He has been invited to speak at numerous national conferences including Inc. Magazines Annual Conference on "Growing Your Business". He is constantly rated as one of the best if not the best presenter at these conferences. He is also rated as one of the top speakers for Vistage, an International organization of CEO’s He has an MBA graduating with honors from Pepperdine University. He is founder/CEO of The Center for Customer Focus, a firm specializing in workshops that assist clients to increase their competitive advantage through increasing their customer focus. The Center for Customer Focus specializes in working with small businesses to help them beat the competition. Prior to founding his own company, he was a senior executive executive for a fortune 100 company. Business units that reported to Howard dominated sales performance and set record highs. His last assignment was to change the culture of the company Howard did research at Stanford, Duke, Harvard, Kellogg & Pepperdine on Organizational development and behavior. He took this knowledge of corporate culture and behavior and combined it with his extensive marketing expertise to design the tools to change the culture to one of being Customer Focused. Many executive directors of associations as well as other organizations have commented that he is “The Master” on this topic. Howard's experience is obvious. Many of his concepts are unique and not obvious until Howard explains them with his gift of “Speaking Graphically” then they become obvious. That and his infectious energy level is why audiences rate him so high.