Dr. Ron Wood Sr.
CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER

Dr. Wood has a Ph.D from Walden University and is also a track chair for the American Business Behavioral Sciences Society covering the area of entrepreneurship.
Dr. Wood currently is a senior executive for the  American Veterans Alliance USA, Trading Group and  is responsible for providing strategic guidance and direction.  He  also oversees all  operations including the Veterans Trade Exchange, procurement, training, and the quarterly AVATG newsletter.  Dr. Wood has also been appointed to serve on the Board of Directors for  the American Veterans Alliance for Disabled Veterans.

Dr. Wood joined Axiom Consulting LLC in 2002 after contributing over 30 years of executive leadership experience from a number of companies including Savin Business Machines, 3M, IBM, Computer Sciences Corporation, and CNA Insurance. He has most recently founded the Wood Research Institute to explore issues related to how to sustain business success, diversity, managing and negotiating in multicultural environments, expatriate problems/issues, business ethics and corporate social responsibility.
He is widely published and has both been keynote and main tent speaker at a variety of business and technology conferences in the areas of:

• Business Management
• Globalization
• Sustainable Development
• International Trade

His focus is on developing business models to measure the results initiatives in these areas.  His most recent book, Into The Value Zone – Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage is based on research of 73,821 globally traded public traded companies.  Astonishingly, his research revealed that during the period of 1981 thru 2005 that only 38 of those were able to sustain revenue growth and profitability.  He unveiled eight core business elements that each of those 38 companies had in common that helped them achieve sustainability.  He is currently working on a sequel to this book covering globally traded companies that were able to sustain revenue growth and profitability from 1981 through 2011, a period of thirty years and to see if those same eight core elements held up.

Dr. Wood brings a wealth of professional accomplishments from internationally recognized corporations to the classroom.  He is the author of two recently published books; he has produced award-winning research papers; has given numerous presentations at conferences; has chaired a number of professional conferences; and has continually infused his knowledge of the business world through his work as a consultant.

Dr. Wood is enthusiastic about teaching and scholarship.  He brings to the classroom a dynamic approach to learning that connects students to the outside world.  In doing so, he draws from a rich background as an executive at IBM that includes his work as an systems analyst, senior engineer, and his experience working with GE corporate customers. 

At the State University of New York Empire State College Center for International Programs he has had the additional challenge of teaching students in the Middle East, Central America, and the Dominican Republic, which combines distance learning with face-to-face residencies overseas.  I should make special mention of his receiving a standing ovation from students at the culmination of the residency in the Dominican Republic.

Dr. Wood’s scholarship is impressive.  In addition numerous articles, and award-winning conference papers, Dr. Wood has written two significant books to his credit:  The first, Exploring E-Commerce:  Global E-Business, and E-Societies, which he co-authored with fellow IBM executive Craig Fellenstein, was published by Prentice-Hall in 2000. The other, Into the Value Zone: Gaining and sustaining Competitive Advantage, was published two years ago by the University Press of America.  Further, he had an article published last summer by the Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences on the automobile industry.  The first book, Exploring E-Commerce, emerged from Dr. Wood’s participation in an international team to draft a strategic plan for GE’s entry into the world of e-business.  The second book, Into the Value Zone, like the first, has a cutting-edge appeal and practical value.  It is based on a massive global study of thousands of companies and published immediately before the global financial crisis.  The book identifies those values that have sustained, relatively speaking, a handful of businesses and corporations even through the worst of economic times.

In addition to being honored as a participant in the 2004 Oxford University Roundtable Forum ­ Trade and The Environment. He has authored several award-winning papers and presentations including the following:

“Business ‘Viagra’ How Some SMBs Sustain Remarkable Performance?” was selected as "Best Paper of a Track Chair". (presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences (ASBBS) February 23-25, 2006) and is being included for future publication in the ASBBS Journal.

"Positioning Summary Analysis of the U.S. Training Industry,"- was selected as one of the best papers presented at the ASBBS 8th International Conference and is being included for future publication in the ASBBS International Journal.

"Size Does Not Matter - SMB's Can Move into Value Zone" - was selected as "Best Paper of a Track Chair". (Presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences (ASBBS) February 24-27, 2005) and is being included for future publication in the ASBBS eJournal.  

“Managing and Regulating International Trade Impacts Caused By Globalization: Creating A International Value Zone that Identifies and Establishes Standards of Social Responsibility and Ethical Behaviors and Factors for Multinational Companies ” - (Presented at an Oxford University Round Table in August 2004 and is published in the Oxford University Roundtable Forum On Public Policy ­ Special Issue: Trade and The Environment, Volume 1 Number 1 2005).

" Delivering Customer Value Generates Positive Business Results ” - (Presented at the American Society of Business Behavioral   Sciences 11th Annual Conference February 22, 2004).

“ Impacts of E-commerce On Traditional Markets ” - (University of Michigan Archives August 2003).

Co-authored a book entitled, “ E-commerce, Global E-business and E-Socie ties ” - (Published by Prentice-Hall 1999)
"Delivering Customer Value Generates   Positive Business Results ”, - (Futurics: A Journal of Futures Research Vol.   28, no. 1 &2, published by Minnesota Futuristics, A Chapter of the World   Future Society).

“E-business in the Food Service Industry ” - (Keynote address at the National Association of Restaurants).
“The Strategic Advantage of e-business ” - (Presented at   the IBM Europe, Middle Eastern, and African e-business; Sharenet meeting in  Paris February 2000).

“The IBM e-business Infrastructure and Network - Why It Increases Revenues and Profits and Reduces Costs” - (Keynote address for the Advanced Internet Commerce Seminar for MIT via Satellite and Webcast presenting).

“The Strategic Advantage of E-commerce for Business-to-Business Transactions,” - (September 1999 IBM E-commerce  Keynote  Speaker at  the Worldwide Information Sytems Research Development (WISRD) 2000 sponsored by UCLA).

“The Societal Impacts of Electronic Commerce”- (Presented at Walden University)
“E-business/IT Skills Requirements for the 21st Century” - (Presented at Walden University)