Richard J. Beadle
Peggy J. Beadle
Michael K. Balloch
Robert H. Holland, Ph.D
Mary J. Lore
Larry G. Short
Barbara G. Stanbridge
J.T. (Tom) Buck

The Chair is critical in making the TEC process work. The Chair's role is to make the TEC experience a useful and profitable one for members. The Chair is part group leader, facilitator, confidant, focuser and supporter.

Richard J. Beadle

Dick Beadle is the founder and co-owner of TEC Detroit and was its president for 27 years. He is also a World Partner of TEC International. He started his first TEC group in 1976, which he continues to chair along with a KEY Group and a TEC Associate Group.

During Beadle's tenure as TEC Detroit's president, the organization grew from that initial group to eight chairs with over 135 members. In addition, he launched the KEY Executive Program, Gatekeepers Forum and TEC Associate Programs and introduced strategic planning and financial planning and reporting for TEC Detroit. In 2002, he turned the reigns over to Peggy Beadle in order to devote his full-time energies to business development for TEC Detroit.

Prior to establishing TEC Detroit, Dick was involved in education for 15 years, at both the high school and community college level. He continues to pursue his passion for education today through his active involvement with Cornerstone Schools, a Detroit based alternative to the public school system and through Winning Futures, an organization that teaches school children to develop and achieve goals. He holds a B.A. from Western Michigan University and a master's degree in education from Wayne State University.

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Peggy J. Beadle

Peggy Beadle is the co-owner and CEO of TEC Detroit and a World Partner of TEC International. Although she has been involved in TEC since its inception in Detroit, she became fully active in 1995 when she took over a TEC group that she continues to chair. Since taking on her new responsibilities as CEO in 2002, she has focused on launching new strategic and marketing plans, recruiting and selection of new TEC chairs, and the implementation of performance management and professional development systems for TEC chairs and staff.

Prior to her full-time involvement with TEC, Beadle ran her own consulting firm, Management Agenda, providing organization development services to firms throughout the country. Earlier, she had organization development and training roles at City National Bank and Dayton Hudson Corporation and was an internal consultant for McKesson Corporation where she was responsible for executive assessment and development for over 20,000 employees. In the 1970s she co-founded the Women's Justice Center in Detroit, which, still today, continues to utilize law students from several universities to provide legal services for indigent women.

Peggy completed extensive training at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and a year-long internship program with University Associates in San Diego. She also attended Western Michigan University and University of Detroit.

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Michael K. Balloch

Michael Balloch chairs three TEC groups and a TEC Associate Group. In addition to his work with TEC, he is the principal of Balloch Coaching, a multi-discipline consulting and coaching practice. He offers his TEC members and clients a powerful combination of sound business thinking complemented by strong implementation skills. He brings the practical experience of having "been there, done that," to all of his professional activities.

A former corporate executive, owner and founder of several successful businesses, Balloch has devoted more than 20 years to helping individuals make changes and attain their goals. He first began coaching leaders in 1993 as CEO of Oxford Management Strategies, Inc., capitalizing on his leadership positions in business, civic, and social organizations. He gained his extensive experience in general and executive management with global, high growth companies, including leadership roles at General Dynamics, Xerox, and Lotus Development Corporation. He also founded a consulting group and co-founded two businesses in international transportation and export/import.

Michael has worked successfully with many entrepreneurs in turning vision into concrete action plans that have obtained measurable results. He holds a B.S. degree from Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Robert H. Holland, Ph.D

Bob Holland's association with TEC Detroit began as a member in 1999, when he was CEO of Holland Systems Corporation, a company he founded more than 20 years ago. This was one of four different information technology based organizations that he has founded and led over the course of his business and academic career. He started his first TEC group in 2001, while still a member, and now chairs two TEC Groups, a KEY Group, and a TEC Associate Group.

Always a creative thinker and innovator, as early as 1972, as department chairman and full professor at Eastern Michigan University, Holland introduced the first computer curriculum within a school of business anywhere in the country. He has been the key developer of a number of information technology paradigms and products that are used throughout the marketplace. He serves on boards of directors of several organizations and is an advisor to various standards groups and industry associations.

