| Business Design Corp’s founders and members have had a combined total of 34 years experience delivering the E-Myth Mastery Program. Our experience delivering these programs exposed the profound need for a simple tool to assist business owners in the creation, organization and implementation of systems - something better than a word processing application and papers crammed in three ring binders that no one ever uses. To address this need, the TouchStone Business System was born with the specific purpose of taking businesses far beyond just the theory of systems building derived from the E-Myth Mastery Program. TouchStone makes it easy to build your systems and then to view, use, update, manage and disseminate them all on-line, wherever you have access to the internet. Your reward is a business that runs smoothly and profitably as expected. Our E-Myth Background
Stephen Hannah
In 1995, Stephen Hannah met with Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth, Revisited and founder of E-Myth Worldwide. In that discussion, Hannah found that many of the key principles he was developing were reflected in Gerber's work as well. From late in 1995 to 1998, Hannah joined Gerber's company as a Senior Consultant and later as consultant and trainer to the new Certified E-Myth Consultants.
During this time, Hannah was instrumental in helping create The E-Myth Mastery Program out of E-Myth Worldwide's older business offerings. Bringing his concepts of the 'whole-business' approach to this work, Hannah specifically focused on ideas that helped make the more general and theoretical E-Myth concepts much more practical and usable for each small business owner.
In 1997, Gerber offered consultants worldwide a license enabling them to become a Certified E-Myth Consultant. Hannah's work as 'consultant to the consultants' for this new program was very rewarding, as it allowed him to further develop these key business principles with the new consulting firms that were implementing them in the real world. Hannah was in charge of the training of newly minted Certified E-Myth Consultants (CECs) in all aspects of The E-Myth Mastery Program, as well as how to build a successful 'whole-business' consulting practice.
Hannah's knowledge of how to bring sophisticated business procedures to every small business grew to a level where building his own E-Myth based consulting firm was clearly the next step. He joined with his two partners, Michael Mills and Shannon Brodie, in 1998 to form Business Freedom Partners, in which all three principals operated as Certified E-Myth Consultants.
From day one, Stephen Hannah and his consulting partners realized a strong need to have software systems for designing, building, accessing and implementing all of a company's managing systems. As early as 1998, they were building prototypes for a web-based software application that would make the tasks of building systems and then using them to effectively manage the company, easy, intuitive and user-friendly. Their goal was to have all the systems for all the work of the company be right there on the computer for everyone to use - to have every small business be fully systemized, fully trained, managing for results and miles ahead of the competition in every way.
This new product, The TouchStone Business System, was in full development by 2004 and in use with all Business Design clients in 2006. TouchStone is fully developed for use with all sizes of companies from small business start-ups to mature companies with million or more in revenues.
Shannon Brodie
From 1994 to 1998 Shannon worked as a Senior Consultant, then as Manager of Consulting Services at E-Myth World Wide. With more than 13 years of experience with The E-Myth Mastery Program and in business consulting, Shannon has worked with hundreds of small business owners to systemize and develop their businesses. Projects have included; management development, sales development & training, customer service, financial evaluation & controlling, work flow analysis, process mapping & organizational development and much more. She has been accountable for client relationships, program development and business development with a wide variety of companies.
From start-up organizations to large corporations she has mentored and made lasting impressions through her work. She has had customer-facing responsibilities related to sales, account management and delivery of consulting services for large publicly held companies, like Allied Domecq, Allstate Insurance and Commworld.
In addition to this direct client experience Shannon was part of the consulting team that contributed to the development and implementation of the E-Myth Mastery Program. While at E-Myth World Wide, Shannon managed, coached and trained E-myth coaches as well as countless Certified E-Myth Consultants.
Shannon is one of the founding partners of Business Design Corporation and now serves as the companies Vice President of Program Development and Client Services. In this capacity she is accountable for the company's delivery of world-class client services and for the development and execution of the on-line software tools. She is the primary inventor and developer of Business Design Corp's new on-line business development tool, TouchStone, which has revolutionized the way businesses document, disseminate and manage their systems and procedures.
Michael Mills
Michael is an internationally known business & personal development coach and speaker. His focus is on developing and implementing cutting edge success technologies that deliver strategic vision and personal success to business owners paving the way for true business and personal freedom. His purpose is to transform the lives of business owners by building high performance companies that produce consistent & reliable results.
For more than 15 years, Michael has helped people discover their goals and achieve their vision. He has been an entrepreneur all his life, with successful careers in the Industrial Tools & Fasteners Industry, Software Development & Distribution as well as Professional Sports & Entertainment Ticket Distribution and Sales & Management Consulting.
He has consulted with many world renowned organizations including the San Francisco Giants Baseball Franchise and Los Angeles' Center Theater Group.
In 1997, after selling his software company of 12 years, Michael enrolled in an Advanced Senior E-Myth Consultancy Certification, completing the program from Michael Gerber's E-Myth Academy 4 years later. In the subsequent years, he delivered The E-Myth Mastery Program to hundreds of business owners successfully applying business development techniques.
As one of the Managing Directors of Business Design Corporation, Michael continues to teach proven life and business development systems to business owners and senior managers in most English speaking countries around the globe. He and his wife, Katrina, live in Sonoma, California.
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