Continuous Renewal Staff & Associates

John Konstanturos  M.S.
Founder, CEO, Continuous Renewal

John's career as a consultant and trainer originated in the midst of the riots and chaos of the ‘60s.  As a young supervisor in the Los Angeles Police Department he was involved in putting down riots in the streets of Los Angeles.  Called upon to find more effective and peaceful ways of preventing wild and emotional demonstrations from becoming riots, John’s task force developed a number of innovative and highly effective procedures, management systems and strategies.  These were later adopted as the model plan by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and are still widely used today. 

The communication, management and people skills John learned during his 26-year career with the LAPD laid the foundation for his success as a business consultant. Although he holds a Master's Degree in Management from Pepperdine University, John attributes the unique character of his success to his own personal, emotional and spiritual development.   He believes that personal and organizational renewal generates whole, well-balanced leaders and more open, trusting relationships -- qualities that are especially needed in today’s demanding leadership circles.  Helping individuals and organizations develop the skills to sustain their own process of renewal represents the essence of his work.

A Commitment to Personal Renewal

Upon leaving the LAPD in 1982, John launched his career as an independent consultant.  For more than 20 years, he has helped business leaders and their organizations create transformational change and achieve higher levels of performance.   Using an innovative process that combines ancient wisdom with leading-edge developmental techniques, John coaches CEOs and senior executives to improve their leadership skills, build high-performing teams, and create cultures that embrace personal accountability as a core value and essential building block of success.
John’s work has taken him around the world and has included prominent clients such as:

• The Attorney General of the U.S.
• The Governor of Florida
• MGM Grand Companies
• 1st National Bank
• Eli Lilly/AME
• Sylvania
• Heinz
• Bumblebee Seafoods
• YPO
• Seiko Instruments
• Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes Restaurants
• New York, New York Hotel & Casino
• U.S. Army
• American Hospital Association

In addition, John worked for 10 years as a group Chairman for Vistage International (formerly known as The Executive Committee, or TEC), where he coached and mentored more than two dozen CEOs each month, helping them to identify opportunities, resolve problems and position their companies for long-term growth and profitability.  It was during this period that John learned the importance of ongoing personal renewal by the leader at the top and the commitment at all levels to organizational renewal.

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Austin “Ozzie” Gontang, Ph.D.
CEO Coach & Executive Group Facilitator

Twenty-three years group facilitator & individual coach to 16 CEOs with Vistage International, formerly TEC, world's largest membership CEO organization, Ozzie was the Cope Award Winner for 2001. Vistage International acknowledges yearly the top Chair recognized for their outstanding contribution to Vistage, fellow Vistage Group Chairs and to the Vistage community.

Works in onflict resolution, crisis management, coaching & counseling high profile individuals regarding behaviors that can be career stopping;  Teamwork; workshops in communication and behavioral styles; the dynamics of group behavior, creating high performance collaboration and communication, stress management.

Thirty years as a family therapist.  Group leader for support to patients with severe heart disease and related health problems - Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine (SCIM).

Thirty years as a coach of runners, walkers & Marathoners (San Diego Marathon Clinic) Thirty-three as a Marriage Family Therapist.

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Ron Bynum
C.E.O.and President of J. Harrison Enterprises
Executive consulting
High Performance Team Coaching
Large Scale Culture Change

Ron Bynum has over 25 years experience as a management consultant with Fortune 500 companies and executives in diverse industries such as computer technology and software, automobile, venture capital, energy, insurance, telecommunications, and financial services. He specializes in large-scale culture and organizational transformation, leadership development and building high performance multi-functional teams that work together to produce consistent outstanding results.

A physics and English major at East Texas State University; Ron became an Executive Officer in the U. S. Army. He led an artillery battery in Vietnam and is a highly decorated veteran. Following his service, he pursued his MBA at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

Ron started his professional career as a senior executive with an international educational corporation, where he managed 32 domestic and international retail centers. In addition, he designed the corporation’s advanced learning programs.

In 1987, Ron started his own management consulting company and has developed an extensive international practice with major corporations and start-ups. An expert in large-scale cultural change and breakthrough technology, he is a trusted advisor for many executives and senior leaders domestically and abroad. He is also sought after as a trainer of trainers for large management consultant firms. A highly skilled consultant and trainer, he has trained over 300,000 participants in his career.

Richard Levak, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist, Author 4 books, Executive Coach

Dr. Levak is a nationally recognized expert on personality and a leading authority on the most widely used psychological assessment test, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2 (MMPI-2), on which he has co-authored four books. His unique, practical understanding of personality has been shaped by several thousand client feedbacks over his thirty-year career. In addition to his clinical practice, for the past twenty years Dr. Levak has applied his personality expertise in teambuilding workshops and wrk with corporate executives in executive placement and development as well as resolving conflict and achieving cohesive teams.

Dr. Levak pioneered the psychological assessment methodology currently in use in reality TV in the United States. He has been involved in this television phenomenon since its inception, beginning with the first Survivor series, along with The Amazing Race, The Apprentice, Big Brother, Cupid, The Contender, The Candidate and Black White. In this capacity, he assisted producers and broadcasters in screening and selecting contestants. He provided accurate predictions about the behavior of the contestants during the show’s progression. His psychological assessments and predictions have helped to screen out contestants who weren't  suited for the show and create the blend of personality types that have made these shows highly successful.

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Jackie Townsend Konstanturos
CEO, Restorative Remedies, Consultant, Facilitator Implementing Branding/Positioning Programs, Speaker


Jackie has over 25 years of experience in marketing and positioning companies to take leadership roles in their industries. She is known for her ability to turn underdogs into market leaders. Jackie has guided numerous clients through the rigors of an IPO and is adept at preparing companies to meet the expectations of venture capitalists and potential stockholders. She is a sought-after speaker at both local and national industry and business events and is the recipient of numerous awards including the United States Small Business Administration award for the Small Business Entrepreneur of the year, finalist for the Entrepreneur of the Year from Ernst & Young, PR Week's Public Relations Practitioner of the Year and The T Sector's teleFUSION 03 PR Leader of the Year award. Since 2002, Jackie has been a member of the Board of Trustees for The National University System.

She founded The Townsend Agency (TownsendAdvisers.com) in the summer of 1993 and sold it in 2007. Its mission was to assist companies in branding and public relations and subsequently gain valuable market share. As part of this quest, she developed a methodology for helping companies to quickly identify a unique brand platform and to solidify their unique position in the marketplace. She has helped large companies like Toshiba, Fujitsu/ICL, and Dow Chemical to integrating new products and services into their brand and enter their subsequent marketplaces. She has assisted small companies like Qualcomm and HNC Software to become large publicly traded entities and has helped too many successful small companies to list. In one case - Restorative Remedies -- she led the charge for the entire formation of the company. In addition to marketing, her leadership at Restorative Remedies included product development and distribution implementation.

She earned a master of science degree, graduating summa cum laude from Wright State University. She received two bachelor's degrees -- one in psychology and one in liberal studies from California State University, Long Beach.

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