13. Ellen Schulz
Denver Colorado
303 887 1034
eschulz@nextlevelresults.com
Executive Leader with focus on accelerating business performance.
Skills Strategic planning and implementation Professional Speaker
Leadership/Change Management Executive Coach
Team Acceleration tm Professional Facilitator
Benchmarking Competencies Project Management
Profiles and Assessments-Hiring Performers Technically proficient
Sales Politically adept
Work History
President of Next Level Results, Inc., Organizational Performance Consulting, 1993-present
Performance Consulting with Hewlett Packard, Hyatt Hotels, Texas Instruments, American
President’s Line, Navidec, Inc., MWH, Caterpillar, First Data… and many more.
Executive Coach for C-level, VP’s, Directors and high potentials. 1995-present
Professional Speaker-spoken at hundreds of associations, kickoff’s etc… 1995-present Time
Warner, Intrado, Comcast, University of Colorado, Encore, U.S. Dept of Education, Women
in Technology International, Denver Chamber and many more.
Created Team Acceleration tm process proven to accelerate team performance by 1-2 years.
Developed and wrote “Global Customer Service Sales” translated into 5+ languages.
Independent Change Management Facilitator with Pritchett & Associates 1993-1996 Engage-
ments included: Chase Manhattan, Eli Lily, Abbott Labs, Fleet Bank, Fireman’s Fund, Bell
Atlantic, ATT, and many more. Developed three of the top ten accounts for the firm which,
by their request, were exclusive.
Branch Systems Manager-Sales, AT&T 1977-1993
Technical Executive for National and Major Accounts $50 million in annual billing, consistent
President’s Club member recognized for Sales Achievement. Team recognized as Best in
Class nationally for Competitive Strategy and Execution.
Administered $5.4 million budget-Executive Staff. Identified fraudulent reimbursement practices
that resulted in saving $500K.
Led in real time: downsizing, reengineering, rapid growth, in the midst of technological revolu-
Education
1991 Executive MBA, Colorado State University, graduated at the top of my class
1976 B.A. in Psychology and Greek, Texas Tech University
Professional Organizations
Certified Professional Behavioral and Values Analyst
Certified TriMetrix Analyst (Motivators/Behavioral/Competencies)
Chairman’s Club Member TTI- 2004-present Recognized as global SME for benchmarking/selection
Colorado Speaker’s Association
President of Colorado Women in Technology International (WITI) 2000
Rocky Mountain Human Resources Planning Society
Denver Chamber of Commerce- Gold
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14. Next Level Results, Inc. Bibliography
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Adizes, I.,“Managing Corporate Lifecycles”, U.S, Prentice Hall, 1999
Beinhocker & Kaplan, “Tired of Strategic Planning”, McKinsey Quarterly, 10 2007
Birchman & Purewal, “Taking Inventory of the CEO”, Performance Evaluation, 3Q 2003
Bogan, English, “Benchmarking for Best Practices; Winning Through Innovative Adaptation”, McGraw Hill, 1994
Bryan & Joyce, “21st Century Organization”, McKinsey, Quarterly, 2005
Cameron, Quinn, “Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture”, Addison Wesley, 1999
Costantino, Merchant, “Designing Conflict Management Systems: A Guide to Creating Productive and Healthy Organizations, Jossey
Bass, 1996
Covey, “The Speed of Trust; The One Thing That Changes Everything”, 2006
Eckes, “Six Sigma Team Dynamics; The Elusive Key to Project Success”, Wiley, 2003
Fitz-en, The ROI of Human Capital; Measuring the Economic Value of Employee Performance”, AMACOM, 2000
Flamholta, Randle, “Growing Pains; Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm”, 2000
Goffee & Jones, “Who Wants To Be Led by You?”, Harvard Business Review, 2006
Hiam, “Motivating and Rewarding Employees; New and Better Ways to Inspire Your People”, Streetwise, 1999
Hubbard, “How to Measure Anything; Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business”, Wiley, 2007
Huselid, Becker, “The Workforce Scorecard; Managing Human Capital to Execute Strategy”, Harvard Business School Press, 2005
“Is Your Team Recession Ready?”, Tatum Special Report, 2008
Janove, J, “Management by Remote Control”, HR Magazine, April 2004
Kaplan, Norton, “Strategy Maps”, Harvard Business School Press, 2004
Kegan & Lahey, “The Real Reason People Won’t Change”, Harvard Business Review, 2001
Kouzes, James, “Business Leadership”, Josey-Bass, 2003
Lamsa & Savalloialnen, “Nature of Commitment to Strategic Change”, UK, Leadership Development Organization Journal, May 2000
Plotkin, “Building a Winning Team”, Griffin, 1997
McClure, “Putting A New Spin on Groups”, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998
McGrath & MacMillan, “Discovery Driven Planning”, Harvard Business Review, 2007
Pfeffer, Sutton, “The Knowing Doing Gap; How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action”, Harvard Business School Press,
2000
Quinn, “Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within”, Jossey Bass, 1996
Stone, Patton, Heen, “Difficult Conversations”, Viking Press, 1999
“The Top 10 CEO Challenges 2008”, The Conference Board, online
Whitney, Trosten-Bloom, “The Power of Appreciative Inquiry,”, Berrett-Koehler, 2003
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