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Dilts Strategy Group Seminars Drawing International Attendance
'Success Factor Modeling' Provides Tools for Global Visionary Leadership

BURLINGAME, CALIFORNIA, MARCH 7, 2000Entrepreneurs, investors, consultants, managers and CEOs from around the world are gathering in South San Francisco to attend next week's 'Critical Success Factors for Emerging Growth Companies" seminar hosted by the Dilts Strategy Group (DSG).

DSG founders have drawn upon their expertise in management training, behavioral modeling and venture funding to create a new methodology for global success in the technology business sector. Attendees for the upcoming April conference are coming from Germany, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Argentina and Canada to learn how to be more successful leaders and managers.

"It takes more than venture capital to make a start-up successful," said Robert Dilts, Dilts Strategy Group co-founder. "Our seminar attendees will learn the tools of the Success Factor Modeling process, enabling them to define and explore specific models, principles and skills that will allow them to be more successful leaders and managers."

DSG founders have identified their firm as a "venture catalyst", offering entrepreneurs the tools and capital necessary to build a strategic foundation for future growth. The seminars are attracting international attention, and DSG has scheduled Visionary Leadership conferences in Guadalajara, Mexico, London and Buenos Aires. Pending conferences are also scheduled in Turin, Italy and Berlin.

"The skills I acquired at the DSG seminar are invaluable in contributing to the success of my business," said Bruce Avery, vice president of marketing for Flypaper.com, who attended a DSG seminar in San Francisco, Calif. "I learned to look beyond just our technology and our market opportunity, and how to show investors, partners and our customers that we have what it takes to build a successful and profitable company."

About DSG Founders

Co-founders Robert and John Dilts bring distinctly unique expertise to DSG, with backgrounds in investment law, company operations, venture funding and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (the basis for the Success Factor Modeling process).

Robert Dilts
Robert Dilts has had a global reputation as leading behavioral skills trainer and business consultant since the 1970's (specializing in the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming-NLP). Robert has done consulting and training to a wide variety of professional groups and organizations. Past clients and sponsors include Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, The World Bank, Alitalia, Telecom Italia, Lucasfilms Ltd., Ernst & Young and The American Society for Training and Development. He has lectured extensively, making presentations and keynote addresses for The European Forum for Quality Management, The World Health Organization, and Harvard University. Dilts headed an extensive study of leadership skills and creativity for Fiat and is currently an associate professor at the Fiat School of Management and project leader for their leadership development program in the USA. Robert also headed a project with the State Railway of Italy involving an intensive training program on organizational learning, instructional design and communication skills for trainers, instructors and presenters. He has developed a certification program for NLP and systemic thinking skills for the management development group of IBM Europe, and supervised the design of Tools for Living, the behavior management portion of the program used by Weight Watcher's International.

Robert is a developer and expert in the principles and techniques at the basis of the "Success Factor Modeling" process, and has authored numerous books and articles about how they may be applied to enhance leadership, creativity, communication and team development. Visionary Leadership Skills, for instance, draws from Robert's extensive study of historical and corporate leaders to present the tools and skills necessary for "creating a world to which people want to belong." His recent work Sleight of Mouth describes the set of verbal reframing patterns he developed to conversationally influence beliefs. A co-founder of Dilts Strategy Group, L.L.C., Robert was also CEO of Behavioral Engineering, a company that developed computer software and hardware applications emphasizing behavioral change. Robert has a degree in Behavioral Technology from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

John Dilts
John has also been involved with the development of numerous emerging growth technology companies while at Venture Law Group, and previously, at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, which are among the country's leading corporate law firms focusing on the representation of start-ups seeking venture capital financing. John is also a co-founder and Managing Member of the IPF Fund, L.L.C. a venture fund focused on investing in early stage technology companies. Along with Robert, John is a Managing Director of both Dilts Capital Partners, L.L.C., and Dilts Technology Fund, L.P.

John is currently on the Board of Directors of several technology companies including: Winbrook, Inc., developer of web-enabled enterprise software; MotionTV, Inc., developer of proprietary video compression technology; iDIRECTIONS.com, an IPF Fund portfolio company creating personal portal technology for the Internet.; StreamTheory, Inc., developer of software streaming technology; UrbanDesign Online, Inc.; which has brought high-end home furnishings and access to interior designers to the web; and JustCollectorCars.com, a new collector car Internet portal. John earned a law degree from the University of San Francisco and a BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz.