Clyde Baumgardner
Our BNI Member and friend, Clyde Baumgardner passed away Saturday, April 6th at 3:55 in the afternoon, peacefully with his family around him. While we will miss his positive energy and wonderful spirit, we can be thankful that he has been released from the physical problems that had troubled him.
Clyde was a guiding force in making the Business Advantage Chapter of BNI the success that it is! Those of us that have coached with him have benefitted from his wisdom and his positive outlook, and we will continue to use his teachings to “Open doors to a brighter future” for ourselves and others!
All our love goes out to his wife Kazuko, his children and grandchildren.
Information about the memorial and donation fund in his honor follows:
The memorial will be held on Saturday, April 27th at 11 am in the main Temple of Lake Shrine, 17080 Sunset Blvd, Pacific Palisades, Ca 90272.
Reception to follow.
A memorial fund has been set up in Clyde Baumgardner’s honor. You may contribute cash, or write a check made to: Kazuko Baumgardner.
At the memorial, Mary Jo Reutter will be collecting the donations and depositing them into the account. If you prefer to mail something in, you may send to:
Complete It for Clyde
c/o Mary Jo Reutter
12534 Greene Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90066
Clyde Baumgardner Clyde received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and his Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Illinois. He has been coaching successful business men and women in the Los Angeles area since the year 2000. In summer of 2008 he attended two weeks of intensive training to become a Christopher Howard Master Results Coach, Performance Consultant, and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. In February of 2010 Clyde attended Marcia Wieder’s Dream University for one week to become one of her certified Dream Coaches.
While in college, Clyde worked summers as a refinery engineer for Standard Oil Company of California, Management Training Development workshop participant at Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company, and conducted a nation-wide customer satisfaction survey for Ford Motor Company on their Econoline truck.
Clyde worked for McDonnell-Douglas (now Boeing) as a Manufacturing and Manufacturing Engineering Project Manager which included a tour of duty in Japan. He married a Japanese woman and for three years worked in Japan for a Japanese company supervising 30 Americans teaching conversational English to Japanese businessmen.
Returning to the United States, Clyde started a company which built industrial scale models for such companies as Bechtel Corporation, McDonnell-Douglas Aeronautics, Braun Engineering, Universal Studios, National Steel & Shipbuilding, and TRW. He grew that company from a start-up to a $1 million a year business before selling his interest.
He spent 3 years working for his church, Self-Realization Fellowship, playing a significant role in construction of the Lake Shrine Temple in Pacific Palisades, California. In May, 2009, he was recognized and honored for the 20 years of his “devoted and loving service” as a lay leader of that church.
He has been a member of Century City Toastmasters for 10 years. In 2007, he was honored by the creation of the “Clyde” trophy, ‘Awarded in Recognition of Exceptional and Continuing Service to Century City Toastmasters’ and was its first recipient. Clyde has been a member of the Business Advantage Chapter of Business Network International (BNI) since 2008, and has served as its Events Coordinator, as well as past President.
Clyde has always enjoyed working with people and entered coaching so he could focus on using his “people skills” to help others take their successful businesses to the next level. He works with clients, helping them develop and use their personal strengths to achieve superior results. Clyde does life coaching with an emphasis on the business.
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