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John Stein: Helping business leaders turn problems into profits
Business Consultant | Project Management Specialist | Corporate Trainer | Public Speaker

John Stein has spent two decades providing leadership to people and processes for the purpose of adding value to business operations, and job satisfaction to the people who run them. If you work with John, you will find those two dimensions of paying attention to “task” and “relationship” as recurring themes in the consulting engagement. Through process facilitation, training programs, and business coaching, John applies advanced methodologies, processes and technologies that align change efforts with business goals. He has served as trusted advisor to senior executives and companies such as Deere & Co., Wells Fargo, Sauer-Danfoss, KJWW Engineering Consultants, Johnson Machine Works, and Color Converting Industries.

As a Senior Training Specialist at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, John created and implemented learning strategies for 5,000 faculty and staff including leadership programs and diversity curriculum for all levels of management, while serving as internal consultant and coach to faculty and staff across campus.

In 1998, John founded Stein’s Way, a businiess consulting firm based in central Iowa. Since that time, John has provided business consulting and training to over 5,000 professionals in organizations ranging from small non-profits and family-owned businesses to Fortune 500 companies in the United States and internationally. In the face of the most recent economic downturn, John initiated a new Linked In group called Heartland Project Managers Network. Its purpose is to provide support, contacts and a sense of possibility to those project managers displaced by economic uncertainties, as well as to discuss all things related to managing projects.

He has been a featured speaker at several conferences, and has worked with companies in Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and the Slovak Republic. He served on the Board of Directors for Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota from 1993-1995.

John completed a master’s degree in business administration from Iowa State University in 1995. He has certifications form Development Dimensions International, The Coaches Training Institute and Coach University.

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