Our Staff (more Pages below)

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Research is one of the most critical pieces of our client's overall sales and marketing plan. Our sizable crew needed their own page.

Please click here or on the photo to meet our research team.

As a highly successful sales coach, Tom is focused on providing  the tools, support, and structure necessary to set better goals, increase focus, and maximizing results with industrial sales forces and managers. 

Since 2002, he has been coaching sales talent and leaders, helping them to improve their sales, master their influencing ability, and become better leaders. Prior to his coaching career, Tom spent the first decade of his career as a successful salesperson and sales leader in the manufacturing, technology and telecommunications markets.

Tom has coached over two-thousand clients in his coaching career and is one of the few coaches in the world to hold the prestigious Master Certified Coach designation from the International Coaching Federation. 

Tom holds a Civil Engineering degree from the University of Illinois.

Doug has spent over two decades in packaging and machinery design marketing CPG products, film, converters, and machinery OEM solutions. 

Doug has also developed a great network of highly skilled professionals such as printers, programmers and 3D modelers, that we team up with to tackle whatever your advanced creative needs may be.

Doug holds a B.F.A in graphic design from the Savannah College of Art & Design. 

Elaine helps our clients' sales staff grow professionally on a one-on-one basis. Elaine works with clients and groups on many elements of their sales professional lives, she especially enjoys coaching working with millennials and new graduate hires entering our client's technical sales force to reach their maximum sales potential. 

Elaine's areas of focus are how to network correctly, first impressions, body language, and presentation skills. She has coached people from entry level to the C-Suite of Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to joining USA Strategies, she served in key marketing and communications roles at AON, KPMG and Chapman & Cutler.

Elaine holds a Masters in Managerial Communications from Northwestern University.

USA Strategies is now celebrating its ninth year in our partnership with Elmhurst College’s mentoring-protégé-internship program. Students learn state of the art marketing knowledge working side by side with staff, and learn the skills they don't teach in school with real-life business situations. 

A majority of our students get hired in the industries we serve when they graduate. Click here or on the photo to meet our 2020-2021 students.

Our staff is the company's greatest asset. Click to learn more about our culture and office changing work-life balance initiative that really propelled our team's energy into the forward thinking future and gave us a competitive edge in finding and retaining top talent.

Kevin is responsible for all editorial content covering developing materials and emerging technologies in the plastics and packaging industries. This messaging is essential in delivering compelling coverage by providing customer driven messaging to end users and decision makers.

Kevin comes to us with a diverse career in plastics design and manufacturing as well as author of numerous articles published with a variety of trade publications. His background in engineering and operations management has led to being awarded five patents and provides a unique perspective in identifying critical features and benefits to an overall business development strategy. Kevin has held key roles in industry leading organizations such as Illinois Tool Works, Grayhill, Inc., Panduit, and Molex.

Kevin holds a B.S in Industrial Technology from Illinois State University, and is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.

Jamie  is an accomplished business leader with 20+ years of diverse business  experience, which ranges from marketing communications and product  management to operating her own business.  She has 15 years of product management, brand management, and marketing experience and has managed and grown categories in spaces as large as $100M.

Jamie holds a B.S. in Business Management from Northern Illinois University.  

George's intellect is so valuable that many times a year we pull him out of semi-retirement and he gets on a plane to help with our clients.  

George has vast multi-decade experience in the technology marketplace and has unique skills in business plans, customer positioning, sales management, marketing and competitive intelligence. George has served key roles as sales manager and vice president at such firms as RCA, Motorola, BRK Electronics,  NEPCON, Power-One, Sager and Advacom. 

George holds a B.S.E.E. from the  University of Pittsburgh and a M.M. from the Kellogg School of Graduate Management from Northwestern University.

 With his three decades of vast experience, Larry assists industrial sales groups in developing high performing work teams that are clearly aligned with the organizations values and goals concentrating on the group’s interaction tactics and communication skills. 

The focus of Larry's work is on building healthy working relationships and assisting sales groups in addressing/resolving both individual and organizational conflict. This is done all while developing the group’s skills in creating a highly effective results focused work culture. 

Larry holds a PSY. D Doctorate in Psychology from the Forest Institute of Technology and an M.B.A from Roosevelt University.

Michelle assists with sourcing, attracting, recruiting, interviewing, and on-boarding talent to USA Strategies. Michelle has 17 +years of business experience in leadership roles in talent acquisition, change management, and change leadership.

Michelle holds a Masters in Organizational Behavior from Benedictine University.