About Us

"Our Mission"

To define the true Cause of a business’s problem(s) and effectively implement solutions consistent with the company’s culture; solutions requiring the minimum investment and yielding the maximum results for the Client Company

Lyle R. Johnson, MBA, Ph.D.

Lyle has been coaching people to success for over 27 years; primarily in the context of advisor to management. He has transitioned from advisory consulting to coaching; Lyle is now a Life Coach and Business Coach.

He has an extensive track record of success in Marketing and Sales Management – coaching sales personnel to achieve their full potential. Lyle joined the Procter & Gamble Company after receiving his MBA. He migrated to other Fortune 500 companies, such as Quaker Oats and Cessna Aircraft and then to much smaller enterprises.

He was one of the pioneers of the commercialization of Biofeedback devices (alpha/theta monitors). Lyle has actively pursued motivational psychology – with primary application to coaching and training – and obtained his Doctorate in that discipline.

Lyle has been a Speaker for the American Management Associations, Sales Executives Clubs and various Universities (Fordham, University of Washington, University of California at Santa Barbara, etc.)

He is certified as a Xerox Learning Systems Instructor under a special program of the U.S. Coast Guard. Lyle is retired as a Lieutenant Commander from the Coast Guard (Reserve) in which his primary assignment was Finance Officer.

He is the author of the Textbook / Manual “Management Training Applications” and is completing his second book as of this writing.

Lyle is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and Institute of Management Consultants (ICM).

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Our Staff

The management myth is “people are the most important asset”, the correct statement is “the CORRECT people, matched to their functional strength, are the most important asset.

Lyle has assembled, as Associates, “the best of the best” Management Advisors, Consultants and Business / Life Coaches.  These professionals, possessing years of experience, are dedicated to assisting companies, like yours, in achieving their full potential.

Susan J. Mellinger, M.A.

For over 30 years Susan’s proven expertise and commitment to excellence has offered her clients the best in employee selection techniques resulting in enhanced organizational efficiency, employee retention, and employee satisfaction.

The knowledge she brings to bear on human resource and organizational issues has been gained through formal education, training and work / life experiences.   Susan holds a M.A. in Psychology and is Certified as a Master Practitioner in NLP.
 
She maintained a successful private therapy practice for 15 years and then applied her human relations and business skills as she developed her competence as a business consultant.   Susan now guides small and medium size businesses in developing effective selection criteria for the hiring process.  Whether a company needs to hire a Foreman, Sales Manager, Chief Engineer or CEO, Susan’s insight, testing expertise and training skills can narrow the applicant field down to the most viable candidate.
 
The application of Susan’s approach to the hiring process benefit both her client companies and individual employees through increased morale, productivity and decreased turnover.

Her guiding philosophy, representing her concern and care for both employee and company, is:

"We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives.  What we do is a large part of who we are.”

"We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives.  What we do is a large part of who we are.”

"We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives.  What we do is a large part of who we are.”

"We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of who we are.”

If you believe your company could excel organizationally through improved hiring practices then, L R Johnson, Inc.’s Associate, Susan J. Mellinger, is the professional you can count on.

Louis Morlando

Lou …. Armed with Bachelors Degrees in Business Administration (Marketing Emphasis) and Public Administration, he embarked on a career in advertising in the suburban Philadelphia market.  After several very successful years in advertising sales, he made his first foray into the world of entrepreneurship.  As founder and publisher of the Bucks County Morning Sun daily newspaper, he established an alternative print medium in a very competitive market.

In 1981 he relocated to Colorado Springs Colorado and subsequently returned to the entrepreneur’s world by forming The Computer Tutor, a company that focused on providing application software training to the governmental, military, not-for-profit and general public in the local market.  After establishing superlative relations with clients, students, and vendors he built the firm into the largest software training company in southern Colorado.  In 1995 an employee made a buy-out offer and he accepted.

