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About Tom Zimmermann

 
For more than a decade, Tom Zimmerman has been sharing his message with delighted audiences across the country. It is really quite simple. He believes that all of us are smarter than any of us, and it is imperative that we work together. His mission is to increase cooperation, decrease the negative effects of stress, and enhance positive communication. Tom works closely with his clients to make sure that together they can achieve a WIN/WIN/WIN solution. A solution that’s good for his client, good for him, and good for the world we all live in.

A licensed marriage and family counselor, Tom says he learned his counseling skills from his father. He’ll tell you that his father was a real SOB. You see, both he and his father are sons of butchers, and it was across the meat counter that Tom learned about unconditional positive regard and how to actively listen. He is one of six children raised in a home where they were taught responsibility and cooperation, teamwork and loyalty.

His resume includes experience with local and federal government positions, manufacturing, transportation, retail sales, restaurant management, customer service, and nine months working in a cat house. (For those of you with a dirty mind, that was in the Lincoln Park Zoo, working with lions, tigers, cheetahs and leopards doing the dirty work.) He spent six mostly delightful years as a classroom teacher, continuously learning from the wisdom of the young, and then six more wonderful years as school counselor.

In 1990, Tom and his wife, Ellen, founded Synergy Counseling & Consulting so they could continue their work with individuals, couples and families, and at the same time increase their work with businesses and organizations. In 1992, with Tobin Quereau, he co-authored The New Game Plan for Recovery: Rediscovering the Positive Power of Play. Since then, his clientele has included AMD, IBM, 3M, TCADA, TNRCC, and almost the whole alphabet. He has worked with principals and postmasters, the makers of Tylenol and microchips, doctors, nurses and patients, judges and jailers, district attorneys and former felons. The diversity he has found in his life has been invaluable and life enriching.

Tom is a master of verbal Aikido – a non-violent, cooperative martial art. This particular martial art is unique in that it works to restore harmony and balance – two traits that Tom demonstrates in his daily life, and shares with his audiences.  Through laughter, cooperation, and positive communication, Tom Zimmermann is making this world a better place – one audience at a time!

Tom Zimmermann, M.A.
 CEO/Founder-Synergy Counseling & Consulting
12741 Research Blvd., Suite #302, Austin, TX 78759
PH: (512) 335-1123

email: Tom@TomZimmermann.com

 

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