Eric Wm. Skopec Ph.D.

eric@AnasaziAdventure.com
ewskopec@yahoo.com

StenPec, Inc. 2001 - 2003
Vice President of Marketing and Principal

Learning Tree University 1997 - 2001
Regional Director, Business and Management Programs

Strategic Visions Consulting Group 1989-1997
Consultant and Principal

University of Southern California 1986-1989
Product Manager/Program Director and Clinical Associate Professor

Syracuse University 1978-1986
Assistant and Associate Professor of Speech Communication and
Assistant Dean College of Visual and Performing Arts

M.A., Communication, University of Iowa, 1973

B.A., Political Science, University of Washington, 1968

Practical Executive and Team Building (Lincolnwood, Illinois: NTC Business Books, 1997) with Dayle Bell

Everything's Negotiable (New York: AMACOM, 1994) with Laree Keiley (a "main selection" of the Executive Book of the Month Club)

Taking Charge: Executive Productive Strategies (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1991)

Communicate for Success: How to Manage, Motivate, and Lead (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1990)

The Speakers' Edge (Westbury, N.Y.: Asher-Gallant, 1988) with Arthur H. Bell

Situational Interviewing (New York, N.Y.: Harper Row, 1984)

"A Problem-Solving Approach to Preparing Professional Presentations," IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication (1983)

"The Theory of Expression in Selected Eighteenth-Century Rhetorics," in Explorations in Rhetoric (Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1982)

Business and Professional Speaking (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1981)

"Thomas Reid's Fundamental Rules of Eloquency," Quarterly Journal of Speech (1978)

"Thomas Reid's Rhetorical Theory: A Manuscript Report," Communication Monographs (1978)

Honorary Dean and Director of the Academic Committee, Chengdu International Business School

Presidential Scholar, Eastern Communication Association

Elected positions in professional associations including Chair of the Applied Communication Interest Group, Eastern Communication Association, and Director of the American Branch, International Society for the history of Rhetoric

Associate Editor and/or Advisory Committee Member for various professional publications including Communication Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, and Journal of the American Forensics Association

Consulting clients have included Avery-Dennison, BWIP, General Electric, Hilton Hotels Corporation, MCI, Telecom Italia, USC School of Phramacy, and Whitmire Distribution

Consistenly outstanding teaching evaluations