Dr. Todd Creasy tcreasy@cn.edu Education: Doctor of Management - 2007 Case Western Reserve University Masters of Science in Finance Masters of Business Administration (MBA) Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) University of Memphis Certification: Six Sigma Master Black Belt (2004) and Black Belt (2003) -through the Juran Institute Papers: Understanding Employee-Level Dynamics within the Merger and Acquisition Process, Journal of General Management, Vol. 35, No 2, Winter 2009 Pyramid Power the Next Evolutionary Step for Six Sigma? Quality Progress, June 2009 Is Culture Clash in a Merger or Acquisition Well Modeled as a Managerial Prisoner s Dilemma? published in Cultural Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions, The ICFAI University Press, 2007. Conference Presentations: International Conference on Advances in Management July 2010: Relationships of Emotional Intelligence and Personality Traits to Project Management Effectiveness International Conference on Advances in Management July 2009: Managers as Therapists? The Developmental Road to Emotional and Social Intelligence Academy of Management - August 2007: The ME-I Theory of Organizational Consolidation - Avoiding Merger-Enabled-Individualism Pennsylvania Aggregate and Concrete Association June 2009 Keynote speaker 6TOC Applying Six Sigma and Lean in the Mining Industry
OVERVIEW Teaching Experience: Carson-Newman College Teaching 3 classes per semester at undergraduate/graduate level in organizational behavior, entrepreneurship and general management; Serve as MBA Director for the business school in administration capacity. Western Kentucky University Taught 3 classes per semester at the sophomore, junior & senior level in management, operations management or human resources; Various committee work; Development of management department student internship program Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Business Adjunct Professor Spring 2007 Practitioner s Experience: My skills and training are Lean - Six Sigma and Human Resources oriented; also experienced as an entrepreneur Lean / Six Sigma Culture/Organizational Change Leader Operations Management Provide consultancy to managers and leaders on change management techniques Led development of corporate metrics and company wide communication system Led (directly and indirectly) project teams which have resulted in millions of dollars of benefits Led and managed department of Blackbelts; served as internal consultants Development of Greenbelt and Blackbelt training programs (60 hours per class); personally trained 150+ Greenbelts and Blackbelts; 50+ projects managed personally Human Resources Organizational Development (leading organizational change and off-site team building) Training (development of materials and delivery to multiple corporate classes) Executive compensation and benefits, compensation, incentive compensation (long and short forms), employee benefits, retirement plans, HRIS systems and record keeping Staffing and recruitment (hourly and salary) Merger and acquisition integration duties from the human resources arena; experience with Fortune 500 and private firms Employee relations and experienced in union decertification
Dr. Todd Creasy 821 Dewberry Drive, Morristown, TN 37814 615-476-5706 (Cell) tcreasy@cn.edu Carson Newman College (August 2010 Present) MBA Director / Associate Professor Teaching 9 hours/semester in both graduate/undergraduate level in entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, leadership and general management; served on various committee including IRB; responsible for development/marketing/staffing of the MBA program; development of an on-line MBA program Western Kentucky University (July 2008 July 2010) Gordon Ford College of Business Executive-in-Residence Management Department Teaching 9 hours/semester to include sophomore, junior and senior level courses in management, operations management and human resources; on-line teaching experience; Development/marketing of the student internship program to local businesses growing it from 5 to 23 student interns in one academic year; Volunteered to help secure the SHRM certification for the human resources specialty in the department of management; Volunteered to serve on selection committee for executive in residence in WKU s northern-extended campus Rogers Group (1999 thru 2008) Privately owned, road construction / mining company in 5 states with 1800 employees Director of Performance Improvement/Six Sigma/ Training - September 2002 - March 2008 Director of Compensation, Benefits and HRIS - September 1999 September 2004(concurrently) Human Resources: Significant Compensation Committee / Pension Committee / Board interaction; Development, implementation and communication of management and executive annual incentive plans; administration and communication of total compensation system; all employee benefits and retirement plans design, communication and administration. Operations Management: Led culture change initiative to metrics and measurement, partnered with senior management on project selection and team make-up; led development of corporate metrics and companywide scoreboard/communication system; Developed first Lean approach to Six Sigma within industry; Led and managed department of Blackbelts serving as internal consultants; Development of Greenbelt and Blackbelt training programs having personally trained 150+ professionals; 50+ team projects managed personally; personally led or managed directly 75+ projects
Promus Hotel Corporation (1997 1999) Publicly traded, hotel owner, franchiser and management company in 40+ states with 43,000 employees Director of Benefits - January 1998 to September 1999 Strategic Compensation and Benefits Analyst - July 1997 January 1998 Led the project to design, analyze, structure, plan, communicate and implement a full benefits portfolio as a result of the Promus Doubletree merger which produced the fourth largest hotel company in the world; human resources experience in acquisition/disposition activities; co-authored compensation survey; maintenance of compensation system and design/communication of incentive compensation packages M.S. Carriers (1995 1997) Publicly traded, national trucking company in 7 states with 5000 employees Benefits and Records Manager - October 1995 to July 1997 Incentive compensation develop and administer eleven different monthly incentive compensation programs effecting approximately 300 employees; Equity compensation develop, communicate and administer four stock option programs including a broad-based stock option program. Communicate, implement and administer all employee benefits; Developed Healthy Company health and wellness emphasis company wide; Pro-Companies Inc. (1990 1995) General Manager/Entrepreneur - August 1990 May 1995 (sold) Human Resources Consulting Recruitment of professional and executive positions Conduct compensation studies Long-term employee contracting
References: Zubair Mohamed Department Chair Management Gordon Ford College of Business Western Kentucky University 270-745-6360 Zubair.mohamed@wku.edu Rick Turner Division Vice President Rogers Group 615-451-4777 (o) rick.turner@rogersgroupinc.com Simon Peck Professor Case Western University 216-368-3824 (o) simon.peck@case.edu Mike Stull Director and Asst. Professor California State University 909-537-3708 (o) mstull@csusb.edu David Neal Division Controller Rogers Group 615-451-4777 (o) david.neal@rogersgroupinc.com