William A. Schiemann is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Metrus Group. Dr. Schiemann and his colleagues have consulted extensively with many major corporations on the development and implementation of business strategies, employee and customer measurement, strategy-operations alignment, productivity and quality improvement, cost containment, strategic acumen of employees at all levels, culture change, and mergers and acquisitions. Dr. Schiemann and his firm are known for their pioneering work in the creation of performance gauges and scorecards to measure strategy implementation, and for establishing linkages between employee, customer, and financial outcomes. His team has led many of the developments in employee surveys, including the development of strategic surveys.
Dr. Schiemann’s clients have included Abbott Laboratories, AT&T, BP Amoco p.l.c., The CIT Group, CNA Insurance Co., Hewlett Packard, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Monsanto Company, Public Service Electric & Gas Co., United Parcel Services, Verizon and Wal-Mart, as well as many small and medium sized organizations.
William Schiemann is co-author of Bullseye! Hitting your strategic targets through high-impact measurement. He has also written extensively for many publications, including Across the Board, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Strategy, Journal of Cost Management, Journal of Strategic Performance Measurement, Management Review, and Quality Progress.
Bill is a frequent global speaker for both public and private forums, including such organizations as Academy of Management, AICPA, Anheuser-Busch, BP Amoco, p.l.c., Conference Board, Human Resource Planning Society, IBM, Institutional Investor, International Institute for Research, International Productivity and Quality Council, Johnson & Johnson, Niagara Mohawk, and Society of Human Resource Management.
Prior to the founding of Metrus Group, Inc. in 1988, Dr. Schiemann was Senior Vice President with Sirota & Alper Associates and Vice President of Opinion Research Corporation (ORC). In the latter role, he directed the organizational research division for six years and consulted with hundreds of organizations across most industries in the U.S. and abroad. Prior to joining ORC, Dr. Schiemann was an organizational consultant with AT&T. He also served on the business school faculties at Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Iowa before AT&T.
Dr. Schiemann received a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Illinois, and an MBA from the Stuart School at Illinois Institute of Technology.