Dave Schulenberg
Dave Schulenberg is a Senior Vice President of Eckes &Associates,
a Colorado based Consulting Group specializing in Six Sigma Training
and Consulting, Organizational Development, Change Management, Supplier
Development and Facilitative Leadership Techniques.
Mr. Schulenberg has over twelve years experience, both as a consultant
and in industry, in leading, coaching, facilitating, and training organizations
to develop, apply and sustain business improvement strategies. His experiences
have involved him at every organizational level including the Board
of Directors, executive leadership, mid-management, line supervision,
and the factory floor.
He has extensive consulting experience with organizations from both
service and product assembly/manufacturing industries. He previously
spent over six years with one of the world's largest consulting firms
where he was a critical resource in establishing this firm's Center
of Excellence for Quality and Change Management services. He led and
performed long-term consulting engagements with clients such as Allied
Signal Corporation, First Data Corporation, John Deere & Company, NCR,
Royal Dutch Shell, Pennsylvania Power & Light Company, and the United
States Air Force. Additional client engagements include Gateway, Corning,
Holland Binkley, Chromalloy Corporation, JC Penney, Quaker Oats, and
Rhone-Poulenc, USA.
Prior to forming an alliance with Eckes & Associates, Mr. Schulenberg
led the Quality Leadership development and implementation activities
for GE Capital Services, a $30 billion division of General Electric
Corporation. Primary responsibilities included the development and delivery
of consulting services to Capital's twenty-seven businesses worldwide
to support the implementation of GE's Six Sigma Quality initiative.
Other responsibilities included conducting Strategic Quality planning
sessions, developing a Corporate wide Quality curriculum, implementing
Process Management systems, and providing leadership coaching. Services
were tailored to the needs of the individual businesses and delivered
on a just in time basis. Mr. Schulenberg managed more than twenty external
consultants from seven professional service firms during the effort.
Mr. Schulenberg's subject matter knowledge and applied experiences
have included Strategic Quality Planning and integration, Six Sigma
Quality implementation, Process-based organizational design, business-based
Quality assessments, Business Process Management systems, Change Management
practices, Process Reengineering and Continuous Improvement, and Quality
training development and delivery. He has served as a featured speaker
on Leading Organizational Change at the Conference Board in New York
City. Mr. Schulenberg earned a Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering
from Clemson University.
