{"id":17030,"date":"2022-12-16T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=17030"},"modified":"2022-12-16T06:38:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T06:38:39","slug":"focalpoint-deal-announcement-todd-copley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/focalpoint-deal-announcement-todd-copley\/","title":{"rendered":"FocalPoint Deal Announcement – Todd Copley"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Who is Todd Copley?<\/h4>\n

Todd is a long time executive and serial entrepreneur with a military career in the US Army\u2019s Special Operations Command and 20+ years management experience. An expert in operations, finance, customer service, leadership, and consulting, Todd has led small to large organizations (800M$) primarily within the travel\/hospitality\/tourism industry.<\/p>\n

As Founder\/President of the Summit Travel Company, an international travel consulting and event production company, Todd has curated and produced high-visibility events in over 65 countries and all seven continents to include everything from World Championship Olympic sports competitions to kayaking expeditions to Antarctica. A people-oriented leader and with over two decades of international living and working experience, Todd has led and produced high performing teams in Europe and Asia focused on delivering exceptional guest experiences and driving revenue for a host of renowned travel brands.<\/p>\n

Throughout his career Todd has rotated between full time senior level executive positions for many iconic brands in the travel sector and running and operating his niche consulting company. In addition, Todd has helped launch over 10 small business start ups and has the bruises to prove it!<\/p>\n

Why did Todd make a career change?<\/h4>\n

Todd made the career change because he wanted to leverage his military and small business experience into helping businesses attain their strategic vision and to help develop emerging leaders to learn, lead and succeed.
\nWhy will Todd make a great business coach?<\/p>\n

Todd will make a great coach because the combination of his leadership skills developed in the US Army Special Ops Command and an extensive and varied management history in the private sector allows him to step back from the granular minutia and focus on the bigger and more strategic picture. Todd believes that the solution is generally simple and evident in most challenges and obstacles. It’s the execution that becomes difficult for organizations and leaders to implement. He loves to get teams on track toward a shared vision and goal.<\/p>\n

In his own words, here’s what Todd said about why he chose to join FocalPoint.<\/h4>\n

\u201cWithout a doubt, the viability of a successful business\/franchise comes first, but running a close second is the culture and people. Not only do I think FocalPoint is a great business opportunity, but everyone I’ve dealt with and spoken to during my due diligence was exceptional. Not just good but exceptional. People I want to be associated with.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Not only do I think FocalPoint is a great business opportunity, but everyone I’ve dealt with and spoken to during my due diligence was exceptional. Not just good but exceptional. People I want to be associated with.”<\/p>\n

A graduate of Schiller International University in London, England, Todd has been very fortunate and blessed to have been able to pursue his passion for travel, learning, and discovery as not only a vocation but as part of his personal life as well. He loves being on the road and exploring different countries and different cultures. Todd feels his international experiences and language capabilities add to his credentials not only as a business coach but as a human being on this amazing planet.<\/p>\n

For work and play, Todd sometimes spends over 300 days a year traveling and likes to think of himself as perhaps the initial digital nomad! Throughout all that travel and exploration, he\u2019s fostered a love for the outdoors and experiential learning. He has a 17-year-old son who has taken on many adventures with him in far-off lands. Some unknown trivia about Todd? He has participated in numerous multi-day ultra-adventure races; he\u2019s been a National Championship Coach at the collegiate level and is also a trained Italian chef and loves to cook!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who is Todd Copley? Todd is a long time executive and serial entrepreneur with a military career in the US Army\u2019s Special Operations Command and 20+ years management experience. An expert in operations, finance, customer service, leadership, and consulting, Todd has led small to large organizations (800M$) primarily within the travel\/hospitality\/tourism industry. As Founder\/President of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business-franchises","category-focalpoint-uk"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/unnamed-16.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}