Dale Fallon is a Managing Member and President of The Communication Gym^®. He is a professional business coach and has been helping business owners to grow their companies for over 16 years. He is a Co-Founder and Past President of the Central Pennsylvania Alliance of Coaches, and is the current President of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development. Dale holds a Black Belt in Sin Moo Hapkido, a black belt in Tae Kwan Do, and a Fourth degree Black Belt in Interpersonal Communication.

Tom Dardick is a Managing Member of The Communication Gym®. He has contributed to the evolution of The Communication Gym® since its inception as a member, coach, and program developer. He has worked as a financial coach and has been a founding owner in two previous companies, Dardick Technical Services, Inc. and Darcom Technologies, Inc.

Tom specializes in coaching employers and prospective employees through the hiring process. He also helps couples acquire tools and skills that help them communicate more effectively.

Tom has received the following professional certifications from Target Training International: Certified Professional Behavior Analyst, Certified Professional Values Analyst, and Certified Professional Skills Analyst. He is also certified in Trimetrix® and Personal DNA® psychometrics.  He currently holds a 3rd degree Black Belt in Communication and holds a B. A. in Economics from Tufts University.

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Dilip Abayasekara, Ph.D., A.S. is a professional speaker, trainer, and speech coach. His focus, through his training company, Speaker Services Unlimited, is to help people discover their own genius and find their path of fulfillment. 

Dilip Abayasekara was born and raised in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He attended college in the USA, earning an A.A. at Palm Beach Junior College, a B.S. in Chemistry at University of Florida, and a Ph.D. in Organic and Polymer Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University. After working for 12 years as an industrial scientist, he surrendered to his avocation - connecting, influencing, and enriching others through the power of the spoken word. 

Dilip was twice a finalist at Toastmasters International’s World Championship of Public Speaking, placing second in 1992. He is among a small number of Toastmasters who have received accreditation by Toastmasters International for professional level speaking skills and outstanding contributions in public speaking. 

In 2005-2006, he served as President of Toastmasters International, the world's leading volunteer organization that helps people improve their communication and leadership skills.

Dr. Abayasekara also serves as Special Assistant to the President of Central Pennsylvania College. He is also an adjunct faculty member of central Pennsylvania College in Oral Communications and is an adjunct faculty member of Eastern University's School of Professional Studies in the area of Managerial and Interpersonal Communications.

Among Dilip Abayasekara's clients have been the Pentagon, The Hershey Corporation, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Government of Sri Lanka- Rural Development Board and the Ministry of Plan Implementation, the United Nations Development Programme in Sri Lanka, Beneficial National Bank, PNC Bank, Household Financial Services, USA, Mid-Atlantic Federal Credit Union, Consulting Engineers Council of Delaware, Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, Central Pennsylvania College, and Delaware Pharmaceutical Society. He has had a host of private speech coaching clients that have included company presidents, business executives, university professors, scientists, engineers, physicians, elected city officials, members of the clergy, and speech contestants.

Dr. Dilip has presented in 25 states in the USA and in other countries including Canada, the Philippines, Singapore, India and Sri Lanka.

Gary is a Founding Member and Co-artistic Director for the Theater of the Seventh Sister in Lancaster. Gary brings a unique and powerful perspective on what it means to communicate authentically in our daily lives. 

In addition to his artistic involvement, Gary's work in the organizational aspect of theater has generatd an intense interest in the nature of human organziation itself.  He has received scholarships for the past four years to the prestigious Institute for Authentic Leadership in Halifax Nova Scotia.  The Institute gathers the leading organizational thinkers and practitioners from around the world to investigate and train an international community of leaders in "best practices for authentic leadership."  At the Institute works with such luminaries as Peter Senge (author of The Fifth Discipline and Senior Lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Margaret Wheatley (internationally acclaimed author, leading expert on the future of organizations and founder of Berkana Institute for pioneering leadership), Barry Oshry (creator of Power + Systems - Seeing Systems and Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life), Brian Bacon (founder of Oxford Institute - Leading with Purpose, Values & Vision) and others.  The opportunity for Gary to attend this international Institute and work with world-renowned "cutting edge" thinkers has reinvigorated and forever changes his views on organization and the potentials of our community.

