About Us

'Growing Pain' Consultants

Most people go into business for themselves out of a desire to fulfill a need.  Unfortunately, 8 out of 10 will fail within their first 18 months.  Many potential business leaders know their chosen field backwards and forwards, but fall short when it comes to managing people, and achieving tangible goals.  A phone call to TeamWorks International can stack the odds back in favor of your success by helping you create the critical shifts, breakthroughs and turnarounds that are needed right now! 
Consultants

The Experts

Athena Lou and Eric Smith are a husband and wife team with over 60 years of combined business expertise in leadership, team, management, and building high performance organizations. Athena and Eric have worked in turnaround and growth environments with all levels of management from Fortune 500 companies, industry leading organizations such as Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Hilton Hotels International, L3 Technologies, Spirent Communications, Sunrise Telecom, and Sutter Health Systems, along with seasoned mid-sized firms, ground breaking start-ups, and, the US government: The DOD, The U.S. Pacific Command, U.S.D.A., and The Centers for Disease Control. 

Their programs have generated 1000’s of happier, more productive leaders and staff along with tens of millions of dollars of gains in efficiency, cost reduction and revenue.  
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A proven team using proprietary People Technology

TeamWorks International was founded in 1998 out of a desire to help business leaders from all industries use the strategic advantage of teamwork to leverage results and improve chances for success.  We help leaders like yourself harness the talent and good thinking of your people to collaborate and coordinate more effectively through change.  

You will see: 
  • Highly Customized Programs Engaged around Your Highest Priorities 
  • Improved Positive Conditions 
  • Accelerated Execution and sustained progress
  • Significant ROI, both documented and measurable
  • Lasting Results
Experience reduced anxiety, more time and a more vital, resilient business. 
 
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Where East meets West with spectacular results

Today's workplace is nothing like what our parents worked in.  The modern business environment is multi-cultural, multi-generational, and made up of men and women from differing backgrounds and experiences, often across multiple time zones. 

At TeamWorks International, we have deep a understanding of the proven leadership approaches of the East, West and Pacific cultures coupled with decades of experience working with international leaders and workplaces.  

Put this experience and expertise to work for you. Contact us now!
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The best of all worlds

When you get TeamWorks International in your corner, you'll start to see real change, right away.  Companies who have hired us have experienced significant, measurable and documented ROI in three key areas:
  • Improved efficiency 
  • Reduced expenses
  • Increased revenues
If you are ready to chart a new route for your business or make a deliberate leap forward, we would be delighted to talk. 

Your ability to collaborate (and thus coordinate) critically determines how well you get the business to execute.     
Athena Lou, President 

Let me start with this:  I wish I had this program for my management teams 20 years ago. It takes me, the CEO, out of the day to day grind into thinking about the team. You help me think out of the box and focus in on the important topics of leadership and managing. I don’t want to understate that... I had board members a few years ago who didn’t want me to spend money on this and now a number of them think this was the best money we’ve ever spent. 
Barry Phelps
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Empower RF Systems 
Inglewood, California

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