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Dennis L.
Purvine is Next Step's founding partner and a seasoned businessman with more than thirty years in the
trenches.
He
began his business career as a CPA, which
gave him a thorough grounding in the internal workings of business
as well as the opportunity to observe hundreds of companies from
the inside. He plied his trade in public accounting
and private industry, finally starting his own practice in 1985.
In response to the demands of his clients, he moved beyond compliance
work and into business consulting. He began describing himself
as a recovering CPA, achieving step 10 of the 12-step program.
In addition to his extensive experience, Dennis brings two main qualities to his work. First, he is an artist with numbers.
Financial data isn't a meaningless jumble to him, but a coherent shape that forms the picture of a business. He helps the client take a step back, see that big picture, and use it to better the business.
Second, he has a true passion for business. He loves this stuff! His wife tells the story of their first date. She asked the usual first-date question, "What do you do?" He lit up like a lamp and said, "I am a businessman. I help my clients make money." Dennis still has that passion and brings it to work with him every day, to the real benefit of his clients.
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| Margaret
W. Purvine has had a wide variety of experiences
during the course of her work
life. The bulk of her business career, just under two decades,
was spent at IBM. There, she learned the nuts and bolts of large
computer
systems as well as the organizational, project, and management
skills necessary to get them installed and implemented properly.
Technical skill is fine, and Margaret is still a proud "geek",
but where she really shines is in her work with people. Experienced
as a manager and facilitator, she is able to work with her clients
to make sense of a big task, break it into digestible chunks,
and direct a team of people to get it done. She enjoys teaching
and finds that moment when the light goes on in a student's eyes
particularly rewarding.
Complementing Dennis' skill with numbers, Margaret excels with
words. Writing is a major passion that has generated many business
articles for web and business press. An avid cook, she swears that
she will write that cookbook one of these days.
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