Our Operating Committee

Stuart R. Levine is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Stuart Levine & Associates LLC. He is author of the Wall Street Journal Business Best Seller, The Six Fundamentals of Success: The Rules for Getting It Right for Yourself and Your Organization (Doubleday, 2004), Cut to the Chase: and 99 Other Rules to Liberate Yourself and Gain Back the Gift of Time (Doubleday, 2007) and co-author of Simon & Schuster’s international bestseller, The Leader in You, published in 22 languages with over 1 million copies sold. He served as the first non-family CEO of Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc. operating in 72 countries worldwide, and was awarded the 1995 Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the category of Leadership by Ernst & Young and Inc. Magazine for turning the company around.

He serves on the board of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (BR), Chairman of Governance and Nominating Committee and Lead Director for J. D’Addario & Company, Inc. and is the former Lead Director for Gentiva Health Services, Inc. (GTIV). Additionally, he served as board member European American Bank, Audit Committee and as Chairman of Dowling College. Mr. Levine currently serves on the Advisory Council of the New York Stock Exchange and as a board member for North Shore-LIJ Health System formerly serving as Vice Chairman, Chairman of the Quality and Ambulatory Committees as well as the Strategic Planning Committee, which was responsible for the growth of the health care system that now encompasses 15 hospitals and is ranked as one of the top 5 health care systems in the U.S.

Mr. Levine is published in Agenda Magazine and is a Contributing Editor for Directorship Magazine. He is a widely sought out content expert on current governance topics.

At age 25, he was the youngest elected member of the New York State Assembly.

Harriet Levine is Founder and President of Stuart Levine & Associates LLC. She is responsible for managing all financial, marketing, publishing, new business and deployment of capital and resources for the organization. Her expertise played a major role in the development and marketing of the best-selling leadership books created by the organization, including appearances on the Today show, and hundreds of prestigious television and print venues worldwide.

Since its inception fifteen years ago, Stuart Levine & Associates has won many awards. SL&A won the Innovator of the Year Award in 1999 for Techno-Bridge™, which is a program designed to teach leadership skills to technology professionals. Additionally, the company won the Microsoft Small Business of the Year Award in 1999.

Ms. Levine worked at Benton & Bowles as an Account Manager on several Proctor & Gamble, Texaco, Richardson Vicks and Schlitz accounts. She was hired as an Account Manager by J. Walter Thompson to plan and introduce the new family of film products for Kodak– Kodacolor 100, 200, 400 and 1000 – an account with billings in excess of $40 million.

Ms. Levine served actively on the Board of Family Service Association and The Long Island Philharmonic for many years, and currently serves as an Associate Trustee of North Shore-LIJ Health System. She has played an active role in fundraising for The American Cancer Society and the United Jewish Appeal and has appeared as a guest on Telecare’s talk show, Critical Issues.

She holds an MBA in Marketing from NYU Stern School of Business and graduated magna cum laude from Union College with a BA in Economics and Studio Art. She lives in Brookville and Bellport, New York with her husband, Stuart. Her two children, Jesse and Elizabeth are both graduates of the University of Michigan.

Kelly Bloss, a Senior Consultant with Stuart Levine & Associates, has over 20 years of experience in telecommunications, technology and financial services. Her work has been at the leading edge of the changes permeating these highly complex industries. Creating an exceptional record of accomplishment, she is an expert in delivering strategic business solutions that drive revenue growth and cost management.

She currently serves as Director for WVT Communications, a NASDAQ traded firm; she chairs the Governance and Nominating Committee and serves on the Compensation Committee. She recently chaired the Board’s selection of its new CEO.

As Vice President at Verizon, Bell Atlantic, and NYNEX Kelly led the history-making start-up of Long Distance business for the first post-divestiture Regional Bell Operating Company into New York, the most competitive market in the world. Kelly led the post merger integration of the NYNEX and Bell Atlantic Long Distance businesses and the subsequent post merger integration of Bell Atlantic and GTE (Verizon). In recognition of her achievements, Kelly received both the NYNEX Chairman’s Award, presented by Ivan Seidenberg, Chairman and CEO of Verizon, and the New England Telephone Quality Award.

Kelly received a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications and Computing Management from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY in 1990 and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Union College.

Jim Jordan, a Senior Consultant with Stuart Levine & Associates, has significant managerial and business experience with broad senior management experience and technical knowledge in Program Management, Product Development and Operational Enterprises. He has expertise in telecom and information technology and managerial and field experience with Operational Work Centers, Service/Product Delivery, Process Analysis and Development, Total Quality Management, Productivity Analysis and Enhancement; Product Development, Staffing, and Managing large-scale organizations and budgets.

Mr. Jordan was an employee at NYNEX/Bell Atlantic Corporation from 1969-1999 where he handled transitioning corporate software functionality, the development and implementation of a new service delivery platform, leading a corporate merger transition and base lining and revamping all operational processes and productivity activities for the workforce across the enterprise and process oversight of operation reviews and process re-engineering implementation initiatives for 80,000 employees.

His facilitation and leadership skills provide the basis for many of his recent accomplishments, including the successful strategic planning initiatives for credit unions and their leagues.

Mr. Jordan’s education includes a Masters Degree in Organization Theory and Behavior (MED) from Cambridge College, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Business from Cambridge College. He also has an Associates of Science Degree Business from Newbury College, Strategic Marketing Certification from Columbia University; Center for Strategic Planning, NC Harvard University; Project Management Certification Training, George Washington University; Accelerated Advancement Program NYNEX Corporation, New York; ATT Senior Management Assessment & Training, ATT Behavioral Center, NC and Certificate Advanced Business Management from Boston University.

Liz Levine is the Director of Global Business Strategy for Stuart Levine & Associates LLC. She is responsible for managing online content, locating strategic business partnerships and identifying new global opportunities. Liz previously worked at Bloomberg LP for over four years as a Sales Associate for New York Hedge Funds. Her knowledge of the global financial markets and evolving technology have helped her to re-launch the Stuart Levine brand through our new website in 2011.

Ms. Levine has actively served as a member of the Stuart Levine and Associates Advisory Board since 2008. She is a committed member of the community and has volunteered multiple hours for the board of JBFCS, Everybody Wins mentorship program and UJA Federation.

Liz holds a BA in English from the University of Michigan and is currently living with her fiancé in Hong Kong.

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