Ashling Business Retreat

Consulting

William Mahon
- President -
CFL Group

William Mahon
 

Bill is president of the Customer Focused Leadership Group. Bill’s company focuses on helping organizations lead change in their business. The CFL Group does this through developing, coaching, training, facilitating, and inspiring business teams to achieve extraordinary challenges. The CFL Group will train work teams in skills and tools needed to be more effective. The uniqueness to the CFL Group’s approach is the real world integration of:

  • The customer’s perspective on opportunity
  • Leadership and teambuilding challenges
  • A structured process for strategizing, scoping and planning
  • Creative techniques to expand the paradigm of success
  • Problem solving and decision-making tools and techniques
  • Software technology to support team effectiveness

Bill’s clients include many major corporations including: Allied Signal, J.P. Morgan Chase, Citibank, GE, GE Capital, Fort James, IBM, L’Oreal, Morgan Stanley, Pitney Bowes, US Postal Service, and Verizon.

Prior to forming his own company, Bill had more than 25 years of experience at GE Company in management development, marketing, product management, and sales. During Bill’s last assignment with GE, he was Manager of the Product Management Development Program at the Management Development Center in Crotonville, NY. His responsibility was to help Jack Welch lead change in the marketing and sales functions. Bill created and implemented a new program to recruit, train, and develop fast track product managers and sales engineers across 10 divisions.

At GE Capital’s Equipment Lease and Finance Operation, Bill was responsible for new business development.

Bill served as Vice President - Marketing and Sales for Inductive Inference Inc., a financial services software company in NYC. He also worked three years as Managing Consultant for Michael Allen Consulting Company focusing on marketing strategy for financial service and high technology industries.

Bill earned his MBA from Temple University. His undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering is from Villanova University. He served as President of the American Marketing Association - Fairfield County Chapter. He was also Vice President of the Sales and Marketing Executive Club of Connecticut.

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