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Trainers |
Bruce
Solomon
Director of training Operations, President and CEO
Bruce Solomon, founder
and president of Rising Star Communication Trainings and the business
and organizational training company called Team Resource Associates,
brought the first human development trainings to Utah. At the time he
started community-building trainings, only group therapy and occasional
sensitivity workshops had stirred the placid consciousness of the Great
Salt Lake area. As a result of Bruce’s work, seven human development
companies have been founded, and transformational training centers have
sprung up in Chicago, Illinois; Phoenix, Arizona; Denver and Colorado
Springs, Colorado; Dallas, Texas; Honolulu, Hawaii; Sacramento, California;
and other states. Community-building training has traveled to such far-away
places as Milan, Italy; Melbourne, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand,
and most recently, Guangzhou, China, where Rising Star and Visionworks
trainers are the only licensed transformational trainers in mainland
China. Bruce received his bachelor’s degree from the University
of Utah and his master’s degree from the University of Phoenix.
He and his wife of thirty-eight years, Dorothy, have four children who
share and support his vision.
*Bruce
Solomon is available for personal coaching.
Contact
Andrea Craig @ 801-975-1000 for more information.
Dorothy
Solomon
Trainer
Dorothy Solomon has been a teacher, a writer, and a communications trainer
of international reputation and experience. Educated in Nevada and Utah,
Dorothy received her bachelor’s degree Magna Cum Laude in literature,
public speaking and theatre, along with a secondary teaching credential,
and later received her master’s degree in literature and creative
writing from the University of Utah. She also received life skills training
to become a personal effectiveness and leadership trainer with an international
human development corporation. She has taught literature, creative writing,
dramatic arts, and life management skills. Her first book, In My Father’s
House (winner of the Utah State Publishing Prize, 1982) recounts her
family’s history of exile and persecution. Forthcoming in 2003
from W. W. Norton is a book of creative nonfiction titled Predators,
Prey, and Other Kinfolk (a first-place winner of the 1996 Utah Original
Writing Awards), which draw on her background to explore issues of human
predation and transformation.
Dorothy is co-founder and vice-president of VisionWorks International,
which currently conducts communications training and community development
programs in the United States and China. A master trainer, she conducts
a spectrum of Visionworks trainings.
She is the mother of four children and four grandchildren. She lives
in Park City, Utah, with her husband of thirty-eight years, Bruce Solomon.
Royce
Gardner
Trainer
Royce
Gardner is one of the original trainers of the Rising Star Communications,
Inc. team. Along with Bruce and Dorothy, he brought transformation training
to the Utah market in the early 1980’s. He contributes over twenty
five years of wide ranging experience and a depth of expertise relating
to Leadership, Organizational and Personal Development, as well as,
Cultural Assessment and Change. He resides in northern California.
Royce graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah with a Bachelor's
degree in Psychology, with Minor studies in Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics.
As an undergraduate, his curiosity and desire for challenge provided
opportunities to work with many leading edge research teams, one of
which spawned the Jarvik-7 artificial heart. Following graduation, Royce
has served a variety of industries including commercial banking, medical/hospital
products, computer/office automation, sales & marketing, heavy industry
manufacturing, and training & development.
During
his career with a leading national training company, Royce worked with
100’s of thousands of people on issues of personal effectiveness
and leadership. In 1985, he formed an independent consulting firm, Leadership
by Design, and began working on 21st Century leadership issues and to
apply some of the more effective technologies to the corporate and organizational
setting. In partnership with Eclipse 2000, he developed successful corporate
culture integration strategies to be used in mergers or acquisitions.
His work has led to hands on work in assessing and designing effective
corporate culture, training design, as well as implementing effective
change in corporate culture.
Layla
Solomon Hardy
Trainer
Layla Solomon Hardy has worked in the communications training field
since 1992. As a Ropes Course Director for third level trainings and
as a Veterinary Assistant, she learned how to manage and effectively
coach animals and people while earning her Bachelor’s Degree in
Human Biology with a double minor of Chemistry and English Literature
from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. On the Ropes Course she
assisted many people in taking on their biggest fears, conquering their
perceived physical limitations, and recognizing that these fears held
them back from their maximum effectiveness in everyday life. Feeling
compelled to make a bigger difference in this environment; she coordinated
Horizons training's for Rising Star Communications, Inc. in Salt Lake
City from December 1997 until June 1999. She became a Horizons Trainer
for Rising Star in June of 1999 and continues to supervise all Horizons
operations via the Horizons Coordinators in the Visionworks system.
She has been training in both cities for six years while supporting
her husband in his service to the country as an officer in the United
States Air Force.
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