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About TSG
When you work with the Showalter Group, you get what you pay for. You get Amy Showalter. Amy establishes and maintains throughout the life of the business relationship a personal working relationship with each client. She is the primary contact for all clients.
“We were depressed and beat. Your focus and humor saved this project!.”
Renee Smith
Project Manager
American Heart Association
Amy
Showalter, grassroots productivity expert, helps government
relations professionals, grassroots advocates and PAC members reach their
full potential. Amy has galvanized thousands of grassroots advocates and
staff for her clients who want to advance their cause politically. For
nine years she directed the efforts of the highly acclaimed Nationwide
Insurance Civic Action Program (CAP). During her tenure, over 2,000 government
relations professionals across the country ranked Nationwide's program
as one of the top two corporate grassroots programs in the country. (Ed
Grefe and Martin Linsky, The New Corporate Activism)
She delivers results-oriented workshops, keynotes, and consulting services
for national trade associations, national non-profit organizations, and
Fortune 500 companies. She has revitalized programs at Southwest Airlines,
The American Heart Association, The International Dairy Foods Association,
Dow Chemical Company, and New York Life Insurance, to name a few. Her
proprietary
research provides clients with the latest applications that improve
their grassroots and PAC results.
Amy’s expertise appears in a magazine column, as well as in national newsletters for government affairs professionals. Her Roots of Success newsletter has over 4,500 subscribers. Amy is a frequent guest on radio talk shows across the country, where she reveals what makes politicians tick. She is the author of the grassroots and PAC development resource, "105 Ways to Keep in Touch with Your Elected Officials All Year”.
She co-founded and co-produces the annual Innovate to Motivate National Conference for Political Involvement Professionals, the largest conference of its kind for grassroots and PAC professionals.
Amy is a faculty member of the Notre Dame Faculty of the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for Organization Management and The Capitol.Net. She is a Board member of the Government Relations Section Council of the American Society of Association Executives and the Washington Area State Relations Group. Amy is also a member of the National Speakers Association and the International Coach Federation.
Amy worked “inside” the legislative system as a legislative aide to Ohio’s Senate President Richard Finan, and as a lobbyist for the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, where she represented the interests of the Chamber’s small business members.
Amy has a BA in Political Science from Wright State University and a Masters Degree in Human Resources Administration from Central Michigan University. She and her husband, Randy Boyer, coexist with their three Siberian huskies in the greater Cincinnati area.
Kelton
Rhoads, PhD krhoads@showaltergroup.com
"Your influence training for our
campaign staff during the 2000 election year cycle was an important part
of our grassroots program. The techniques we utilized in door to door
and phone communications were highly successful. I believe that your influence
techniques not only better prepared our volunteers, but also resulted
in a maximum turnout for our candidates on election day. I would not hesitate
to use your techniques in the future and highly recommend your training
as a cornerstone component of any grassroots campaign program."
-- Tim Rosales, Campaign Consultant
After studying and practicing persuasion as an art for years--as a grantwriter, a public relations officer, and a director of marketing and communications--Kelton became increasingly dissatisfied with intuitive approaches to persuasion, and the guesswork utilized by most persuasive "experts." Seeking a verifiable source of evidence and fact regarding what causes people to change their behaviors, he pursued a doctorate in Social Psychology, specializing in persuasion and compliance.
He is now an influence consultant based in Los Angeles, California. He has provided training, consulting, and presentations for industry, government and defense agencies, political candidates, credit and banking firms, non-profit philanthropic organizations, educational agencies, public relations firms, and a number of medical entities, helping people apply the principles of influence to real-world situations. His work has been published in a variety of scholarly and popular journals on topics relating to persuasion. He has given radio interviews on the subject, and has received print and TV advertising awards.
Kelton partners with Amy to provide influence training workshops. All training workshops are customized based on the clients most challenging influence situations. This includes, but is not limited to, direct lobbying, grassroots and PAC participation, senior management support of government affairs, and increasing the cooperation of coalition members.
Using the latest peer-reviewed research on the science of human behavior, Amy and Kelton also audit written and electronic advocacy materials (Influence Quotient) to make your advocates more likely to respond to your requests for action.
Rhoads has taught communications, statistics, psychology, and English at the university level, and currently serves as an adjunct professor at U.S.C.´s Psychology Department and The Annenberg School for Communication. Rhoads completed his doctorate in Social Psychology at Arizona State University in 1998. Previously, he received a master's degree in English from Loma Linda University, and obtained a baccalaureate degree in History from Pacific Union College.
"Your briefing on influence was regarded as one of the best presentations in the course . . . students rated your presentation very highly. You received the highest marks pretty much across the board. Clearly your presentation was the highlight of the course for many students. The students appreciated your expertise of the subject matter and the unique information that you presented."
--Captain John Elshaw, USAF Special Forces University
Marc
Showalter designs and conducts training to enhance team
work and leadership. Marc has more than 18 years experience in the training
and development field. He began his training career at Citibank, N.A.,
where he was responsible for a New Hire Training Program that was accredited
by the New York State Board of Regents for college credit. It was the
first new hire training program to receive this honor in New York.
Marc is certified by Kaset International for several coaching and motivational training programs. His most popular program is the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). He has been a certified Meyers-Briggs facilitator since 1995 and has delivered this training to over 1,500 participants. He is certified for three Kaset International Training Programs, "AECR" (Achieving Extraordinary Customer Relations), "CECR" (Coaching for Extraordinary Customer Relations) and "Motivating for Extraordinary Service".
Marc graduated Cum Laude from Bethel College with a B.A. in History.
Valeri Amos, Client Services Manager, manages TSG's publications schedule and web site. Valeri has worked as a marketing coordinator, information technology specialist, and sales team coordinator for several organizations in northeast Ohio. She has also served as Convention Services Manager of the Canton/Stark County Convention and Visitors Bureau in Canton, Ohio. Valeri is responsible for coordinating client services, database management, and publishing the Roots of Success newsletter.
She is an active member of the HTML Writers Guild, International Webmasters Association, the Canton Ad Club, Junior Achievement, and the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce.