Ray Reuter is the owner of Kaizen, Inc., a training, consulting and personal development company that began over eight years ago. “Kaizen” is a business philosophy meaning continuous improvement. Ray brings this philosophy of continuous, ongoing improvement to individuals and organizations by providing high performance training, personal development, and coaching processes aimed at improving leadership, management, teams and personal effectiveness. The outcome is unfettered potential within people and organizations to maximize results — at work, at home, in all aspects of one’s life.
“Every day, I focus on awakening and inspiring people to achieve what’s possible in their lives and in their workplace. I want people to fully realize their God-given potential and give God glory in ALL that they do.”
Ray is a co-leader for Marked Men for Christ, a Christian men’s ministry focused on “strengthening God’s men.” He is the ministry’s Region Director for the Heartland (Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Iowa, Nebraska) and responsible for growing this ministry and serving the “marked men” in the community.
Ray is happily married to Julie, his wife of over 28 years. Julie and Ray work together raising their five boys and two daughters-in-law.
Prior to becoming a successful entrepreneur and creating his own company, Ray spent 20+ years with American Express Financial Advisors both at the corporate office level and in the field.
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Kurt Reinke has a back ground in broadcasting with seven years in radio and five years in television. His television responsibilities included developing a sales department for a local television station. He has managed three different Christian radio stations (one in Wisconsin and two in Illinois) from 1979 through 1986. He acquired a skill for creating and developing teams and took the radio stations from a negative cash flow to positive ones.
Kurt also served on two different large church staffs(with 13 pastors on each staff). The first pastorate was in 1982 for three years and the second one was in 1991 for four years (as director of development) raising over 3.5 million dollars in deferred giving, cash gifts and gifts in kind for a local school.
He was also part owner in a local Dale Carnegie franchise for almost five years as Vice President of Operations where he was part of the team that positively influenced the community and impacted the bottom line.
Small business development has always been apart of his life. And now working with Ray Reuter (as a partner in KINGDOMablaze) gives him the opportunity to provide group coaching in a setting that helps the small business owners and entrepreneurs maintain a centeredness and alignment with the principles found in the Bible, and a desire to follow the leading of the Lord in all aspects of business.
