About Quarry House

THE SHORT VERSION
 I'm Tom Atkins, founder of Quarry House. I am a John Maxwell certified life coach, consultant, speaker, and teacher; as well as a published poet, writer, photographer, artist, spiritual counselor and part time Methodist Pastor. Quarry House is where do my work.

THE LONG VERSION - A HISTORY OF SUCCESS
With over thirty years in high technology work in Broadcast, AV and Media Centric IT, I have been blessed to be associated with many "first of their kind" technical facilities, and have been part of the start up team for three start ups that became industry giants

In 1991 I was one of the first four employees of the Whitlock Group, helping them grow to one of the top five companies in the Systems Integration Business. In 1998 I was offered an opportunity to be a partner and VP of Sales and Marketing for TGS, Inc, spearheading the HDTV transition with many technology firsts. For the next five years we grew over 200% a year and were eventually bought out by industry giant Ascent Media. in 2005, I went to work for Diversified Systems, starting their Mid Atlantic Division from scratch. Overseeing sales, engineering, project management and administration, I guided the division from start-up to over $22M in sales. While at Diversified, I also took on corporate marketing as we expanded nationally and internationally. During this same time I was a strategic partner in the Kingma Agency, doing strategic planning, marketing and advertising for national and international clients.

From having Success to helping others gain it.

I began Quarry House in 2011, with a focus of taking the lessons learned in a life of success, and helping others reach their own goals and dreams. I joined the Maxwell Team (Now Maxwell Leadership) and underwent the most intensive and highly respected training available to become a certified coach, consultant, trainer and speaker, adding these skills to my arsenal of tools to help people and organizations move from where they were, to where they want to be. As a coach I work with people in technology, business, creativity, and spiritual leaders. Most of them had worked with other coaches and consultants, but found far more success working with me. People who work with me, succeed.

My work today is 100% focused on helping clients reach their goals and dreams. I have a remarkably simple philosophy: Business is about promises made and promises kept. Everything else is fluff. I limit my number of clients on purpose, so each client has my fully focused attention.

I am married, have three kids and two cats. I live in Vermont and work with clients worldwide via the latest technologies. I have a nationwide network of collaborators when projects are larger or more complex than what a I can handle effectively. I pastor two small Methodist Churches and create art in a studio housed just across the NY border in an old Presbyterian Church.

So, that is the Reader's Digest rundown on me and Quarry House. I hope you will look around, learn more about what we do and how we do it. And then contact me. Let's talk about what you want to do or become. I promise you will get value from that (free initial) conversation, and we might even decide working together makes sense. Everything great starts with a conversation.

Tom Atkins,
Founder, Quarry House