Team

Andrew Dietz

Andrew Dietz is founder and Managing Partner of Creative Growth Group, Inc. Mr. Dietz is an experienced marketing strategist, client developer and coach with 25 years experience including marketing professional services with both large and emerging companies. Mr. Dietz graduated from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a concentration in marketing. He received his Masters in Business Administration with honors from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business with an emphasis on services marketing. Mr. Dietz is a frequent contributing writer and expert on marketing and management issues for local and national business publications and edits the monthly online publication, Growing Professional Services. He is also the author of the nationally acclaimed book, The Last Folk Hero.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and is an active committee member of the Anti-Defamation League of the Southeast and of The One Ninety One Club. He lives in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta with his wife Janice, and daughters Samantha and Jessie.

Mira Ilieva Leonard

Mira is a Partner at Creative Growth Group.  In addition to spearheading planning and execution of Creative Growth Group’s new product, strategic development and expansion efforts, Mira is serving as a client development strategist and coach for Creative Growth Group's professional services clients. She is also leading the Client Advisor Awards. Mira is an experienced marketing professional and entrepreneur. Prior to her work with Creative Growth Group, Mira led marketing for a financial services consultancy and was an important team member with an emerging technology company. She has also run her own international importing business.  Mira is a member of the Atlanta Women's Foundation Destiny Fund program, Class 2009 and is active contributor to EveryBody Wins! Atlanta and a supporter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS).  She is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Newman University, KS and of Oglethorpe University's MBA program.

Our team also includes a network of renowned client development, marketing and organizational specialists available on-call to assist with key professional service rainmaker engagements. Our extended organization includes:

Organizational and Performance Improvement

• Bob McDonald, PhD
  Dr. McDonald is a leading organizational coach and performance improvement specialist as well as a successful author and entrepreneur. Dr. McDonald's long-term research was summarized in his acclaimed book, Don't Waste Your Talent -demonstrating how individuals can focus on their natural abilities and construct an individual strategic plan leading to significant productivity increases and increased career satisfaction. Dr. McDonald is the founder of Bob McDonald Consulting and was also cofounder of The Highlands Program, a national performance improvement training company.

Executive Impact and Communication

• Eric Seidel
  Mr. Seidel and his team are renowned experts in executive presence, communication and media training. He served as news director of WGST Radio, Atlanta, where he put together the market's largest radio news staff, which included Forrest Sawyer, who has since reported and anchored for CBS News, ABC News and now NBC News. And, as WGST's station manager, he hired and developed syndicated talk hosts Sean Hannity and Clark Howard. He also covered the Supreme Court for CNN, and worked for CBS Radio in Philadelphia. In 1997, Mr. Seidel founded The Media Trainers LLC where he teaches executives and other public figures how to communicate persuasively and with impact and the importance of building and maintaining relationships with the media.  He received a Bachelor of Journalism Degree from the University of Missouri.