About the Van Fleet Alliance

The Van Fleet Alliance operates on a model of collaboration with a team of talented individuals and companies who are available to help individuals and companies pave a unique path to success. The Van Fleet Alliance is based on the spirit of the individual, the collaboration of the team and the betterment for all who are touched by the Alliance. And yes, there is a dose of UPtimisim in everything we do.

The Van Fleet Alliance partners include:

Bruce Van Fleet

Bruce Van Fleet is an eternal UPptimist, with 30+ years of professional sales experience in the rough and tumble world of mortgage, real estate and finance. He has led three national sales forces, including one at a Fortune 500 company, but even when he moved into the executive suite at the home office, his heart never left the field.

Phoebe Zerwick

Phoebe Zerwick is a prize-winning journalist and narrative writer, best known for an investigative series of newspaper articles that led to the exoneration of a man wrongly convicted of murder. Her work has won numerous national awards and she has been featured in the HBO documentary, "The Trials of Darryl Hunt."

Kilpatrick Design

Kilpatrick Design is a full-service creative and development firm located in Winston-Salem, NC. Kilpatrick Design provides graphic design, web design, strategic communications, internet marketing, web development, and technology consulting services to clients of all sizes.

The Bloom Agency

The Bloom Agency is a full-service agency that functions as its clients’ marketing department, with services ranging from marketing and strategic planning to new product launch, public relations strategy, web design and more.

SURVE Consulting

SURVE Consulting is a transformational leadership, talent and team development consulting firm providing counsel to organizational leaders, executives and their work teams. We are a catalysts for transformation, where work and learning become synonymous. Within our process, people do not stop working to learn, nor do they stop learning to work.

Williams, Roberts, Young

Williams, Roberts, Young is a full service human resource consulting firm specializing in career transition/outplacement, executive assessment and search, executive coaching, and leadership development. Founded in 1993, they are the state’s market leader of their type and, through their affiliation with Career Partners International, they are able to manage the delivery of services worldwide.