Six Disciplines Corporation Expands Leadership Centers Throughout Ohio

YHY Group Signs Multi-Site Agreement to Launch Six Disciplines Leadership Centers in Cleveland, Cincinnati/Dayton

FINDLAY, OHIO, January 9, 2005 — Six Disciplines Corporation today announced that Mike Yammine, Co-President & CTO of YHY Group, a local investment consortium, has signed a multi-site franchise agreement to launch Six Disciplines Leadership Centers in both Cleveland and Cincinnati/Dayton. The agreement also provides the option for the YHY Group to launch future additional Leadership Center franchise operations in other Ohio regions including Columbus and Akron/Canton/Youngstown.



Six Disciplines Leadership Centers offer a new class of professional business improvement service that helps the best performing organizations to achieve lasting business excellence. By using a systematic business-building methodology, practical Internet technologies, and an organizational coaching and strategic advisory service, passionate business leaders learn how to become more aligned with their strategy, focus on execution, and improve their organization’s performance to achieve lasting, sustainable excellence



The Six Disciplines Leadership Center of Cleveland will service clients in the greater Cleveland area, extending to the Pennsylvania state line to the East and west to Norwalk, OH. The Six Disciplines Leadership Center of Southwest Ohio will service clients in the Greater Cincinnati/Dayton/ Northern Kentucky area. The Six Disciplines Leadership Centers in Cleveland and Cincinnati/Dayton are scheduled to be operational in February of 2006. For more information, contact Pat Helm at 513-227-3669 or email Phelm@SixDisciplines.com.



“YHY Group’s founders bring together more than 95 years of business management expertise,” said Riad Yammine, YHY Group’s chairman, co-founder, and member of the office of CEO. “Our experience ranges from managing multi-billion dollar segments of a major Fortune 500 integrated oil company and serving on its Board of Directors, to consulting and project management services on improved lean manufacturing, consumer product manufacturing and advanced computer controlled automation design using the latest web-enabled technologies. YHY Group has a vision of enhancing every client’s competitive advantage by providing innovative business solutions. Our collective experience and business model creates a powerful resource to help improve the performance, viability and growth rates of small and medium-sized businesses in Ohio,” added Yammine.



“YHY Group brings a tremendous combination of expertise, resources and commitment to help businesses achieve lasting excellence,” said Joe Longo, Chief Operating Officer of Six Disciplines Corporation. “YHY is passionate about extending the reach of our growing network of franchised Six Disciplines Leadership Centers, which will enable them to provide lasting business process improvement value to the best performing small businesses in two key regions of Ohio,” said Longo.

The addition of the Six Disciplines Leadership Centers in Cleveland and Cincinnati are the result of an expansion effort by Six Disciplines Corporation to add to its growing nationwide network of independently owned and operated professional business coaching franchises. For inquires about Six Disciplines Leadership Center franchise opportunities in other U.S. locations, contact Scott May at 419-581-2821 or email smay@SixDisciplines.com.

About YHY Group

YHY Group, Inc., an Ohio corporation founded in 2005, has the mission “to satisfy our client’s business needs with a sustained focus on optimized finished product costs.” YHY Group co-presidents Pat Helm and Mike Yammine are executing on this mission primarily by partnering with Six Disciplines Corporation and operating a dedicated YHY Group division called “SDLC of Ohio,” which is primarily responsible for launching two Six Disciplines Leadership Centers in 2006, in Cleveland and in Cincinnati/Dayton/Northern Kentucky. YHY Group plans to launch two additional Leadership Centers as soon as possible, already under option in the next two Ohio regions: Columbus and Akron/Canton/Youngstown. Systems Group, Inc, another dedicated YHY Group division, will expand the professional consulting, engineering and technology services provided by the YHY Group’s acquisition of Manufacturing Systems Group, Inc. of Cincinnati. For more information about YHY Group, including career opportunities, contact Mike Yammine at 419-788-1390 or email myammine@SIxDisciplines.com., or Pat Helm at 513-227-3669 or email phelm@SixDisciplines.com.



About Six Disciplines Corporation

The Six Disciplines Corporation designs and delivers a systematic business-building methodology, practical Internet technologies, and a nationwide network of local business coaching organizations to help the best performing businesses to achieve lasting excellence. The Six Disciplines™ Methodology integrates the essential elements of strategic planning, quality management, organizational learning, business process automation, performance management and measure-driven improvement. By working with a Six Disciplines Leadership Center, passionate business leaders and their organizations overcome the natural tendency to lose their edge, and can transform their organization’s performance using a holistic, practical, and systematic business-building system. The Six Disciplines Methodology is revealed in detail in the top-selling book “Six Disciplines for Excellence: Building Small Businesses That Learn, Lead and Last,” available from Amazon.com at www.SixDisciplines.com/book. Visit Six Disciplines on the web at www.SixDisciplines.com.

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