FREEDOM LIGHT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Managing Partner of Fisher Thurber LLP
David A. Fisher is the Managing Partner of Fisher Thurber LLP. He handles general business matters with special emphasis on finance and investment transactions, securities regulation, taxation, and real estate.
Mr. Fisher received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at San Diego and his law degree from Thomas Jefferson University, where he graduated with honors and was Executive Editor of the Law Review. He also received an advanced degree in Taxation from the University of San Diego School of Law. He has been admitted to practice before the United States District Court, United States Tax Court and the United States Court of Claims. He has lectured widely before real estate and investment groups and has served as an instructor at the University of California.
Mr. Thomas has devoted his life to helping others to build relationships and to overcome problems that face many of us today such as depression, addictions and interpersonal conflicts. His area of expertise, including counseling services provided to adolescents and adults in various organizations has culminated in a growing psychotherapy practice with adults, couples and families. He believes that through focusing on relationships, positive change can occur in all areas of life.
Mr. Thomas received his undergraduate degree at Biola University and his Masters in Social Work at San Diego State University. He is licensed as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and is certified as a group psychotherapist. He has practiced in numerous businesses in the San Diego area, including Walden Environment, Mental Health Systems, Psychiatric Management Resources and Scripps Memorial Hospital, in both clinical and managerial positions.
With personal experience in a wide and varied scope of volunteer and paid staff positions, in addition to corporate management and elder responsibilities, he has achieved an extensive and growing understanding of the relational and functional dynamics and influences within an organization. He has worked alongside organizational psychologists to bring about changes that benefit the entire company, focused primarily on issues of team building, organizational structure and general management. His experienced understanding and educated use of psychology has also had significant influence in his understanding and ability to work through and resolve relational issues in business application settings.
Along with Mr. Thomas' association with Creative Team Resources Group, he runs a private psychotherapy practice in the La Jolla area of San Diego and is a contract therapist for Scripps Memorial Hospital. He started and partners Employee Assistance Resources, a business consulting and employee assistance services.
Mr. Thomas is a native of San Diego. He is married and has two children. He enjoys an active and varied lifestyle.
Glen Aubrey believes in creative communication. Indeed whether as a consultant to business, conference speaker, writer, musician, or commercial producer/arranger, his clear task is to communicate truth authentically, without reservation, with integrity.
Glen has a passion for people and is an advocate of people development, believing that people are an organization's greatest resource. Because healthy relationships matter most, he believes wholeheartedly in accountable and authentic investment in lives, promoting and actively engaging in service to others within the context of understanding that who people are is more important than what they do.
Glen speaks to the heart, and in his own creative ways, challenges his listeners to do all they should do, because of who they are and are becoming. Come prepared to listen intently, participate wholeheartedly, be stretched, think creatively, act passionately, and impact lives with renewed and perhaps new commitment.
Glen and his wife, Cindy, were married in 1979, and they have two children, Heather, born 1982, and Justin, born 1984. They reside in San Diego's East County.
Janelle Wright graduated from the University of California at San Diego in 2002, with a degree in Communication. She is passionate and driven, with a hunger for knowledge and a desire to improve communication and efficiency.
Throughout her life, Janelle was keenly aware of the relationships and functions within businesses and various organizations. From a young age, she was introduced to the business world through an immense amount of exposure to her father's two businesses-an experience that has helped her in building a foundation for understanding the many roles and functions within an organization. She assisted in building her father's legacy through her constant efforts to create efficient procedures, improve communication, and allow for the freedom of new ideas.
Janelle joins the CTRG Team as the Promotions Director, responsible for event planning, promotions, and implementation. Her main objective is to create an environment that facilitates networking, continued education, and communication within the business community. Janelle is creative and detail oriented, and challenges her self and others to think BIG!
Throughout his life and career, Jeff Goble has been an active agent for both teamwork and team building. His passion for enabling others to be successful has led to a focus on systems analysis and process improvement, within the context of frontline management. He is a graduate of Point Loma College (Psychology), as well as a recipient of training including Total Quality Management, the Juran Institute and others.
Jeff's career in Hospital Facilities Management, since 1986, has been one that has encompassed complete work redesign in several applications at three different Hospitals. These processes have required great cultural change as well as structural change in implementation, including Fiscal Modeling, Labor Distribution, and employee involvement and empowerment. With responsibilities ranging from Hospitality and Customer Service to Clinical/Safety Compliance issues, Jeff has been involved in a wide variety of problem-solving areas, from Disaster response to Dress codes.
