Abel R. Garcia has been an entrepreneur in several fields for past 30 years. He received a degree in Business from South Texas Junior College (now the University of Houston Downtown) in 1970. Shortly thereafter, He went to work in the fast food business with a Statewide Dairy Queen Company. Starting as a manager, he quickly was promoted to District Manager and later to Division Manager of 24 DQ Stores in Houston.
In 1978 Garcia bought 7 Dairy Queens and became the first Hispanic franchisee in Texas. He remained in DQ business until 1994. Meanwhile, Garcia served as President of the Houston Dairy Queen’s 100 store Advertising Association from ’78 to ’81.
After 1991 he added several other businesses to his DQ Company:
- Texas Electronic Games Inc. ’81-‘85
- Los Pollos Mexican Restaurant ’84-‘90
- (3) Garcia’s Mexican Restaurants ‘90-‘95
Garcia entered the executive search business in Houston in ’96 with a start-up search firm. He served as Director of Operations from ’97 to ’99 and played a significant role in growing the search firm to 7 offices nationwide, during that time.
In year 2000, Garcia formed the executive search firms of Abel Fuller & Zedler LLC and Execufirm, Inc. The search firms specialize in placing senior level executives in various industries.
In ’01 and ’02, Abel Fuller & Zedler, was named “A Top 25” Executive Search Firm by the “Houston Business Journal”. In the last ten years, Abel has been involved in over 100 executive placements, ranging from CEO’s to Manager/Directors. Execufirm, Inc. became a career development company.
For the last seven years Garcia has worked in developing the new and creative Execufirm Marketing Portfolio (EMP), which builds a customized and personal brand for its candidates. This process blends executive search with advertising and marketing. This presentation, allows any person to create a customized advertising portfolio that is the only one of its kind in the employment field.
The Executive Marketing Portfolio’s patented process opens one of the last closed doors in advertising, helping candidates achieve unprecedented success in their careers. EMP puts them at the top of any employment or promotion line.
Our copyright and patented “Execufirm Marketing Portfolio” makes the traditional presentation methods obsolete!
Because it far exceeds employees and companies’ expectations, we now employ the “Execufirm Marketing Portfolio” systems in our Corporate Training and Corporate Out-Placement Services.
Garcia has also presented hundreds of motivational speeches and workshops in personal self-development regarding:
“Motivating and Retaining Employees”
“Creating Your Personal Brand”
“Taking Ownership of Your Career”
“3 Steps to Self-Promotion”
“Do You Have an Entrepreneurial Spirit?”
“The Most Important Product You Will Ever Market……..
“3 steps to becoming employed again (with a better job)”
Author of “Downsized....Market Yourself Back To The Top!!” (2008)
Sample of using a creative & visual Execufirm Marketing program:
Using an Execufirm Marketing program in 2002, increased corporate membership in a Hispanic Chamber by + 100% over 2001! This was #1 in that category in over 140 Hispanic Chambers in the Nation in 2002
Community Involvement ’01 to Present
- Former HHCC Board Member/Chairman Fund Raising Committee
- Chairman of Board - Talento Bilingue de Houston (Hispanic Art & Culture Center)
- HMBC Member & Subcommittee Chair Total Business Development Program
- Consultant to:Hispanic Women in Leadership, Project Hope of Houston, Hispanic American, Medical Association of Houston (200 doctor membership), AIBF, Fiestas Patrias Grand Ball and Becoming tomorrow’s Leaders (Teenage Leadership Program)
Garcia is Texas born, the father of three adult children and lives with his wife in Houston, Texas.
Contact him here.
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