Bill Catlette

Bill Catlette is a human resources consultant with 26 years experience helping build highly successful organizations. He is the co-author of Contented Cows Give Better Milk: The Plain Truth About Employee Relations and Your Bottom Line.

Bachelor of Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

Bill Catlette has worked in a variety of Human Resource management and executive capacities with some well known and highly regarded service distribution firms. His corporate ports of call have included assignments with Genuine Parts Company, the Atlanta-based distribution arm of NAPA; Automatic Data Processing, where he served as the companys Corporate Manager of Employee Relations; and Federal Express Corporation; where, as a Managing Director, he and his staff were responsible for developing many of the Human Resource programs which enabled that company to become recognized as one of the nations 5 Best Managed Companies (Forbes), one of the 100 Best Companies in America to Work For, and, without question, one of the true world class service organizations.

Upon leaving Federal Express in 1989, Bill founded The Westar Group, a human resources consulting firm which concentrates primarily on the areas of Employee Relations, Teamwork, Leadership Development, and Business Strategy.

With better than 5,000 hours addressing business leadership groups, Bill is an accomplished speaker and seminar leader.

Bill, a native of West Virginia, considers himself an excellent sport fisherman, a mediocre (but enthusiastic) tennis player, and a washed up golfer. He lives in Collierville, Tennessee (near Memphis) with his wife, Mary, and their two children.

SPEECH TOPICS:

Contented Cows Give Better Milk: Your People...Your Profits

Leadership, and the Bottom Line Value of Creating a Great Place to Work