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Our Team
 Athena Lou, TeamWorks Co-Founder and Vice President
Athena Lou is an award-winning innovator in sales and marketing. She designs and implements motivation and incentive programs that get results. Athena has a B.A. from the University of California at Davis. She has worked in management for Bank of Hawaii, Control Data, Bank of America and Ceridian. As Bank marketing Manager for Ceridian, Athena earned the company’s highest national sales award two years in a row. She has mentored under national leaders in the fields of personal development, creativity and dreamwork.
Athena is a nationally recognized speaker and instructor in dream studies where she specializes in helping business leaders understand and tap the power of their dreams to make clearer decisions. She is a member of the prestigious International Association for the Study of Dreams. Athena is co-founder and Vice President of TeamWorks.
Raised in California and having spent 25 years in management in Hawaii, Athena is remarkably attuned to the multi-cultural workplace and the dynamism of today’s business world.
 Eric Smith, TeamWorks Founder and President
Eric Smith is a speaker, leadership advisor, educator and facilitator specializing in people and team productivity. He is co-founder and President of TeamWorks, a California-based organization development and training company. Since 1982, Eric has studied and worked with many of the world’s preeminent business leaders, entrepreneurs and educators such as Buckminster Fuller, Stephen Covey, Tom Peters and Anthony Robbins. [see below for reference*]
For the past 25 years, Eric has led the implementation of leadership, organization and change initiatives for thousands of individuals from the Fortune 1000, and international, national and locally-based organizations. Eric’s expertise is in assisting leaders to harness and direct the energy of their people to swiftly solve problems, attain objectives and increase value. His work is people and customer based --- supportive of individual strengths and skills. Eric’s people productivity technology ‘moves mass’ and dramatically advances organizations through translating learning into focused action. His people-centered approach quickly and simply generates significant results and substantial return on investment.
Eric has a B.A. from The Colorado College, and advanced education at the Burklyn Business School and the Excelerated Business School for Entrepreneurs. Eric was a national pioneer in the mediation in the schools movement and is a recognized instructor in conflict resolution and dispute management. He is certified in mediation and ancient Hawaiian Ho`oponopono (HO O poe no poe no) (problem solving and stress release).
Raised on the Big Island of Hawaii and spending formative managerial years in Hawaii, Eric learned early the importance and potential of diverse values and multinational, multicultural dynamics. This --- coupled with formal and advanced education in business and organization development --- has given Eric an extraordinary understanding at applying the proven leadership and team building approaches of the Eastern, Polynesian and Western cultures. Eric’s skill is in assisting leaders to effectively navigate change and thrive in today’s powerfully integrating “flat world”.
For the past ten years, Eric has been a member of and speaker for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Hawaii chapters. He currently serves on the Professional Development Committee, and as a Mentor in Organization Development and Training for the Sacramento Area Human Resources Association.
People who have made or are making direct contribution to TeamWorks:
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Joel Barker (leading international business consultant and futurist who pioneered and popularized the term "paradigms")
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Stephen Covey (best-selling author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, premier leadership consultant)
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Tom Crum (John Denver's partner and co-founder of the Windstar Foundation, Aikido master)
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R. Buckminster Fuller (renowned humanitarian, scientist, inventor and philosopher)
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Trinidad Hunt (international educator and business consultant, award-winning author of Learning to Learn).
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Tom Peters (international business guru, best-selling author and consultant)
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Anthony Robbins (renowned motivation and peak performance coach)
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Peter Senge (M.I.T. professor, best-selling author of The Fifth Discipline, acclaimed pioneer in the field of “Learning Organizations”)
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Morrnah N. Simeona (Kahuna Lapa`au, Healer, Educator, Living Treasure of the State of Hawaii)
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Marshall Thurber (international educator, one of Dr. W. Edwards Deming's foremost protégé's and quality teachers)
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Margaret Wheatley (author, international business consultant, recognized for her work in the field of leadership and chaos theory)
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