Company Overview
“Our success is entirely dependent on how much success we bring to your organization.”
Don Zillioux, Ph.D.
For more than two decades, Strategic Development Worldwide has promoted organizational excellence organization and effectiveness at all levels. We have successfully worked with clients large and small and in a wide variety of industries Our success has come through our expertise in management science in all its facets and our advocacy for the potential of every person in an organization. We provide solutions with a focused, proven approach, built around our clients’ needs.
The SDW Value Proposition
- We are structured to help you achieve individual and organizational excellence
- We will accelerate and strengthen the growth of your business, ensuring a viable and predictably profitable enterprise
- We are ever mindful of the economic, organizational and cultural elements of your enterprise
- We seek to create value by helping our clients become more competitive as a result of our engagements.
- Look to SDW Companies and its Professionals for a well-rounded and proven team that truly understands “The science of change, the business of success.”
Missions and Values
Our Mission
To unleash the power and potential of people and organizations for the common good, helping individuals and organizations achieve their full potential. From your most simple request for knowledge and development to complete organizational change, we are structured to help you achieve individual and organizational excellence. Our mission is not complete until the customer says “wow”.
Our Vision
To be the advocate and the preferred choice for the development of human worth and excellence in organizations.
Our Values
Our Core Values – rules of engagement for how to achieve your mission and vision
- Trust – Do the right thing.
- Knowledge – Know yourself and seek continual improvement.
- Passion – Passion, optimism and hard work = fun.
- Focus and Clarity – We set clear goals and we act with purpose and intention to achieve them.
- Impact – Make a positive difference, be impactful, promote success in ourselves and others.
Our Focus
We believe in a simple approach to business:
“Improve profits with development and advisory services that work the first time.”
When we implement a planned program, we leave you with a complete set of tools and the knowledge necessary to keep systems running smoothly and efficiently.
We are advisors to leaders and managers of companies, governmental organizations and institutions. Our mission has been to help our clients address their most critical problems and exciting opportunities. We work as a team. By leveraging our collective expertise and practical knowledge, we strengthen the solutions we bring to our clients. Our backgrounds are as diverse as that of the clients we serve. Our professional advisors and change agents come from academic, professional, legal, social, and national experiences.
The Team
DON ZILLIOUX, Ph.D
CEO and Chief Scientist
Don Zillioux has advised a diverse variety of businesses, large and small, throughout North and Central America, Europe and Russia for more than 20 years. He is a recognized thought leader and senior advisor in effective change management.
Along with an extensive business within the Native American communities, SDW clients have also included SKF-West Germany, US State Department, University of Rochester Medical School, National Training Institute for the Deaf, NCR, Mexicana Airlines, Casino Arizona and Talking Stick Resort, PURE Canadian Gaming and Advanced Tissue Sciences along with many others.
Don is the author of The Results-Focused Organization, the soon to be published series of Field Guides to Organizational Effectiveness and Instrument Based Training: A Guide to Increased Effectiveness in Training. Don’s writings and consulting/advisory work focus on planned change, organizational development, managerial effectiveness, sustainable performance and effective leadership.
He has been visiting professor and lecturer at the University of Rochester, National University, USIU in San Diego and is regularly featured at the National Indian Gaming Conferences. Don has authored over 30 assessment and training instruments and over 40 specific competency focused trainings.
ARTHUR NATHAN, SPHR
President
Arthur (Arte) Nathan served as Chief Human Resources Officer for Steve Wynn’s gaming companies from 1983 – 2006 and opened all of Wynn’s casinos in Atlantic City, Las Vegas, Mississippi and China. He retired from the gaming industry in November 2006 and moved to Southern California where he worked with the Irvine Company opening “The Resort at Pelican Hill,” an ultra-luxury resort in Newport Beach.
Arte is a recognized innovator in high-volume recruitment and hiring, labor and employee relations and technology related to the use of business intelligence applications for employee relationship management. His expertise with startup companies and opening hotels has been the subject of many articles in professional and academic publications.
Arte chaired the Nevada Governor’s Workforce Investment Board, served on the Board of the Society of Human Resources and the SHRM Foundation and is past chair of the Southern Nevada Culinary & Bartenders Training Trust. He has served on the Advisory Boards of the UNLV School of Hotel Administration, The Collins College of Hospitality Management at Cal Poly Pomona and the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Mr. Nathan graduated from Cornell University in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Labor Relations. He is a frequent guest lecturer at colleges and universities, numerous professional associations and conferences on the subject of human resource management.
As part of the SDW team, he brings forth his multidimensional experience to help facilitate clients’ increased effectiveness and to managing change in work/life balance.
VICTORIA ZILLIOUX
Chief Administrative Officer
Victoria Zillioux, as Chief Administrative Officer, manages key administrative functions for Strategic Development Worldwide. Her background provides the ability to design and manage the various functions and processes responsible for business continuity in an operationally sound manner. Her extensive experience in executive level banking and mortgage lending, software production, statistical model developmentand data management gives her a combined background that provides an understanding of the business needed for long-term strategic planning.
Victoria has previously held senior positions in Business Development at TransAmerica Intellitech and Product Management at HNC Software. Each of these positions involving direct merger and acquisition activities both with individual products and complete businesses. Her background includes working in senior level management positions with TRW, American Savings Bank, as well as independent management consulting with large lending institutions and financial/government regulatory agencies. This breadth of experience both in the U.S. and several European countries gives her a keen insight into global business and financial industries.
Victoria holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance with an emphasis in real estate from San Diego State University. She has been a guest speaker with a variety of professional organizations, speaking at conferences and seminars in the U.S., United Kingdom, Germany and Poland.
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COL. MARIANNE S. WALDROP,
USMC (Ret.), Ph.D.
Senior Advisor and Thought Leader
Marianne Waldrop is the youngest of four children from a U.S. Marine Corps family. In 1987, she graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics, supported by a Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (Marine Corps option) scholarship.
Upon graduation, she was commissioned as a Marine Corps second lieutenant. In 1989, she became qualified as a signals intelligence officer and received assignments worldwide, Mid-career, Marianne was selected to attend Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where she would earn a Master of Science in Computer Science.
She served as a project manager for Marine Corps signals intelligence systems and then was part of recall from the reserves for post-9-11 intelligence operations in support of U.S. Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida.
Upon her retirement in 2011, Marianne attended the University of San Diego and earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Leadership Studies.. Her research investigated formative experiences and factors influencing highly successful women military leaders Marianne completed her dissertation entitled: Understanding Women Leaders in a Male-Dominated Profession: A Study of the United States Marine Corps’ Women Generals.