Hard Knocks MBA

iller II is the President of HK Consulting, a marketing and management consulting firm based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Miller is the author of Hard Knocks MBA: The Search for Job Satisfaction and Business Success and has been a featured speaker, guest, educator and trainer for businesses, associations and media outlets nationwide. Visit www.hardknocksmba.org for more information. As chronicled in his book, Mr. Miller was previously the owner of Trinity Restoration, Inc. also of Tulsa. Trinity was an international automotive restoration services provider. While at Trinity Mr. Miller increased annual revenues from $0 to over $6 million reaching the top 1% of sales nationally and the INC. 5000 Fastest-Growing Privately-Held Companies in America for 2008 and 2009. Trinity received national recognition through partners Chip Foose, Orange County Choppers, CMT/MTV’s “Trick My Truck” and Halicki Films “Gone in Sixty Seconds”. Prior to Trinity, Mr. Miller spent over a decade in telecommunications serving in a number of executive sales and marketing roles around the country. These companies ranged from public firms such as MCI, AT&T, WorldCom, and Cox to private firms such as TelStrat, Pulsecom, and Infinitec Networks. Miller has also been involved in a number of entrepreneurial enterprises ranging from home furnishings to wine and spirits to oil and natural gas. Miller is a member of several professional associations, such as the American Marketing Association, Rotary International, OSU Alumni Association, and The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity, Inc., of which he is a former President and BOG Chairman and one of the youngest members of its National Hall of Fame, Class of 2006. Miller earned his BA in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Marketing from Oklahoma State University in 1992 and his MBA in International Marketing from Robert Kennedy University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2003. In 2002, he was honored to be a member of the Executive MBA Series at MIT’s Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Miller frequently volunteers and teaches at business schools around the country. Miller’s interests include SCUBA, shooting, hunting, writing, skydiving, kickboxing, flying, fencing, golf, running, and public speaking. Miller makes his home in Dallas, Texas. http://www.facebook.com/davidwmillerII