CAREER SUMMARY
Chief Executive, Board Member, Consultant & Advisor to senior business/organizational leaders desiring to lead with excellence and impact from a Christian/Biblical worldview perspective while integrating best-in-class strategic planning and execution, high-integrity leadership, and purpose-driven service to stakeholders. Accomplished CEO of leadership organizations ranging from $15M to $2.5B annual revenue in industrial, commercial, consumer, and B2B service markets. 30 years as chief executive of six global leadership firms with multiple business units and international scope. Strong leader and team builder, able to quickly/objectively assess strategic and operational possibilities, drive sustained high performance in both turn-around and growth environments, and provide board governance.
EXPERIENCE & ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Integrity CEO Advisors, Travelers Rest, SC
Current: Principal/Owner
General management consultant and advisor to purpose-driven CEOs of midsized-to-large enterprises leading a team of topflight senior professionals to address strategic and operational challenges and opportunities to enable significantly improved performance through a strengthened organization and clarity regarding leadership, strategic planning, and operational execution.
Focus Areas: excellence in servant leadership, senior executive retained search, organizational development and generational succession, company “turnarounds,” objective assessment and sharpening of strategy and key general management process leading to improved team alignment and execution, leveraging business models to minister to stakeholder community, board governance.
The C12 Group, LLC, Greensboro, NC (2004-2016)
President, CEO & Board Director
Built America’s leading fee-for-service equipper of Christian CEOs into clear national market leader and debt-free franchisor, serving leaders of companies with $1M to $1+B annual revenue. Oversaw ten-fold increase in revenue and members (to 1800 across 90 metro markets), decade-long 20% CAGR, 80% Net Promoter Score, continuously refined services model, now reaching six million U.S. adult stakeholders.
Covenant Partners Consultancy, Greensboro, NC (2000-2004)
Principal/Owner
Specialized consultant providing high-impact services to company CEOs, Owners, and Presidents seeking to achieve significantly improved performance via effective leadership and general management.
Served CEOs of larger firms, ranging from substantial family enterprises to public S&P 500 companies
Challenged & equipped Christian CEOs as the first C12 Group Chair in the Carolinas
Lifestyle Furnishings International Inc., High Point, NC (1997-2000_
Chief Operating Officer, Member of Office of the Chief Executive & Board Director
$2.3B LBO spin-off from Masco Corporation; leading global manufacturer/marketer of residential and hospitality furniture/fabrics/accessories; 60 major facilities, 30,000 employees, and 30 consumer brands.
Oversaw all 12 reporting divisions and corporate operating staff; streamlined facilities (25%), staffing/productivity (18%), and working capital (15%) in highly leveraged/turnaround environment
Initiated world-class operating disciplines (lean flow, sourcing/logistics, S&OP, organizational planning, performance to plan) to increase or restore operating units’ profitability/ROA
ASC Incorporated, Southgate, MI (1994-1997)
President, CEO & Board Director
Automotive tier one systems supplier with $700M revenue. Nine business units (three JVs), licensee network, 18 factories, and 3500 employees across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Conducted major financial/operational turnaround to “upper quartile” ROE in less than three years
Restructured/streamlined into business units with lean operations and project management discipline
Incremental 3-year impacts: Sales +67%, Productivity +55%, Inventory Turns +88%, Debt (26)%
Emerson Corporation, St. Louis, MO (1982-1994)
Chromalox (Wiegand Industrial Division), Pittsburgh, PA
President (1991-1994)
Led global market leader in industrial/commercial electric heating & temperature control products
Re-established winning culture and strategic/operational discipline, turning around stale organization
Refocused $200M/1300 employee firm into separate industrial and consumer divisions
Strengthened leadership team (U.S. & Europe); executed two acquisitions; divested non-strategic lines
SKIL Corporation, Chicago, IL
Senior VP & COO (1988-1991)
Operations officer for $500M global power tool company; oversaw $100M Dremel hobby tool subsidiary
Attained 99% on-schedule performance while lifting inventory turns 50% to 40X using lean disciplines
Strengthened quality systems (6Σ) to achieve ISO and prestigious Emerson Chairman’s Quality Award
Cut costs: 6+% annual productivity, Mexico operation, Asia sourcing, consolidated distribution center
CAMCO, Wheeling, IL
President (1986-1987), VP-Operations (1982-1985)
Led $60M world leader in high performance motion control products (four reporting units + Japan JV)
Achieved doubling of sales and ROA with increased margins & new product/technology acquisitions
Increased operational performance: consolidation, lean disciplines, 10% annual productivity gains
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (1972-1982)
Oldsmobile Division, Lansing MI (1980-82)
Cutlass Assembly Plant Manager, Manufacturing Engineering Department Head, Sr. Product Planner
Directed project development, facilities planning, capital budgeting, product/strategic planning and sourcing efforts. Led campaign for winning new car project for Lansing car assembly complex. Named head of 3000 person factory at age 26 prior to exiting GM for Emerson Corporation appointment.
GM Corporate Planning Staff, Detroit, MI (1978-1979)
Manufacturing Planner; Product Planner
Developed proposals, analyses, and global product/sourcing strategies for GM senior executive team.
Pontiac Motor Division, Pontiac, MI (1972-1977)
Manufacturing Foreman; Jr. Project Engineer; Professional Intern
Multi-disciplinary assignments (manufacturing, engineering, administration) across 23,000-employee campus as undergrad professional co-op student in uniquely integrated 5-year, year-round program.
EDUCATION
MBA/MS in Management, Sloan School of Management, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA (1978)
Completed 2-year program in 15 months; GM Fellow; Triple major (Marketing, Finance, Operations).
BS-Industrial Administration, GMI/Kettering University, Flint, MI (1976)
Finished 5-year program in four years; operations/industrial engineering (honors); fraternity president.
PERSONAL
Married 46 years to high school sweetheart. Biblical worldview Christian. Church Elder. Enjoy reading (history/leadership) and traveling. Son and family (including two grandsons) in Fort Worth, TX. Long-time service as board director (multiple businesses, university, non-profit/foundation, church).