George Norton, founder and owner of Norton Consulting, is a consultant with over 35 years of proven performance in leadership, team building, sales training, customer service training and project management. George conducts training programs in both U.S. and international corporations and is known for delivering lively, interactive, and practical programs.
George's past work experience includes Vice President with First Union's Leadership College, and Director of Training for a regional bank. As a consultant, George has a client list that includes Ace Limited, Allied Domecq, Comcast, First Union National Bank, Greenberg Trauig LLP, Hudson United Bank, NY Presbyterian Hospital, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Tempest Reinsurance, Wachovia Bank, and VNA Community Healthcare.
His recent consulting and teaching experience also includes:
- Facilitated Quality Engagement Management Leadership, a week long experiential-based Seminar for new management, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, presented in Chicago IL, Washington DC, Terrytown NY, Longbranch NJ, and Orlando FL.
- Developed and delivered a Sales Academy for a 20 branch bank. This workshop was designed to build a successful cross functional sales team and covers building relationships, handling conflict, event-based selling skills, negotiation skills and time management.
- Conducted Focus Groups with 3 Leadership Levels within major regional bank, based on analysis presented results to Executive leadership, developed and implemented a major leadership development initiative for 350 leaders including 360 Degree assessment, comprehensive skill assessment and introduction of both classroom and PC delivered training tailored to the specific developmental needs of each leader.
- Managed a project to build a merger training logistics unit to support 1.8 million hours of training for 60,000 employees at the nations 5th largest commercial bank. Despite it’s large size and tight time-frame, this project completed on-time and under budget.
- Performed as project manager and team leader of a 22 person team that supplied fulfillment, logistical support, and management reporting for a bank merger. As a result of the team’s efforts, 28,000 participants were scheduled for over 600,000 hours of training delivered at 2,900 events scheduled over 10 months, a record time for a merger of this size.
