The following key individuals serve on AccuHire.com Corporation's Advisory Board. We are grateful for their leadership and guidance in helping us reach our goals.
Dr. Stephen C. Schoonover, President of Schoonover Associates, Inc., a leadership development consulting firm. Founded in 1983, the firm specializes in strategic human resource consulting, competency model building, and performance management systems.
Dr. Schoonover currently consults with Lockheed Martin, Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems, General Electric and Freddie Mac developing and implementing performance management systems.
Dr. Schoonover has also performed extensive on-site consulting and training for various companies such as Frontier, Eastman Kodak, Allied Signal, Citicorp IBM, Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Corning, AT&T, NYNEX, EDS, General Tire, Perot Systems, and the Pfizer Corporation. Previously, he has installed a company-wide performance management system for Frontier, completed leadership and business development models for Lockheed Martin, and is developing an enterprise-wide competency-framework and interactive performance management database for Oracle.
For General Electric, he has completed a number of projects including: a human resources competency and development framework, a change model, various competency frameworks, a framework for hiring and developing international sales professionals, various management development workshops, a process for the hiring and development of high involvement work teams, and numerous competency and training projects that support their 6-sigma initiative. For Lockheed Martin, Dr. Schoonover has developed competency-based performance systems, training and coaching for the Advanced Senior Management Institute and various businesses.
Dr. Schoonover has produced and written a large variety of media-based materials for business and medical training, as well as contributing articles to a number of psychiatric and scientific journals. He has created development programs and training packages for corporations, courses on project leadership using video exercises, computer simulations, comprehensive programs and courses on performance development, team-building, change management, and career development.
His current work is focused primarily on applying technology in human resources and measuring the behavioral and business impact of HR programs.
The American Management Association Press published one, based on a series of competency studies about managing organizational change, called Changing Ways. The other, based on a series of studies about interpersonal skills, called Managing to Relate: Addison-Wesley released Interpersonal Skills at Work. The second book is now accompanied by an inventory for interpersonal skills assessment and training.
Recently, Dr. Schoonover completed a large study for the Society for Human Resource Management on HR competencies and is collaborating with them to distribute a performance development toolkit based on the study. Dr. Schoonover has also published four academic books in psychiatry and psychology and is currently working on books about leadership and performance management.
Dr. Sauer is an executive who shapes corporate identity by directing and implementing strategies that drive value by creating organizational growth, innovation, renewal and aggressive continuous improvement. A deep background in technology intensive global businesses coupled with expertise in Artificial Intelligence provides the tools to solve complex problems. Adroit at creating the requisite human relationships, business and organizational processes, and Information Technology infrastructure to promote individual and business growth.
Member of five person strategic team that coordinated the restructuring of Digital-Europe (31,000 people) from a geographical model to an industry focused structure that created the ability to recognize and respond to the specific needs of each industry segment. This allowed Digital to partner with their clients and enabled them to better respond to their own global business initiatives. This restructuring was accomplished without objections from European Labor Unions.
Wrote and implemented a proposal for the Pan American Health Organization that demonstrated the benefits of providing an Internet link-up for 1.7 million Latin American health care providers. This use of IT technologies was proposed to leverage the health status of the population by providing healthcare practitioners with the critical and current knowledge of best practices.
Member of a three-person team that recognized the inherent divergent operational directions between "data mining" and networking information paradigms when charged with the responsibility to design the strategy to integrate AT&T Global Information Solution with AT&T International. These insights foreshadowed the 1995 restructuring of AT&T.
Designed and operated a healthcare delivery system for Banamex covering 100,000 lives. This system increased satisfaction from 50% to 80% and concurrently cut average costs per individual by 50% - a level that was sustained and documented for 5 years. Subsequently this business model was adopted by more than half of the banking system in Mexico.
M.D. University of Mexico, UNAM, 1970 (With Honors)