Career Consultants
Meet Our Career Consultants:
This team of experts work with you to determine your specific career and employment needs and how Stewart, Cooper & Coon may apply our considerable resources to meet these needs. Their other function is to present your candidacy to our coaching, recruiting, administrative, and candidate marketing teams who will be working on your candidacy.
Chuck McConnell, Executive Career Consultant
cmcconnell@stewartcoopercoon.com
Charles "Chuck" McConnell has been a leading voice in career management for many years. He defined and developed First Career Corporation and FindCareer.com and serves as the "Career Expert" for New York American Marketing Association. He has published numerous articles on the subject of career management and search preparation and has organized national and international conferences that have assisted thousands in getting their career searches on track.
Prior to his work in career services, Chuck was the Senior Consulting Partner at The Watson Group, a strategic communications agency based in NYC. His background includes corporate management positions with multinational marketers in the packaged goods, snack, confection, toy and apparel industries. Chuck was President of The Apparel Group Limited, building worldwide acceptance of men's apparel. He also has held global management positions at top advertising agencies such as WPP, Bozell and DMB&B and major marketers including Hanes, International Playtex and General Foods. Chuck earned his MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a BA in economics from DePauw University and Exeter University in England.
Judy Reeves, Executive Career Consultant
Judy Reeves has spent a considerable portion of her career in the legal field, working with trial lawyers and judges. Following her legal career, she was tapped by the Trampoline and Power Tumbling Program of USA Gymnastics to assist them in having that sport recognized by the U.S. Olympic Committee. She secured the sport's first television exposure when she served in the U.S. Director's office.
Her primary responsibility was guiding the national governing board, foreign delegations and members of the International Federation of Trampoline and Power Tumbling. She also assisted in managing The Pan Pacific Games, a weeklong competition between teams from Australia, South Africa, Japan, Mexico, Canada and the U.S.
As an entrepreneur, Judy built a residential and commercial design firm whose primary focus was residential and commercial projects ranging from 14,000 - 100,000 square feet that generated over $1M in first year revenue.
Judy spends her spare time working in fundraising for non-profit organizations. Her focus and passion is raising money for needed pediatric equipment for the American Heart Association. What Judy understands is people and how to move the barriers that stand in the way of their achieving their personal goals.
Jeff Resnick, Executive Career Consultant
jresnick@stewartcoopercoon.com
Jeff Resnick has spent the past 25+ years developing advertising and sales promotional programs for Fortune 500 companies. Companies such as National City Bank, American Express, Sherwin-Williams, Levi Strauss, and American Greetings have profited from Jeff's unique incremental profit-based incentive programs that tie in all levels of employees.
Jeff has developed bottom-line oriented sales training programs as well as all levels of executive/management training. In addition, Jeff has had extensive experience in designing Career Paths within both large corporate organizations and smaller startup companies. For his highly creative strategies, Jeff has won multiple awards. He has also successfully built national sales teams and managed national product distribution channels. Jeff has an Organizational Communication degree with a BA and MA from Ohio State University.
Jerry Strohman, Executive Career Consultant
jstrohman@stewartcoopercoon.com
Jerry has the experience for setting and making difficult management decisions and achieving results based upon them. He is known as a hand's on manager credited for increasing business while eliminating unnecessary costs.
Jerry comes to us from one of America's best known brewing companies, Miller Brands. As General Manager, he was responsible for all profit and loss decisions and managed sales, marketing, brand management, national accounts, finance, inventory and distribution. He was also responsible for labor relations.
Jerry's distinguished career is not without national recognition: Presidents Club-Outstanding Achievement award for Seven Up; Salesman of the Month 22 Times and Salesman of the Year twice. At Olympia Brewing, he won the treasured Golden Horseshoe Award for being the number 15 out of 325 Distributors nationwide. While at Miller Brewing Company, he was named a Miller Master by being their number 20 distributor, out of 437 possible contenders.
Arthur Lane, Executive Career Consultant
Arthur Lane has more than 30 years of experience in the areas of sales, consulting, and financial management. Arthur began his career in the financial world, where he held a number of positions over a 15-year span: the first being in a public accounting firm, and the last being the Chief Financial Officer for a mid market manufacturer of custom high volume food processing equipment.
Next, his career transitioned to consulting, business process improvement and organizational optimization with Origin Technology. Arthur then joined Oracle Corporation in a consulting role before progressing to sales and business development within the company. Upon leaving Oracle, he joined RCG Information Technology and led their Enterprise Solutions Group for several years, specializing in organizational effectiveness and business process reengineering.
Prior to joining SC&C, Arthur worked for a national career consulting organization, in a role that advised companies on how to effectively plan and monitor their organizational needs. Arthur currently resides in Chicago.
Glenn Appleyard, Executive Career Consultant
gappleyard@stewartcoopercoon.com
Prior to joining Stewart, Cooper & Coon, Glenn Appleyard worked as a senior marketing consultant successfully developing brand- and business-building marketing programs for top Fortune 500 companies and their ‘flagship’ brands. Working across a broad spectrum of the marketing mix, he leveraged his strong communications, marketing and creative skills to develop high market recognition and sales for both consumer and business-to-business clients.
Previously, Glenn worked as both an executive placement consultant and an outplacement consultant, bringing to this work, a broad and diversified career that included vice president level positions with Citibank, Manufacturers Hanover Trust and Bankers Trust, Managing Director for The Ryan Partnership and New Business Development for Howard Bedford Nolan, a promotion marketing agency. Glenn received his MBA from Seton Hall University with a double major in Quantitative Analysis and Marketing. He received his BA degree in Zoology from the University of New Hampshire. He is a published writer over most of his career and helped author a book on Bank Operations Management.
