2021: Past Meetings

Bruce is a Certified Management Consultant with 35 years consulting experience to more than 280 clients with a reputation for helping them set and reach their goals through sound strategy and leadership execution. He specializes in facilitating strategic planning, owner/CEO advisory services, leadership development and leadership transitions. His clients represent a wide range of industries including: manufacturing, engineering, design-construction, financial services and various nonprofit organizations.
Bruce Nilson holds a masters degree from The Pennsylvania State University and has done post-graduate work in business administration. In addition to consulting, Bruce is an adjunct faculty member in two MBA programs where he teaches courses on business and leadership. He is a member of the Institute of Management Consultants, World Future Society and active in several community organizations and his local church. He has been a speaker at regional, national, and international conferences and has traveled extensively throughout the United States as well as Europe, Eurasia and Russia conducting both client and volunteer work.

Kay Palmer, who is based in Delaware and a member of IMC-Philadelphia chapter, presented an interactive work session on how to market consulting service in a pandemic environment. Kay Palmer comes to consulting from a people first mindset. With a fluid ability to relate to everyone from senior management to the front-line employees, Kay sees the organization through the eyes of all stakeholders and provides a multi-faceted analysis. Kay then matches what people are saying and doing to the data and brings it all together to identify underlying issues, confront challenges, and propose solutions that work. Having worked as a consultant both internally and externally with fortune 500 companies and smaller organizations, Kay focuses on individuals working as a team to improve overall performance.
An Organizational Behaviorist, Kay built a technical knowledge foundation with Associate Engineering degrees in Electronics and Process Instrumentation. From there, she went on to achieve a bachelor’s in Organizational Management, followed by a Master of Business Administration from Eastern University. She specializes in working within the fields of energy, medical, manufacturing, and education both in the U.S. and internationally. With an innate understanding of how people are connected to the systems in which they work, Kay is adept at assessing operations for safety, effectiveness, efficiency, and overall performance. She offers solutions that garner measurable results in both short and long-term forecasts. Outcomes of her recommendations produce better human performance, streamlined process efficiencies, improved profitability, and enhanced safety.
Kay lives in beautiful Wausau, Wisconsin with Burt, the guy who lights up her life. Together, they enjoy time with their three fur buddies, traveling, and volunteering throughout the community.

Dr. Pribush earned a BS-Chemistry from the University of Delaware; PhD from the University of Massachusetts and held a two-year post doctorate research fellowship at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. In 1974, he joined Butler University, and achieved the rank of Professor while serving terms as head the Chemistry Department and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He retired in 2016 as Professor Emeritus. He is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society and recipient of the ACS Board of Directors 2014 Award for Volunteer Service to the American Chemical Society. Bob attended Rahway, NJ high school, was an end on their football team and was student council president and three-year class president. He resides in Greenwood, Indiana with his wife Bonnie; she is a retired professor of mathematics, computer science, and leadership from Franklin College of Indiana.

Mitch Zimmer graduated from the University of Pennsylvania where he was first in his chemical engineering class. After graduation, he started at Exxon Research & Engineering in Florham Park, NJ. After two years he went back to Wharton where he earned an M.B.A. -- and, more importantly, met his future wife. He returned to Exxon until the oil market crashed and then joined Graver Water (water and wastewater treatment). He next moved to Reading, PA as a consultant for Strategic Analysis Inc. (SAI) where he did everything from project work to managing projects and staff. Post SAI, he joined Willson Safety Products, long before PPE was a common term. Mitch then went back into consulting as Vice President of PenResearch. As much as he loved the firm and his colleagues, he realized a long-term dream of teaching by going full time to Penn State Berks in 2000 as Business Program Coordinator. Also, he is a Director at Forrestal Consultants International involved in M&A and B2B consulting assignments. He is a star and much loved by his students willing to do the work necessary to succeed. He has two grown children. His son works in industry, and his daughter is recently married and will earn a PhD by this summer. Mitch and his wife, Donna, reside in Reading.