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After ten years of ministry in a quickly growing church of over 2000 members with a diverse population, we reached a point of needing to evaluate our structure and equip ourselves in new ways for the future.  Amir worked with our top leadership and staff to help us diagnose the situation and put in place an effective strategy for change.  His ability to quickly understand complex institutional and personal dynamics and to help leaders navigate change is remarkable.  His warmth and generosity of spirit allows him to create an atmosphere where honesty can be spoken at all levels of the institution.  He models trust and respect and in doing so he demonstrated to our leaders how these qualities are essential to organizational success.  In a short time, he has helped our church to articulate a coalesce around a bold new vision and to put structures in place to support the vision.  I could not recommend him more highly.

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Working with Amir and his laser-beam insight helped us to cut through the confusion of and chaos of the daily grind, to shed new light on our organization’s developmental stage and to organize our systems and processes for progress.  His approach is efficient, energizing and enlightening.  - Kathy Keith

 

Kathy Keith

Executive Director

All Souls Unitarian Church

2952 South Peoria

Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114

918.743.2805 ext. 316

www.AllSoulsChurch.org

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Amir, thank you very much for a great job at bringing our top team together in our diagnosis and planning process.  I am actually pretty positive we will fulfill our vision (something that 2 years ago looked more like a dream). My friend you did play a great role in pushing me first to formulate that dream, and then turn in into vision, aligned all  partners and excite them for that goal and now seeding the idea even more broadly.

Once again thank you for a superb job and very much look forward when in 5 years (or even sooner) we will look back and see how far we came. All the best Jan

Jan Sýkora General Manager WOOD & Company Financial Services, a.s.
Palladium, Nám?stí Republiky 1079/1a
110 00 Prague 1 ,Czech Republic
Tel.: +420 222 096 111, Direct: +420 222 096 233
Fax: +420 222 096 222 , Mobile:+420 603 222 888

www.wood.cz

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Dear Dr. Amir Kfir,

We are honored to invite you to rejoin the Zell Entrepreneurship Program faculty for the academic year 2010-11. The Zell Entrepreneurship Program at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya is a venture creation program for outstanding students and your role in facilitating and teaching team dynamics and leadership is an integral part of the program.

Sincerely,

Adv. Liat Aaronson

Executive Director

Zell Entrepreneurship Program

 

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I have just finished a forum retreat.  We had two new members that we integrated into our forum. We were fortunate enough to be able to bring in Amir Kfir from Israel.  I had heard about him and met him at GLC. He was excellent.

We have had a lot of resources over the years.  Amir was the best I have experienced. He is more expensive but worth it in our opinion. We will certainly use him again.  Given the need for good resources, I thought I would send this out so everybody else would know about him. Thanks, Jonathan Isaacson, YPO New England,

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We have used the services of Dr. Amir kfir and his company Amirror to look at the chapter in Nevada and develop a vision and a plan of action how to make a turnaround towards prime. Amir has been instrumental in both getting people to open up and ultimately assume responsibility for the assignments driven from the shared vision. We are on our way to have a fantastic chapter and a great year. We have conducted with Amir a Chapter integration event that brought together all members in a forum like setting to develop intimacy with all members of the chapter. This event has been an incredible success rated with straight 10's.

Dear Amir:

Happy New Year to you as well. We truly appreciated working with you to set the vision and the action plan for YPO Las Vegas. The Chapter is completely invigorated with a significant number of new members in their thirties and early forties. We have established an entirely new, motivated Board and the Chapter is thriving. Thank you for being a meaningful part of the team to make this a reality.

John E. Adams, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cenegenics Medical Institute
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"The Adizes Methodology… has been a major contributor to our success. In the ten years that we have worked with Adizes, our capitalization has grown from $261 million to $3.5 billion, making us one of the largest corporations of the continent."
Ricardo B. Salinas, Chairman & CEO, Grupo Salinas

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“Adizes helped us solve both structural and functional problems using the most advanced methodology in the world today."
P.N. Gerolymatos, President, Gerolymatos, S.A. (Greece)

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"Even if a company is healthy, there are still going to be growth problems and the need for management participation with mutual trust and respect. That’s where Adizes helped us."
Lou Siracusano, President and CEO, Video Services Corporation

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"Dr Kfir has worked with our company on and off for over 15 years. During this time he has implemented the Adizes methodology and helped us achieve the highest award of pursuit of prime. With Amir’s support we have built a strong coalesced management team and have moved the company from a company in a family driven structure to a professionally managed corporation. With this team we have created together a powerful long term vision for the company and have restructured our company a few times to fit the new direction of a market driven organization and building the right business units. We have cascaded this methodology with internally trained facilitators thru out the company and have driven change in our other business of Yamaha, Kia motors and our heavy equipment division. As a result of this work we have grown from a 20 million euro company to a 468 million euro company with net profit of 15.4 million euro. Amir has had an important role in our corporate development. 
Ulysses Kyriakopoulos, Chairman of S&B Industrial Minerals S.A. and Motodynamics S.A., a member of the General Council of the Bank of Greece and member of the Board of Directors of AIR LIQUIDE HELLAS S.A., of J. BOUTARIS & SON HOLDING S.A. and of VIVARTIA S.A.  A former President of the Federation of Greek Industries

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During the mid-90s when I was YPO Vice president responsible for the European region - a region that had over 25 countries with over 50 chapters that had very little common ground and lack of communication. During our first year in governance we found out that many chapters declined, they have lost direction and growth in both membership as well as value for members.

We have created a turnaround team made of members from various countries in the region and I have commissioned Dr. Amir kfir to assist us in developing and implementing a turnaround plan. Amir has diagnosed the chosen chapters, with their local governance, and has developed a plan of action to include decisions around structure, succession, education programs, membership targets and forum involvement and training.  Through this process many chapters have developed a clear focus, shared vision and coalesced a strong team to drive the incoming change.

As a result of our shared efforts we have seen tremendous turnaround which has impacted membership in Europe at large for many years to come.

Doron Herzikowits, Ex YPO Vice president & YPO Board member

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 Amir has come to work with our chapter’s executive committee and facilitate a session around the diagnosis of where our chapter needs to improve and for the creation of the shared vision with a specific a plan of action.

We have been able to bring together the different points of view and interests of both YPO and WPO and have created an exciting plan and goals around the vision for 2012. The plan included a clear governance structure and a committed succession management.

Further to this we have ran a program developed by Amir - a chapter integration event. All members set together in different semi-forums environments and ran forum activities to develop deep acquaintances and intimacy with other members of the chapter. In this event we have developed a foundation for future business and social relationships of a greater magnitude. “The membership integration event got a 9.79 evaluation!!! The reason we did not get a 10 was related to the venue”

Actual Member’s comments:

Liked activating the idea to 'connect" as a Chapter. Too little time with facilitator seems an excellent resource. Need to do a dine around among other members that do not know each other as well in members houses. A great opportunity for our Chapter. This is the best YPO event. Liked the coordination and openness of each member that participated It should be quasi-mandatory

I will be happy to share further insights on how this process can change your chapter.

Jose A. Cuevas, Puerto Rico WPO Chapter Chair

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