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Whether growing young Olympic athletes, professional money managers, or military leaders, Flip Flippen’s mission is the same: “To build relationships and processes that bring out the best in people.” He has applied this goal to his work with hundreds of thousands of individuals, providing executive development and organizational consulting in four sectors: education, corporate, sports and government. With an emphasis on changing behaviors and attitudes that stand in the way of success, he has helped organizations – from small rural school districts to Fortune 100 companies – achieve dramatic improvement in performance and productivity.

Flip is the founder and president of The Flippen Group, founded in 1990 and voted as the number two company to work for in the state of Texas by Texas Monthly magazine. Today, The Flippen Group is one of the largest educator training companies and one of the fastest-growing leadership development organizations in North America. The company’s breakthrough educational processes and curricula are in use at thousands of school districts and campuses nationwide.

The first sixteen years of Flip’s professional life was spent building a non-profit organization that worked with gangs and throw-away kids. In the process, he also built a 500-acre residential treatment facility for young people. Today he is considered an internationally renowned speaker and psychotherapist, having developed the Flippen 360 Degree Profile™, an unparalleled psychometric assessment tool that accurately identifies individual strengths and constraints. Using this powerful tool, Flip conceived the theory of Overcoming Personal Constraints™, which teaches people how to break the constraints that limit performance and hinder growth. His book, The Flip Side – Break Free of the Behaviors That Hold You Back, released May 2007, is a New York Times and USA Today best seller.

The success of his efforts has been documented on The Today Show, The Super Bowl Pre-Game Show, Speed Channel’s NBS 24/7 among others, and in countless publications over the last twenty years. He is widely recognized as a world-class entrepreneur, educator, and philanthropist.

Flip earned his master’s degree from Texas A & M University. Committed to public service, he has served on the Texas Governor’s Commission on Children, Youth, and Family Services and other committees and task forces. Flip and his talented wife Susan have a passion for kids and have helped raise more than twenty children. They reside on their ranch in College Station, Texas.

R.L. “Van” VanAntwerp LTG (Ret.) was appointed Chief of Infrastructure and Executive Development for The Flippen Group in July 2011. In addition to Executive Development and Leadership Keynotes for TFG, Van leads the Infrastructure Group, working with other organizations to develop teams and acquire resources to improve infrastructure.

In 2012, Van was elected to the Board of Directors of USAA. USAA, is a diversified financial services group of companies, and is among the leading providers of financial planning, insurance, investments and banking products to members of the U.S. military veterans, who have honorably served, and their families.

Van retired from the Army after 39 years of service and a final assignment as Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S Army Corps of Engineers. He oversaw a $40+ billion program including most of the Nation’s civil works infrastructure and military construction on over 150 Army and Air Force installations. He was responsible for over 37,000 employees who provided engineering, project management, construction, and operation and maintenance support in nearly 100 countries around the world.

Van is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and holds an M.B.A. from Long Island University and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan. He is a Registered Professional Engineer.

Van and his wife, Paula, have five children and seven grandchildren. They reside in North Carolina.

Dr. Richard Cashion comes to WellVia from College Station, Texas. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin, he received his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Post-graduate training began with an Internal Medicine residency at the Harvard Medical Service at Boston City Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, followed by a cardiology fellowship at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. Dr. Cashion has had several academic appointments including a teaching fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Clinical Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas A & M Health Science Center. Dr. Cashion is American Board of Internal Medicine certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease and Nuclear Cardiology.