Welcome to ABL
Where Adaptive Health and Technology Leaders Collaborate.

For over 25 years, California's Technology and Health Executives have relied on ABL's CEO Round Tables, through its unique multi-coach approach, to accelerate their corporate and professional growth and help them build great companies.  In monthly, confidential Advisory Board sessions, Members share and gain feedback on their most pressing concerns.

In each Vertical Industry Round Table, the Members are able to harness the Group's "combined intelligence," to vet strategies, exchange ideas, and leverage each other's real-world experiences, resulting in better decisions for their corporations' growth.

INSIGHT: From California's Top Executives It's Getting Easier to be Green About once a year within the ABL Organization we have a “Clean Up & Out” week. Well, truth be told, sometimes it takes us a month to go through our desks, paper and electronic file cabinets, bookcases and storage room, making a concerted effort to extract and eliminate any extra paper and electronic “stuff” cluttering up ABL’s office environment. Office moves are typically helpful for this purpose, too, but since we tend to stay put for long periods (4 moves in 25 years), these “events” provide us with the necessary motivation. This year we discovered a new resource: ShredPros. For $105 they came to our door and hauled out to the parking lot our mound of paper we felt needed to be shredded, rather than just trashed. (ABL’s staff lives by our Confidentiality Agreement, too.) Then, as several of us looked on in awe, the big white truck proceeded to shred our 21 boxes of old accounting and Round Table documents – the truck had windows in its side, so we could see our shredded documents topping off the white mountain inside. Another resource we use is ARC International: for around $25 they come out and haul away all the old mice, keyboards, monitors, phones, and other miscellaneous electronic gear that gets packed into our storage room throughout the year. Since both ShredPros and ARC recycle, we get a cleaner office and the world gets a greener planet. At $130, what a terrific bargain! POST A RESPONSE TO THIS BLOG   |   Mimi Grant's Blog Post: 8/28/2008

NEWS & ARTICLES: Highlights from our bi-weekly Member Newsletter - ABL Technology OnlineSM  MEMBER NEWS - HEADLINES Alpha Media-Produced Film Honored by Cannes IOGEAR Offers New Products for PCs and A/V Microsemi Sees Strength in WLAN RF Power Amp Business NetworkD Acquired; Also Declared Among Fastest Growing OEwaves Lands New Contract Omnitron Products Deemed "Solaris Ready" TECHNOLOGY TRENDS - HEADLINES Obama Text Message Reached 2.9 Million PC Makers, VCs Target Emerging Markets Mexicans to Use Cell Phones to Pay Stores and Taxis Intel:  Wake-Up Calls & Wireless Chargers for PCs AT&T Launches In-Home Tech Assistance Kids Spend More Time on Internet than TV READ MORE   |   News Post: 8/28/2008

Overview of ABL:
ABL, California’s leading Chief Executives’ Organization, provides its Members with executive leadership coaching through its confidential peer CEO Advisory Board Round Tables and executive learning workshops, network of CEO peers and expert resources.  ABL supports the needs of its top-level Member Executives (CEOs of publicly traded, private and not-for-profit companies) by providing them a place to draw on the experience, knowledge and skill sets of their peers in a non-competing vertical industry personal advisory board - multi-coach approach - setting.

The core component of the ABL CEO Membership experience is the group Round Table meeting. Members meet once a month for a half day with a group of peer CEOs, Presidents, COOs and Division General Managers from non-competing companies all from the same industry (healthcare, technology or life sciences) in a trusted and confidential board room like setting, which allows the executive Members to tackle topics and enhance their decision making and business performance. Topics include: developing and honing new business strategies, new lines of business, best business practices, understanding new trends, developing an effective board of directors, leadership training and executive compensation.

Members also gather several times a year at workshops and conferences to exchange ideas and connect with other chief executives beyond their own CEO peer groups. In effect, ABL Members serve as each other’s business coaches within the Round Tables and are encouraged to connect and leverage their co-Member peers’ particular skills and expertise for additional leadership coaching, one-on-one, outside of their monthly group meeting. In addition, each Round Table’s Facilitator also serves as an objective business advisor, offering executive and industry insights and advice.

ABL's Chief Executive Leadership Development Round Table program is currently being offered in California's greater Orange County, Los Angeles and San Francisco County areas.