John P. Schuster
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In John
P. Schuster's business career, his leadership and organization development
firms and have created a 30 year history of excellent service. The Schuster
Kane Alliance is known for connecting soft people skills with hard business
results. He has a passion: helping leaders build the necessary social capital
within their enterprises so they can build a better world on behalf of
communities, customers and shareholders.
His firm
collaborated with INC. magazine writers as they promoted growth-oriented,
business-savvy cultures of fully engaged employees. Out of this work, John and
his team built a business simulation tool, Profit & Cash®, that hundreds of
thousands of people have used at GE, Harley Davidson, EDS, Sprint and MBA
programs - to sample a few clients. He is on the senior faculty at the Hudson
Institute of Santa Barbara.and the Columbia University Coaching Program. He is
on the board of Whole Child International, an educational non-profit aimed at
the transformation of orphan care around the globe.
He is an
executive coach and mentor and teaches coaching at two premier coaching
programs. He has led engagements and assignments in every sector of the economy
and on four continents. His interests are executive teams that work, corporate
cultures that can execute strategy, and leaders that inspire and bring out the
best in others.
John has
survived a flux of several business partners - both good and bad, a marriage
that didn't make it and the ordeal of being a long-distance dad while his two
sons grew up 600 miles from his home. (The kids survived as well.)
John has authored numerous articles and has been quoted by media
sources from Business Week
to Silicon Valley News to Investors' Business Daily.
He has
also authored five books:
- The Power of Your Past: The Art of Recalling,
Reclaiming, and Recasting,
Berrett-Koehler, 2011
- Answering Your Call: A Guide to Living Your Deepest
Purpose, Berrett-
Koehler, 2003 (translated into Flemish and Spanish)
- The Power of Open-Book Management, John Wiley & Sons, 1996
- The Open-Book Management Field Book, John Wiley & Sons, 1998
- Hum-Drum to Hot-Diggity on Leadership, Steadfast Publishers, 2000
John has a 25-year marriage
that works, his two sons live in Ohio and his four grandkids, the newest
adopted from Bulgaria, get regular attention from "pops and nana." He is
enrolled in a psychology program through Saybrook University. He hits golf and
tennis balls when he can, has read a lot of Tolkien, still snowboards, and
sings and plays guitar. (He is the one in the airports with the Big Dude's
Music City case for his guitar, trying to look like a professional musician.) |
