Tim Augustine, author of How Hard Are You Knocking?
Tim Augustine is a Principal and Vice President for Atwell-Hicks, a national land development consulting firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is a member of the firm’s Board of Directors and leads corporate strategy, geographic expansion efforts, merger and acquisition integration and the implementation of global strategic marketing initiatives. In addition, he is responsible for business development, marketing, human resources, office operations and information services for the firm. He is an expert on the development of people strategies and culture marketing, as well as a champion for staff and executive development through the firm’s training platform, Atwell-Hicks University.
Prior to joining Atwell-Hicks, Augustine was the founder and co-owner of The Herman Draack Company, an international human resource consulting firm specializing in executive coaching and human resource strategy implementation with offices in Chicago, San Francisco and Washington D.C. His professional experience also includes serving as the Vice President of Strategic Marketing for Unitech Systems, an international software company headquartered in Chicago. In this role, Tim focused on developing and launching software tools focused on information integrity and automated controls.
Augustine earned a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and B.A. in Marketing and Speech Communications from Kent State University. After graduating from Northwestern, Augustine served as a professor at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Stuart School of Management teaching strategic marketing for the MBA Program. He is currently partnering with the University of Michigan’s Alumni Program to offer career development strategies to their network of 400,000 alumni.
His seminars and books have been featured nationally on ABC, FOX and NBC and reviewed in USA Today, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The National Association for Campus Activities. He has made numerous radio and television appearances and has presented to over 300 organizations throughout the United States. He is a contributing writer to Inc. Magazine, Fast Company and Monster.com on topics pertaining to the people strategies of successful organizations. Similarly, he has published two “How-To” guides with Inc. Magazine focused on career development and corporate growth.
Active in professional organizations and within the community, Augustine is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management, National Association of Campus Activities, Delta Sigma Pi. He also serves on the board of directors for Chicago’s Open Heart Magic, a non-profit organization that provides interactive bedside magic to children in hospitals. Augustine proudly served in the United States Air Force National Guard. He lives in the Ann Arbor area with his wife and three children.
