Meet the Change Management Partners Team

Julie Schell

Vincent Barlow

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ABOUT JULIE SCHELL
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​PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Organizational Development Manager for Vehicle Team:  Engineering
  • Project Manager for ‘GoFast’: Engineering, Human Resources, Corporate
  • Manager of Joint Quality Improvement Process:   Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Human Resources
  • Value Engineering Project Manager: Engineering, Manufacturing
  • Middle School and High School Teacher in Missouri and Wisconsin
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Avila College
  • Continuing Education in Total Quality Management, Statistical Methodology, Deming, Juran, Crosby, Ishikawa, Creative Problem Solving, Value Engineering, Synchronous Manufacturing
  • Certified Trainer for Kepner Tregoe, Crosby, Myers-Briggs, Diversity, Total Quality Management, Facilitation, Coaching, Leadership Skills
  • Certified Executive Coach, Gestalt Institute​
EXPERTISE
  • Coaching individuals and teams to become high performing contributors to the business
  • Goals accomplished through workshops, performance surveys, team development, and one on one coaching
  • Create more cohesive effective teams as well as improved bottom line business results.
  • Proven ability to develop more confident leaders prepared for increasing responsibilities.
  • Ability to assess and deal with all types of personalities in an open, non-threatening, yet assertive manner.
  • Outstanding creative problem solver
  • Recognized for integrity and ethical standards
  • Has an uncanny ability to adopt a style of approach that is needed in a given situation.
  • Professionalism allows openness to the needs of the individual or organization at hand to assess developmental needs and guides the participants to develop change strategies to address these issues.
SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
  • Institutionalized a change management process within the Product Development Organization (Engineering and Design) for 10,000 employees.  This included engaging the Leadership Team, developing a coaching team of over 200 engineers, managing the complex changes into a batching process, aligning the rest of the Project Managers globally, and coaching Leaders to empower their employees to make the changes which have improved the company’s bottom line by over $20 million.
  • Orchestrated a corrective action team from the Employee Enthusiasm initiative that received a Chairman’s Honor for developing and implementing a Performance Management System for all of General Motors.
  • Designed and executed a Business Improvement Process for a mid-size pump company.
  • Consulted with a women’s volunteer organization.  Developed and implemented a plan for an upscale resale shop which exceeded fundraising goals by 100%.
  • Facilitated a time architecture workshop for Engineering Leadership that led to the reduction of meeting time by over 30%.
  • Developed a ‘Boot Camp’ training that consolidated and integrated all of the Business Improvement Strategies and Quality Improvement Process; required training for all participants.
ABOUT VINCENT BARLOW​
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​PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Executive Coach for CEOs and Executives
  • Workshop Leader for Team Building and Training
  • Emotional Intelligence Trainer  
  • Facilitator for EQi 360 Assessments         
  • Marketing director.     For Law Firm connecting high profile Donars to large Charities
  • Managed Multi-Platinum-Selling Music group
  • Music Director
  • Youth Theater Music Director
  • Songwriter, Recording Artist
 
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
  •  BA Sociology / Theology Gannon Collefe Erie Pa
  • Certified Emotional Intelligence Trauner for EQi  certificate from MHS Assessments and Otto Kroeger Associates (OKA) 
  • Certified Theophostic Counselor



EXPERTISE
  • Coaching Executives and CEOs vto balance their lives
  • Compelling public speaker
  • Leading Teams to find higher connection and cohesiveness .
  • Expert in Soft Skills, able to quickly assess team dysfunction, and create restored groups
  • Ability to assess and deal with all types of personalities in an open, non-threatening, yet assertive manner.
  • Expert at training people to communicate clearly and passionately
  • Strength in building a team that shares a core vision and values.
  • building a healthy team and workplace culture
  • Published Songwriter and Musician Member of ASCAP . Presently under writing and publishing contract with Warner Brothers

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SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
  • As Executive coach, worked with a floundering company, coached CEO to higher leadership, built a new Team culture shifting from fear based to team based.
  • As band manager, coordinated and managed 12 national and international music tours, including scheduling, sound and light production, played more than 1,000 venues in 11 countries to more than one million people, Created and implemented multiple advertising campaigns using print, television, social networking, Managed recording process for five national release CD projects. 
  • As a Certified Value Specialist (CVS) created and facilitated 40-hour workshops for Value Engineering design assessment. Trained multi-disciplined teams, Led teams to discover millions of dollars in documented savings and quality improvements on government projects. Ran workshops for Freightliner, Air Products, and Safety Clean, as well as multiple DoD projects for the Army, Army Corp of Engineers, and Navy
  • As Music Director, Developed eight separate bands involving 70 volunteers to serve during a children’s church music program. 
  • Co-founded a Father/Son and Father/Daughter camp that grew from 22 participants in 1994 to 1200 participants in 2015.