Biography

Jack deeply inspires with passion and humor that gets audiences involved. He helps people to improve their personal and professional lives. He brings to his audiences more than 30 years of professional experience with global corporations, small business and nonprofit organizations.

He specializes in developing leaders, team building & life improvement.    He created a 10-day Leadership Institute for Michigan OSHA and co-wrote a 5-day leadership program for a General Motors plant that emphasizes teamwork. He has been teaching leadership skills to Lions of Michigan for 15 years. Jack has trained countless executives and professionals to become more effective leaders and face-to-face communicators—and to be more persuasive selling their ideas.

He created public relations programs for more than 25 years for Shell Oil, Dow Chemical, General Motors and the Michigan Department of Transportation before establishing his company, Face to Face Matters, in Mason, Michigan, in 1988. He has been a speechwriter for CEOs and vice presidents of companies among the Fortune 100 list. He is author of Building Community Support for Schools and Get Jacked Up on Leadership Communications.

Jack's clients range from Allstate to Zenith and include: Blue Care Network, Accident Fund, Jackson National Life, Comerica Bank, Haworth, Ferris State U., Michigan State U., Lansing Community College, Air Force National Guard, Lions International, Florida Lottery, Los Alamos National Laboratory, FDIC and the U.S. Navy.

Jack consistently is ranked among the best speakers at a conference
Thanks for the outstanding presentation you made at our international conference in Toronto…I've listened to tapes of all the speakers, and you were one of the best of the four-day conference!
    Richard Bagin, Executive Director, National School Public Relations Association, Rockville, Maryland

Jack Pyle received the highest evaluations of any speaker at our two-day Michigan Lions Leadership Institute. This has happened annually for 11 years. And Jack’s own leadership in offering new program ideas helps us keep improving the Institute. Here are a few comments about Jack from our attendees:
   • A content expert who really knows how to communicate
   • Super enriching. Focused. Experience shows
   • Very engaging. Makes an hour-and-a-half go by like 20 minutes
   • He is fantastic. Has a powerful message and is very entertaining as well
     Paul Hemeryck, Lions of Michigan Leadership, East Pointe, Michigan

Jack will relate to your audience with customized programs
Your ability to step in at the last minute and develop a specifically tailored, comprehensive presentation with no more than two weeks notice is a true meeting planner's miracle! Just when I had reached the critical worrying point, you emerged with your professionalism, expertise and attention to detail and put together a session which was perfectly suited to our audience. Furthermore, you accepted this challenge with the same enthusiasm you expressed on stage. I marvel to think what you could have accomplished if I had given a you a month!
    Deborah Thomas, Director of Education, MACU Association Group, Lansing, Michigan

You did an excellent job of incorporating facts and ideas about the produce industry into your talk, which fired up the attendees and resulted in their participation. Over 60% of the evaluations specifically mentioned you either by name or presentation. This was indeed encouraging to us. Your help in setting up this program was invaluable, and we particularly appreciate your suggestion to tape each presentation. This will help our on-going program.
  David Bestman, President, J.A. Bestman Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan