Our Team

Our clients often comment about the added value our facilitators bring to the classroom. Our operating business experience coupled with our merger and acquisition consulting brings a great deal of credibility and business acumen to the classroom. We are a team of high-energy business professionals who have managed income statements and balance sheets across different businesses for many years. A partial list of our key facilitators is listed below.


Kelly Lyons

Kelly’s twenty years of operational and executive management experience in the United States and Canada give him instant credibility in the classroom. Kelly worked his way up from an entry level sales position to VP of Sales & Marketing for a billion dollar organization and held countless positions on his journey and therefore can relate to almost anyone in any position. His extensive experience enables him to facilitate the process and build participant commitment to developing and implementing practical, workable solutions that generate results.

In addition to facilitating PROFIT ADVENTURE™ Kelly has been involved in the acquisition of more than fifty businesses, providing due-diligence services, facilitating assimilation exercises and supporting organizations that have and will be merged. Through his experience Kelly has developed very strong business acumen skills.

The organizations Kelly has worked with have a track record of achieving a common set of goals, desired financial results along with retaining key employees.


Barry Ronan

Barry is a gifted speaker and facilitator with a unique ability to relate to participants in their world and at their level. His twenty years experience in General and Executive level management quickly becomes evident as he has a keen ability to understand different businesses and industries. His fun and engaging style and ability to use examples make participants feel at ease and comfortable with financial and business literacy concepts.

Barry has been responsible for the leadership and direction of both single and multi-location businesses, implementation of sales and marketing initiatives, operations and expense productivity, and strategic planning and budgeting. In addition, he has been involved in numerous projects related to business process re-engineering, supply chain management, and the development and launch of a centralized customer service call center.


Murray Lyons

Murray has worked in the training field since 1986. Since then he has conducted over 600 workshops for an estimated 10,000 participants in both Canada and the U.S. With his engaging style he assists individuals, teams and organizations to improve performance.

Murray led the design team for PROFIT ADVENTURE™, a proprietary tool used by K. Lyons and Associates to develop financial and business literacy skills. With his in-depth understanding of business in general and the design and facilitation of PROFIT ADVENTURE™ Murray brings a wealth of knowledge to clients using this program.


Dick Frenz

Dick is another of our seasoned facilitators with more than twenty five years knowledge and experience in operations and sales management, many of which have been in senior leadership positions. With his comfortable facilitation style Dick has a keen ability to relate to participants and immediately foster a cooperative environment. He has a reputation for helping clients and participants to move beyond simple ‘awareness training’ to supporting the design and implementation of operational improvements that are gratifying to employees and financially rewarding to the organization

Dick has also been involved with many due-diligence, operational assimilation studies and merger activities in the United States and Canada.