SIMA Team Member

Art Miller, Jr

Art Miller, Jr. is the Founder of SIMA® International (formerly People Management). He devotes his energies to exploring new market and product possibilities for SII, expanding and promoting the SIMA® technology, overseeing new ventures and client relationships, and writing books and articles on the nature and behavior of the person.

For more than 45 years, Art has been seeking to influence the thinking of those who lead, manage, and influence our society's foundational institutions toward the conviction that accessing and productively utilizing the giftedness with which individuals have been endowed is the only way to achieve organizational and personal objectives, as well as to solve the besetting problems of education, work, religion, and the family.

As the principal architect of the SIMA® process, Art's accomplishments are too numerous to mention in detail. During his long and distinguished career he has used SIMA® with hundred of organizations throughout the world, including:

• NASA - assessed 150 mid- and upper-level managers at headquarters, Langley, Ames, and Goddard Research Centers, and Wallops Flight Center; simplified the national program for recruiting 3,000 scientists and engineers for the space program.

• McDonnell Douglas - provided a "content-rich method" of generating data for succession decisions.

• DuPont - provided a method for determining suitable career direction of engineers hired to be on a fast-track.

• Merck - used SIMA® as part of a significant reengineering effort.

• IBM - helped engineers identify their suitability for management.

• Illinois Blue Cross - assisted in the selection of management.

• London Bus and The Anglian Water Authority - helped transition from public to private ownership.

• Amoco - helped determine the suitability of development staff for transition to production mode.

• Monsanto - helped facilitate the opening of a new plant and product line.

• Connecticut General - helped with hiring and promotion decisions, career planning and development, diagnosis of performance failures, and conflict resolution.

• New York Life - helped identify the motivated competencies unique to successful large city managers.

• Wesley Medical Center - helped identify the motivated competencies in candidates for the head nurse role.

• North American Philips - helped evaluate candidates for executive roles.

• Upjohn - made significant contributions to career planning applications, and trained staff in the use of SIMA®.

• Rohm & Haas - helped improve the understanding of key scientists; trained staff at the general management level to use SIMA®.

• The American Society for Quality and Disney - provided SIMA® for The Stuff Americans Are Made Of program.

Art is the author of countless articles and essays. He is best known for The Truth About You and Finding a Job You Can Love (with Ralph Mattson), and his most recent title, Designed for Life: Hardwired, Empowered, Purposed, The Birthright of Every Human Being.

Education:
• Northwestern University, B.S., J.D. in law

E-mail: afmiller@simainternational.com

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