Ronald C. Pilenzo, PhD, SPHR, RODC
Profile: Over 50 years of experience in business management, including 23 year in the private sector with several Fortune 100 companies as a manager and senior executive in human resource management, as President of the world’s largest human resource society, as an international management consultant and as an adjunct professor at three major public universities. Also served as a board director with several non-profit organizations, and chairman of a large EAP in Alexandria, Virginia. Author, writer, panelist and keynote speaker at domestic and overseas conference in 27 countries.
Expertise: Human resource management, management consulting, coaching and counseling of senior business executives, business development both domestic and overseas including the development of consulting offices in Brussels, London, and Tokyo. Clients served: FAA, USPS, The World Bank, the Edison Institute, and other large scale organizations. Acted as consultant to several overseas professional organizations in South America, Europe and the Far East.
Positions: Personnel Decisions, Inc. SVP/President of International Division – Washington DC
Society of Human Resource Management – President, Alexandria, VA
International Multifoods Corp. – Director of Compensation & Management Development, Minneapolis, MN
Evans Products Company - Retail Group – VPHR, Braintree, MA
Allied Supermarkets, Inc. – Director of Recruiting, Compensation, MP Development, Detroit, MI
Ford Motor Company – Various positions including Personnel Director, Chemical Products Div, Mt. Clemens, MI
USAF (1950-1954)
Education: BBA Cum Laude, University of Detroit, 1961
MBA, University of Detroit, 1964
PhD., Kennedy-Western University, CA 2005
Honorary PhD., London Institute, UK 1978
Adjunct Professor – George Mason University, Graduate School of Business
Adjunct Professor – University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (ILIR)
Adjunct Professor – Florida Atlantic University, College of Business
Certifications: Senior Professional in Human Resource Management (SPHR)
Registered Organization Development Consultant (RODC)
Diplomat – Chair, Internal Academy of Behavioral Medicine and Psychotherapy
Volunteer: Committee Chair, VP Committees, NVP, Board Member – SHRM
Appointed to several Federal Government Task Forces – Washington DC
Appointed to National Governors Association Task Force – Washington DC
Advisory Member to the Business Roundtable’s Employee Relations Committee (Fortune 500 Companies)
Consultant – Executive Service Corporation of the Treasure Coast
Publications: Various chapters, professional articles and newspaper articles
Guest on various radio and TV talk shows both in the US and overseas
Honors: Various awards from organizations in the US and aboard. Awarded the George Petitipas Award for the individual making the greatest contribution to human resource management in the world in 1990 in Buenos Aires.
Mexican HR Association Award from COMARI in 1990
University of Illinois – Alumni Association Award