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Chuck Canfield has a wealth of experience in the
implementation of performance management systems strategic
thinking, Total Quality Management, and high impacting
training programs. Over the last 30 years, he has held
positions at all levels of management in both product and
service oriented businesses. For the last 15 years, he has
been a consultant to private, publicly regulated, and
non-profit organizations that are experiencing crisis or
desire to change or improve their current environment or
culture. His capability to analyze and understand the
global picture while pursuing specific objectives brings a
unique talent to any project. He has hundreds of hours of
instructional training and is a recognized speaker in the
areas of determining competencies essential to job
success, strategic planning, TQM, personnel development,
and personal mastery. He also has developed a
comprehensive selection and training process for in-house
TQM instructors and facilitators. He is renown for his
capability to achieve consensus on project success and
then finding the most expeditious and efficient way to
accomplish that success.
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Project
Experience |
- Working with a large
financial organization in the improvement of customer
service
- Assessing individual
and organizational needs through a Work Profiling
Process
- Being instrumental in
the development and implementation of a comprehensive
TQM plan for a fortune 500 firm
- Facilitating quality
teams in the resolution of critical implementation
issues with a major communications firm
- Serving as project
manager to resolve chronic quality problems with a large
defense contractor
- Qualifying and
training a group of 24 quality instructors and
facilitators
- Facilitating top
management teams in the successful implementation of
quality initiatives
- Planning and
implementing a Cost of Quality initiative for a client
resulting in the identification of waste and expansion
of the program throughout the whole company
- Working with foreign
airport authorities in the resolution of transportation
issues
- Interfacing with the
Department of Defense in the resolution of Contractor
Operation Review issues
- Facilitating and
helping to implement an integration and alignment
initiative for a large non-profit agency to improve the
quality of its programs and services
- Preparing and
implementing a strategic plan for Drug Free Youth in
Texas (D-FY-IT)
- Preparing and
implementing a comprehensive plan for upgrading and
expanding a halfway house for troubled juveniles coming
out of the Dallas Juvenile Department
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Professional
Affiliations |
- Past president of the
Dallas Chapter of the American Society of Training and
Development
- Dallas Rotary
Townhouse
- Turtle Creek Manor
- Past chairman of
Operation ReStart
- Current Chairman of
Drug Free Youth in Texas
- Member of the American
Society of Quality Control
- Active member of other
non-profit organization
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Speaking
Experience |
- American Society for
Training & Development Tulsa Chapter - "Are You a
Competent Trainer?" – Tulsa, Oklahoma – March 1998
- American Society for
Training & Development Fort Worth Chapter - "Are You a
Competent Trainer?" – Fort Worth, Texas – February 1998
- American Society for
Training & Development Dallas Chapter - "Are You a
Competent Trainer?" – Dallas, Texas – November 1997
- Society for Human
Resource Management International Conference-
"Outsourcing Training" – Fort Worth, Texas – October
1997
- International
Newspaper Financial Executives - "Performance Appraisal
– What Works, What Doesn’t and The Future." – Dallas,
Texas – July 1997
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Dr. Canfield has 30 years of experience as a
curriculum developer, classroom instructor, sales
manager, and author. Her strongest asset is her
ability to understand people and diagnose the
interaction among group and team members. During the
past 15 years she has written her own weekly columns
for newspapers, technical training manuals, and books.
She wrote a training manual on the American
Disabilities Act, Valuing Diversity, and her book on
families appears in bookstores and libraries all over
the United States. Dr. Canfield has appeared on
numerous television and radio shows and has been
interviewed by Parent’s Magazine, U.S. News and World
Report, and Business Week magazines.
e-mail Donna |
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Project Experience |
- Technical writer and
coordinator for a call center training program
- Assessment and
diagnosis for individuals, group, and teams
- Resolution Mediator
- Region sales manager
- Extensive research for
project development
- Development and
implemtation of diversity and ADA programs
- Sales Director for
Fortune 500 firm
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Professional Licensures |
- Texas Association of
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
- Texas State Board of
Examiners of Professional Counselors
- Life Teaching
Certificate
- Mediation Resolution
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Education |
- B.S. - North Texas
State University
- M.ED. - Miami
University of Ohio
- Ph.D.- Texas Woman’s
University
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Speaking Experience |
- American Business
Women’s Association
- CEO Network
- Hispanic Women’s
Network of Texas
- Women in Film
- Women’s Information
Network
- Business and
Professional Women’s Club
- Women’s Bar Association
- American Association of
University Women
- Good Morning Texas
- Numerous other speaking
engagements to local organizations
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Assessment and
Testing Services |
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Sales and
Marketing |
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Human Resources |
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While at SPG Melissa has successfully performed a wide
variety of tasks and assignments in the areas of human
resource management, purchasing, budgeting, marketing
coordination, and development of internal systems. She has
proven invaluable in providing the day-to-day coordination
that is critical to SPG’s ability to meet our client
requirements.
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Project Experience |
- Generated the first
vendor evaluation process as a key step to improve
product quality
- Improved vendor
selection criteria and added numerous vendors
- Developed and conducted
market research that served as the basis of the
company’s product planning and advertising strategy
- Outlined and managed
strategy for 20% cost reduction in training
materials and inventory
- Organized and
coordinated 90% of SPG’s training classes in the
Dallas/Fort Worth area
- Identified, and
recruited consultants for special curriculum
development projects
- Managed payroll and
maintained financial records for 2 million dollar
project
- Coordinated with
vendors in the establishment of highly successful
product showcases
- Designed and created
internal employee handbook
- Generated and analyzed
client employee surveys
- Created high impacting
training presentations in PowerPoint and Lotus
Freelance
- Generated graphics for
all of SPG’s training workshops
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Education
Melissa graduated at the top of her class from Amber
University with a double major in Human Resource
Relations and Business |
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