"Focused, customized consulting solutions driving to maximize your purpose, profitability & high performance!"
Our Values
Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, Relationships, Perseverance, Productivity and Mentorship
What Makes 2020 Vision International different?
Our services revolve around five words - PROACTIVE, PREVENTIVE, PROFITABLE, REPEATABLE and AFFORDABLE. Our team asks basic questions designed to focus your actions to maximize your short and long term organizational results. "How do you know your organization is positioned for short and long-term success?" "What is your organization's purpose and core competencies?" "What are your critical performance measures?" Finding answers to these questions and others is a simple, accurate way to help executive leaders confirm where their company is currently positioned, where it is headed and what their critical targets are in terms of finance, innovation, customer satisfaction and internal productivity. Why live with the tyranny of the urgent, employee turnover, disguised problems, out-of-date job descriptions, poor managerial controls and failure to forecast trends when you can contact an affordable firm like 2020 Vision? We'll lift your daily activities and efforts out of the quicksand that many owners and managers walk through.
Do you know which ingredients comprise your organization's recipe for success? If you don't, 2020 Vision's specialists are experts at identifying this for you. We'll help you confirm the variables that are the keys to quality products and services, making payroll, breaking even, building equity, employee compensation, solid returns on investments, and satisfied and returning customers. 2020 Vision International provides both personal and online diagnostic procedures to help organizations proactively leverage their recipe for success. Our analysis pinpoints both immediate and future problems. This approach achieves solutions that head off future trouble spots before they can create new operational crisis's. We work side by side with executive leaders to build believable key strategic actions that reenergize critical ingredients like competitiveness, innovation, training and morale so that sustainable sales and profits keep you ahead of the competition and productivity curve. Lastly, we equip you and your managers to know how to repeat this process yourself. This is "Our Vision for You"
Why Work with Different Organizations - Business, Education and Government?
2020 Vision International works with business, education, military and government agencies; not just one industry environment. Much of this has to do with the president's background where he spent time in many leadership and management environments - military, business and education. What he discovered was that Peter Drucker was right when he stated,” management is management". As we move through the 21st century, we believe that America's organizations - for profits, non-profits and agencies - will manage themselves using similar methods. Senior leaders seeking high performance in these organizations will have to demonstrate a strong commitment to continually innovate, justify costs and empower employees though a renewed, shared vision that challenges everyone within the organization to perform better than those around them. All organizations will have to stay abreast of the best practices and skills demanded in their operating environment. Finance, customer satisfaction, innovation and internal productivity will become the core principles to any empowered, knowledge-based workforce trying to exhibit leadership, governance and a relevance within their industry.
Our consulting results are directly connected to client satisfaction and a willingness to refer others our way. Looking back over 2020 Vision International's accomplishments, we feel at our best when we have improved a client's short and long-term strategic marketing position, enhanced their quality of products and services, reduced wasteful work from within and strengthened their financial position. Whether you are visiting this site in search of answers to a problem, reading the articles we publish and present at national conferences, ordering our self-help playbooks or simply surfing the web, we hope you will always feel that our help is only an e-mail away. Thanks for looking us up and we look forward to future professional relationships with you. We may be local, but we think and help global!
President's Qualifications -TOPGUN Consultant
John Maher is owner and senior consultant for 2020 Vision International. His MBA and Ph.D. studies focused in areas of strategic planning and marketing, e-commerce, total quality management, predictive modeling and organizational performance measures. Prior to launching 2020 Vision International, he spent six years at Regent University using these proven strategic planning and performance concepts. As their strategic planning, marketing and institutional research director, he worked with the board of directors and president to develop and execute a ten year strategy that resulted in doubling the campus enrollment, expanding the campus facilities to four major international and national cities, making distance learning an integral part of the graduate education curriculum, positioning the institution's image from regional to global, ensuring that the reaccreditation process received zero recommendations from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and launching four innovative and profitable worldwide Ph.D. programs via the Internet. Additionally, he played a critical role recommending cost effective 21st century information technologies that updated the institution's global campus facilities and customer services.
As a faculty member of Regent University's school of government and business, he performed consulting projects for over 300 organizations using graduate students as organizational consultants. This work encompassed government, business and educational institutions. He continued to perform a similar service for working professionals enrolled in Old Dominion University's continuing education center.
Prior to his work at Regent University, John Maher served twenty years in Naval fighter aviation flying F-14's and the TOPGUN A-4's. Even before his two tours as commanding officer, his military leadership and management philosophy had emphasized results oriented planning, high performance productivity, human resource management and a return on investment. These were and still are his bottom lines. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Math and Computers from the US Naval Academy, an MBA from Regent University and is finishing his Ph.D. at Old Dominion University.