Meet the Author of Tactical Tips On Demand
Dr.
Millard MacAdam, Personal & Business Development Coach
I draw each of my Tactical Tips from a long and rich background of experiences in education, business, management, and leadership... also from my “in the trenches” field research and executive interviews to bring you the practical and proven Tactical Tips On Demand in the areas of career building, staff building and business building.
I became a founding member of the American Society of Professional Consultants
in 1980 and have been a personal and business development coach
since that time. I am also a founding member of the International Association of Coaches.
I have over five decades of experience assessing and helping to strengthen the
people, processes and policies in companies and organizations in ways that save
and make them more money. I specialize in facilitating team building, board
retreats, conducting training programs, and personally coaching business owners, managers and their staff members in the "how to" of
strengthening their organization development, leadership and managerial skills.
On a
continuing basis, I conduct research and interviews with company
owners and executives into the causes of break downs in integrity, productivity
and profitability. Also into the impact integrity has on personal careers and an
organization's health, longevity and financial fitness. I help business
owners, managers and their staff members master and apply the "how
to" skills and strategies for: (1) Gaining and maintaining excellently
run organizations; (2) Hiring only the top 10 % producing people of high
character, competence, and commitment; (3) Deploying people effectively and maximizing their
personal motivation during downsizing and reorganization; (4) Facilitating
performance diagnosis and improvement; (5) Building high integrity leadership and work teams; (6) Facilitating
mutual accountability and peer coaching processes; and, (7) Integrating my Intentional Business Integrity Model and developmental training modules into
their operations.
My
clients have included leaders at all levels in manufacturing and high tech companies; accounting,
banking and insurance enterprises; medical and health care organizations;
service and retail oriented businesses; and educational, governmental and non
profit organizations.
After
serving in the United States Air Force as Director of the Career Information and
Education Center for the headquarters unit of the 33rd Division of the Strategic
Air Command, I pursued two concomitant careers.
I graduated and became an educator, holding a variety of teaching and
management positions. As a Director of Personnel, I designed and implemented
innovative staff selection, development and evaluation programs and processes.
I also designed and implemented performance accountability programs.
Paralleling my career in education, at twenty-seven years of age,
I and my two partners
founded and developed a privately owned company, Sycamore Ranch, Inc.
For sixteen years I served as President and CEO of the resident retreat
and education facility. I guided its development into a fifty acre enterprise with
over one hundred employees before I sold my share of the property and company
stock and established my first consulting firm, MacAdam and Associates.
In
1970, I received my Ed. D degree from the University of Southern California,
with a major in curriculum and instructional design and a minor in
administration. I also hold a
Master’s degree in administration and a Bachelor’s degree in education
with a major in social science. My
post graduate work includes completing the widely acclaimed University
Associates Human Resource Consulting Program.
I have taught a variety of organization development, management, and leadership courses at several California universities and colleges and have lead seminars for the American Management Association and a variety of other professional associations and conferences. I have taught masters and doctoral level courses and served on doctoral committees at Pepperdine and Laverne Universities. I am also a professional speaker.
As an
author, I have written and published a variety of training programs as well as
"how to" leadership and management newspaper columns and articles in
local and national publications. My
books include Intentional Integrity, Intentional
Personal Integrity and Intentional
Leadership Integrity. I also
produced and hosted the satellite television interview program, The Leader’s
Edge, discussing a variety of organization, leadership and management topics
with guest leaders.