John brings together the unique combination of the business insight of an Accounting Degree and CPA with the human insight of 18 years of human resources and worldwide recruiting roles at a large accounting firm. John’s extensive and varied experiences in the midst of one of the largest professional services firms, gave him a front row seat to understand the issues, challenges and opportunities that organizations and individuals face day-to-day.

In addition to John’s close alliance with the St. Charles Consulting Group team of professionals, he is president of Keynote Concepts, Inc (www.keynoteconcepts.com). As a professional keynote speaker, John works with organizations that want to build productive work communities of trust, courage, focus and genuine service. He has addressed audiences in numerous countries and cultures around the globe including, Europe, Asia, Australia, and throughout the United States. John is a Past-President of the National Speakers Association’s Illinois Chapter.

Prior to founding Keynote Concepts, John spent the majority of his career at Arthur Andersen. His first few years were spent working with firm clients as an auditor. Later, John re-focused his energy from the firm’s numbers to its people. Over the course of his Andersen career, John served in several Human Resource and Recruiting roles, relocating from Memphis to Houston, to Albuquerque, to Phoenix, and finally to Andersen’s Worldwide Headquarters in Chicago.

During this time, John developed and delivered many of Arthur Andersen’s courses and workshops, including the firm’s highly successful Transitions Workshop for executive hires. He also served on the firm’s worldwide Training Advisory Board for Practice Management Services. This Board was responsible for providing training to over 20,000 of the firm’s employees.