Who Are We
Managing Partner
Bob Benninghofen
At Choice Awareness Management, we participate with our customers and clients using our own and other professionals’ extensive business domain experiences and backgrounds. We work with individuals, leadership teams, and staff in small, medium, and enterprise businesses.
Bob’s Historical Perspective
Bob is a Small Business Owners Specialist. He provides executive leadership mentoring/training specialties while facilitating change in leadership, staff, and select teams of professionals. He has an extensive background in personal, professional, and business development, sales, operations, and technologies.
Bob has been mentoring/coaching professionally since 2001 while mentoring over one thousand people one-on-one during the better part of the past four decades. He has remained involved in technology throughout his career and continues creative endeavors with video, software integration, and web technologies.
Bob draws upon practical hands-on experiences to apply wisdom with effective methods: combines human understanding with best implementations. He has been able to:
assist in revealing the main purpose, connecting motivation, while lifting language and behaviors affecting personal improvement and team excellence.
Operate as a front and background facilitator who stirs the pot while making things happen.
Adeptly assist while overcoming the blockages for many disciplines that span planning to execution and provide measurable productivity increases for sales, marketing, operations, and financials’.
Combine technology, practices, and KPI's from his comprehensive domain expertise for both simple to complex business processes.
Delivery business applications across small to large enterprises with increased customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Traverse programs, projects, geographies, and accounts.
His Purpose Statement, Career Background, and Legacy
If you wish to download a summary and details of Bob's historical background within the context of the categories mentioned above, click the links below:
Deep Technology, Process, and Business Background
Bob began his career in an IT management training program with General Foods.
He provided technical services and solutions to corporate groups spanning all disciplines from support services to P&L units, including production and manufacturing.
As a manager and technology practitioner for the next 21 years, he expanded his knowledge and talents by working with several professionals of all levels: from executives to manufacturing shop-floor people.
He sold services for a decade and a half, successfully helping grow two staffing/consulting firms. He has created three companies during his business life and participates at a board-level with a few non-profit organizations.
Bob possesses keen communication capabilities, including listening, discernment, and articulation, along with highly developed problem solving, judgment, and common sense acquired through mentorship and coaching.
Bob demonstrates understanding in business, leadership, management, and technology with domain depth in ten fundamental business disciplines, including accounting, business analysis, marketing, sales, inventory and production control, operations, project management, quality assurance, supply chain, software development, and vendor management.
He has acquired vertical industry expertise in many domains, including retail, wholesale, distribution, manufacturing, finance, banking, eCRM, eCommerce, customer intelligence, and data/contact center operations through his corporate and small business activities.
Mentoring Focus
His experience includes leadership positions in corporate life in technical domains, such as:
data center/services operations,
medium to enterprise-scale software development and implementation projects,
professional services consulting groups,
consulting and staffing services.
Throughout his career, Bob’s focus has been to assist the client's in implementing their visions:
distilling complex requirements into workable solutions, engaging people in lifting results,
enrolling stakeholders and process to lift awareness, understanding, and participation,
lifting understanding across active communities with a result of increasing contributions and improvements,
assisted in creating and sustaining trust and evidence based-beliefs systems that support the company’s objectives.
His approach has been to invoke inquiry, analysis, creativity, facilitation while coaching and teaching.
Specialty
His specialties include marketing and sales automation, fractional sales management, sales, and business development, time management, isolation-breakdown and resolution, measuring and accountability, process modeling, productivity improvement, business planning and development, career assessment and planning, beliefs architecture/methodology, decision/choice modeling, motivation and sustaining practices, group and individual training, behavior, and methods creation.
Bob is also actively involved at the senior leadership level with various colleagues while providing executive search and engagement services.
Top Talent Summary
Bob provides his talents as a facilitator, trusted adviser, conversationalist, author, blogger, and speaker.
Other places to find Bob
Benninghofen Company – Learning How to be Different articles
Linked-In Profile – recent career and author activities
Parler - some new ideas about beliefs and choices
Facebook - placeholder (Bob spends no time on Facebook these days)
Managing Partner
Janet Lash-Benninghofen
Janet’s Historical Perspective
Janet is a senior event consultant and business coach known for excellence, style, calmness, and commitment to delivering on the client’s unique requirements. She possesses more than two decades of experience where she has cultivated long-term relationships while successfully fulfilling on consistent high-caliber and stylish events on-time and within budget.
Specialty
Draws upon corporate expertise from the hospitality industry with focus in Corporate Food Services, especially managing multiple corporate locations. Proficient in planning/executing special events: high-end designs for weddings, specialized social and corporate functions. Increased revenues and account retention with consistent client goal excess. Management of multiple unit operations, staff training and development with high staff retention. Supervised staff of 12-45 associates and managed budgets of 1.5 million.
Active is giving back to the communities by teaching courses for the Wedding Institute in local colleges, contributing to girls clubs, various arts and entertainment venues.
Top Talent Summary
Facilitator, trusted adviser, speaker and blogger.
Other places to find Janet
Avso Events – specialize event planning and management for weddings and corporate events
Linked-In Profile – recent career and ideas activities
AVSO Blog site – focus upon events and challenges related to producing great events
Collective Weddings – coming website release in 2024-25…
