Stan Klos' forte is solving problems and overcoming challenges by empowering clients as his partners, working together as a team towards well defined goals. 

Stan’s education includes a BA in American Studies and Zoology, MA in Rhetorical Theory and a Ph. D Candidacy in Communications and Marketing. He attended, respectively, St. Peter’s College, Idaho State University and The Pennsylvania State University. In 1983, upon the discovery of 18th Century Philadelphia shipping records in his attic, Stan began to acquire historic documents. Since then, he has authored numerous publications while assembling ephemera collections that have headlined a plethora of universities, national historic sites, libraries, and museums special exhibits. His most recent exhibit, Forgotten Founders: Historic Documents and Medallions of Freedom, being featured at the 2008 RNC Convention’s CivicFest. Stan has keynoted numerous special events including the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center Museum’s grand opening and the 2003 re-entombment of First Lady Martha & President Samuel Huntington www.youtube.com/watch?v=W07X9FW3TFY. His founding U.S. History work has appeared in hundreds of print and digital publications including U.S. News & World Report 2006 cover story, “Washington? Get in Line" & the Discovery Channel’s “Unsolved History: Plots To Kill Lincoln.” He has authored three books, Happy Birthdays USA, President Who? Forgotten Founders & The Rise of the U.S. Presidency.

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Stan is an avid real estate historic preservationist who has re-developed 32 historically significant properties ranging from Vaudeville theaters to Revolutionary War Taverns in four states. He is a co-founder of various historic pursuits including the James Monroe Birthplace Commission and The Forgotten Founders non-profit corporation. His is also the co-founder of Dinosaur Safaris, Inc., in Shell, Wyoming that sold one of its six articulated dinosaurs, a Camarasaurus, to a Japanese museum for $1.8 million dollars in October 2009.
 

Stan's First Historic Document Exhibit and Lecture Series
Carnegie Institute July 4, 1999

In 1999 he established an innovative internet education company, Virtualology.com. As a real estate entrepreneur Stan acquired RE/MAX of Pennsylvania N/W expertly managing a marketing mix that increased yearly commission revenue from $240K to $36 million in 12 years. Stan participated, as a Regional Owner, in the executive mastermind that expanded RE/MAX into the world’s largest real estate entity. Stan was an Italian Basketball Association player for Amaro Harrys and Captain of a 1978 U.S. Basketball Team competing out of Bologna. Stan has served on diverse boards including the West Virginia Independent Colleges & Universities.   He also taught as a MBA adjunct professor in marketing and entrepreneurship at Wheeling Jesuit University for five years. Stan is the father of eight children residing in Palm Harbor, Florida.

Stan's coaching began as a Marketing Communications Ph.D. candidate in 1983 when he interned with Mercedes Benz of North America working on their dealer education videos and the Signature Series marketing campaign.  He hasn't slowed down since and he happily shares his  hands on experience and proven business techniques.

You may invite him to speak to your group of any size.  He is ready to help you by telephone or he will come to you.

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