My wife, Robin, and I began visiting Yachats over thirty years ago. It was love at first sight. Of course, as I am sure many will attest, Yachats magically turns everyone into an artist. Being no exception, I was quickly enchanted and inspired. We purchased a small lot on Ocean View Drive on our second visit and built our home here four years later. It was completed in 1992, the same year our daughter was born. Since then we have come to Yachats at least once every year. For the past several years, we have been able to spend the entire summer here. During each retreat (from the big city and the summer heat), I manage a few amateur oil paintings, mostly landscapes.
As president of the Human Productivity Center, Bill Stinnett, Ph.D. has educated and coached more than 10,000 executives, managers, and other professionals in leadership, communication, problem-solving, and facilitation skills. He has facilitated the team building, strategic planning, or implementation plans of hundreds of management teams. He has received consistently superior ratings in his training seminars, which include Leader Effectiveness Training, Facilitator Development Workshop, Team Leader Training, Total Quality Management, Continuous Quality Improvement, Total Cycle Time, and many others. As a Master Trainer for Gordon Training International Bill has conducted Leader Effectiveness Training Workshops, and Train-the-Trainer Workshops, and supervised trainer candidates in a wide variety of organizations across the country including Medtronic, Merck & Co., Inc., W.L. Gore & Associates, Fort James Corporation, Weyerhaeuser, and Walt Disney Imagineering. Internationally Bill has conducted workshops for the Republic Bank of Trinidad in Port of Spain, Trinidad/Tobago, Merck in Montreal, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore, Nama Chemicals in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, Medtronic in China, Himaya in Beirut, Cabot Microelectronics in Japan, Roche Pharmaceutical in South Africa, and KIPA (Korean Institute of Public Administration) in South Korea.
Bill moved to Arizona in 1976 and from then until 1980 was an Assistant Professor of Communication at Arizona State University. He taught many of the fundamental communication courses including Small Group Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Persuasion, and others. He was the director of the Introduction to Communication course. He also taught several graduate seminars including research methods and several advanced content seminars.
Prior to establishing the Human Productivity Center in 1985, Bill worked for Honeywell. First as a facilitator, then as the manager of a group of organization development professionals, Bill helped redesign and re-engineer the company’s team process. During his time at Honeywell, he contributed as a coach to the senior managers facilitated many employee and management teams and his group developed and implemented a team-based management system that produced a 330% increase in productivity and a 50% reduction of product cost at a prototype Honeywell facility.
Bill received his B.A. in Speech and Theater from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia (minors: Psychology, Art). He received his M.A. in Interpersonal Communication from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Bill is also active in the arts community in Phoenix: Member of Phoenix Art Gallery and the Heard Museum; Member of the Phoenix Symphony Chorus (baritone), and occasional student at the Phoenix Center for the Arts. I am a brand new, proud member of the Yachats Arts Guild.
He has also served on the board of Save The Family of Arizona, and The Phoenix Towers Cooperative Apartments.
| Bill Stinnett | bill_hpc@cox.net | Oil |
