Bob Schultz has over 30 years of management and training experience. He has worked in manufacturing, skilled trades and education. He has worked in both union and non-union environments.

Bob designed and established a new Human Resource Development function in two major corporations, designed, implemented and administered an Employee Involvement Teams program and achieved strategic organizational goals with company wide participative problem solving. As Director of Human Resource Services, he supervised the training and organizational development needs of a 2000 person organization plus a consulting group servicing 500 independent businesses. His achievements in management and supervisory development, employee involvement, human resource development, skills training and program design have been reported at the local and national level.

Following 25 years as a successful internal human resources and training professional, Bob founded Leadership Training Systems to serve the training and organizational development needs of external clients. His small to midsized clients reflect his background in unionized and union free organizations in manufacturing, retail and service organizations.

Professional and Civic Organizations
Bob is a 30 plus year active member of the American Society for Training and Development, and served as West Michigan Chapter President . For ten years, he was a national and local member of the Association for Quality and Participation. Bob was President of the Clearinghouse for Training Resources for three years. For ten years, Bob served as President of a county wide Tool & Die and Mold Maker Apprenticeship Program in Illinois. Bob rescued a failing Junior Achievement Center and served two years as part-time Center Director restoring the center to health.

Education
Bob has a Bachelors Degree in Business Education, a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Northern Illinois University and has completed all but the dissertation in Western Michigan University's Doctoral program in Educational Leadership. For over 30 years, he has taught both classroom and on-line classes as an undergraduate and graduate adjunct faculty member at the community college and university level. He has served on the boards and in elected positions of several community, human resource and educational organizations. Presently he is an adjunct faculty member at Davenport University Online teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Human Resources, Leadership and other business management courses.

Scanlon Leadership Network
In 1992, Bob started working with Scanlon members and the Scanlon Leadership Network. A Scanlon Renewal orchestrated by Bob, helped produce the largest Gainsharing checks in the history of the company. In cooperation with the Scanlon Leadership Network, Bob authored Costing Suggestions, a multi-media packaged training program.

Following a compelling need for change, Gainsharing plans are built following the John P. Kotter model of The Eight-Stage Process of Creating Major Change. The model contains steps to Unfreeze the present process, Change the process, and for Refreeze the new process. The significant change to a Scanlon Gainsharing culture requires high levels of commitment at all levels, plus unrelenting efforts to produce improvements through the competence gained by unending training and education.

Areas for a Value Added Contribution
Today, Bob's special interests are in:

• The successful implementation of the Scanlon philosophy and practices of employee participation and gainsharing
• Enhanced individual identity, ownership, teamwork, empowerment and accountability
• Leadership training and practices at ALL levels of the organization
• Self-directed and empowered work teams
• Participative Problem Solving for individuals and teams
• Organizational and individual competence through a network of internal trainers
• Suggestion Systems employing ownership, empowerment and accountability
• Instructor assisted, organizationally supported, online training