John P. Schuster
In John P. Schuster’s business career, he has built and
sold two service firms and has a 20-plus-year history owning The
Schuster Kane Alliance. His companies are known for connecting
soft people skills with hard business results. He has a passion:
helping CEOs and executive teams build the necessary leadership
and social capital within their enterprises so they can execute
strategies on behalf of customers and shareholders.
In 1990, 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
a board member of SIAS University in Henan Province, China, a
faculty member for strategy and leadership with an executive MBA
program at a Jesuit university, and senior faculty at the Hudson
Institute of Santa Barbara.
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 Silicon Valley News to Investors’
Business Daily.
He has also authored five books:
- 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
- Hum-Drum to Hot-Diggity, Steadfast Publishers, 1993
- The Open-Book Management Field Book, John Wiley &
Sons, 1998
- Hum-Drum to Hot-Diggity on Leadership, Steadfast
Publishers, 2000
John has a 20-year marriage that works, his two sons live in Ohio and
his three grandkids come and terrorize the house much to his delight
every July. He hits golf and tennis balls when he can, has read
a lot of Tolkein, learned to snowboard when he was 50 and took
up a new passion, 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.) |
