LMI/Riverside is a team created to assist business leaders to want to develop and take their businesses and organizations to new heights of success. As business owners and entrepreneurs, the LMI/Riverside team understands what matters most - measurable, long-term, sustainable growth - and is looking for others who want grow in a similar fashion. Our team members have been in leadership positions in public and privately held companies. We have the hands-on experience - the accountability and responsibility - that comes with management and leadership positions.
Learn more about the LMI/Riverside Partners, Collaboration Team members and Certified Strategic Partners:
Partners
Ray Stuchly is the CEO of Leadership Management Institute Riverside. Leadership Management Institute (LMI) is an internationally renowned leadership and development company. For over 50 years LMI has helped individuals and organizations develop and use more of their true potential to produce measurable results. Ray is a proven developer of people and organizations with his focus on people always first. He has over 30 years of experience in helping leaders cultivate their own potential and tap their organizational potential. He has helped privately held companies successfully achieve substantial sustainable growth.
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Mary Erlainis an Executive Vice President of LMI-Riverside as well as President of Peak Marketing & Sales, Inc. Mary brings her diverse background in medicine, financial services and sales/marketing together as a business coach. She started working in the medical industry where she honed her coaching skills working with patients. Her passion was clinical medicine where she could work more closely with individual patients and develop long-term relationships.
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Michael Cooper, an Associate with LMI-Riverside, is a recognized authority on consumer selling as well as the development of effective selling strategies. Mike is founder and Chief Sales Officer, at Sales Kitchen, a sales leadership, coaching and consulting company. He has managed, coached or trained more than 1,100 sales professionals and earned numerous awards for leadership, sales achievement and for being a difference maker.
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Don Jones is is Owner and President of DRZ Enterprises-Sandler Training, a
Chicago-based training and consulting firm. He also is a professional
business speaker and executive coach. Jones specializes in helping
businesses, individuals and senior managers create more sales oriented
cultures and a sense of urgency to compete in their respective markets. He
has built systematic processes and produced outstanding results in Fortune
500 companies across many different industries.
LMI/Riverside serves business and organizations in Northeast Illinois and Southern Wisconsin, including Chicago, Milwaukee, Arlington Heights, Aurora, Bensenville, Bolingbrook, Bridgeview, Cicero, Elgin, Elk Grove Village, Gurnee, Joliet, Kenosha, Melrose Park, Menomonee Falls, Naperville, Northbrook, Oak Brook, Palatine, Rosemont, Schaumburg, West Chicago, and Wheaton. Leadership Management Institute has offices throughout the United States and internationally. For the office nearest you, please call contact our LMI-Riverside office.
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Juliet Kosarzycki, an Associate with LMI-Riverside, is a new and upcoming talent who brings over 13 years of diverse professional experience in corporate, non-profit and international settings. She has empowered teams and led trainings for a Fortune 500 company and has over nine years of management experience leading employees to excellence. An enthusiastic speaker, she inspires professionals at state conferences and regional meetings to explore new possibilities and take purposeful action to create the results they desire.
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Peg Lambert is an Associate Partner with LMI-Riverside, and works with clients to improve their business practices and design educational programs that will create permanent understanding and change throughout the organization. Best Practices define the principles and practice a thriving organization works from. Peg combines her ability to manage large projects that require the expertise of bringing teams together to accomplish large organizational goals with her passion for education as a means to affect change. She has designed and implemented blended education and training needs in a large international organization.
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Michael Shapiro is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) who focuses on the personal, professional and organizational challenges faced by executives of small and mid-sized companies. With the keen skill to help clients identify areas of challenge and working through the process to make them more effective, Shapiro helps companies and individuals move to the next level of efficiency - whether growth or downsizing.Clients have described Shapiro as a “consultant who cares,” a “technological social worker” and a “sage business mentor.”
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Russell Winter is an Associate Partner with LMI-Riverside. Russ is a Sr. HR professional who specializes in partnering with management to improve employee engagement and generate PEP (Productivity and Excellence through People) within an organization. He focused the early part of his career in the quantitative disciplines of financial, statistical, actuarial and investment analysis, later transitioning into the qualitative disciplines surrounding Human Capital Management and Organizational Performance.
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