About Us

Denis R. Murdock boasts 55 years of Entrepreneurial Small Business Start-up, Business Development and General Business Management experience, with 43 years of concurrent experience in Career-Outplacement and Business Consulting, Executive Business Coaching and Mentoring. His General Management experience includes a strong background in Sales, Marketing and Operations, with a good working knowledge of Finance and Accounting.

His entrepreneurial business and consulting background is complemented by 20 years in the US Army Reserve, beginning in 1966 during his senior year in high school. After completing Officer Candidate School (OCS) at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1971, he received his commission as an infantry Second Lieutenant, then culminating his Army career with the rank of Major. In 1980, he accepted a two-year active-duty assignment as a General Staff Officer to (LOGistics EXercise) LOGEX 80 and LOGEX 81, a prominent Army Command Post Exercise at Fort Lee and Fort Pickett, Virginia. He received a commendation award and special recognition from the Fort Lee and Logistics Headquarters Commanding General.

The Murdock Group, a full-service career-outplacement and business consulting firm, was founded by Mr. Murdock in 1983 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In 1986 he opened an office in Richmond, and in 1987, a Washington, D.C. office was added. In 1989, Mr. Murdock relocated to Salt Lake City, Utah, and in 1996, he sold controlling interest in the firm to facilitate further expansion. Soon thereafter, it began trading publicly on NASDAQ, with offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. He resumed controlling interest in the firm in late 2004.

From 1983 to 1996, The Murdock Group served more than fifteen thousand clients nationwide: from Virginia to California, and New York to Florida. Most clients were either former military, or mid to upper management executives and professionals seeking career change or advancement. Many clients also wanted to leave the mainstream job market in pursuit of entrepreneurial new business start-ups.

Prior to founding The Murdock Group, Mr. Murdock was appointed manager of the Virginia Beach office of Robert Jameson Associates, and introduced the career consulting concept into Virginia. Preceding his appointment, he was a consultant in the regional Washington, D.C. office. Robert Jameson Associates, at the time it closed its offices, was one of the largest career-outplacement consulting firms in the U.S.

Preceding his affiliation with Robert Jameson Associates, Mr. Murdock was the founder of a marketing firm headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mountainwest Security Systems was a regional wholesale and retail distributor of wireless digital security systems products for Dynamics, Inc. of Charlottesville, Virginia. Additionally, as Rocky Mountain Regional Business Development Director, he established a dealer network for Dynamics.

While in his early twenties and working his way through college, he began his business career as owner of an automotive repair business and used car dealership. Flipping Porsches paid his way through college, along with a couple of scholarships.

Mr. Murdock is a published authority in the fields of career planning, job changing, sales, marketing, communications, and business optimization. He is a Bestselling Author: The Job Seeker’s Bible – Your Dream Job In Record Time and The Art & Science of Success Volume 3, Proven Strategies from Today’s Leading Experts.

A BYU alumnus majoring in Humanities, he has conducted numerous training programs and seminars, been interviewed frequently by the print media, and appeared on a variety of radio and television programs. He has been inducted into Who's Who Worldwide, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in Sales and Marketing, National Directory of Who's Who and Two Thousand Notable American Men.

During the period 2000-2005, Mr. Murdock consulted and managed billing for medical clinics in Salt Lake City, Utah, and from 2006 to 2015 consulted and managed medical clinics and dental practices in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2015 he formally retired from medical management and consulting, discovering a new passion in Cryptocurrency. From 2015 until 2019, he traveled around the world twice as a Cryptocurrency advocate and VIP guest speaker promoting Cryptocurrency trade shows in Southeast Asia and Australia.

Mr. Murdock’s current activities include: (1) Leading weekly hiking and kayaking groups in Nevada, California, Utah and Arizona; (2) Publishing an eNewsletter as an independent news aggregator sharing selected syndicated news items ignored by the legacy media, presenting a broader picture of what's going on behind the curtain; (3) Mentoring clients with Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE). SCORE is a non-profit organization that provides free business mentoring, education, and resources to entrepreneurs and small business owners. SCORE is a partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and has been helping small businesses launch, grow, and succeed since 1964.

Denis Murdock is the father of six children, twenty-two grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada since 2006.