Jeff and Victoria were married in 1981, and have two children, Samuel, born in 1996, and Emma, born in 1999.
With more than twenty years of sales, management and leadership experience in the media industry, Judy brings enthusiasm and public relation expertise to CTRG. She has a passion for people and enjoys helping them to find their purpose in life, often serving as a mentor to those who want to 'bring out their best.'
At age seventeen, Judy entered the working world as a teller for a national bank. Her talents were readily recognized and she advanced rapidly. As she continued her education through several college courses, the bank promoted Judy to a management position.
In 1987 she left banking for an opportunity to move into the radio industry. She worked for San Diego's classic rock station KGB 101.5 for nine years and earned the role of top Account Executive and Associate Sales Manager. She then became the National Sales Manager with well known radio stations KFMB 760 and STAR 100.7. After serving KFMB for four years, she moved to Salem Communications as Sales Manager and was quickly promoted to the position of General Manager within the year. She met CTRG President and CEO, Glen Aubrey, while in this capacity. CTRG was working with the Salem stations, building leadership and teams. For the next four years Glen and Judy worked closely together to build a healthy successful team of people that knew well that "they were more important than the jobs they did."
Currently she is an Advertising and Marketing Consultant. Her responsibilities within CTRG are to assist in the growth and continued success of the company by promoting CTRG training and merchandise.
Judy and her husband Gary reside in San Diego near the beach. They have three grown children and three grandchildren. Judy loves to play piano, rollerblade and play tennis.
Creative Team Resources Group is founded on the simple premise that a person is more important than what he or she does. This principle has been a cornerstone in Mark's career and personal development.
The statement is a strong component of the foundation of his credibility in being an integral part of the CTRG Team. Mark believes in value-based teaching. In order for any instruction to be successful, there must be integrity validated by experience.
Describing his experience, Mark has stated, "I think a singular most important testing ground is the home. I am married to a brilliantly successful mom as well as a working woman. I am honored to have two children who are the light of my life. Although we are far from perfect, we live in a house that is founded on warmth and felt acceptance of each other's unique talents and gifts. We believe in each other. Tammie is my wife, Jonathan is my son, and Jenna is my daughter."
In 1981 Mark started to work with a non-profit organization dedicated to helping the youth of our community, called Campus Life. Personal growth in this arena enabled him to experience first-hand the principles of team building. Through other career changes it became apparent that he was developing a strong ability to recruit, establish and train teams to be involved in community outreach activities as well as helping others achieve individual growth. Collectively, these "real life" experiences constituted a "home run" in his integrity as a consultant. Mark has experienced the rewards of the principles he is teaching, and he is thoroughly convinced of their authenticity.
To round off Mark's experience tally sheet, he has a strong technical background. He is thoroughly familiar with all phases of the construction industry. Not only does Mark hold a Journey-level trade certificate; he is also a certified building inspector. Mark's collective attributes provide unique perspectives of the potential diverse groups that he is training and with whom he consults. Coupling multiple environments, both in the non-profit and for-profit arenas is proving to be a great resource from which to work and through which to contribute.
Steve Duff has a passion for people and a strong desire for the achievement of excellence. His scholastic experience - Valedictorian, Soccer Team Captain, Homecoming King - included the attainment of both academic and peer recognition of his leadership abilities.
His life experiences include a passion for music. His experiences as a singer, songwriter, and solo artist have included opportunities to communicate personally with audiences throughout the Southwest, as well as to lead core groups of other performers and technical personnel to achieve his communication goals. Steve's association with Glen Aubrey, one of the Managing Partners in CTRG, began in 1988. In a mentoring relationship they both contributed to and benefited from many of the concepts presented by CTRG today. This relationship helped develop Steve's enthusiasm for the development of people; "an honest desire to bring out the very best in individuals, as well as an unfailing belief that the people I come into contact with are much more important than the job that they perform."
Steve possesses exceptional experience as a musical producer, lyric and music writer and arranger, making strong contributions in artistic image development for the clients he has served. He also has served as a team leader, building people and programs which for several years have included working with and developing over 60 volunteers in music, video, and other media production. He has honed his abilities for leadership, collaboration, and creative problem solving in ways that produce outstanding relationships and superior product.
An accomplished communicator, Steve brings formal education, exceptional talent, and life experience together, expressing the heart for the growth of the person as well as the emphasis in accomplishing excellence in the tasks he assumes. Steve and his wife, Anita, were married in 1993, and live in San Diego's College area.