About Kevin Rafferty

Kevin Rafferty has over 30 years of top management expertise, from Fortune 500 corporations, family-owned and entrepreneurial businesses, as well as various non-profit organizations. An MBA and executive leader, Kevin has revitalized organizations from the top down with a fresh team-leadership approach. Kevin helps leaders and employees discover their core competencies, their highest passions and key performance measures that trigger lasting and meaningful results.

As CEO of Business Frontiers, Inc., a personal growth organization specializing in personal, executive and group coaching, he has spent many years providing coaching to executives around the country. Kevin also facilitates leadership training and development workshops for executives and entrepreneurs. Over the past seven years Kevin has served as Group Chair for Vistage International, the world's leading chief executive organization, leading four CEO peer groups.

In the non-profit area, Kevin served the South Orange County Chambers of Commerce as their Chairman in 1997-98. Other leadership positions he held in the 90's were VP of Business Education and VP of Membership. During those years he led the reorganization of the Chamber over a three year period, and successfully instituted a new leadership process. Kevin was very active as the business spokesperson for the successful Millennium Plan for the El Toro Reuse Initiative, working closely with local, county and nationally elected officials as well as with various community and business leaders. Kevin has worked with other non-profits such as CHOC Pediatric Specialty Faculty, Excellence in Public Service, Pilgrimage Family Health Centers, and Girls, Inc. through writing plans of work, board development analysis and off-site board leadership and planning forums. He has been an active supporter of Junior Achievement and has donated his time as a weekly consultant to local elementary, middle and high schools.

Prior to starting his own business, he held titles such as: Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, General Manager and Division Manager for manufacturing companies in the plastics, aviation, construction equipment and automotive aftermarket industries.

Kevin holds an Executive MBA from the Claremont Graduate School and a Bachelors Degree in Social Sciences from Cleveland State University.

Kevin is the author of the book "Get Naked, Get Real, Get Happy-Becoming Your Authentic Self," a workbook that allows the reader to capture their most intimate thoughts about who they truly are, what they want out of life, and what defines a life well lived with meaning and passion.

He currently lives in Murrieta, CA with his wife and two children.