Charles Blumenkamp

Chuck Blumenkamp is a Senior Consultant with Success Sciences Inc, and SSI’s practice leader for Sales and Service Channel Optimization, Collections, and Healthcare. Prior to joining SSI, Chuck was Executive Director of Sales and Marketing for Verizon’s Southeast Region. He was responsible for Sales and Distribution Channel management for Verizon’s Consumer and Small Business segments as well as Call Center Operations. As Director of Consumer Sales at GTE, he helped pioneer the company’s introduction of Advanced Intelligent Network Services, their entry to broadband entertainment services as well as both GTE’s and Verizon’s entry to the market for high speed internet services. Previously, Chuck led business units responsible for financial planning and analysis, accounting policy and operations, financial and OAM&P; systems, mergers and acquisitions, business development, investor relations and regulatory affairs for GTE and Contel. Chuck is also on the board of trustees for Florida’s Council for Educational Change. He has been working in the Council’s PASS program since 2008; partnering with school principals to bring business discipline and leadership practices into Education as the Council works to improve Florida’s K-12 public schools. In this role he mentor’s school leaders and partners with them to develop leadership strategies, target funding to high impact initiatives and increase community and parental involvement to positively impact student academic success. Chuck has a passion for leading organizational change and helping organizations create environments where people can realize and utilize new gifts to rise far beyond their imagined performance limitations.