Ron Stites

Ron Stites is a semi-retired serial entrepreneur with high-tech companies. Ron has a BS Degree in Chemistry from the University of Kansas and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from Regis University in Denver. He has taught business courses at the university level in accounting, marketing, and marketing research. He holds six patents in chemical processes and has launched multiple start-ups and business expansions. He managed large technical operations (over 100 scientists, engineers, and support staff) and national sales forces for technical service firms with multiple offices across the US.

He has written extensively and given seminars on R&D Management, Analytical Techniques, Design of Experiments, Business Management, Data Science, and Ethics. He has been active in independent consulting since 1996. Ron is also an accomplished lecturer and instructor. He developed and conducted industrial courses on Project Management and Chemical Hazard Awareness for laboratories and engineering firms. He was as a Dale Carnegie Sales Advantage Trainer. And finally, he has developed and presented on-line and in classroom courses at a university level in General Business, Marketing, Marketing Research and Computer Information Services for Colorado Christian University and Missouri Baptist University. He has also been an invited speaker on many technical topics including the International Design Expert Users Meeting in Vienna, Austria for Stat-Ease, Inc., a data science software company.

Ron is now focusing more on life, ethics, and career issues. This includes trying to make sense of “what it’s all about” from personal as well as collective perspectives.