About Earl Meyer, Ph.D.

Earl Meyer has forty plus years of involvement in business. During that time his evolution from business person to business coach has been an integrated and natural transition.

His breadth of experience includes retail and advertising sales; consumer, business, and industrial financial management; and entrepreneurial ventures including a golf driving range, a fast food restaurant, and real estate investment. In addition, he taught entrepreneurship and marketing education at the university level for 15 years and has served as a SCORE counselor and workshop presenter for new and existing business owners.

While in advertising, he pioneered the development and widespread distribution of real estate sales booklets in Florida. During his career in finance, he specialized in the turn around and growth of unprofitable operations and twice earned national manager of the year awards. Further, each of his own businesses reached planned sales and profitability as projected. His food service operation, for example, tripled business in three years.

On the education side, he gained recognition for building under enrolled programs as a program coordinator and a department head and received the Teaching Excellence Award at Eastern Michigan University. He served in national leadership positions as the President of the International Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education and the Vice President for Publications of the Marketing Education Association. And, he authored McGraw-Hill Education Division’s, Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, now in its fourth edition.

As a Business Coach he brings together his extensive business knowledge and his entrepreneurial and management skills to assist business owners in solving problems and becoming more effective in operating and growing their businesses.

Earl has a B.A. in Marketing Education from the University of South Florida, and both a M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Career and Technical Education – with cognates in Marketing and Management – from Georgia State University. In addition, he is a licensed business coach and a member of the Professional Business Coaches Alliance (PBCA). The PBCA is an association of coaches throughout the U.S. and Canada who share experience, tools, and knowledge to ensure that the highest quality of coaching services are provided to their clients.

He and his wife, Dixie have been happily married for over 33 years and have raised seven children. They are members of Messiah Lutheran Church in Tampa where Earl has served as Director of Stewardship. They are also members of the North Tampa Chamber of Commerce. In addition, they share a long time hobby of ballroom dancing. And, they are season ticket holders and avid fans of University of South Florida Bulls football.