The first 19 years
Proteus founders Erika Andersen and Marty Seldman met as executives in a well-respected training company. We discovered a shared desire to work with clients in a more strategic, systemic way--to focus on an organization's core goals and offer a variety of approaches for achieving them.To fulfill that vision, Erika, Marty and Scott Cronin formed Proteus International, Inc., in 1990. From the beginning, we worked collaboratively with clients to help them articulate and achieve their hoped-for-future. We started by offering learning consultation and design, vision and strategy facilitation, executive coaching and management skills development. Within the first 2 years Proteus clients included PepsiCo, Taco Bell, and MTV Networks.
Over the next 8 years we focused on building our capacity and serving a broader range of industries. During this period Marty left Proteus to pursue a private coaching practice. We also recruited Anne Labrador to support our growing business on an administrative level.
As existing client relationships deepened, and new clients began working with us, we looked for additional staff to offer Proteus approaches and services. In 1998 we brought Cindy Franklin into the company as a senior consultant. Jeff Mitchell joined Proteus as a partner and President in 2000, bringing valuable expertise in business-building, culture change and custom learning design.
Over the past few years, Cindy Swensen, Jennifer Sherman, Kate Payne, Ken Kesslin, Mike Rowe, and Valrine Daley have joined us as senior consultants. In addition, Jennifer Cunningham joined Anne at Proteus headquarters, and Glenden Hubbard at the Minneapolis office to help support the consultants serving their clients.
In 2009, Therese Miclot has come on board as our Practice Director of Building Skills and Knowledge, bringing greater depth and breadth to the training part of our business.
And we're pleased to announce that Kathy Dore has joined us as Senior Advisor, Vision and Strategy - offering her deep experience as a business leader to support clients in using our approach to Being Strategic.
We're proud to be practicing what we preach: as we help our clients move toward their hoped-for-future, we are doing the same for ourselves.