Don Straits: About
Don Straits has achieved nationwide recognition as an innovative leader applying state-of-the-art Internet technologies and strategies to drive the success of two distinct business enterprises.
Corporate Warriors
Don founded Corporate Warriors to provide unsurpassed executive job search strategies and technologies to corporate leaders seeking new, challenging positions. Don has earned unparalleled acclaim for his pioneering development of online executive portfolios. Long before anyone ever heard of YouTube, Don incorporated candidate video clips into online resume portfolios along with graphs, tables, and charts for an extraordinary presentation of an executive’s leadership talents. Don attacks the job search challenge with bold, break-the-rules, hard hitting, killer instinct strategies. He is the consummate corporate warrior when it comes to driving top executives into new, challenging positions.
Cool Conference Live
Building on his knowledge of how to leverage and develop Internet technologies, Don
recently launched Cool Conference Live (CCL). CCL is the world's most innovative,
user friendly web conferencing service. It was developed to provide individuals
from every walk of life the ability to use conferencing without cost.
Don holds an M.B.A. from Washington University and a B.A. from Cornell.
Additional Background
Prior to Corporate Warriors and CCL, he held senior-level executive positions in the private sector and served as president of a manufacturing company and a consumer products marketing company. He has hired, trained, and provided leadership to thousands of professionals. He has extraordinary insight into what it takes to get hired and stay hired!
Don is a respected columnist and his articles appear around the globe on the Internet, and in numerous magazines, newspapers, and trade journals. He has also served as a television and radio talk show host and commentator. He is the creator of the TV talk show CounterPoint.
His academic accomplishments include marketing professorships at Seton Hall University, Ohio University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Linfield College. He received extensive recognition for his teaching excellence and was named a Free Enterprise Fellow by his peers nationwide. He served as the editor of the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management Handbook for the American Management Association, 3rd Ed.
Don is a motivational speaker and has conducted hundreds of keynote presentations and seminars for companies, associations, conventions, community groups, and universities. He served as a chapter president for the National Speakers Association. He is a dynamic motivator and makes a lifetime impact on his clients and audiences.