About Spanitz Consulting, Inc.  

Since 1988, Spanitz Consulting has been helping businesses around the world by providing project management, quality management, and technology-related consulting and training.

We have worked with companies in many different industries. Clients have come from local, state, and federal government, military, banking and investments, construction, health-care, insurance, manufacturing, real estate, retail and sales, and software development. We have also worked with non-profit and volunteer organizations.

Spanitz Consulting uses existing and proven technology to:

• Teach project management best practices
• Teach quality management best practices
• Provide project management consulting
• Provide quality management consulting, including ISO 9000
• Provide management-related software, hardware, and technology consulting

Spanitz Consulting’s expertise is in using existing technology to implement innovative and successful management strategies that provide sustained value.

Eric has over twenty years of experience in training and consulting. He has designed and conducted introductory through advanced seminars, both private and public, for multi-cultural audiences worldwide. Eric is a professor at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's MBA program, teaching project management.

Eric co-authored three quality management and ISO 9001:2000 seminars. Eric is on-call with clients, providing quality consulting, including assistance in development of client’s quality goals and objectives, developing realistic and usable quality system manuals, and automating the quality records management systems.

Eric integrates project management and quality management best practices to provide the highest quality services while staying on schedule and within budget.

Eric has been interviewed by national publications as an expert in the practical use of management support technology. Eric has presented papers and given keynote addresses at international conferences, such as the Project Management Institute (U.S. and Canada), the Public Service Managers Association, and the Canadian Federal Professional Development Conference.

In 2004 Eric conducted train-the-trainer certification for Synergest’s South Africa and New Zealand offices. In 2006 Eric conducted train-the-trainer certification for Synergest’s Nigerian offices. In 2007 Eric partnered with Denver University to offer Synergest’s project management simulation online via distance learning. In 2007 and 2008 Eric provided project management consulting and training to the Chicago Health Department.

Memberships & Associations:

• American Society for Quality
• Canadian Association of Professional Speakers
• International Federation for Professional Speakers
• International Society for Performance Improvement
• Project Management Institute - PMP®
• USA Today Small Business Advisory Board
• Premier Consultant:
  • Project KickStart
  • Standpipe Studio - Vertabase online project collaboration
  • Innovative Custom Software - QT9 ISO 9000 doc control

Quoted and Interviewed:

• "Embedded Uncertainty"
  Article available from PMI - Project Management Institute here.
• "Managing Katrina: What Would You Have Done?"
  Article available from Gantthead here.
• "Human Factors Simulation in Project Management Training"
  Written by Eric Spanitz. Article is available here. Published in MS&T Military Simulation and Training
• "How project-management software can help you stay on track "
  Article available from Microsoft here.
• "Evaluating your Boss"
  Article available here. Published in RT Image
• "Recession Survivors"
  Article available here. Published in T&D magazine of the American Society for Training and Development ASTD
• "How Top Companies Sustain Training in a Sour Economy"
  Article available here. Published by CareerJournal of the Wall Street Journal
• "Reversals of Misfortune"
  Article available here. Published by Minnesota Business
• "Control Your Schedule"
  Article available here. Published by El Nuevo Constructor
• "Getting a PMO Out of the Gate"
  Article available here. Published by CIO Update
• "Web Conferencing - it should be a tool in your business"
  Article available here and here. Published by JNet and SmallBizTechnology.com
• "More with Less"
  Article available here. Published by the Project Management Institute March 2005
• "Strong Signals"
  Published by the Project Management Institute in PM Network August 2005