Mr. Birmingham received an M.S.E. in Management of Technology from the University of Pennsylvania, through a program sponsored by Penn Engineering and the Wharton School of Business. He also holds a B.A. in Economics from Penn and has completed coursework at the American University of Paris. Mr. Birmingham began his professional career in Philadelphia, eventually returning to Europe to work as a coach, teacher, and administrator at the Institut Montana Zugerberg in Zug, Switzerland. He served as the Director of Technology at Commerce Bank for nearly a decade, where he oversaw project management, development, and technology services. Mr. Birmingham is a charter member of the corporate faculty at Harrisburg University, a director of the Keystone Leadership Development Corporation, a member of the Technology Council of Central PA Cyber Security and Business Continuity Industry Partnership, and a former senior staffer of the Keystone Boys’ State leadership program, where he taught for 17 years. He is currently developing a corporate training course on project communications.

Mr. Rowell holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Secondary Education and Mathematics from Potsdam State College in New York. He received his Masters of Science degree in Education, with a focus in Instructional Technology and Media Management also from Potsdam State College. Jim has had extensive experience as a professional trainer and supervisor and most recently served as the Director of Learning and Performance for a large organization where he had oversight responsibility for all of the learning opportunities for approximately 1,300 employees.
Throughout his 20 years of professional experience, Jim has provided hundreds of hours of training and consulting. Jim has personally designed and conducted numerous seminars, workshops and training experiences in such diverse areas as human growth and development, relationship enhancement and development, values clarification, crime prevention, time management, program design, crisis management, standards development, conflict resolution, team building, management and supervision,
and leadership development.
Jim currently holds membership status in the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), Institute of Management Consultants USA (ICM) and Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). He also maintains certifications as a Venture for Excellence Interviewer (Vic Cotrell), and 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families Trainer (Stephen Covey).

Charlie’s focus is helping people get out of their own way. He has a conviction that each of us is truly much more than we think we are, and, fulfilling this potential is hugely enhanced for each of us by surrendering to a deeper level within.

Charlie has over 25 years of experience as a Professional Engineer, operating his own forensic engineering firm in the 1990’s. He began a life-long pursuit of personal development in combination with the study of the potential of being a human being in 1979. Charlie began a business as a Personal Life Coach 10 years ago.

Charlie has received Advanced Spiritual Training over the last 9 years with the Modern Mystery School (www.modernmysteryschool.com ). He was certified as a Teacher with the School in 2002. The certification Program consisted of sacred and ancient teachings; the core teachings of the Mystery School are the same as they have been for the last 3000 years.

Tony Lardarello specializes in growing profitable revenue for organizations through behavior development; specifically sales and marketing teams.  His passion for results has allowed him to work with people from various industries which have allowed him to transcend industry lines.  He consistently works to assist organizations in creating solutions for the challenges they face in today’s market while not losing focus on tomorrow.  His execution of results-oriented and innovative approaches enables clients to tap into their hidden potential and achieve outcomes once thought out of reach.

Tony is currently enrolled at Walden University working on his PhD in Industrial Organizational Psychology and has earned his M.B.A. degree from Wilmington College, majoring in Business Management as well as a B.S. and A.A.S. degrees.  He has worked with organizations both nationally and internationally to define long-term strategies, to improve sales effectiveness, to develop the sales and leadership skills and competencies of employees with improved bottom line results.  As President of an IT consulting company, he was directly responsible for tripling the number of accounts, increasing sales by over 30% and increasing net margins by 15%.  He has also held sales and management positions in the IT, software, manufacturing, retail, wholesale, and distribution industries.  Tony is considered a “trusted-advisor” by all of his major clients.

He has led or facilitated over 100 sessions, conducted hundreds of meetings from small to large groups of up to 150 people per session and has designed, created, edited, and facilitated dozens of training and development programs.

Tony has also written articles for various newspapers, business publications, and magazines and has given presentations in 5 different countries.  He has presented to organizations, professional associations, the media, and boards of directors.  Finally, he has received certification in Group Dynamics, Teams & Tools, and Facilitation Techniques and is an Associate of Staub & Associates of the Sandler Sales Institute working with Ed Staub, York, PA and an Affiliate of Maximum Business Consulting; a Mentor Capital Firm working with Alan Snook, York, PA.

Tony is a lifetime member of the President’s Club of the Sandler Sales Training Institute for 10 years through Staub & Associates, York, PA.