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In 1990, Team Builders Plus was just a dream. Jeff Backal was busy channeling his sales and marketing expertise into other ventures. Meanwhile, Merrick Rosenberg was hard at work transforming people as a trainer and management consultant. Unbeknownst to both of them, a crew of future team members was gathering expertise in coaching, training, and consulting.
In 1991, Jeff and Merrick joined forces to create Team Builders Plus. Over the years, the company grew and so did our expertise. Today, Team Builders Plus offers world-class services including, team building, leadership development, performance coaching, and 360-Degree Feedback. We are proud of the contributions we have made in helping countless people in their careers, improving work environments in hundreds of organizations, and guiding teams and organizations to exceed their goals.
 Jeffrey Backal, MBA
CEO
Jeff Backal brings to his clients 20 years of management and consulting experience. He holds a Masters Degree from Drexel University, where he was a founding partner in the Drexel Consulting Group.
Jeff’s passion for helping groups of individuals truly develop into cohesive teams was his driving force to create Team Builders Plus. Early in his career, he realized many individuals and companies have a strong desire to grow and Jeff wanted to find a way to help. This lead Jeff to spending much of his time working closely with clients to understand their culture, identifying their development needs, and recommend solutions to help them achieve their goals. Since co-founding Team Builders Plus in 1991, tens of thousands of individuals, teams and organizations from across the country have benefited from Jeff’s dedication to creating better work environments.
Through Jeff’s leadership, Team Builders Plus has been honored with several prestigious awards, such as Philly 100 (fastest growing company in the Philadelphia Region), South Jersey 25 (fastest growing company in South Jersey), New Jersey’s Business of the Year, and Best Places to Work… Jeff was also the 2011 recipient of the Philadelphia Regions HR Consultant of the Year.
In addition, Team Builders Plus has made several substantial acquisitions over the past few years, including Silver Career Management and Teambuilding, Inc.
Jeff sits on the Steininger Behavior Care Services Board of Directors and on the Executive Advisory Board of Performance Support Systems (the publisher of the 20/20 Insight GOLD). He is an active member in professional organizations such as Tri-State Human Resource Management Association, The Delaware Valley Initiative (an employment issues resource center dedicated to helping area business owners and HR professionals), The Chamber of Commerce and ASTD. He is also an Inscape Publishing Diamond Consultant. Most recently Jeff was voted in to an exclusive CEO organization, BCA, as the premier provider of Team Building Programs.
You might be surprised to know that: Jeff spends his spare time coaching all types of youth teams, such as soccer, wrestling, baseball, softball...
 Merrick Rosenberg, MBA
President & Chief Learning Officer
Co-Author of Taking Flight!: Master the Four Behavioral Styles and Transform Your Career, Your Relationships…Your Life.
Merrick is an experienced
speaker, facilitator, performance coach, author, and
entrepreneur. He co-founded Team Builders Plus in 1991
and has worked with people at all levels, from line
staff to senior managers. Merrick co-authored Taking
Flight: Master the Four Behavioral Styles and Transform
Your Career, Your Relationships…Your Life. In fact, Ken
Blanchard called Taking Flight! “an instant classic” and
Marshall Goldsmith noted, “You’ll never look at people
quite the same way again.”
As President & Chief Learning Officer of Team Builders
Plus, he has led his organization to the be selected by
the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of the Fastest
Growing Companies and Best Places to Work in the
Philadelphia region. Under his leadership, Team Builders
Plus was recently selected as the New Jersey Business of
the Year by NJ Biz magazine.
Merrick specializes in team building, leadership
development, and utilizing the DISC model to build
better relationships and create an engaging work
environment. He received his MBA specializing in
Organizational Development from Drexel University who
selected him as the Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year.
Merrick has been published in numerous publications
including, ASTD’s Training & Development magazine and
Training magazine.
Merrick is also an engaging speaker and presenter. He
has been a featured guest on Money Matters Today on the
Comcast Network and on The Executive Leaders Radio
Program. He has spoken for organizations such as: TEDx,
ASTD, the Society for Human Resource Management, the
Project Management Institute, the International Society
for Performance Improvement, the Employer's Council, the
American Society for Quality, and Vistage International.
Merrick has worked with more than half of the Fortune
100 companies in 35 states and around the world. He has
worked with small and large organizations in a variety
of industries : AAA, Adidas, Alstom Power, Aramark, Bank
of America, Blue Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia,
Cross Blue Shield, Campbell Soup Company, Chase, Colgate
Palmolive Comcast, ExxonMobil, Ford Motor Company,
General Electric, GlaxoSmithKline, Hewlett-Packard,
InterContinental Hotels Group, Johnson & Johnson,
L'Oreal, Lockheed Martin, Lufthansa, Nabisco, National
Institute of Health, NBCUniversal, Nestle Purina,
Novartis, PECO Energy, Pepsi, Philadelphia Eagles,
Reliance Standard Life, Roche, Samaritan Hospice, Temple
University, and Verizon. Merrick has also worked with
government agencies, such as the Environmental
Protection Agency, Interpol, Social Security
Administration, US Forest Service, as well as the US
Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.
Team Builders Plus Staff
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