Testimonials for Mark W. Sickles
| "The Mark W. Sickles, LLC Shareholder Value Assurance Management
System (SVAMS) is a very powerful tool when skillfully utilized, with
the support of a strong and knowledgeable SVA consultant, by an
organization hungry for a principle-based approach to sound governance
and long-term shareholder value. I view SVAMS, and its underlying
methodology SVA, as an excellent synthesis of the most relevant
and useful value-creation concepts taught in business schools
and management books over the years, now available to the
global business community in a streamlined, sequentially correct,
and logical format. When skillfully used, SVAMS will guide boards,
management teams and entire organizations toward the shared
goals of sound governance, competitive advantage and long-term
shareholder value."
Ken Stokes
Executive Vice President
The Americas & Australia/New Zealand
Reckitt Benckiser, plc - Retired
Board of Directors - Executive Forum |
"By applying the Shareholder Value Assurance methodology, as featured in this breakthrough book, Amerihealrh developed a strategy designed to fit the external competitive forces embodying the rules of competition in the health insurance industry."
Dan Pedriani, President, Amerihealth |
"Employers would be remiss not to share Mark Sickles'
Shareholder Value Assurance Certification Workshop
with their employees. After all, a clerk today will be
a manager tomorrow."
Mary B. Maier
Advisory Consultant, Sungard Higher Education
Advisory Council Member,
Krall Center for
Corporate and Executive Education,
Lebow College
of Business, Drexel University |
"Shareholder Value Assurance—The Cure for Enronitis is a must read for every strategic business professional. This book provides a crystal clear explanation of the enormous benefits an organization stands to gain by using a proven scientific method of achieving excellence. Once I started reading, I simply could not put the book down. I'm certain that every reader will share the same feeling."
Global VP, HR, Learning Organization |
"Mark's Shareholder Value Assurance (SVA) process was the ideal vehicle for communicating my vision for CYRO's future. The SVA process made it easier for our managers to focus their strategies to maximize Return on Capital Employed and Cash Flow Return on Investment."
John L. Medina, President & CEO, CYRO Industries |
I recently spent 3 days in a Mark W. Sickles training seminar. It was undoubtedly the best training I have ever received (and that says a lot) for a number of reasons. The course materials were insightful, well researched, laser focused, pertinent, and extremely well prepared. In addition, Mark is an outstanding presenter who “engages” his audience as well as I have ever seen it done.
Rick Galbreath |
"Like a slugger who steps to the plate with the bases loaded, Mark Sickles has hit a grand slam with Shareholder Value Assurance. Reading this book is like speaking with Mark himself—engaging us with stories, analogies, best practices, and flat-out good teachings. Do what is suggested here, create 'the best workplace,' and like Mark and SVA, you too will be destined for the Business Hall of Fame."
William E. Corstni, Group Publisher, Human Resource Executive magazine |
"By implementing Shareholder Value Assurance (SVA), I was able to transform the operating culture of Danbury Pharmacal, a division of Schein Pharmaceuticals. Over a two year period, we improved from a loss of $8 million to a profit of $54 million. Earlier in my career, 1 worked with Mark developing and implementing SVA to help transform $800 million Rorer Group into $4 billion Rhone-Poulenc Rorer. There is no doubt about it—SVA produces extraordinary results!"
Robert S. Mills Jr., Senior Vice President
Columbia Laboratories |
Dear Mark:
I am writing to thank you for doing such a spectacular job teaching in Singapore and Indonesia. The evaluations from the Singaporean students have just arrived, and I don’t think I have ever seen higher scores or more enthusiastic comments from these students (in our 12 year relationship with the Singapore Institute of Management). The Singaporean students tend to rate lower than our US students, and so I would not have been surprised or disappointed if your scores had been somewhat lower. But your scores are exceptional, and indicate you have done a very good, thorough, conscientious job with the students, just as you do here in our New Brunswick courses.
Dr. Barbara A. Lee
Professor and Chair
Rutgers University |
PEOPLESOFT IMPLEMENTATION AND BREAKTHROUGH CONSULTING TESTIMONIAL
"American Standard successfully converted over to PeopleSoft Version 8. This project was completed on time and under budget. As the senior executive responsible for this deliverable, I attribute a great deal of credit for this outcome to an effective intervention by Mark Sickles. This project was on track for failure rather than success. Sensing this, I asked Mark to intervene and take control of the project. Using his Shareholder Value Assurance technology, Mark transformed the morale of the internal project team from one of infighting and frustration, to one of harmonious teamwork, and then put them on a track leading to success. We at American Standard would be very interested in any software product ingrained with the principles of Mark’s Shareholder Value Assurance methodology."
Sincerely,
Larry Costello
Senior Vice President - Human Resources
American Standard Companies |
"Professor Sickles gave us the concepts and tools we needed and set us free. The great thing that I, and others who attended Professor Sickles' course with me, have found is that we were able to apply the tools immediately back on the job - with results. This isn't just theory - it makes sense and it really works."
