Business executive. Entrepreneur. Freelance management consultant & Freelance management resource. Writer. Regular guy. Concerned citizen.
My wife Nancy and I live in Oak Park, a nice place with an interesting history, an urban village located just over the Chicago city limits, due west from the downtown area. Our three adult children are 5th generation Oak Parkers and we have long lived in a friendly little corner of the village, where neighbors know one another and spend time together, influencing one another in ongoing waves of multi-generational life.
During the first chapter of my career, I worked in complicated manufacturing companies that developed engineered products and served competitive commercial and industrial markets. My roots are in product development, manufacturing systems, business development, and general business unit management. As an entrepreneur, I co-founded a company featuring proprietary product and manufacturing technology. Relatively quickly, I worked my way up to be a corporate level operating officer in a global NASDAQ traded holding company. My strategic, organizational, operational and financial responsibilities spanned 17 operating subsidiaries located on 3 continents and included upwards of 3,000 employees.
Today, my expertise is in designing, developing and crafting entity and organizational performance on a long-term and sustained basis. More specifically, my expertise includes: strategic assessment, strategic vision, and strategic planning; organizational design and organizational effectiveness; wide-ranging operational execution, operational planning, and operational excellence; organizational and operational finances such as P&L management and capital expenditures; and, a lot more.
During the second chapter of my career, I took a step back from the frenetic and global lifestyle, focused much of my time and energy on my health, and offered my expertise as a freelance management consultant and a freelance management resource. Across a wide range of assignments, I have supported large multi-national companies and I have supported small local proprietorships. I have assisted dozens of nonprofit, charitable organizations across a variety of engagement formats.
Here in the third chapter of my career, I still do a bit of freelance management work, so if you have an important and compelling project, don’t hesitate to connect and share your interests and needs. When I am not supporting my clients’ missions, I spend time maintaining and renovating our 117 year old home, and writing. I have a couple of larger writing projects I work on – – and recently, I have started to work on and publish short articles. The topics I select are usually connected to the ideal of a greater common good. I have seen and experienced quite a bit in my life and I often feel like there are important things that need to be examined, important things that need to be said, and important things that need to be done.
Finally, I am an optimist. I believe in the tremendous and remarkable competence and capacity of our collective and shared human existence. And, while there seems to be an endless stream of crushing deterioration, corruption and breakdown in our society, I am certain that, if it seems rather dark out there, well, it is often the darkest right before the dawn.
