Specialties

Business Management, Team Building, Lean Six Sigma, DMAIC, Change Management, Personal Growth, Character Development, Leadership, Mentoring, Personality Tests, Color Code, Coaching, Business Team Development, Professional Growth, Seminars, Sequential Radical Positive, Change, Coaching and Mentoring

History

Established in 1980.

Dr. Stephen R. Schmidt (Retired Air Force Lt Col and B52 pilot) is the founder of Air Academy Associates (a multi-million dollar, international consulting company.) He has more than 30 years of teaching and consulting experience in business improvement strategies, cultural change, personal growth, and team building. His "Cowboy" approach has gained him wide spread popularity and an impressive client list: General Electric, Sony, Boeing, Texas Instruments, Lockheed Martin, Abbott Labs, Citicorp, Motorola, Raytheon, Dannon, NBC and many others. So respected was Steve, that he gained a trusted position as advisor and educator of top executives around the world. Because of his vast experience, he has served as an adjunct faculty member to the Motorola Six Sigma Research Institute where he helped develop the Six Sigma approach and trained the first Black Belts for several Fortune 500 Companies. Steve went on to develop Lean Six Sigma at Texas Instruments, General Electric, and Sony.

Meet the Business Owner: Steve S.

Dr. Schmidt has a B.S. in Math from the U.S. Air Force Academy, a M.S. in Operations Research from the University of Texas, and a PhD in Applied Statistics from the University of Northern Colorado. He is the co-author of the following texts: Understanding Industrial Designed Experiments, Basic Statistics: Tools for Continuous Improvement, Total Quality: A Textbook of Strategic Quality, Leadership, and Planning, and Knowledge Based Management (KBM). These texts have been used at prestigious universities such as M.I.T., George Washington University, etc., and corporations around the world. One of his books was reviewed by Dr. W. Edwards Deming and two were translated into Japanese.