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Ed's Bio
Ed has been called a
Renaissance Man, America's Change Agent and a few other things
not printable. One CEO even named him his Senior Vice President
of Truth. Whatever you call him he is the guy who makes change
happen. He is the former Vice President of Worldwide Logistics
for Compaq Computer and has been teaching change to
organizations across America since 1997 he left Compaq to get
his life back.
He learned the foundations of
change during his days as a young Marine sniper serving two
consecutive years in the Vietnam War. He is the Author of Dead
Center - A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War.
Ed returned and began his working career as a truck driver,
mechanic, dispatcher and eventually Vice President and General
Manager of a one hundred plus unit fleet.
After ten years in trucking Ed
joined Frito Lay where he was promoted five times in six years
and spent thirteen years with the company running private fleet
operations. He later transferred to Pepsi Cola, where he became
Director of Distribution. His last position with Pepsi was
Director of Reengineering, the beginning of his formal change
work. He left PepsiCo to become Vice President of Worldwide
Logistics for Compaq Computer, where he led the reorganization
of their logistics function. He left them after three years to
join Telxon, his last real job, where he was Senior Vice
President of Operations and Quality.
Ed lead’s, trains and teaches
change to some of America's top companies. His clients include
Pepsi Cola, PepsiAmericas, Chef Solutions, APL, General
Bottlers, Unisource, Ropak Southwest, Genco, Schlumberger, DHL
Exel, Restoration Hardware and many more. Ed is a frequent guest
speaker and has addressed the US Marine Corps, the US Army, the
Alaska Governors Conference, Colorado District of Attorneys
Association, APL, Utah Rural Teachers Association, Pepsi Cola
and many others.
Ed is the author of five books
with more on the way. He is the father of three, grandfather to
three more and has been married to his wife Gloria for thirty
eight years and counting. They live on a peaceful mountainside
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