Holly Jamros,
Human Resources Director |
"Every so often, an organization needs to take some time out from the day to day running of a business and look at their long term business plan and strategies. By taking my management team through Mark’s Shareholder Value Assurance process, we were able to develop a strategy that emphasizes a proprietary advantage we have versus our competition. The Shareholder Value Assurance process enabled us to seriously look at ourselves, our competition, where we are now, where we are going, and how we are going to get there in an atmosphere outside the realm of "business as usual." Since all key managers participated in deciding what we need to do as well as how we are going to do it, everyone is totally committed to getting it done. Besides channeling our energies in the right direction, there has been a marked improvement in the teamwork, cooperation and communication within our company since we went through Shareholder Value Assurance. Now that we have gone through Shareholder Value Assurance, virtually all of our activities can be viewed against our strategic imperatives. Through the Shareholder Value Assurance process, we achieved a better business plan, better strategies, better teamwork, cooperation and communication-the Shareholder Value Assurance process worked for us."
Kenneth C. Cwick,
Vice President & General Manager,
Rubber Chemicals and Pigment Division
Degussa Corporation |
Not only is Mark Sickles obviously very knowledgeable about management and leadership issues and practices, but he uses teaching approaches that engage, challenge, and energize his students. An enhancement to his teaching is Mark’s ability to draw effectively on his substantial experience as a consultant to corporations to give meaningful examples of current issues that today’s business organizations face. Mark enables students to understand how business functions are related and how these interrelationships affect problem solving. I believe students at AT&T’s School of Business and Technology will benefit greatly from having Mark Sickles as their instructor.
Madelyn Larkin
AT&T School of Business & Technology |
"By building broad-based commitment to achievement of the project's goals, we had the critical mass necessary to overcome any derailments and keep the project on track. Mark Sickles’ involvement enabled our success."
Sincerely,
Carey Monaghan
Campbell Soup Company |
"Mark Sickles built the system senior management operated to transform an $800 million company into a $4 billion company producing 35% annual rates of return during that growth period.
President, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer |
"With Mark Sickles acting as my personal consultant, I applied his problem solving and breakthrough management technologies to address a Board of Directors' edict to dramatically reduce inventory levels. Within a matter of weeks, this team came up with a plan to reduce inventories over a three year period from $40 million to $19 million. Today, roughly two years later, we have implemented much of our plan and reduced inventory levels to $24 million and are on track to achieve our targeted reduction goal. Mark's management technologies and personal consulting to me were clearly the breakthrough interventions we needed to get underway."
Mike Neyens
Business Planning Manager |
"Mark Sickles has demonstrated expertise in what I consider to be a leading edge management approach designed to help organizations effectively integrate strategic planning and human resource management using the principles and methods of total quality. Additionally, I have been impressed with Mark's diagnostic and prescriptive skills, and have found his advice and counsel to be insightful and practical."
Steve G. Roehrich
Vice President - Quality Management
Consumer & Personal Care Group
Johnson & Johnson |
"Mr. Mark Sickles has completed several assignments for Degussa Corporation. I was Mark's first contact with Degussa, and I was favorably impressed with his credentials and experience. Mark is very focused, and gets right to the heart of the problem. In addition he is a diplomatic individual and a delight to work with. Other Degussa managers have echoed my sentiments.
John M. Hugg
Director - Planning & Development
Degussa Corporation |
Our Students Say...
"I am writing to let you know how pleased I was with my recent class at Rutgers. I took Professor Sickles' course and I think both the course and Professor Sickles add a great deal of value. Never before have I taken a class that was as captivating and as informative as this particular course. Professor Sickles was extremely organized and presented the course material using real life examples of the material. As the semester progressed, I found each class to be more exciting than the last. Finally, the semester culminated with a group project which I found to be very rewarding. Professor Sickles should be commended for his outstanding teaching ability and external desire for students to learn the course material. The values, philosophies, and models of management that I took from his course will last me a lifetime."
Sincerely,
Sam M. Garod |
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References
- Ms. Beverly W. Aisenbrey, Managing Director, Frederic W. Cook & Company
- Dr. Rosina Dixon, Corporate Director, Church & Dwight
- Mr. Frank A. Kissel, Chairman & CEO, Peapack-Gladstone Bank
- Mr. Mark Kuehn, Esq., President, Association for Corporate Growth, New Jersey Chapter
- Mr. Edward J. Ludwig, Chairman, President, and CEO, Becton, Dickinson, an Company, and Corporate Director, Aetna
- Mr. Stephen Luongo, Managing Director, Marsh
- Mr. William McCracken, Corporate Director, Computer Associates and Ikon Business Solutions
- Mr. Mark Morrison, VP, Human Resources, Ann Taylor
- Mr. Daniel J. Pedriani, President & CEO, Amerihealth Administrators
- Dr. Roger W. Raber, CEO and President, National Association of Corporate Directors
- Mr. Charles K. Recorr, Vice President, Merrill Lynch
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