Butterfly Effect

Small Changes LARGE Effects

About Us

What We Do

People are the key to realizing potential in any type of structure, whether it is a corporation, a family, a religious organization, or a community. That is why Butterfly Effect is completely dedicated to helping people realize their full potential.

People are the Key to Business Success Today!

It's all about people — about recognizing their talents, aptitudes, and abilities and developing them to achieve their potential ... small changes, large effects! It's about helping people succeed!

At Butterfly Effect, that's what we do — we help people identify, develop, and realize their true (and untapped) potential — for their own personal success and the success of your organization. We challenge people to look beyond the obvious and become the best that they can be.

We accomplish this through executive, leadership, management, and supervisory training and development, use of effective time management, and personal and business coaching. We turn potential into performance!

To learn more about our development and coaching services, we invite you to explore our site, and contact us today for an appointment!

Who We Are

Butterfly Effect is a premier people and organizational effectiveness company dedicated to making a sustainable positive impact in the personal lives and organizations in which we touch, assisting each individual to fulfill their highest potential.

We coach individuals and corporations through change and development, helping you enroll every employee in your vision to manage small transformations for dramatic results.

Our practice is customized to the wants and needs of the individual or company for which we are engaged ~ we partner with our clients to dramatically improve results in the areas of financial performance, management and leadership, customer retention, and personal and company growth.

An area of special interest and concentration is in preparing our young people for a future of excellence through a Life Development Process called "Rising Stars". The Rising Stars Vision is "Through a developmental process, Rising Stars provides a firm foundation to prepare all young people for life-long learning, development, and achievement".

Tawna Noftzger Bio

Tawna Noftzger is the CEO/President for Butterfly Effect, a Corporate Coaching and Change Management organization. Tawna has focused her career on leading, guiding and directing personnel resources toward personal and organizational excellence and success. She has leveraged her career expertise to that of a Corporate Coach with her company, Butterfly Effect.

Previously, Ms. Noftzger had a lengthy and exceptional career in telecommunications, starting with Mountain Bell Telephone and Telegraph (which became US West with divestiture and later was bought out of QWEST), and finally with AT&T. During her career she led Sales and Customer Service teams and order management. In addition, she created curriculum and taught in both classroom and video broadcast venues in areas of technical expertise and supervisor training and education. The last seven years of her career she was a Senior Project Manager leading large project teams during the implementation of significant and complex telecommunications contracts for AT&T’s largest customers domestically and internationally. As an example, she successfully led project teams of up to 60 stakeholders in a Program Manager role for a merger of two major retail organizations worth over $160M in combined revenue, bringing the project in six months ahead of time.

Ms. Noftzger is certified in the Resource Associations Corp Attribute Index which is used to maximize human capital, and is based on the work of late Dr. Robert Hartman in the area of Axiology (the study of values). Tawna Noftzger holds a BS in Management/Human Resources from Park University, graduating Magna Cum Laude and is pursuing her graduate degree in Higher Education. She is an officer for Kiwanis Club of Independence, MO and the American Club Association, and an active member of the Independence Chamber of Commerce. She is currently an Ambassador for the 2008 United Way campaign.


Tawna is a Member of the Independence Missouri Chamber of Commerce.
and Kiwanis Club of Independence Missouri