Gloria Sherman

Gloria is a Licensed Professional Counselor.  My career has been in the field of human services.  For over 14 years, I worked as a middle school counselor with extensive prior experience with the Michigan Dept. of Human Services.  Gloria is a trained independent facilitator of many nationally known parenting programs.  I am a Certified Trauma and Loss Consultant and School Specialist and a Certified Parent Coach.  I am the sole owner of Parenting and Teaching with G.L.O., LLC.  My passion is to provide parents with tools to help them be successful in their most important job of raising respectful and responsible children.  I am also co-founder of Parenting Partnership which provides parenting classes to the community for more than 10 years.  The purpose of becoming a member of MindWorks Professional Group is to assist others in increasing self-knowledge and personal development growth.

Having raised three children, she is now blessed with seven young grandchildren.  She uses her skills with her grandchildren to help them develop the skills to be the best that they can be.  She teaches them that mistakes are learning opportunities and to seek other ways to solve their problems.  This approach helps them to develop the skills they need to be successful: resilience, taking on challenges, making connections and developing empathy.

 Denny Floden

With a quick wit and a wry sense of humor, Denny is a co-founder of the Mindworks Performance Group and mentors others by teaching them how to tune their mind to achieve peak performance.

 Chad Myers

Chad Myers is a human potential and professional development expert. He is the co-founder and CEO of The Mindworks Performance Group and the Myers Consulting Group. He is a certified Life Success coach, consultant, trainer, speaker and educator.  Chad has an extensive formal education with a BS Ed. and M.Ed. attending University of Michigan and Michigan State University with 17 years experience in the classroom working as a middle school educator in both inner-city and suburban schools. He has worked with people from all walks of life from school aged children, to prison inmates to corporate leaders. Some of Chad’s clients have been Mass Mutual Financial Group, Farm Bureau, LSG Financial, Mary Kay, and the State of Michigan.

Chad has specialized training in goal setting and achieving, altering limiting beliefs, habits, and the self-image with the idea of creating unlimited potential through gaining greater awareness. His motto is work on YOU first and your RESULTS and others will follow. Chad is the proud parent of his 19 year old son Cameron who is following a career in marketing and advertising.

Howard Myers

Howard Myers is a multi-million dollar insurance producer who just so happens to be blind.  Howard finished #2 in the nation among rookie agents as a career life insurance agent with Mass Mutual. Howard is a former national lives leader and winner of the Oscar of Salesmanship where he spoke to a crowd of 5,000 at Ford Theater with the late Paul Harvey. Today Howard is a semi-retired  independent insurance agent, a member of Mindworks Performance Group, a member of the Bobby Crim Hall of Fame, an avid runner, a family man, a father of 4 and grandfather of 5.

Chris Veihl

Chris has a Masters of Arts Degree in Counseling from Oakland University in Rochester, MI and is a fully Licensed Professional Counselor in Michigan. He has been involved in the Human Services for his entire professional life- over twenty years. Chris is currently the Director of Treatment & Training  for a Non-profit organization  that provides residential and day treatment services to Court mandated youth as well as  the sole practiconer/owner of Lapeer Family Development (since 1998), where he provides individual and family counseling.  He has developed extensive professional experience assessing and treating a myriad of factors which inhibit personal growth. Chris is committed to helping people help themselves transform their self-defeating thoughts/behaviors into self-enhancing ones. He is a dynamic, experienced workshop presenter and trainer for both private and corporate groups, utilizing experiential and motivational presentations, and most importantly fun. Chris embraces Oscar Wilde’s motto, “That life is way too important to take seriously..”  

He is doing his best to pass on his values of life to his two beautiful daughters, Lindsey-17 and Emily-12, who constantly prove to him that life's pleasures exist each moment-if we are willing to become aware & experience them.