Len Marchese established RETHINK® to help clients think differently about how they work, solve problems, build relationships, and advance. He applies his diverse information technology and organizational development experience to deliver creative solutions. Len enjoys helping people "Rethink" together and achieve innovative results. He believes greater fulfillment and success awaits anyone willing to release his or her creative potential. Len's goal is to inspire individuals and organizations to free their imagination and succeed in extraordinary ways. He recognizes the competencies and behaviors that lead to success or failure. Len constantly seeks new thinking and approaches for advancing individual and organizational vitality, learning, and performance. Len shared his discoveries and techniques at Columbia University's Management and Organization Seminar, the Cornell Club, the Society for Human Resource Management, the New York Bar Association, and the Asia Pacific Banking Executive Conference. He participated in the Connecticut Business & Industry Association's externship program for giving educators reality-based learning opportunities, and conducted classroom creativity and web development sessions for high school students. Most recently, Len presented at the American Society of Trainers & Developers. Len is a rethinker, skilled advisor and coach, education developer, trainer, and facilitator. He is also experienced in business process reengineering, workflow and communication, and quality, process, and project management practices. During his career, Len had the pleasure of learning from thought-leaders, such as Dr. Michael Hammer and Dr. Fernando Flores. Len has an undergraduate degree focusing on business administration and information technology. He appeared in Executive Who's Who, is a Buckley School of Public Speaking graduate, and is a member of the Regional YMCA of Western Connecticut's Board of Directors. Len is Founder, President and CEO of RETHINK, INC.

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Len Marchese , Founder , President & CEOMr. Marchese helps companies think differently and solve real business problems.He provides experience , knowledge , and leadership in delivering innovative solutions.Len enjoys helping people rethink together , find meaning in their work , and achieve extraordinary results.He believes greater fulfillment and success await anyone willing to release their inner potential.Len's goal is to free individuals and teams to succeed.His research on intuition and objective reality is relevant to the new millennium.He has shared his discoveries at the Management and Organization seminar of Columbia University , The Cornell Club , the Society for Human Resource Management , the Asia Pacific Banking Executive Conference , and the New York Bar Association.His desire and curiosity for new thinking have him constantly seeking creative approaches for advancing performance.Len recognizes the behaviors that lead a business to success or failure.Len wrote a thesis on trading with China , appeared in Executive Who's Who , and recently attended the Buckley School of Public Speaking.Mr. Marchese's professional and business innovation experience covers many diverse areas.He has been involved in Information Technology strategy development and deployment ; is a recognized business process design and management expert ; is certified in group facilitation and education development and delivery ; and fulfilled numerous management consulting engagements for Fortune 500 Financial Services , Technology , and Insurance companies.Prior to starting RETHINK , Len was employed by IBM , where he required knowledge of creativity and innovative problem solving to deliver professional services and develop business reengineering practices and related training programs that are used to help companies compete on innovation , speed , skill , and value.At IBM , Len was awarded the Systems Engineering Symposium Award.Len was involved in the development and delivery of market-driven quality , business process leadership , and business process reengineering education.He also served as a member of a global task force to select best-of-class workflow technology.Len had the pleasure of working and learning from two experts : Dr. Michael Hammer and Dr. Fernando Flores.After learning the basic techniques of achieving breakthrough , Len worked with IBM internal and customer organizations.Len enjoyed considerable success at IBM , however , he became interested in pursuing new approaches for business innovation.With ideas in mind , Len began researching and developing a unique process for creatively solving critical business problems , and formed RETHINK.

by Leonard Marchese, President, RETHINK, INC. But what began as a journey to help their client evolved unexpectedly into a dramatic lesson for the consultants - Len and Mike. Len and Mike started the session with a fun activity to help their client unwind in Mohonk's serenity and boost team spirit. Len and Mike rallied an impromptu retreat to the intimacy of one of the Mountain House's tower rooms. The sense of fellowship exceeded anything Len and Mike could have planned. As the group set out on their ghost hunting mission, Len and Mike knew a greater plan had replaced theirs. Amidst the jubilation Len and Mike realized the planned debrief was unnecessary, and moved quickly to memorialize the moment. As their client departed, Len and Mike knew that the session had changed them, too. Len and Mike stayed at Mohonk an extra day to conduct a postmortem of the session and take advantage of the chance to renew their bodies, minds, and spirits. Len and Mike celebrated this as an affirmation that they reached the height of their Mohonk experience. Joy transcended their amazement as Len and Mike sat on a bench overlooking the golf course.

Len Marchese - RethinkTankLen Marchese has come up with an Internet-based idea that futurist and author Watts Wacker said is a bit ahead of its time."We are providing virtual office space and buildings where people and companies can create a virtual image of their business and connect people and their work differently," Marchese said.Marchese is president of the tenyear- old Rethink Inc. in Danbury, a motivational consulting firm with clients in the Fortune 500 roster."We help them apply different creative techniques and innovative methods to advance and uplift their level of performance," he said.But Rethink's focus is about the change drastically from face time to etime.Over the years "I evolved a method for business innovations that is an electronic means for people to collaborate, communicate and share information," he said.The e-office he has created he calls RethinkTank (www.rethinktank.com), "a collaborative software that has moved Rethink into the first applications service provider, the first virtual service provider."In essence, Marchese has pulled together various electronic components of the computer, the Internet and web pages and created electronic office space complete with meeting rooms (video or audio conferencing and text chat), document storage and retrieval areas, showrooms, just about anything a real office building contains, only in electronic form.RethinkTank "removes the barriers of time, distance and inclusion," he said, and be accessed by computer, cell phone or hand-held devices."We're like the first virtual real estate brokers.We've equipped the virtual offices with capabilities we believe many business people need," he said.The target market is small to mediumsized businesses that will lease e-office space at prices ranging from $75 a quarter to $1,750 a quarter for an entire office building of five floors.Purchase prices range from $7,500 to $125,000.Marchese has completed the Beta trials for the software, and is about to launch the virtual office's 1.5 version next month or in early November.A marketing firm will promote the virtual office in the Hartford-Boston corridor, he said.Within a year of the launch, he said, he projects "somewhere around 300 to 500 customers" and first-year revenues of $5 million."Our vision is to be the place where human capital is connected to creativity without us necessarily being in the picture," he said.Visit the Chamber Website at http://www.danburychamber.comDivision of Ottaway Newspapers,Inc.333 Main St. Danbury, CT 06810 (203) 744-5100