FEI Behavioral Health to Speak at 2011 National Industries for Blind Conference

From Nonprofit to For-Profit: A Story of Organizational Transformation

MILWAUKEE- Sept 30th, 2011 – FEI Behavioral Health, a leading Milwaukee-based crisis management, EAP, and wellness services company, will present an engaging workshop at the 2011 NIB/NAEPB Annual Training Conference. This session will outline how a nonprofit program, at a nonprofit membership organization, has reinvented itself multiple times over the past 30 years to become a multimillion-dollar, for-profit business, owned by a social enterprise.

FEI President and CEO, Ted Uczen, will present, “Business Diversification: Creating New Lines of Business While Managing Current Business,” on Thursday, Oct. 6, at 1:45pm. This session will highlight the successes FEI has been able to achieve and maintain since 1979, and the tools for how this has been accomplished. In particular, the workshop will present a case study done on FEI that will explain how to:

•develop new and related products/services for existing customers and challenged markets
•venture into new markets to create new marketing and sales approaches
•transform and grow the business while still executing at a high rate for existing customers
•create metrics to measure success in a way that engages all staff in the transformation
Speaker Ted Uczen has over 20 years of database marketing and strategic business consulting experience.

He has held several management positions and has developed a detailed and extensive experience of numerous industries. As FEI President and CEO, Ted directs all strategic aspects of the business and directly oversees all sales and marketing activities of the organization. Ted has a reputation of an industry thought leader with a track record of transforming corporate culture, building brands and growing customer relationships.

For more than 30 years, FEI Behavioral Health has been a trusted partner in protecting and enhancing workforce effectiveness and organizational resiliency. FEI offers flexible solutions for the full spectrum of workforce resilience goals, from crisis preparedness and management to EAP and wellness services. The company integrates its mental health expertise and critical incident experience to provide emotional support and assistance in times of crisis both onsite and by phone. More information about FEI Behavioral Health is available at www.feinet.com.

The National Industries for the Blind’s (NIB) mission is to enhance the opportunities for economic and personal independence of persons who are blind, primarily through creating, sustaining and improving employment. NIB and its associated agencies serve as the largest program responsible for the employment of people who are blind through the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act, and the AbilityOne Program, a federal purchasing program that enables people who are blind to work and provide products and services to federal and commercial customers.