Educational Technologies
As Director of Technology for the College of Business at Colorado State University, Jon Schroth was responsible for all technical services for Business students, faculty, and staff. Key initiatives included the distance education, integration of technology into the classroom, and developing strategic partnerships with industry to facilitate leading edge technology to our constituents.
Jon SchrothProcess and Performance
Tom has 30 years of experience in the management of successful business leadership projects in a broad array of industries including Siemens AG, Deere & Co., Norwest Banks, ConAgra Foods and Toyota Motor Sales North America. He has been involved in more than 30 business turnarounds and startups where he applied knowledge and acumen for successful business practices.
Over the past 20 years Tom has had the honor of serving on numerous boards of directors, including a two-year tenure as President for the Educational Society for Resource Management in Colorado. Over the last several years he has been invited to speak on enterprise relationship management and business profitability for various organizations and events nationally.
Tom PetersenTransportation Division
Jim was the founder and Director of the Institute of Transportation Management at CSU and has served as the Principal Investigator on seat belt and safety oriented studies for CDOT, NHTSA, Colorado Department of Health and Environment, Safe Kids, and was the Co-Principal Investigator for the Tribal Technical Assistance Program (TTAP) through the Federal Highway Administration. Jim is also Professor Emeritus of Management and the founding Director of the Center for Professional Development and Business Research and the Beverage Business Institute.
Jim has been an active consultant to clients in the private and public sectors including BAE Systems, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Johns-Manville, McDonalds, Wal-Mart, Dun & Bradstreet, universities, city governments and state and federal agencies and is the author or co-author of three books and over 50 articles and professional papers.
Along with being an academician Jim was the NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative for Colorado State and has been a member of the NCAA Council, an officer and member of the Board of Directors of the College Football Association, and the President of the Mountain-Pacific Sports Federation.
Jim FrancisBusiness Transformation
My enthusiasm is to equip the people and culture of organizations with the principles, frameworks, processes, and tools of transformation that enable continual progress. Enabled organizations can tame the growing complexity that challenges progress, can operate and change with agility, and can generate higher value.
My experience is in both the private and public sectors developing and delivering business with clients such as PG&E, Siemens Health Services, Charles Schwab, Genentech, First Health Services Corporation, Kaiser Permanente, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, California Department of Motor Vehicles, California State Controller’s Office, California Public Employees Retirement System, Alaska MMIS, New Mexico Public Health Department, and Louisiana Public Health Department.
Brian LeeInnovation & Growth
Brett’s role is to provide the blueprint for moving from the now into the future by monitoring trends with target audiences, evaluating competitive threats and appropriate responses, collaborating with partner agencies, creating personas, aligning business goals with user needs, leading innovation sessions, and planning analytics to identify areas of growth potential.
Brett has generated strategies for brands including DEWALT, Black & Decker, Lucas Arts, Union Bank of California, Breeder¹s Cup, CEMEX, Avery Dennison, Epson, Toyota, PepsiCo, Anheuser-Busch, Rubio’s, Cricket Wireless, The California Avocado Commission, etc.
He’s best utilized for forward-thinking, creative, and ground-breaking opportunities, as he thrives on revealing cultural, behavioral and technological insights and collaboratively translating these opportunities into actionable products, roadmaps and campaigns.
Brett Johnson