Former Walt Disney World® Executive Teaches as Business Coach

Former Walt Disney World® Executive Teaches as Business Coach

ORLANDO, FL – Starting a business or organization is a lot of hard work. Thankfully, entrepreneurs and business leaders no longer have to do it alone, thanks to the new web-based learning platform, Thrive15.com full of business coach. The site, which provides practical and engaging online video training for people looking to start a business, grow a business, or advance in their careers, boasts courses from world-renowned business experts such as Golden Gavel Award-winning speaker, Jim Cathcart, and public relations expert, Michael Levine. Also joining the Thrive15.com team of mentors is Former Executive Vice President of Operations for Walt Disney World® Resort, Lee Cockerell. One of Cockerell’s latest trainings on the site, Creating a Magical Organization, draws on Cockerell’s experience with Disney to help develop the business culture and customer service necessary to make one’s organization successful.

Cockerell, while at Walt Disney World® Resorts, once managed over 40,000 cast members, or Disney employees, and was behind the development of the Disney Great Leader Strategies program, one of his lasting legacies with the organization. At one point during his 10-year career with the entertainment giant, Cockerell was responsible for two water parks, four theme parks, 20 resort hotels, an entertainment and shopping village, and the ESPN Sports and Recreation Complex.

Before working with Walt Disney World, Cockerell was an executive for both Hilton Hotels and Marriott Corporation for a combined 17 years. He began working at Disney in 1990 after joining the team that was responsible for launching the Disneyland Paris Project. Using his years of experience in the hospitality and entertainment industries, Cockerell possesses a wealth of knowledge. His bestselling books, The Customer Rules: The 39 Essential Rules for Delivering Sensational Service, Time Management Magic, and Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney share Cockerell’s experience and can also be found as video trainings in the Thrive15.com video library.

Thrive15.com’s video library is growing daily with trainings that provide practical steps to achieving business success. Full access to the training library is considerably less expensive than traditional business training programs with subscriptions starting at $19 per-month.

Former Walt Disney World® Executive Teaches Why The Customer Rules

ORLANDO, FL – Former Executive Vice President of Operations for Walt Disney World® Resort, Lee Cockerell, has joined web-based training website, Thrive15.com, to teach the best practices for delivering world-class customer service. Thrive15.com provides engaging video trainings for businesses and employers with trainings covering a variety of popular topics ranging from intangible soft-skill development to common hard skills such as website search engine optimization and pro-forma creation.

Cockerell’s experience from once managing over 40,000 cast members, otherwise known as Disney employees, has been behind one of the most renowned customer service organizations in the world. Cockerell’s management responsibilities, at one point in his 10-year Disney career, covered four theme parks, two water parks, 20 resort hotels, an entertainment and shopping village, and the ESPN Sports and Recreation Complex. Cockerell’s ability to implement crucial customer service systems has led to the development of world-class customer service around the world which is why he is a great business coach. His knowledge for creating the unrivaled customer service experience provided at Walt Disney World® has been published as a bestselling book, The Customer Rules: The 39 Essential Rules for Delivering Sensational Service, and is now a course available in the Thrive15.com library of trainings.

Cockerell began working with Disney in 1990 when he joined the team that launched the Disneyland Paris Project. Prior to his tenure at Walt Disney World, Cockerell served for 17 years as an executive for both Hilton Hotels and Marriott Corporation. Cockerell, based on his years of experience, has begun to share his wisdom, opening the eyes of business leaders all over the world. As well as publishing The Customer Rules: The 39 Essential Rules for Delivering Sensational Service, Cockerell has authored two other bestselling titles, Time Management Magic and Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney. Today, Cockerell works with businesses and organizations around the world including Walt Disney World®, Wal-Mart, and Luxottica, to teach them the proven business principles he has used throughout his career.

Several of Cockerell’s trainings can now be found in Thrive15.com’s video library with subscriptions to the site starting at $19 per-month. With subscriptions, “Thrivers” are given full access to the entire library of video courses, which includes titles from successful entrepreneurs and businesspeople such as WWII veteran and hall of fame entrepreneur, Jack Nadel, and management expert and business coach, Tim Redmond.

Former Walt Disney World® Executive Teaches Time Management On Thrive15.com as business coach

ORLANDO, FL – Lee Cockerell, the former Executive Vice President of Operations for Walt Disney World® Resort, has teamed up with Thrive15.com to teach practical steps to managing one’s time effectively. Thrive15.com is an online educational platform providing practical and engaging video trainings for businesspeople and entrepreneurs. Their trainings cover a variety of topics that range from the often intangible areas of soft-skill development and leadership to more hard skills such as accounting basics and search engine optimization.

Cockerell, who once managed over 40,000 cast members, as Disney employees are called, has developed himself into a time management expert. Cockerell’s management responsibilities covered 20 resort hotels, four theme parks, two water parks, an entrainment and shopping village, and the ESPN Sports and Recreation Complex. Cockerell created and uses a simple, yet effective, time management system that has been taught around the world. His system was published as a bestselling book, Time Management Magic, and is now a video training in the edtech company’s library of trainings.

Cockerell began his 10-year career with Disney in 1990 when he became a part of the team that launched the Disneyland Paris Project. Prior to Disney he spent 17 years as an executive for Hilton Hotels and Marriott Corporation. Cockerell’s experiences have allowed him to gather and share a wealth of knowledge helpful for business leaders around the world. Along with Time Management Magic, Cockerell has authored two other bestselling titles, The Customer Rules: The 39 Essential Rules for Delivering Sensational Service and Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney. Cockerell also routinely shares his experience with businesses and organizations around the world including Walt Disney World®, Wal-Mart, and Luxottica.

Cockerell’s trainings are now available in Thrive15.com’s video library and can be accessed 24/7. Subscriptions to the site start at $19 per-month and offer full access to the entire library of video courses that include titles from successful businesspeople such as “mom-preneur” and founder of Rustic Cuff, Jill Donovan, and NBA Hall of Famer, David Robinson

December 7th, 2017

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