Bob holds a B.S. in Engineering, an M.S. in Operations Research and a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering. Throughout his career, he has continually provided major insights to business, government and educational organizations for creating alignment between organization objectives, direction, strategy, and technology architectures at the strategic, design and operating levels.

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Mary J. Lore

Mary Lore began her association with TEC as a member in 1994 when she was the CEO/owner of McFarland Florist and Garden Centers. Her company was recognized for three consecutive years as one of the Greater Detroit's Future Fifty Companies and she was named one of Michigan's Top 25 Women Business Owners of Distinction. She returned to TEC as a chair, taking over her first group in October 2002. She also chairs TEC's Gatekeeper Forum and plans to launch a second TEC group.

In addition to her work with TEC, Lore is an executive management consultant and mentor and president of Managing Thought. She specializes in helping CEOs and their management teams change their way of life and the way they conduct business to achieve significant results. She started her career as a CPA and has more than 20 years experience in the start up and turn around of new and growing, publicly traded companies.

Mary earned her BBA in Finance and Accounting and graduated valedictorian from the University of Michigan-Dearborn. A veteran speaker on numerous topics, she has appeared on Detroit television and radio and has been featured in the Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press and other publications.

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Larry G. Short

Following a long and successful career as manager, CEO and business owner, Larry Short became a TEC Chair in 1990. He currently chairs two TEC groups and a TEC Associate Group. He also serves as a consultant, facilitator and speaker, having worked with more than fifty public and private sector organizations over the past several years on strategic planning, problem solving, decision making and other topics.

In 1970, Short founded Creative Universal, Inc., which grew to become a $20 million company of over 300 professionals, specializing in performance-based instruction in all media. He sold the company to Masco in 1989. Prior to that he managed profit centers for several companies with 25-150 employees. He has facilitated over 200 group meetings for public and private sector organizations and conducted workshops on dozens of topics for hundreds of organizations.

Larry's TEC members and clients benefit from the combination of his in-depth knowledge of the principles of human behavior and his ability to effectively clarify the core of complex situations. These, along with his extensive experience in founding and maintaining a substantial and successful business, enable him to be a most effective listener, coach, advisor and teacher/facilitator.

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Barbara G. Stanbridge

Barbara Stanbridge has been a TEC Chair since 1995. She has two TEC groups and chairs a KEY Executive Group. In addition to her TEC activities, she is an organization development consultant and president of CHANGE Human Resource Development, a consulting and training firm founded in 1976. She works with Fortune 500 companies, not-for-profit organizations and health care corporations on multiple organization development issues.

A past national president of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Stanbridge is a frequent speaker for professional groups on issues of strategic planning, change, leadership, sexuality in the workplace and life purpose. She has made presentations at two national conferences regarding her work with state government.

Barbara has a B.A. from Marygrove College, a master's degree from the University of Detroit and a Master of Human Resource Development from University Associates of San Diego. She completed her Doctoral course work at University of Michigan with a concentration in Group Process and Leadership. She has also completed intensive training at the Gestalt Institute. Barbara served as adjunct faculty at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and Wayne State University. She was recently named by Corp. Magazine as one of Michigan's most powerful women.

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J.T. (Tom) Buck

Tom is an expert on team development, innovation and implementation of large organization improvement efforts. He has worked on large scale change projects with such diverse organizations as Ford Motor Company, Amoco Production Company, the U.S. Postal Service, Rubbermaid and the Canadian Pacific Rail System. He is a Founder of Infinite Learning.

Tom has developed, taught and consulted in implementations on leadership, teaming, quality, union-management relations, re-engineering, rational thinking and creativity.

He has founded over a dozen separate learning focused corporations over the past two decades. He was formerly the President and founder of Prism Performance Systems, Inc. and Triad Performance Technologies, Inc., both significant consulting service providers in the U.S. Midwest.

He is a past president of the Greater Detroit Chapter of the American Society of Training and Development, Past Chapter Chair of the Michigan East/Greater Detroit YPO Chapter, and participates extensively in volunteer activities in his local school system and for the University of Michigan. In November 2005 Tom was elected to the office of Council member for the City of Farmington.

Tom has authored over a dozen articles published in various industry magazines and newsletters. He is a co-author of 101 Ways to Power Up Your Job Search published by McGraw-Hill and two other books pending publication..

Tom has an MBA from Wayne State University and a BA from the University of Michigan.

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