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right angle helps businesses take their organizations to the next level by boosting profits through effective planning, high performing marketing and sales, operational efficiencies and effective employees. Our many years of experience and hundreds of proven strategies and systems provide you with a fresh perspective on results. Let us help you create a customized solution to meet your strategic objectives. Our Mission… To provide business owners, organizational leaders and their teams with strategies, processes and training that improve profitability, efficiency and culture. Press Release Founding Partners: Rachel F. Butler-President, right angle
Rachel F. Butler-President-right angle Rachel Butler serves as President of right angle, a results focused company founded in 2005 specializing in providing business owners, leaders and their teams with proven strategies, processes and training that improve the organizations profitability, efficiency and culture.
During her 23 year career, Rachel has worked for and consulted with many Fortune 100 and international companies, federal agencies, and small to mid market companies. She has trained and mentored thousands of people world-wide on topics ranging from Statistical Process Control to High Performing Teams. She has facilitated strategic planning for Federal Agencies such as National Oceanic and Atmosphere and The Millennium Challenge Corporation and worked in creating high performing teams with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She has served as an internal facilitator and consultant for GE Fanuc, a joint venture of GE and Fanuc of Japan and as a Controller for Makino of Japan. Additionally, Rachel is a certified Chief Training Officer by American Society of Training and Development. Her successes have been recognized with such awards as a 2007 inductee as a member and enabler into the High Impact Portfolio, an organization sponsored by Greater Louisville Inc. and Office of the Mayor for fast growth companies, companies with the potential for fast growth and those companies that enable growth in others. In 2008 right angle was named as an Inc. Credible Woman Owned Business finalist. More importantly, the success of her clients has been her biggest reward – watching business owners and leaders develop their leadership ability, grow their businesses while developing their teams and significantly increasing their profits and confidence. Rachel serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Woman Business Owners of Louisville. She also serves on the boards of several businesses, and has authored several articles. In addition to right angle, she is a partner in a Virginia based Company specializing in Organizational Development and has served as a facilitator and instructor for the Federal Executive Institute, an organization that develops government leaders. Rachel has been married 20 years to Tom Butler and has two teen-age daughters. She is a Quick Recall Coach and Moderator for the Governor’s Cup and enjoys oil painting, travel and cooking.
Thomas A. Butler – founding partner Tom has more than 25 years sales, marketing and business management experience. From entry level sales positions to executive management, Tom has worked, managed and consulted in a variety of industries with complex sales cycles in direct selling situations as well as through channel partners. Business development experience in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and Japan with publicly traded companies like GE to privately held international corporations. Significant experience selling to all levels within companies provides him with insight into being successful in very competitive markets, both with short and long sales cycles. He is also adept at developing new or neglected markets and territories. His experience in strategic and operational management provides additional insight to organizations. He is a successful business and sales coach, assisting small and large organizations with significant growth in revenue and profit. Many of his clients are now top revenue producers for their organizations and within their industries. Successful in helping clients: q Facilitate strategic plans, including sales and marketing initiatives, forecasts, p and L, capital and human budgets | q Develop multiple channels to market: direct sales, account managers, regional managers, distributors and sales representatives | q Align and re-align cross functional teams to drive sales, reduce costs, and re-engineer product and processes | q Create and establish dashboards for key performance metrics | q Improve overall team and business performance through goal alignment and leadership practices |
Tom received his Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and his M.B.A. from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. He has served on multiple business advisory boards within the manufacturing sector: Marketing, Economics, Forecasting, and Economics & Statistics. He is a certified consultant and facilitator for Miller Heiman Inc. sales performance methodologies. On a personal note, Tom has been married for 20 years and has two daughters ages 15 and 13. Tom enjoys activities with his family, plays competitive tennis, is training for a marathon and is an avid Green Bay Packer fan.
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