Our culture is one that encourages you to think. That is "think big" and work with the world's #2 brand. Do you value forward-thinking people who are encouraged to think beyond themselves, and even beyond their organization, to also include society? That is our culture driven by IBM as a business partner of IBM.

Founded in 2002 by Ian Jackson, JD, MBA, BSEE ("Ian") at the IBM Palisades Conference Center when he was a student in the Executive MBA program at Cornell University, our venture is a corporate-affiliated technology-enabled venture owned by family and friends.

Designed with IBM Smarter Cities in mind, our CEO platform includes the option to be powered by supercomputers like Watson. Now available in the English language, the Rio CEO platform focuses on growth currently driven by the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games.

Here at Inspired Professionals, we help people accelerate their development. Historically, executive coaching has been available only to executives. Today, we are making the resources available to all. Benefits include opportunities for degrees, jobs, promotions, and ownership, as coached by Inspired Professionals.

The time-tested saying is that coaching a winning team is 90% inspiration, 10% perspiration. We employ Artistic Analytic Innovations to create passion for learning and make the learning process fun.

Over the years, our most common feedback has been: "innovative" and on the "cutting edge." Our products and services are unique in their focus on:

CEO platform as an enabler of decision-making courses, strategy consulting, and accelerated development for established as well as emerging leaders.

IBM supercomputers like Watson as designed by interdisciplinary teams at IBM, a global leader in the supercomputer industry.

Business plan certification led by a strategist invited to Gracie Mansion in 2005 as business plan judge for the five boroughs of New York City.

Business recovery informed by our work in 2002 advising small business owners in New York City's World Trade Center district on business recovery in response to 9/11.

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Interdisciplinary Method

Now here at Inspired Professionals, a business partner of IBM, we (1) license to business schools and economic development agencies, (2) advise corporations, SMB ventures, professional services, and solo practitioners, and (3) support government and leadership development programs. Our headquarters in New York City is linked in via private virtual network to our branch in Fort Lauderdale. At both locations, we offer clients a rare opportunity. That opportunity is access to on-the-job training part-time or full-time for up to one year as a Fellow on our team.

This NY-FL inter-state fellowship is enabled by our in-house CEO platform and the option for access to analytics powered by supercomputers from IBM. The fellowship includes the option for work-life balance in The Big Apple as well as the tropics. Given today's economy, we invite people from our community to join in on Fridays. We then lead online learning tours, skill enhancement vacations, study abroad experiences, alternative Spring Break experiences, seminar vacations, school trips, and seminars for seniors.

Our 3-step approach is to engage, inspire, and inform. We guide clients through a 5-step learning process: (1) Interdisciplinary Assessment, (2) Attorney module, (3) Engineer module, (4) Manager module, and (5) Interdisciplinary Simulation. Our prices range from free-of-charge to $5,200 depending on the length and method we employ. Our commitment to participants is to:

• Engage you as our team of producers, faculty, and advisors have the doctorate-level degrees and CEO-level work experience to guide you in climbing the corporate ladder. In the process, you gain opportunities for degrees, jobs, promotions, and/or ownership at Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurial ventures, and/or professional services firms.

• Inspire you through Artistic Analytic Innovations, a portfolio of movies and music videos applied to research-based methods and real-world situations global CEOs tend to encounter on the job.
• Inform you as you participate with people from around the world (a) online from the comfort of home, office, or travel or (b) in-person at the heart of commerce in midtown Manhattan and in the tropical climate of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

While in New York, participants network and learn at our headquarters in The Helmsley Building. While in Florida, participants experience on-the-job training at our branch in Sawgrass International Corporate Park. Our rigorous program is designed to transform your understanding and view of yourself, your team, and your peers around the world. We balance that work with opportunities to enjoy life and get to know our community. We implement in 6 steps:

• Corporate-style office for on-the-job training via fellowship in NYC and Florida.

• Virtual immersion from the comfort of home, office, or travel.
  

• Resort-style condo-hotel for overnight stay on Fort Lauderdale Beach.

• Car service to Miami for fun-in-the-sun and night-life on South Beach.
• Learn by cruise just beyond the U.S. border to islands in the Caribbean.
  
• Study abroad to the international emerging market of Brazil for Rio de Janeiro.

Benefits at all levels

Our portfolio stands to benefit:

• Early-career people who seek to emerge as leaders.
• Mid-career people seeking promotion to the executive level.
• Executives as they develop the cross-functional breadth needed to be CEO.
• CEOs in complementing cross-functional breadth with cross-industry insights.

Participants have gained opportunities for:

• degrees from leading MBA and M.S. programs, in many cases with fellowships.
• jobs such as investment banker, strategy consultant, and product manager.
• promotions ranging from Managing Director to Senior Analyst.
• CEO of an investment firm, employment law firm, and human resources company.
• ownership including Global 500 stock options and private equity.

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