Michael Rossillo, Executive Career Consultant
mrossillo@stewartcoopercoon.com
Michael's senior level experience includes positions in the executive placement field as a Senior Marketing Consultant and Medical Executive Recruiting. Prior to joining Stewart, Cooper & Coon, Michael created brand identities and marketing programs for industry leaders including Miller Brewing, Pepsi, Nabisco, Pizza Hut, M&M Mars, Citibank and Johnson & Johnson. With experience across the entire marketing mix, Michael has worked as a Executive Consultant and Creative Director in sales promotion agencies and successfully founded several Marketing firms. Michael's diverse experience and valuable corporate contributions have been based upon on his ability to identify opportunities, solve problems and get results. Michael is a graduate of Central Connecticut State University, earning a BA in Graphic Design Management and his BS in Marketing.
Oliver P. Cornell , Executive Career Consultant
ocornell@stewartcoopercoon.com
Oliver is one of the early adopters of the use of modern marketing techniques to effect the transition of highly successful executives and professionals from one position to another. He is one of the pioneers in the development of individual and corporate outplacement consulting practices that saw career transition as a marketing problem, a problem of positioning, packaging, promoting and pricing.
He began his career as a college teacher and became involved in publishing, eventually running a small publishing house in Chicago, Printer's Row Press, publishing a weekly newspaper, pamphlets, journals and books, primarily in the political arena.
In early 1980 he began a new career in corporate and executive outplacement built upon the principles of modern marketing. Rising to the position of Executive Vice President he was one of the key associates to grow the company nationwide, personally working a long the way helping to place hundreds of senior level managers and executives in new and exciting growth opportunities. In 1986 he formed his own executive placement and corporate outplacement firm and built the company to cover twenty one major market areas in the West, successfully working with thousands of clients. He retired from the career industry in 2001.
In that same year, he turned his passion in to a business and began managing investments. He also helped found a company to raise money for schools. This company eventually incorporated the latest in Internet technology and became the popular site www.schoolpop.com.
Realizing the absolute necessity of using the internet and its enormous access to information to run a successful executive search he joined Stewart, Cooper & Coon coming back to the business of helping serious minded executives find rewarding new jobs and careers.
Fred Sleezer, Executive Career Consultant
fsleezerl@stewartcoopercoon.com
A pioneer in the Career Transition and Outplacement professions, Fred brings more than 20 years’ experience in all facets of job change to his current assignments.
His experience encompasses personally directing some 800 individual candidate programs and providing management oversight for literally thousands more. His background ranges from career transition to executive coaching and executive search. These assignments have included virtually all industries…all levels from “C” level to Senior Professional…all corporate functions…and included campaigns throughout the US, Europe, Saudi Arabia and Latin America.
Fred brings a passion for career transition to his work because he has witnessed first hand the benefits and successes that this process can produce. He also has a strong foundation in leading-edge technology and has played a key role in designing and implementing complete technology solutions for Fortune 250 Corporations.
Fred holds a BA with Honors from Williams College…an MA from Cornell University…and completed an MBA program at Temple University. He has traveled extensively and recently executed 8 trips to Europe and 2 to Mexico City encompassing some 110,000 airline miles and more than 85 days of international travel.
In his leisure time, Fred is an avid golfer…pursues other outdoor sports…reads extensively and enjoys computer gaming.
George Stecyk, Executive Career Consultant
George Stecyk brings the Stewart Cooper & Coon team more than 20 years experience working in the Consulting, IT Applications, Engineering, Aviation, and Human Resources fields for companies that include Planning Decisions Group, Dun & Bradstreet, Automatic Data Processing (ADP) and Patrick Engineering. This, along with five years as President of a Career Consulting, Outplacement and Recruiting firm gives him the ability to understand the challenges facing Executive job seekers as they prepare to change companies or, as is often the case, to change industries or careers.
George’s industry knowledge includes assisting client companies in consumer products such as Miller Brewing, RJ Reynolds and Western Publishing, investor owned utility and holding companies such as Texas Utilities, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and NICOR, and insurance companies such as State Farm Mutual Insurance, Farmers Insurance Group and Nationwide Insurance. Other client assignments added companies like BP (Amoco), DeKalb AgResearch and Modine Manufacturing to his experience base.
While president of his career consultancy, George assisted hundreds of managers and executives to achieve satisfying job and career changes, often by creatively exploring opportunities “outside the box.” He was a contributor to the Chicago Tribune “Jobs” column, appeared on television to offer his expertise in creating an effective job search campaign and was invited as a frequent presenter on the subject of jobs and careers. George earned his BA in Business from North Central College, where he would later advise seniors in honing their job search skills.
Miles Denney, Executive Career Consultant
Miles has more than 20 years of experience creating marketing, sales, and business opportunities and campaigns for Fortune 500 corporations. He has profiled databases for businesses, and his concepts and designs are used by Wall Street investment brokers and direct and consumer product marketers. His career has centered on business consulting and consumer behavior with a specialty in analysis of critical buyer readiness characteristics for applications in target marketing databases.
He is an expert in sales and marketing strategies to improve sales and boost overall business development and operational efficiencies. Miles has a Master's degree in Organizational and Industrial Psychology.
