About Kevin Rafferty

Kevin Rafferty has over 36 years of top management expertise, from both major corporations and small entrepreneurial businesses. As CEO of Business Frontiers, Inc., he shares his personal and organizational success methods with top executives across all lines of businesses.

Kevin provides CEO and executive coaching, group leadership facilitation, and leads training and development programs for executives and entrepreneurs. He also guides clients through the strategic planning process, and helps leaders develop and implement more successful strategic initiatives. He has provided direction to Fortune 500 firms, entrepreneurial, family-owned businesses and non-profit organizations.

Kevin has facilitated and led thousands of business meetings, from strategic planning sessions, to CEO roundtables, and other professional and personal growth seminars. His strategic facilitation helps organizations determine optimal outcomes, then to look at the resources and actions that will be necessary to accomplish the plan. He helps people reach alignment and engagement around a shared sense of purpose. Kevin served for seven years as Group Chairman for Vistage International, a CEO peer organization, facilitating four top executive groups in Orange County, CA.

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

In the non-profit area, Kevin served the South Orange County Chambers of Commerce as their Chairman in 1997-98, and also held the positions of VP of Business Education and VP of Membership. In 2011 he led that organization through a major strategic planning process that will expand services and scope. 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.

Kevin has a BA degree in Social Sciences from Cleveland State University and an Executive MBA from The Drucker Center, Claremont Graduate University. In 2009 he authored the book "Get Naked, Get Real, Get Happy - Becoming Your Authentic Self."