After a three year stint providing network support services in the Pikes Peak region, he became a Business Development Consultant with an international firm based in Chicago, Illinois.  With a new wife to concern himself with, he elected to forgo the life of the “road-warrior” and elected to pursue a more predictable lifestyle in Dallas Texas. 

As the Sales and Marketing Manager for a Technical Training Institute in Dallas, he resurrected their sales and marketing programs in less than six months.  The division experienced their first profitable month in over two years.

However, the allure of consulting lured him back and he resumed the “road-warrior” lifestyle with a nation consulting firm in Dallas, Texas.

At present he is Executive Vice President of Allies In International Economic Development.  The firm provides marketing services to individuals and organizations in the economic development market.

If you believe your company could excel organizationally through improved hiring practices then, L R Johnson, Inc.’s Associate, Susan J. Mellinger, is the professional you can count on.

Peter S. Kautzmann

Peter S. Kautzmann has over a decade of hands-on general management consulting experience gained during his association with several international Consulting firms. The emphasis of his consulting was with small to medium sized firms.  His clients consistently applauded by contributions to their companies.
 
Peter has coached, as well as solved operation issues (i.e. consulted) for CEO’s of companies in a wide variety of industries. He has an established track-record of success in management training, restructuring and managing a firm for success, improving profit performance and crisis management; including employee training and implementation “best practice” management.

Prior to entering the advisory / coaching field, he established the creditability for advising business owners and senior management. Peter was selected as President of a Fortune 500 Subsidiary before the age of 30. This subsidiary of Kennecott Copper was a worldwide metals trading firm.

Furthermore, Peter has founded or purchased four companies ranging from a Metals Service Center to Computer Manufacturing, Public Relations/Marketing Consulting and Metals Trading. He created and produced a local market (Cleveland, Ohio) television program, with a one (1) hour format, on real estate and all of its various component parts. Peter is current active in profit restoration for troubled firms and is a member of the Turnaround Management Association.

An Associate of L R Johnson, Inc., Peter maintains his own consulting practice: Bridgewater Consulting Group.

Michael Thompson

Michael Thompson has devoted the past thirteen years helping companies achieve success by providing coaching, advisory and consulting services to small business owners and managers.

Michael began his consulting career when he joined the current industry leading consulting firm during its formative stages and was instrumental in contributing to the phenomenal growth of that company. During his ten plus years at that firm, he served as:

Executive Coach - providing one on one advice to business owners in a different forum

Consultant – providing on site services to numerous client companies

Project Manager - responsible for the successful completion of up to ten consulting engagements at any one time,

Speaker – making presentations on various subjects to larger groups.

His contributions to this firm were recognized and he was honored on numerous occasions for exceptional performance.

Prior to entering the consulting field, Michael Thompson was a principle in a small manufacturer located in Milwaukee, WI. At the time Michael joined the company, it annual sales volume was slightly less than $300,000. He developed a sales and marketing program that contributed significantly to the business; in less than 9 years that profitable sales volume topped $7,500,000. A generous offer from a larger competitor was accepted and Michael sold the business. This step was only taken after assuring that all employees then with the company would receive every fair opportunity to continue their success under the new ownership arrangement.

Michael began his career the transportation industry, spending over a dozen years with Saunders Leasing and with Leaseway Transportation, two of the four largest national companies in the industry. Beginning with Saunders as a Branch Manager, he immediately became known as a turnaround specialist taking a losing operation to a ranking in the top five of the company’s one hundred and twenty plus facilities.

He then joined Leaseway Transportation as a Regional Manager responsible for the operations, growth and profitability of seventeen facilities in a five state area. During his time with this company, Michael’s region was recognized in four years out of five as the number one region in profitability and revenue growth.

Mr. Thompson is a graduate of Xavier University where he earned a BS degree in Business Management while attending on an athletic scholarship. Professionally, he maintains active membership with the Institute of Management Consultants.

Michael Thompson provides clients of L R Johnson, Inc. (Coach for Outcomes) the extensive experience of operational management combined with and effective coaching and consulting background.