Teacher/Facilitator: Tim Cummings

What's in a habit?  

Join us for an examination of habits.  God created us to respond to them.  How do they work, how can we access them to improve our performance, and how can they improve our relationship with Christ?  Find out the importance of triggers, of chunks and of rewards.

About Tim Cummings

Tim Cummings describes his calling as an evangelist to business people.  His key question in business is "Why".  It is important to seek to know what God is determined to accomplish through us - it is a matter of purpose!

His business career had its beginnings with him sweeping floors and packing boxes in the family sign business at age of nine. Working in the family business was augmented by stints as a service station "pump jockey", florist delivery driver, door-to-door card salesman, and a variety of other entrepreneurial enterprises.  In the area of education, Tim attended Vanderbilt School of Engineering and the Owen Graduate School of Management, receiving a BS in Engineering and an MBA in four years while on an ROTC Scholarship.

Upon graduation, he received a regular army commission in the Engineer Branch and served seven years on active duty and an additional four years in the National Guard.  Assignments included duties with a Port Construction Company, as commander of an Army Diving Detachment and Battalion S-1 (Personnel Officer) and Company Commander of a Combat Engineer Company on the East German border.  

Over the past 50+ years, he has worked in all aspects of the sign industry including securing a patent in Neon processing.  Jobs within the industry included engineering and manufacturing assignments as well as R&D efforts.  During this period in the family business, Tim became a certified Quality Instructor under the Philip Crosby Quality Process.  When investors came into the family business, he decided to pursue other interests.

After leaving the sign business, Tim launched Cummings Enterprises, a business consulting service, and Dynamic Communications, a web-based communications business providing communications services for membership organizations.  The primary business product of DynaCom was an early instant of our modern CRM and template managed websites - developed through Tim's own custom programming, .  Branded versions of his system, The Buzz, were targeted for Churches (The Church Buzz), for Schools (The School Buzz), for Clubs (The Swim/Club Buzz), and for Political groups (The Political Buzz).  

In 2003 Tim was approached by the Institute for Independent Business for consideration as a mentor for small to medium businesses.  After successfully being vetted and attending their residential training course, he received credentials as a mentor and has been focused on assisting other businesses to be successful.  

Throughout Tim's engagement in the market place, he has been driven to apply his Christian faith and world view to his business endeavors, a focus he acquired from his own father's example.  As he thinks back over his business career, he can clearly see the hand of a loving God, guiding, directing, and equipping him for each new endeavor.  Among his current engagements, he serves as secretary for the Board of CBL Roundtable and coordinates a career group, Sabbatical Search, which approaches views the time between work assignments as a God-gifted sabbatical and approaches the job search from a Biblical perspective. 

Tim is an 8^th generation Nashvillian and is married to Vickie Lee Cummings and together they have a large family of 12 children (including the spouses), 12 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.