{"id":4432,"date":"2017-09-15T16:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdctraining.com\/?p=4432"},"modified":"2017-09-15T16:30:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:30:31","slug":"amanda-james-is-appointed-chief-operating-officer-coo-think-on-your-feet-international-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/mdctraining.ca\/amanda-james-is-appointed-chief-operating-officer-coo-think-on-your-feet-international-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda James is Appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) &#8211; Think on Your Feet International, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To our Respected Network,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As most of you know, Amanda James has \u201ceffectively\u201d been managing the day-to-day\u00a0operations\u00a0of both McLuhan &amp; Davies\u00a0and Think on Your Feet International\u00a0for over four years.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to officially appoint her to the role of\u00a0<strong>Chief Operating Officer<\/strong>, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I want to extend a large congratulations and \u201cthank you!\u201d\u00a0 to Amanda\u00a0for embracing and enhancing\u00a0our corporate culture of inclusion, mutual respect, teamwork,\u00a0change\u00a0and growth.<\/p>\n<p>During the last few years MDC has won\u00a0significant\u00a0awards, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Toronto Board of Trade\u2019s Business of the Year:\u00a0Global Reach,\u00a02013<\/li>\n<li>Best Linear Booth at ATD, 2015<\/li>\n<li>Canadian HR Reporter\u00a0Readers\u2019 Choice for Employee Communications Training,\u00a02017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, Amanda led our restructuring to improve customer service globally and introduced leading edge new products:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LINKS\u2122 Online<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Edward de Bono\u2019s Six Thinking Hats\u00ae and Lateral Thinking<\/li>\n<li>Think on Your Feet\u00ae FOUNDATIONS<\/li>\n<li>PITCH PERFECT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to her current responsibilities (which include responsibility for global business operations, strategy, sales,\u00a0marketing, and MDC\u2019s 100+ faculty and global affiliates), she will now work in complete partnership with me to accelerate our drive to become the global leader of choice in communication-skills training.<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ajames@mdctraining.ca?subject=Congratulations!%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">s<\/a><a href=\"mailto:ajames@mdctraining.ca?subject=Congratulations!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">end her your personal note<\/a>\u00a0of Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks,<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Roger HB Davies, CEO of McLuhan &amp; Davies Communications, Inc.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To our Respected Network, As most of you know, Amanda James has \u201ceffectively\u201d been managing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-releases"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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