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
 
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
 
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


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.
 

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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
 
Professional Licensures
  • Texas Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse
  • Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors
  • Life Teaching Certificate
  • Mediation Resolution
 
Education
  • B.S. - North Texas State University
  • M.ED. - Miami University of Ohio
  • Ph.D.- Texas Woman’s University
 
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
Assessment and Testing Services
 
Sales and Marketing
 
Human Resources


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.

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
 
Education

Melissa graduated at the top of her class from Amber University with a double major in Human Resource Relations and Business