Combining over 17 years of industry and professional association leadership, plus over 15 years of full-time faculty academic experience (greatly enjoying my teaching of supply chain and operations management at Appalachian State University) with a practical industry research and solutions focus in the supply chain industry.Professional strengths include technical and business research, organizing/facilitating meetings and events (including focus groups and roadmap development), presenting, writing, and analytical thinking, plus teaching (of course!). Enjoy presenting information to small/large groups and writing materials focused on the presentation of technical and managerial materials to managers and industry leaders. Also comfortable and effective at working with individuals or groups of people, from front line employees to CEOs.Currently have over 100 episodes of a highly-recognized Supply Chain Careers Podcast focused on developing supply chain careers.I enjoy helping companies and individuals better understand how to research, evaluate, and implement solutions that make their organizations more successful. Very capable at researching trends, techniques, and technologies to evaluate their true potential and fit for an industry or a company or a situation.Extensive experience at leading, managing, and facilitating groups from strategic planning to successful execution, to evaluation of program impacts. Have led focus groups, summits and conferences.
Listed skills include Supply Chain, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Warehousing, and 21 others.