Dean Wisecarver
I worked for a very large insurance company for 24 years. I learned how to bring a diverse group of individuals into an effective team. I recruited, hired and developed countless management consultants, helping them polish their communications skills for both written work and presentations. As controller in a $160 million national accounts servicing operation, I headed up a department of 5 divisions and over 100 people, solving work processing problems and helping people become more effective and find satisfaction in doing their jobs well.
In 1995, I started my own successful consulting company, recruiting, hiring, training and developing another group of consultants. Along they way, I created operating manuals; service proposals for prospective clients; designed, wrote and published newsletters; taught myself how to design and create a website; and conducted management development seminars and training sessions for many small to medium companies all around the United States.
During my 32 years of experience in business, I learned how to improve my skills at writing and making presentations. I’ve written thousands of reports, hundreds of proposals, scripts, technical articles and “white” papers. I’ve designed and conducted hundreds of presentations, executive seminars, training sessions including management development training, and general management meetings.
One of the most important things I learned is that people who have excellent speaking and writing skills -- communications skills -- almost always do better in their careers than those who have not mastered these skills. Regardless of an individual’s general intelligence, education, or experience, an individual with solid oral and written communications skills is always viewed as more intelligent, more logical, more poised, and more competent than those that struggle with these skills. I’ve seen people with high IQs, exceptional technical knowledge, and vastly superior experience get stymied in their corporate advancement simply because they never learned how to express themselves in a clear, concise, logical way.
The good news is that these all are learned skills. Virtually anyone can learn to improve significantly. After learning to improve my own skills in these important areas, I have spent much of my career helping others do the same.
My wife Sandy and I have two children and together we enjoy traveling, red wines, dinner for two, and sharing our business interests. I am an avid golfer, amateur home remodeler, self-taught guitarist, aspiring author of a management text, and music lover (especially main-stream classical).