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 done 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.A graduate from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Schoonover is board certified in psychiatry and neurology, and served on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for over twenty years. He has completed two books related to human resource development.
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.