About

More than 25 years of first-hand retail experience in executive and sales management, finance, marketing, and restructuring qualifies Terri Kabachnick as one of retailing’s most sought after productivity specialists.

Terri is an international expert on “perfecting the human side of business.” In 1984 she founded The Kabachnick Group, Inc. , and has used her knowledge and experience of sales management, finance, marketing, and restructing to help organizations like Agway Energy Products, Cortefiel SA-Spain, Mid-States Distributing Company, Inc., Neiman-Marcus, Inc., Rich’s Lazarus & Goldsmith’s, SB & Partners-Belgium, Toys ‘R Us, Net Optics, and OrthoRehab build and retain a talented, productive, and peak performance workforce. In addition to The Kabachnick Group, Terri has co-founded TotalBrand Integration and A Successful Family (LLC).

Terri’s highly motivational and informative presentations educate managers and executives in the behaviors, beliefs, values, attributes and competencies necessary for top performance productivity.  

She has become one of only 5 people worldwide to hold the following four special designations:

  • CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) - awarded to fewer than seven percent of professional speakers
  • CPBA (Certified Professional Behavior Analyst)
  • CPVA (Certified Professional Values Analyst)
  • CAIA (Certified Attribute Index Analyst)

She also serves as a coach and confidant to some of the world’s most successful business leaders.

With her unique focus on “the human side of business,” she is frequently quoted as a retail and employee behavior expert. Her insights have been featured in USA Today, Fairchild Publications, Chain Drug Review and numerous other industry and trade publications. She is the author of the Retail Interactive Coach® [RIC], an interactive multimedia CD-ROM retail training program and the Star Performer® New Techniques in Retail Selling audio training program. Her articles on communication and employee behaviors and beliefs have become required reading in many top companies.

Terri’s professional affiliations include: National Speaker’s Association, National Retail Federation, American Society of Training and Development Society, Society for Human Resource Management, and Students in Free Enterprise.