Experience

The University of Kansas School of Business

• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Director Emeritus, University of Kansas School of Business

  • Jun 2018 - Present

  Retired from teaching for credit courses and as the Director of the Center for Business, Industry and National Security at the University of Kansas School of Business

• Director, Center for Business, Industry, and National Security

  • Sep 2014 - Jun 2018

  The purpose of the center is to provide learning environments that broaden the capabilities of leaders, both those serving in our nation’s security and defense institutions, and those from business and industry that interact with them. We’ll do this by engaging academia and the business community in a way that creates outreach, learning, and exchange opportunities for those who serve our nation’s security.

• Program Director, Brigade Executive Education, Lecturer, KU School of Business

  • 2000 - Sep 2014

  KU's Program Director for the Command Team Development Program--Brigade Pre-Command Course at Ft. Leavenworth. The KU School of Business is providing Executive Education for the Army's Brigade-Select Commanders and Command Sargent's Major as they go through their command preparatory program.An award winning lecturer at the university, I have taught management and leadership development in the School of Business since the Fall of 2000. I am also active teaching in the KU Center for Management Education where we do Executive Education and corporate in-house professional leadership courses.Courses that I teach at different times include:Capstone Course in Supply Chain ManagementStrategic ManagementChange ManagementProfessional Leadership DevelopmentManagement of Technology:StrategyManagement of Technology:OperationsGeneral Management Show less



NXTP Consulting, LLC

• Principal

  • 2005 - Present

  John Loulan and I started our consulting practice in 2005. Our goal is to create performance capabilities for firms that lead to step change improvement in their competitive outcomes. We do this through professional development, systems design, and consulting grounded in both classic methodologies and cutting-edge approaches. Our areas of specialization are planned change, leadership development, operations performance, supply chain management, organizational effectiveness, and business process development. We use specific tool sets to assist in optimizing performance including Lean Tools, Value Stream Analysis, the Theory of Constrainits and High Performing Team development. In the last several years, we have worked in Hungary, Germany, Mexico, England, and throughout the United States, primarily with firms in the process industries. Show less



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Plant Manager

  • 1969 - 1999

  My Goodyear career included 8 family moves over 30 years. I was involved in three plant start-ups. Job functions that I performed over the years include: Plant Manager, Topeka Plant Manager, Napanee Production Director, Chile Production and Operations Mgr., Lawton, OK Materials Mgr. Lawton, OK Business Center Mgr. Lawton, OK Div. Mgr. Radial Truck Start-up, Topeka, KS Division B Mgr. Jackson, MI Dept. Mgr. Final Finish & Shipping, Lawton, OK Start-up Industrial Engineering, Jackson, MI Multiple Maintenance Mgmt. positions, Jackson, MI Engineering Management Training Program, Akron, OH Apprentice Craftsman, Akron, OH Show less