has been creating cost effective technology solutions to enhance literacy services and supplemental services for library programs.

At schoolio, Mr. Zolty's job, for which he is uniquely qualified, is to find creative ways to get students at various ages to love to read.

Mr. Zolty has over 25 years of technology, business, and project management experience. He has worked on a wide range of projects for industry, education, and government organizations. He started his career as an engineer at the IBM Corporation, designing advanced technology for new products as well as helping to create the high capacity productions systems needed to manufacture those products. He advanced as a project manager and successfully delivered high quality products on- schedule and on-budget. He also continued his education at Stanford University. IBM quickly discovered that his university research projects provided him with the leading edge skills necessary to meet the needs of high technology businesses in Silicon Valley. He was selected as the lead systems engineer and successfully implemented projects for organizations such as Intel, AMD, Apple, SLAC, LSI, Varian and many others.

After IBM, he founded Zolty Technical Services where he worked on large scale computing and data network projects for a wide range of high technology companies. He also became interested in online information technology and designed systems for Dialog Information Services, Knight Ridder Information, ICL Systems, Fujitsu Services, Thomson Legal and Regulatory and Thomson Scientific. He earned a masters degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a bachelors degree in computer systems engineering from Purdue University. He also has a California Emergency Teaching Credential and can teach kindergarten through twelfth grade classes when necessary. He also participates in ongoing education to enhance and maintain his skills. Mr. Zolty has been volunteering in schools for over 15 years. He has assisted teachers and principals with instructional technology, direct student instruction, and school safety planning. He also served on the board of the Mountain View Library Foundation, REACT, and local community organizations.

Two key innovations of Mr. Zolty bear describing:

Getting Kindergartner's to self-start reading, daily

Mr. Zolty decided to elicit the desire of Kindergartners to read every day, reasoning that it would free the teacher and it would get these kids into the habit of reading. What worked? An alcove was arranged with teddy bears peeking out of cardboard boxes reading real books. Adults and children were drawn to the comfortable and functional area. It worked.

That is but one example of the many approaches Mr. Zolty has used to help get students to love to read.

Seasoned M.D., MBA with 14+ years of international drug development experience within Health Technology, Medical Device and Clinical Program Development including the support of phases 1-4.

Dr. Sharma has solid experience of Clinical Trial Design, Regulatory Strategy & Clinical Trial Operations.

Dr. Sharma has held titles such as Medical Director for a Biotech and Health Technology Startup, Senior Clinical Trials Manager at a renown Academic Medical Center, R&D Program Manager at a Large Pharmaceutical Company, Market Access Consultant within a Top Tier Consulting Firm.

Dr. Sharma has also supported the development of potentially registrational clinical programs in many cross-functional teams including designing phase 1-4 studies and collaboration with Investigator Sponsored Research (ISR) including development of the Clinical Development Plan (CDP), Target Product Profile (TPP), Clinical Study Report (CSR) authoring of Investigator Brochure (IB) and submission of multiple health authority dossiers (NDA/BLA/sBLA).