Steve has been writing and speaking about motivated strengths and SIMA® (The System for Motivated Abilities®) and the impact it has on individual, team, and organizational productivity, effectiveness, and work satisfaction for over forty years. He is the author "Managing Yourself, Managing Others: Learn How to Improve Effectiveness, Productivity, and Work Satisfaction" (2001, 2011, 2015), and Lessons from Life: Four Keys to Living with More Meaning, Purpose, and Success (2018). He has extensive experience evaluating and advising people, ranging from CEOs of Fortune 500 corporations to troubled teenagers, on work, career, and life issues.During his long career, Steve has interviewed close to 5,000 people. In each interview he used SIMA to understand the person's unique motivational design {Motivated Abilities Pattern® (MAP®) and best paths for success. This vantage point gave Steve an unusually close-up view of how peoples' lives unfolded, including their successes and failures, and the impact of decisions they made, actions they took, beliefs they adopted, course corrections they made, regrets, feelings of disappointment and failure, and satisfaction.Steve started his consulting career in 1976 with People Management (now SIMA International). In 1984, he was appointed SVP and Head of Executive Search and Selection; 1990 - 2005, president of People Management Northeast; and 1996 - 1999, he simultaneously served as chairman of the People Management partnership organization. In 2005, he formed People Management SMDLLC.Steve has taught career counseling to graduate counseling students at Saint Joseph College and an advanced practicum on "Managing to Strengths" to MBA students at the University of Hartford. His honors include being profiled as one of North America's top executive recruiters in the book, "The New Career Makers."Steve is known for his dynamic and engaging presentations, workshops, seminars, and team building sessions
Listed skills include Coaching, Succession Planning, Executive Coaching, Executive Search, and 25 others.
