​Economics for the Real World

Robert Fry Economics LLC is an economic consulting and forecasting firm founded by former DuPont Senior Economist Robert Fry. Robert publishes a monthly newsletter on the global economy and gives speeches on the economic outlook to business leadership teams, boards of directors, customer/supplier events, and trade association meetings. An award-winning forecaster, he excels at explaining the economy to non-economists, primarily to guide decision-makers at manufacturers who make and use chemicals and polymers and to inform the investment firms that follow such companies.

To subscribe to Robert's monthly Current Economic Conditions newsletter, please go to the Subscriptions page. For information on booking Robert for a speech on the economic outlook, go to the Speeches page. Or email Robert at robert@robertfryeconomics.com.

Author, Speaker, Business Growth Strategist

. is a recognized business growth expert with over 25 years of senior management experience across a broad range of industries. He is Managing Director of MCA Consulting Services, Inc., a full-service business advisory and business skills training firm, which he founded in 1999.

Frank has led startups and new ventures, engineered turnarounds, bought and sold businesses, headed up and consulted for small- to- medium-sized private and public companies and has been active in capital markets, including venture funds, angel investors and private equity placements.

Frank is the creator of the 6 Cylinder Success® Business Growth System which, for over 18 years, has been helping business owners and entrepreneurs achieve dramatic growth in the revenue and profitability of their enterprise.

Work Better Together

Founded in 1969, Interaction Associates (IA) is a pioneer in creative problem-solving, collaborative leadership, and group facilitation. Companies around the world use IA tools to engage employees, encourage personal accountability, foster inclusive behavior, and achieve results that matter most to them.

Interaction Associates (IA) introduced the concept and practice of group facilitation to the business world in the early 1970's. During the revolution of Total Quality Management (TQM) in the 1980's, IA developed Facilitative Leadership™ to help senior leaders empower teams to "think beyond the box", innovate, and achieve mission-critical goals.

For over 50 years, IA has provided thousands of leaders and teams with practical, simple, and effective programs, tools and techniques for working better across functions, viewpoints, and geographies. More than 1,000,000 people have learned The Interaction Method™, a facilitated process for building understanding and agreement so that people can take informed, concerted action. Today, IA is helping people work better together from a distance -- leveraging collaborative technology, process thinking, and interpersonal behaviors to produce outcomes that matter most to them.

Stronger People. Stronger Organizations.

For over 20 years The CLEMMER Group been making people better for organizations and organizations better for people. Using well-researched and proven approaches forged through deep experience with hundreds of organizations we provide programs and services in three core areas:

Leadership Keynotes, Workshops, and Retreats – From Inspiration to Application

From 90 minutes to half, one, two, and three-days these highly customized sessions draw from Jim Clemmer’s seven international bestselling books and The CLEMMER Group’s proven implementation frameworks. Topics include Leading Change, Leadership Inspiration, Balancing Management Systems and People Leadership, Service/Quality Improvement, Strategic Planning, Team Building, Employee Engagement, Building a Culture of Safety, Coaching Skills, Lean/Six Sigma Leadership, and Strengths-Based Leadership. Learn more

Culture and Organization Development – Strengthening People and Processes

Decades of research shows 70% of efforts to improve customer service, quality, safety, productivity, innovation, employee engagement, restructure, or introduce new technologies fail. Leadership and organization culture are THE critical X factors making these initiatives sink or soar. The CLEMMER Group has strengthened thousands of managers in hundreds of organizations in boosting leadership skills and culture development for peak performance. Highly customized services include assessments, training design and delivery (or training internal trainers), culture/skill development for higher health and safety, defining/revitalizing vision and values, executive coaching, service/quality improvement, employee engagement, career and succession planning, strategy development and execution. Learn more

Zenger Folkman’s Canadian Strategic Partner – Elevating Leadership Strengths

Zenger Folkman is pioneering ground-breaking strengths-based leadership research, assessment, development, and sustainable implementation systems. ZF unique systems use evidence-driven approaches for developing extraordinary leaders and empirically showing their performance impact on sales, profits, employee engagement, health and safety, turnover, and customer satisfaction. Jim Clemmer and Jack Zenger’s training and consulting firms first partnered when they led The Achieve Group and Zenger Miller. Their “blue chip” Client list testifies to ZF’s well-developed and highly proven system that produces extraordinary results.

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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

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