The Ownership Thinking Team

Brad Hams, founder and president of Ownership Thinking, is on a mission to eradicate entitlement.  His company, Ownership Thinking, has helped hundreds of companies to diminish or defeat the entitlement mentality that is so pervasive and so devastating in our country and to replace it with cultures of earning - empowering employees to think and act like owners.  He believes that human beings do not gain self esteem through unearned compensation, empty praise or false security, but rather through achievement.  His company provides employees and organizations with the tools and training they need to realize their potential, and to create wealth where wealth might never have been created.

Brad, with the help of his extraordinary team, developed the Ownership Thinking model in the early '90s, during which time he was the president of Mrs. Fields Cookies in Mexico.  Prior to this, he held executive positions in the area of finance and operations in a fortune 100 company.  Brad is a lifelong student of business and finance, holds a master's degree in Organizational Development and Human Resources, and has taught business at the graduate level.  He is a board member of the National Center for Employee Ownership, the country's leading resource on information and research related to broad based equity programs.  In addition to his consulting work, Brad spreads his mission and message by speaking to roughly 70 audiences a year, and is one of the most sought after speakers for Vistage, the world's largest membership organization of CEOs.

Alex Freytag has spent 14 years helping employees think and act like owners, initially at Profitworks, Ltd., an employee training firm he founded, and now at Ownership Thinking in Columbus, OH, where he is Vice President. Alex has a BA in psychology from Hamilton College and an MBA from the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University where he was valedictorian of his class. Alex is a member of the National Center for Employee Ownership, and in addition to his consulting work, spreads his mission and message by speaking to audiences of all types.

Carmen Garcia, Latin Services department manager at Ownership Thinking, has provided financial and business acumen training to the Hispanic community for over five years. Carmen grew up in Mexico City and holds a CPA from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. She spent her early career as a CPA, and later was an internal auditor for several international companies. She also worked as a financial analyst for two of the five largest banks in Mexico. In the mid '90s she was part of the international operations team for Standard & Poor's in their TEC Center office.

Perry Phillips, CA-CBV, ASA, CEPA (Certified Exit Planning Advisor), Ownership Thinking’s Canadian Licensee, is the founder and President of ESOP Builders Inc. Perry is also on the Board of Directors of The Exit Planning Institute, an association of professionals founded in 2004 and recognized thought leader in the field. The Institute provides members throughout the United States and Canada with the training, resources and support they need to successfully design and implement exit plans for owners of private businesses. As an ESOP consultant, Perry has designed and implemented over 100 employee share ownership plans with a street value of over one billion dollars and is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in ESOPs. Perry's consultancy operates in major cities across Canada in the belief that ESOPs are an excellent solution for Canadian business owners approaching their succession. Perry and his team have been trained and certified to implement Ownership Thinking for their clients throughout Canada.

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