Meet The Instructors

Thomas McGuire
321-292-9069
Tom@LargeLossMastery.com
Founder, Owner, The Solutions Company, LLC - Loss & Large Loss Mastery Trainer, Teacher, Learner, Mentor, Historian
40-year veteran of Large Loss and Disaster Recovery, specializing in commercial restoration projects including structural damage restoration/decontamination, ambient control/stabilization, and vital document recovery/vacuum freeze drying systems.
International experience includes: Kuwait City, Singapore, Costa Rica, Canada, Mexico the Virgin Islands, and the West Indies

TJ Wiberley
Instructor - Loss Mastery - Residential Restoration Expert
Residential restoration expert, owner, Patriot Restoration, One Tom Plumber, Knoxville, Tennessee. 8 years, with 9 years of experience in the banking and financing industry. TJ is a lethal combination of a restoration contractor who understands business and financing. TJ knows what it takes to onboard clients and get paid on every project. Master of THE EDGE ROM estimating system and managing labor production rates on every project to maintain healthy profit margins and happy clients.

Greg Dillon
Guest Instructor and Creator of T & M PLUS
40-year veteran of Large Loss and Disaster Recovery, specializing in Time and Materials estimating, project cost tracking, invoicing, and successful T & M contracting. Brad is a serial entrepreneur and innovator in his field and an expert witness for restoration industry professionals. Greg instructs students on how to use T & M pricing and contracting properly and create transparency in the invoicing process, expediting payment with insurance carriers.

Jack Warkenthien
Guest Instructor-Large Loss Mastery BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Jack is the CEO, Best Selling Author, and Founder of NextStep Solutions (NSS), a Sales Specialists headquartered in Houston, TX. NextStep Solutions is known worldwide for increasing client sales through a customized approach to strategy, training, coaching, and consulting services. NextStep Solutions—founded in 1995—inspires sales greatness, focusing on building relationships and enhancing communication skills, delivering quantifiable results.

Tim Miller
Founder/President - Business Development Associates, Inc
Tim Miller is the “Restoration Sales Expert” and President and Founder of Business Development Associates, Inc. (BDA) The company is the best in the world at creating referral and other sales programs for restoration contractors. BDA’s clients have generated well over $150 million in new business so restorers can drive the growth of their own business and not be at the mercy of TPAs.
In addition, Tim helps clients be sure that they not only grow top line sales revenue but also bottom-line net profits! This allows their business to create true wealth and allow owners the freedom they were seeking when they first started their business. Says Miller, “Every day I wake up hoping to inspire business and sales leaders to take action to uncover and fix hidden sales and business problems and use that knowledge to transform their businesses, creating true wealth and achieving their dreams!”

Neeley Kolsch
Business Development, Entrepreneur, Founder, CEO – Well-Kept. Brands
Neeley is a spearhead for organizations, developing new business, managing existing clients. She has extensive knowledge in commercial restoration, project management, catastrophe logistics, and developing protocols. An entrepreneur at heart, Neeley has extensive experience with new product development, manufacturing and securing national and international retail partnerships. In 2012 Neeley Founded and is currently CEO of Well - Kept. Brands, selling hundreds of thousands a custom designed sanitizing wipes for personal electronic devices such as cell phones and computers. Neeley’s Well - Kept products have been featured multiple times on Good Morning America, and The View. You can find her products in Ritz-Carlton Hotels, J Crew, Nordstroms, Sephora and Anthropologie stores.

Bernie Tobin
Co-Founder/Managing Director All American Property Consultants
Bernie Tobin is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of All-American Property Consultants (AAPC), a management consulting, business development advisory firm, tailored to service providers operating in the insurance market. With more than 3 decades of experience, Bernie excels in the development of strategic account approaches to top-down operational analysis, and expenditure reviews. Bernie is a graduate of Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania where he received a BA in History, and a minor in Business Administration. While attending, he was a Co-Captain on the swim team, earning All-America honors on two occasions.

Jeff Carrier
Founder/CEO Restoration ERP
Jeff Carrier is a 10+ year industry sales and marketing veteran, leading teams of sales professionals for a full-service independent restoration company. Currently Jeff runs and operates one of the industry’s largest digital marketing firms dedicated specifically to the restoration industry. After years of research, speaking directly with a wide range of business owners, studying their interest and dedication to finding, developing and servicing more commercial restoration revenue and clients Jeff developed Restoration ERP, a disaster preparedness tool to help restorers and end users successfully prepare for the unexpected.

Sarah Raley
Expert Project Documentation and Auditor – Expert Witness
Sara is an expert in project documentation and project auditing. If Sara is auditing your file, you better know what you are doing because she will find the faults in your invoice. This experience comes from owning a restoration business in Central Florida and working with commercial clients such as NASA and the Kennedy Space Center. Students learn much-needed information about documentation, invoicing, and getting paid in a straight-to-the-point, no-nonsense approach.
Some of the most notable projects that our team has been involved with:
- World Trade Center 1993 - Terrorist attack
- Pentagon Building - 911 Terrorist attack
- New Orleans Super Dome - Hurricane
- City of New Orleans - Hurricane
- New Orleans Criminal Courts and NOPD - Hurricane
- City of Cedar Rapids - Flood
- Iowa City - Flood
- Norris School District - Lincoln, Nebraska - Tornado
- Nissan Stadium - Nashville, Tennessee - Hurricane
- JEA Power Plant - JAX - Fire
- Seminole Power Plant - JAX - Fire
- Macintosh Power Plant - Lakeland, FL - Lead Abatement
- Colorado State University - Flash Flood
- Iowa State University - Flash Flood
- Xavier University - New Orleans, LA - Hurricane
- Penn State University - Fire
- Stanford University - Flash Flood
- Austin Peay University - Tornado
- Gustavus Adolphus College - Tornado
- New Orleans Arena
- May Companies - Northridge Earthquakes - LA
- Hurricanes: Irma, Harvey, Mathew, Sandy, Ike, Katrina, Andrew, Floyd, Rita, Ivan, Hugo, Allison, Charlie, Francis, Wilma, Michael, Ian, Irma, Milton, and Helene
- Record flooding in St, Louis, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Grand Forks, Ft. Collins, Colorado, and Fargo, North Dakota.
- Terrorist attacks - World Trade Center - 1993, 2001, Pentagon 2001
