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Mr. Manahan is an educator, financial strategist, author and financial executive. During his successful career as a financial executive and consultant Mr. Manahan developed a keen interest in organizational structure and design, and the role that it plays in organizational success. Consequently in 2006 Mr. Manahan enrolled at Pepperdine University in the doctorate of organization change program completing all the course work except his dissertation. He received his Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine in 1992.

As a financial advisor, consultant and hands-on practitioner, Mr. Manahan has developed the Strategic Quadrant Theory of operational success. That Theory’s model pictures a successful business enterprise as a matrix or web that intertwines strategy, capital, leadership and organizational design resulting in a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. Operational success is put at risk by the enterprise that focuses excessively on one quadrant, at the expense of another.

An advocate of change management, Mr. Manahan observes: “Effective change is the culmination of superior communication combined with observable action. You cannot simply tell organizational participants to change. You must engage them in the change process through education, through persuasion and perhaps most importantly, through demonstration. The change practitioner who cannot ‘roll up his or her sleeves’ to make things happen, has limited chance of success. And of course, in a business environment, change always has financial ramifications. If a change effort does not ultimately foster financial improvement, an observer could legitimately question the need for change in the first place.”

Pursuing a life-long love of educating, Mr. Manahan has held numerous engagements to coach CEOs in effective communication styles and management strategies, and is also a lecturer in the School of Business and Public Policy at California State University, Dominguez Hills where he teaches accounting and entrepreneurial finance to CEOs of the future. Further, Mr. Manahan is the host of Biz Rap Radio, a radio show about small business and entrepreneurs broadcast on KCAA 1050 radio in Southern California.

Mr. Manahan on communication and organization change: “Communication and organization change have striking similarities. Both are about outcome management. The challenge is to develop communication and change techniques that deliver desired outcomes. As both communication and change are designed to achieve results or actions through others, the focus must be on designing communication and change techniques that motive people to action, however challenging that might be.”

Mr. Manahan has worked with more than 100 management teams, as an external consultant or advisor, and as a member of the management team. He has held the position of chief financial officer for four companies, including three publicly traded companies and a division of a multi-billion dollar furniture manufacturer. He has held senior finance positions in a number of other companies.

Mr. Manahan has more than 30 years of financial, executive, organizational and strategic management experience with a diverse group of companies operating in such sectors as real estate development, industrial distribution, consumer and industrial services, computer software, Internet, healthcare, food manufacturing, entertainment, energy, furniture manufacturing and consumer products. Further, Mr. Manahan has assisted companies in structuring and completing joint ventures, acquisitions, divestitures, financings and reorganizations, as well as coaching companies through the pre-IPO stage. Mr. Manahan has extensive experience in SEC reporting, corporate finance, public markets, investor relations and corporate development.

Mr. Manahan is the co-founder of the Polk Institute of Social Entrepreneurship, a non-profit institution that teaches entrepreneurship to underserved minorities. He is the host of the Polk Institute Entrepreneurship Podcast.

Mr. Manahan was a CPA in the province of British Columbia, Canada, and a graduate of the British Columbia Institute of Technology with a major in financial management.