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In 1992, Charles "Charlie" Fleetham founded Project Innovations to
create and deliver innovative organizational and leadership development
solutions to business and government. Under Charlie's direction, the
company has consulted with many clients and has grown into a two million
a year consulting business.
As a successful management consultant, speaker, and trainer for 18 years,
Charlie has developed a storehouse of expertise in leadership development.
He has created and presented workshops across the country in the
following:
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Executive and supervisory development |
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Strategic planning |
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Organizational and personal visioning |
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Cultural change |
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Human Resource planning |
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Conflict resolution |
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Team building |
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Grooming rainmakers |
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Meeting facilitation |
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Mentoring and coaching |
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Charlie began to integrate the theories of Carl Jung into his leadership
development work because he saw two things: most leadership development
practices were based on rational thinking and there was a vast reservoir
of untapped power in the unconscious. Based on his experience with Jung's
ideas, he identified a need for an approach that leveraged the
unconscious.
He launched his company on a journey that featured a multi-year apprenticeship
with a licensed Jungian analyst, a concentrated symposium at the Jungian
Institute in Switzerland, training for all consultants in Jungian theory,
and the investment of more than a hundred thousand dollars in research,
training, creative development, and marketing.
A graduate of the Michigan State University, Charlie received a BA in
English and graduated with High Honors. Considered an expert in group
dynamics and resolving organizational conflict, Charlie has broadly
implemented the concepts of Unrational Leadership in business and
government. Although these ideas are counterintuitive to the organizational
mind, Charlie has seen more and more of his clients successfully adopt
this innovative way of thinking and doing. As a consultant, he has
received numerous awards and accolades from his clients. Some of his
most significant achievements include:
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Facilitating the resolution of a $1.2 billion
dollar rate conflict for the City of Detroit's wastewater system |
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Facilitating the start up of a national
phone company |
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Facilitating the turnaround of an engineering
consulting firm |
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Facilitating the resolution of a fourteen-year-old community
conflict in Kalamazoo, Michigan over the management of wastewater services |
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Winning Ford Motor Company's highest quality award
for helping a software team develop innovative software |
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Charlie often speaks on Unrational Leadership™ and related management
consulting topics, and his unique methods have been featured in
Crain's Detroit Business. In May 2003, he spoke at the American Consulting
Engineering Council national convention on the topic of "Grooming
Rainmakers". In this speech, he introduced the concepts of Unrational
Leadership™ and the individual and organizational path to discovery
model. The reception was overwhelmingly positive and has led to
follow-up consulting assignments and a speaking engagement with
Zweig-White at their October 2003, Leadership Conference in San
Francisco.
Finally, and most importantly, Charlie leads a balanced life. He is
the father of two teen-aged children and committed to giving them a
role model that they can emulate. He takes singing lessons with his
daughter, has coached many softball and baseball teams, and serves his
community as president of the local youth football association.
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