Help Me! (I’M Lost.): Written by an Actual Manager

Don Wood has been managing and leading since 1969. During that time he has worked and managed in a trucking company, the U.S. Army, a middle school and high school, and four different financial institutions. He has managed hourly workers, members of the Teamsters Union, soldiers, teachers, administrators, tellers, branch managers, staff personnel, commercial lenders, private and wealth management bankers, and brokers. He has served on the Boards of many Not For Profits including Junior Achievement of Oregon and SW Washington. He has been Chairman of the Columbia Foundation in Columbia, Maryland and the Anne Arundel and Annapolis Chamber of Commerce in Annapolis, Maryland. He has coached wrestling and softball and was instrumental in developing and teaching new teacher workshops for private school teachers in Maryland and Massachusetts. Mr. Wood holds a degree in Business Administration Management from Va. Tech., a Masters in Educational Administration Management from Bowie University in Bowie, Maryland, and an MBA in Management from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt and attended the University of Maryland on a National Science Foundation Grant. Living in Portland, Oregon with his wife and three cats, Aajan, Isabel, and Lydia, his passion is golf, snowboarding, and keeping up with his former students via Facebook.