Jeff
has been the Chief Effectiveness Officer of Becoming Great Enterprises,
LLC since its inception in 2004. A true innovator in
helping people and organizations fulfill their potential,
Jeff has over 35 years of Human Resource and Bottom Line Management
experience. He was with General Mills Restaurants,
Inc. for fifteen years working seven years in operations and eight
years in management development. He was the international director of
human resources for Sbarro, Inc. of Commack, New York, where he
developed an international management training center. He was Director,
Operations and Human Resources for Pannekoeken Family Restaurants, Inc.
of Edina Minnesota, where he assisted in the company’s IPO, and created
a training system that increased incremental sales by seven per cent,
90% to the bottom line. The seed for Becoming Great
was planted when Jeff was Chief Human Resource Executive for Bethany
International, a 501c3 non-profit, as well as Bethany House
Publishers, and Bethany Press, International, a book manufacturer in
Bloomington, Minnesota. There he transformed the human resource
function within this complex for-profit, and non-profit organization,
and he facilitated the management team in the corporate transformation
process found in the book “Good To Great - Why Some Companies Make the
Leap and Others Don’t”, by Jim Collins. Bethany Press
International, a 14 million dollar book manufacturer, went from losing
money to making a profit in 18 months as a result of this change in
organizational focus. The “Becoming Great” model is
an extrapolation of Jeff’s analysis of the “Good to Great” study and
based on the principle that an idea must succeed or fail on the
merits. Jeff has produced an “organizational infrastructure”
based on the Collin’s study. It has worked wonderfully in
manufacturing, sales and marketing, legal organizations, so it appears
that it is not limited in its application. The main reason for
this is that the model is about PEOPLE, not business segment.
This makes it universally applicable. It is especially effective with
“emerging” organizations. Jeff’s radio show “God’s
Work in Progress” is designed to bring the ethics and morality of
Christianity to this organizational model - a vital component that
is critical to creating anything that will last and have enduring
impact. He also leads an recurring career course called “God’s
Work in Progress” which helps individuals to find and live their life’s
purpose and apply that knowledge to their career formation. Jeff has his Masters from Bethel University and Seminary, in St Paul, MNSee
what Jeff's
clients say >>
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"Jeff has created a department of
very competent associates and helped create a
way of organizational thinking that will serve us well in our re-sized
organization."
-- David Hicks, President and
CEO, Bethany International, Inc.
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