Business/Strategic Plan/Grantsmanship/Funding Raising Practitioners: Practical Strategies ltd® has secured more than $3 million in alternative funding for various clients, organizations, and/or other projects.Grantsmanship Achievements—this verifiable Practical Strategies ltd® Team Approach to Grantsmanship totals $1,572,620.
As Executive Director of the Hocking College Foundation, Baden was in charge of all fundraising activities for Hocking College.
Leadership Trainers: Baden and Tippett have conducted over 500 hours of leadership skills training for supervisors, front-line and department managers in business, industry, government, educational institutions, churches, and community organizations.
Team Builders: Throughout Tippett’s 47 1/2 year career, sustained personal success has been earned by effectively building teams to achieve organizational goals.
Our Practical Strategies ltd® team has a 20-year history of sustainable economics consulting throughout North, Central and South America with focus on the development of regional eco/heritage tourism; a 10-year history of organizing and orchestrating high-level, multiple-country, multiple-participant business conferences throughout the Americas and Western Europe—physically in foreign countries as well as via satellite and telephone conferencing; and a 10-year history of formally teaching effective leadership techniques to public and private entities, both foreign and domestic.
Practical Strategies ltd® Team Specialties
Eco/Heritage Tourism: Practical Strategies ltd® practitioners Baden and Tippett are The Ohio Outback© Eco/Heritage Tourism program developers, coordinators, mentor/coaches and trainers for regional/local community mover/shakers and stakeholders. Practical Strategies ltd® focuses on building regional partnerships that accentuate the wise use of social, natural, historical, cultural and artistic assets that help create sustainable economic development.
The Practical Strategies ltd® Team is highly adept at developing winning attitudes with forward-leaning, movers and shakers by actively engaging them in identifying and mapping social, natural, cultural, historical and artistic points of interest that likely are appealing to Eco/Heritage Tourists who possess expendable time and money.
Area resident Eco/Heritage Tour Guides are trained to engage the tourist in conversation (cultural) – not to just verbally spew-out memorized facts. Where applicable, training is conducted in foreign languages through knowledgeable interpreters. Internships in natural resources and the hospitality industry are routinely arranged.
International Tours: The Practical Strategies ltd® team is experienced in developing, marketing and leading international tours that focus on the unique history, cultural, natural, artistic and social assets of planned destinations.
Human Resource Management: As Human Resources Senior Administrator at Hocking College, Baden supervised the daily operations of the Human Resources Office and was responsible for the development and implementation of strategic human resources initiatives for over 800 full and part-time employees. Baden has a Master's degree in Business Administration with a major in Strategic Human Resources.
Business Conference Organizer: Baden has extensive experience serving as executive assistant to multiple college vice-presidents and a college president. Those capacities required assured superior quality in all phases of conference planning and logistics for multiple international participants, including but not limited to: development of conference content, air, land and sea transportation, room and board accommodations, conference rooms and related facilities.
Public and Private Event/Concession Planning and Management: Baden chaired various funding raising events at Hocking College, raising over $350,000 in scholarships for Hocking College students.
For 30 years, Tippett and Baden have been active participants in the planning, administration and operation of the former Paul Bunyan Show with average annual attendance of 55,000 and the National Timber and Outdoor Show at Hocking College.
Tippett served as Concessionaire Locator (Field Commander) for the 2,000,000 annually attended Ohio State Fair (1987-1992).
Practical Strategies ltd® was the 2006 contracted Concessions Manager (food, games and rides) for the Kenton National Dog Trials and Water Races—annual attendance is approximately 100,000.
Business Closeout/Estate Settlement Specialists: Baden has extensive experience in this complicated, highly detailed, time consuming arena.
Genealogical Researcher & Trainer: Tippett serves as team leader for tracing and documenting family histories. He has been heavily involved in formally documenting his personal family to the year 1430 in what is today Eberbach, Germany. Tippett is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and Sons of the Union Veterans of the American Civil War.
Experience saves time, lends credence, minimizes risk and yields results.
