Experience

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  Ed Yager,MBA,DBA : YAGER-LEADERSHIP

  • South Jordan, Utah, ( formerly Park City, Utah and Detroit, Michigan

  • Owner

    • Jan 1973 - Present
    • South Jordan, Utah, ( formerly Park City, Utah and Detroit, Michigan

    * Consultant, trainer, and coach to managers, teams, and human resource professionals on leadership, teams, performance measurement, training, strategy/ change, and selection/ assessment.Broad experience in Leadership and Management Assessment evaluating candidate competence and readiness for selection or promotion, and in Organizational and Leadership Behavior and PerformanceImprovement.Member of the HR HALL OF FAME Selection Committee

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  Various Universities

  • Numerous

  • Adjunct Professor

    • Jan 1973 - Jan 2012
    • Numerous

    Served as an Adjunct professor for classes and seminars in a variety of management programs including 27 years at the Graduate School of Management, University of Michigan. Additionally taught for Brigham Young University(Training design and evaluation in HR development program); Weber State (Leadership in MBA program); Wayne State (Leadership in seminar program); Webster University, (Leadership and Training and development in MBA/HR program at Hill AFB); LDS Business College (Entrepreneurship,and HR Management in management program) and others.Includes twenty seven years as a lecturer in the renowned MANAGEMENT OF MANAGERS seminars at the University of Michigan, and MAKING THE TRAINING PROCESS work, also at U. of M.. The best selling book Making the Process work came out of that seminar. (Co-taught and co-authored with Don Michalak.)

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  University Of Michigan Graduate School of Business

  • Conference Leader/ Instructor/ Author; "MAKING THE TRAINING PROCESS WORK" seminar

    • Jan 1973 - Jun 1997

    Co- Trainer with Don Michalak of the renowned Making The Training Process Work Seminars. Trained and worked with thousand of trainers from every type of industry/organization continually receiving outstanding ratings covering nearly 30 years of presentations for hundreds of trainers annually. Making the Training Process Work,(focusing on needs analysis, learning design, presentation, and evaluation) as detailed in the book which was the result of this work.

  • Conference leader: MANAGEMENT OF MANAGERS, DEVELOPING MANAGEMENT SKILLS and other seminars

    • Jan 1973 - Jan 1995

    Led various days covering critical management and leadership competencies in the remarkably successful seminar MANAGEMENT OF MANAGERS, workshop, identified by many publications as one of the top management development programs in the world. Worked with Dr's Cameron and Quinn on development of the current model of this program based on leadership competencies.

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  FORD MOTOR COMPANY

  • Detroit area and Dearborn Corporate Headquarters

  • Corporate and Division Training Manager and Training Research Consultant.

    • Jan 1968 - Dec 1973
    • Detroit area and Dearborn Corporate Headquarters

    Served as Director of Training and Management Development in the Design and Engineering Center, in Parts and Distribution, and at corporate offices as an Internal Corporate Consultant, Training Manager, and Organization Development Manager.During the years of service in the Corporate Training and Development Group served as one of a small group of internal consultants to division and plant trainers. In this capacity we attended for evaluation and certification purposes nearly every commercial training program available. This included many of the ground breaking programs like Kepner-Tregoe (gained certification), Xerox Problem Solving Discussion Skills (PSDS), Wilson Learning, AT&T Training Center, Center For Creative Leadership, Development Dimensions and others, and contracted for evaluation or workshops with Peter Drucker, W. Edwards Deming, George Odiorne, B.F. Skinner, Carl Rogers, Fred Herzberg, Douglas Bray, William Byham, Cabot Jafee,and others, gaining an incredible education in the process.Left Ford to form consulting company along with other Ford professionals. Ford subsequently became one of our largest clients along with over 200 others including AT&T, G.M., Boise Cascade, Citi Corp, Simplot, etc.

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  J.L.Hudson(Macys)

  • Detroit, Michigan

  • Training Director/ Department Store Operations Manager

    • Jun 1960 - 1967
    • Detroit, Michigan

    Numerous positions with one of the world largest department stores included training, Executive Placement and Recruiting and Operations Manager at the massive Northland Store (3000 employees), at the Eastland Store, and at Corporate Offices.**Developed and implemented the first known project in "Programmed Learning", the step preceding "Computer Based Instruction". This self directed, at you own pace combination of step by step text learning and experiential proof of competency used for new sales persons was developed with Dr. Gearry Rummler at the University of Michigan, and led to thousands of additional courses and training programs around the country using the techniques of Programmed Learning.