George Morrisey, CSP, CPAE

It was indeed a pleasure having you on the program again at our recent Annual Meeting. I was once more impressed with your thoroughness of preparation and overall professionalism. One of my members approached me after your presentation to say that he found your remarks so valuable he wished his boss had been there to hear you, too! Many thanks for playing an important role in making our meeting a success.

Jula J. Kinnaird
President
National Pasta Association

 

Now that the dust has settled from our meeting, I wanted to thank you for the great job you did as our keynote speaker on strategic planning. As we discussed in planning the session, there would be a variety of reactions to your presentation. I am happily amazed to report that only one person (out of almost 185) responded that they could not "connect" with what you were saying. Most of the meeting evaluations returned to me showed that you were felt to have been the best speaker of any we had over the two and one-half day conference.

John Mentis
Executive Director
U.S. Agricultural Export Development Council

 

Our Vision 2000 kickoff meeting turned out to be a tremendous success. I really appreciate the fine job you did in opening our session with the keynote address. The customization of the presentation to our business made it easy for our managers to relate to, and helped to focus them on our objectives. Your presentation had the right balance of content, humor, and challenges to inspire our managers to adopt the planning process and start off enthusiastically down the path towards completing our tactical plans.

Michael P. Orr
President
John Deere Credit

 

Thank you for joining us at this year's Economic Summit. I thoroughly enjoyed your session on personal strategic planning. I was particularly pleased with the level of enthusiasm in the audience as you challenged us to complete our "action plans for implementation." This exercise helped all of us procrastinators to take the first step toward reaching personal goals. The day was a complete success. Thank you again for being a part of our program.

Linda W. Chapin
Orange County Chairman
Orange County, Florida

 

"Thank you for closing the afternoon session of our 1994 Fall Conference. You were the perfect choice. You had obviously read and studied the materials (all of them) in advance, and had the thorough understanding of our industry that we were seeking. And you had the energy to keep the audience with you in that tough 'are we about done?' spot.

The evaluations from the session bear my personal appraisal. You were consistently rated between 'very good' and 'excellent.' And they thought planning was dry. You showed them a 'better' way."

Cynthia Huheey
Sr. V.P. - Member Services
American Resort Development Association

 

"The bottom line is, I don't think I have ever been involved in a better process that helped all of us think through and set long range goals as a result of some solid creative thinking. I don't know that we will accomplish all that we set out to do and I am sure that as time goes by we will adjust and change. However, for the first time, I am now convinced that we have a solid blueprint in place that will carry us through the 1990's. I appreciate the job you did in helping us reach that end result."

W. James Host
Executive Vice President
National Tour Association, Inc.

 

"The strategic plan that we developed with your help and are now implementing should keep us on track for many years to come. We learned that even though our association wasn't broken, it could be better. We look forward to future progress as we continue to work on our mission and critical issues."

David J. Humphreys
President and General Counsel
Recreation Vehicle Industry Association

 

"The Morrisey Group, and you in particular, has had a tremendously important impact on the strategic planning process of the American Lung Association of Gulfcoast Florida with the formal adoption of a comprehensive Mission Statement and the identification of five critical strategic issues for future problem solving.

On behalf of the full Board of Directors and especially those directly involved in the Strategic Planning Advances, thanks for your expertise and facilitation of this most important process. We are moving on toward the Strategic Operational Planning modes using your book."

John L. Chancellor, Jr.
Chief Executive Officer
American Lung Association of Gulfcoast Florida

 

"Just a note of thanks for your assistance this year in getting our Strategic Planning Process off to such a fine start. Your facilitation of our planning meetings and support of our executive team in 'Planning to Plan' have allowed us to make quantum leaps in our ability to have a workable Strategic Plan.

The feedback that we have received on your two seminars for mid managers on personal and professional planning has also been excellent."

W. David P. Carey III
President and Chief Operating Officer
Outrigger Hotels Hawaii

 

"We really appreciate your assistance in expanding our thinking to truly form a clear vision as to what our company can one day become versus just pushing today's activities forward. This forward vision has already contributed to our making fundamental changes in our organization structure to accommodate our future direction."

Robert A. Pickering
President
Atwood Mobile Products

 

"Thank you for your thoughtful note following our recent Futures Agenda retreat. I very much appreciate the outstanding way in which you facilitated that retreat.

I was particularly pleased in reviewing some of the individual Futures Agendas established by the individual departments. They appear to be using this to get a much better handle on their future direction."

Terry E. Branstad
Governor, Iowa