The Amethyst Associates team has over 45 years of combined experience in corporate training in addition to Masters Degrees in Applied Behavioral Science. Our training programs challenge assumptions, build new paradigms and expand thinking to produce real change.

Success Stories
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Testimonials
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Client List
Meet a few Amethyst Associates clients and see how they've made lasting positive change through their training.

Leslie Kennedy
Using the principles she teaches, Leslie Kennedy has built a thriving business that continuously delights customers and brings them back over and over. She combines the tools and techniques of customer retention with Accelerated Learning techniques that help people develop “out of the box” thinking.

Leslie has been helping people learn new ways to delight customers since 1990. She is the founder of Amethyst Associates, a company committed to teaching people how to get dramatic results for their work by streamlining processes, eliminating waste and moving beyond mere customer satisfaction to a whole new world of dazzling customers! Her workshop Zoom: Power, Passion, Speed is consistently rated as the most useful and customer focused of all Process Improvement workshops available.

Leslie has mastered the art of Accelerated Learning – a set of techniques where people are engaged at the highest level, learn faster, remember more and achieve maximum results. She incorporates unique “breakthrough” thinking processes that change the underlying mindset first and make new behaviors a reality.

Leslie has worked with thousands of people in both public and corporate programs. Her clients include United Way of Richmond, City of Richmond, Hewlett-Packard, Alaska and Horizon Airlines, 3Com, US Robotics, Wizards of the Coast, UW Medical Center, Providence Hospitals and Agilent Technologies. She is best known for her energy, creativity and her ability to produce results.