 Steve
Wille brings practical expertise to our curriculum.
His experience includes executive level profit center management,
along with information technology software development with several
large corporations.Steve is known for getting the job
done, on time, on budget, and delighting the customer. This
record earned him many promotions. He also learned the hard
way the penalties for not getting there.
His overall experience is what brings life to the workshops that he
co-authored at Tough Teams. His experience includes:
- Vice President of
Information Technology, Diners Club/Citigroup
- Director of
Applications Development, Cahners Publishing
- Senior Vice President, Guaranty National Insurance,
Personal Auto Division
With an MBA from Regis
University and a BSBA from the University of Denver, Steve has a
longtime commitment to education. He has served on advisory
boards for the University of Colorado, Regis University, Denver
Technical College, and DeVry University. He is currently chairman
of the board of the Colorado Lutheran High School Association
which owns and operates three high schools in the Denver area.
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 Bill Kuehn has
reached thousands of participants directly and through seminar
companies including Career Track and Systemation, a worldwide
leader in systems technical training. His work includes
facilitating a complete turnaround for two businesses -- a
manufacturing company and a food company.
A graduate in business and psychology from
Illinois Wesleyan in Bloomington, Illinois, Bill is also a
certified ISO 9000 auditor. He uses his education and skills to
help companies set up self-managed teams and Total Quality
Management processes, and make the leap to ISO 9000 certification.
Bill sees corporations and their cultures
changing tremendously in America today. They are moving from a
near-monopoly environment to a non-regulated, fully competitive
one. His trainings guide this transition from autocratic "my
way or the highway" approaches toward a concept called Tough
Teams and Quick Wins.
"When self-managed teams direct the
organization, people have to depend on each other much more.
They're given authority along with responsibility. They develop
trust and greater levels of confidence. And they learn to get the
quick wins that give them giving momentum to achieve not-so-quick
results."
Bill draws from 23 years of experience in
the Bell System, AT&T and US West as a sales manager and a
staff trainer. Specifically, he was Training Manager for Course
Development at US WEST, and Corporate Trainer for AT&T. He was
the first to develop and teach Affirmative Action training at
Bell.
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