Small Giants Community

Team

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  Paul Spiegelman

  CEO, The Beryl Companies

  Paul Spiegelman is founder and chief executive officer of The Beryl Companies, which includes: BerylHealth, a technology-focused patient experience company dedicated to improving relationships between health care providers and consumers; The Beryl Institute, a research and educational entity that publishes information about improving the patient experience and how that activity links to better financial outcomes for health care providers; The Circle, a training company that helps businesses enhance employee engagement and develop more positive workplace cultures; and the Small Giants Community, a global organization that brings together leaders who are focused on values-based business principles.

  Paul is leading a unique, people-centric culture that has remarkably high employee and customer retention rates.  BerylHealth has won nine “best place to work” awards, including being voted the #2 Best Medium Sized Company to Work for in America. Recently, Spiegelman was honored with the Ernst & Young 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year award.

  Paul is a sought-after speaker and author on executive leadership, entrepreneurship, corporate culture, customer relationships and employee engagement. His views have been published in Entrepreneur, The Dallas Morning News, Inc Magazine., Healthcare Financial Management, Leadership Excellence and many other noteworthy publications, as well as in hisfirst internationally published book Why is Everyone Smiling? The Secret Behind Passion, Productivity and Profit.  His second book, written by Beryl employees, is called Smile Guide: Employee Perspectives on Culture, Loyalty and Profit. 

  Paul practiced law for two years prior to starting Beryl. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California Los Angeles and a law degree from Southwestern University in Los Angeles. He mentors MBA students at Texas Christian University and Southern Methodist University, as well as nurse executives in the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program. He also is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and on the board of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of North Texas.

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  Bo Burlingham

  Author, Small Giants, Editor-at-Large, Inc

  Bo Burlingham is the author of Small Giants: Companies That Choose To Be Great Instead of Big (Portfolio, 2006) and an editor-at-large of Inc. Magazine. Bo joined Inc. in January 1983 as a senior editor and became executive editor six months later, a position he held for the next seven years or so. In 1990 he resigned and became editor-at-large for a number of reasons, including his desire to go back to writing. He subsequently wrote two books with Jack Stack, the co-founder and CEO of Springfield Remanufacturing Corp. and the pioneer of open-book management. One of the books, The Great Game of Business (Doubleday/Currency, 1992), has sold more than 300,000 copies. (It explains what open-book management is and how it works in practice at the company that does it best.) The other, A Stake in the Outcome (Doubleday/Currency, 2002), has also done pretty well and gotten great reviews. (It’s a book you should read if you want to know what it really takes to run an employee-owned company.)

  Before joining Inc., Bo freelanced for various publications, including Esquire, Harper’s, Boston Magazine, and Mother Jones.  Bo was also managing editor of Ramparts magazine. In 1982, he joined Fidelity Investments, where he wrote for Peter Lynch, Ned Johnson, and other honchos until coming to Inc. From 1992 to 1997, he served on the board of The Body Shop Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of the international cosmetics company. He was also a founder, with Tom Peters, of PAC World, a weird international networking group that gave him a chance to meet a lot of zany—and brilliant—people from around the globe.

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  Raul Candeloro

  Executive Director

  Raul Candeloro is founding director of Editora Quantum a company dedicated to helping customers sell more, serve better and increase their profitability. He founded the company in 1994 with the publication of the magazine VendaMais today the largest Sales Management magazine in Brazil, with over 24,000 subscribers. Editora Quantum has since diversified into a complete array of products that help customers train their sales teams: sales conferences, workshops, videos, audios, certification, consulting, etc. Raul Candeloro is also the author of 13 books, all related to Sales or Sales Management.

  He lived 2 years in Boston (USA) where he graduated Master of Business and Entrepreneurship from Babson College. Completed the Ironman twice in Hawaii, ran more than 15 marathons, very competitive at tennis (not as good as Paul, though), loves his wife Marilia and his two kids, Daniel and Rafael.

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  Glenn Burr

  First Officer of Mojo

  After a career that spanned tours of duty in both public relations and communications consulting, Glenn joined the staff of the Small Giants Community in October of 2009. He oversees program development and execution, content development, social media and strategic planning in his role as First Officer of Mojo. (That’s what happens when the CEO lets you pick your own title.)

  When asked what he enjoyed most about his role at the Small Giants Community Glenn answered, “It’s the trickle-down effect that goes with helping small business owners build great companies. Every employee of the companies we touch has people they interact with professionally and socially. If their job addresses their life fulfillment in a positive manner, they’re going to take that with them into their interactions with everyone they meet. It’s very fulfilling to know that what I do as a part of the Small Giants Community will find its way through many degrees of contact into making people’s lives better.”

  Originally from Bellevue, Neb., Glenn currently resides in Dallas, Texas. During his free time he enjoys trivia, Ultimate Frisbee, watching his beloved OSU Cowboys and finding new challenges that demand use of his burgeoning power tool collection.

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  Jenny Mills

  Member Management Administrator

  Jenny has been part of The Beryl Companies family since 2005, before taking on her role with Small Giants Community.  She is responsible for maintaining the member database, content management, and any number of administrative functions that keep the Community up and running.

  Serving as the internal communications committee leader, Jenny is very involved in the award-winning culture of The Beryl Companies.  As a long-term member of Beryl’s culture committee, she gained a broad and strategic perspective on corporate culture making her a perfect addition to the Small Giants Community.