Advisors & Consultants

Robert Callahan, PhD — Business Communications

Dr. Callahan will bring the best training in communications, focusing on customers seeking to improve small business success and professional skills for career success.

Dr. Callahan's teaching, research and consulting focuses on the crucial communications skills necessary for professional success: professional presentations, managing start-up companies, human relations, organizational behavior, and business communications.

Dr. Callahan is a tenured Associate Professor of Management at Albers' School of Business, Seattle University, where he teaches courses in business management and business communications. He serves as advisor to Seattle University's Toastmasters Club. In addition, Prof. Callahan is President of a consulting company that develops on-line training programs and coaching of individuals in business communications and presentations. Clients include The Society of Actuaries and members of the accounting profession.

Dr. Gene Haugen, Ed.D. — Strategic Planning; Systems Integration; SME Liaison

Dr. Gene Haugen has been a technology and business systems management professional for over 40 years. He has been a software engineer and project manager and as well has led enterprise-wide technology management and organizational change teams for U S WEST (now QWEST) and The Boeing Company. For U S WEST he was the enterprise-wide Director of New Technology Introduction. He was the Senior Management Consultant to The Boeing Company for worldwide deployment of Mobile Computing Technologies in support of Knowledge Workers and Factory Workers.

His understanding of people, process and structure facilitates his success as a change agent, manager and leader. For over 8 years, he has taught Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate level courses — in the classroom and online, focusing on technology management, strategic planning and organizational change. He is the owner of Plan It Management Consulting Services, a company focused on strategic planning and organizational change. He has deployed a website in support of the knowledge-transfer/learning relationship between small business counselors and small business owners. He has led and conducted multiple organizational audits/assessments focused on organizational development.

Dr. Haugen's education credentials are: Ed D - Educational Leadership, Seattle University; MS - Information Systems Management, Seattle Pacific University; BA - Mathematics, Bemidji State University. His research has focused on Business Management and Fast Teams — successful and effective teams that complete their tasks faster than other successful and effective teams.

Dennis Hayes — Special Consultant to Executive Management

Mr. Hayes is actively involved with Evolution Media Group in the area of strategic marketing partnerships and long term corporate planning. Dennis Hayes invented the PC modem in 1977, establishing the critical technology that allowed today's online and Internet industries to emerge and grow. Mr. Hayes sold the first Hayes modem products to computer hobbyists in April of 1977 and founded D.C. Hayes Associates, Inc., the company known today as Hayes Corp., in January of 1978. Hayes quality and innovation resulted in performance enhancements and cost reductions that led the industry in the conversion from leased line modems to intelligent dial modems - the PC Modem. The Hayes SmartModem® quickly became the standard by which modem compatibility was measured and the company grew rapidly. In more than twenty years as Chairman of Hayes, he led the company as a visionary who saw the opportunity for the development of PC communications and the virtual workplace. D.C. Hayes Associates was founded on a dining room table in Hayes' home, where he started with a modest $5,000 investment and boot-strapped the company to become the leader in the industry. The first products were modem boards for the S-100 bus and then for the Apple II computers. Mr. Hayes is currently Chairman of the Association of Online Professionals, which recently merged with the US Internet Industry Association.

Craig McGuire, MS — Consumer Education, Protection & Safety

Craig will ensure that MiracleMind content helps consumers where they need it most. Craig has wide-ranging expertise in many topics that affect consumers. As a journalist, he has investigated and become expert in many subjects, including: consumer credit; healthcare and hospitals; crime and police work; addiction, and community advocacy.

Craig McGuire holds a Masters Degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He is an accomplished writer. Over the past five years, he held Senior Editorial positions at Auto Finance News Magazine, AtNight New York, PR Week Magazine, Institutional Investor, Wall Street & Technology Magazine and numerous freelance projects in the areas of investing, public relations, politics, consumer services and technology. Among literally hundreds of published articles in his portfolio are contributions to The Henson Group and Market Watch.

Veronica Rheinhart, L.Ac.,Dipl.Ac. NCCAOM — Wellness

Veronica will assist MiracleMind in developing an integrated holistic wellness curriculum.

Veronica Rheinhart has 30 years of experience in the fields of holistic health, acupuncture, nutrition, herbal medicine, and family constellation work. She holds a license in acupuncture from the National Certification Commission on Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine and is licensed to practice in Florida and Idaho.

In 2002, Veronica moved west and studied ART and Family Constellations, with Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt. She is certified in both by Dr. Klinghardt. She travels nationwide, holding workshops and client follow-up on Family Constellations and The Five Levels of Healing, a framework for wellness developed by Dr. Klinghardt. She also practices and teaches Qi Gong and EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) for personal health maintenance and enhancement.

Theodore Agranat — Special Consultant to Executive Management

Mr. Agranat is President and founder of Ceonex, Inc. Ceonex is a well-known and accomplished Internet consulting firm specializing in web design, corporate branding and strategic planning. Mr. Agranat opened Ceonex in 1998 with a new production facility in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2001, he established the animation and design product brand PixelBrick, which is now known worldwide as the standard for high-end design and animation. He later created Leadix, Inc., an innovative, web-based lead generation, tracking and ROI calculation platform for launching, running and maintaining media campaigns, microsites and landing pages. Clients who have used Leadix include NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld, IDG Global, CXO Media, InfoWorld, Reed Business, Fortune, BusinessWeek and Hearst. Those firms, in turn, have conducted media campaigns on the Leadix SiteCenter platform for a large number of Fortune 500 customers including Google, Lucent, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard and DHL. In 2004, Mr. Agranat established Quantemo, the world's first Internet usability laboratory focusing on quantifying emotional connection and mental effort as it pertains to a user's interaction with a website. His hands-on leadership is evident in key strategy and branding contributions as well as conversion success stories of major Ceonex projects, including Bayer, Bates, Fidelity National Financial, Hitachi, NetworkWorld, Philips Medical, PhotonEx, LSI Logic and more.

Randi Leseten — Education Consultant

Ms. Leseten worked as a professional in the field of education for over 19 years. She began her career as a teacher of reading in middle schools, then as a staff developer, and eventually District Literacy Coordinator. Her experience as a full-time mentor is directly applicable to the MiracleMind service offering. During her distinguished career, she has proven herself to be a fair and objective teacher, with excellent classroom management skills. Ms. Leseten is a member of numerous professional organizations including the International Reading Association, the Nassau Council of Reading and Queens Council of Reading, the National Council of Teachers of English, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, NYC Educators in Language Arts Association, Long Island Language Arts Association and the National Council of Staff Developers.