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John W. Olmstead Biography
John W. Olmstead, MBA, Ph.D, CMC is a Certified Management Consultant and president of Olmstead & Associates, a practice management, marketing, and technology consulting firm that works with law and other professional service firms ranging in size from 100 professionals to firms with solo practitioners. The firm, founded in 1984 and based out of St. Louis, Missouri serves clients across the United States assisting them with implementing change and improving operational and financial performance, management, leadership, client development and marketing.
Dr. Olmstead has over 34 years of experience working with law and other professional service firms. His assignments have ranged from marketing and strategic planning to other legal management engagements such as organizational change, firm governance, implementation of technology, financial management, staff development, partner compensation, and practice management. He has been a lecturer for the Association of Legal Administrators, Missouri Trial Attorneys, St. Louis Metropolitan Bar Association, IBM, Illinois State University, Illinois State Bar Association, Solo-Map CPA Association of St. Louis and many other state and local bar and other professional associations. Dr. Olmstead has authored numerous articles on law office management in local, regional, and national law office management publications. He is currently serving as Editor-In-Chief, West Group, The Lawyers Competitive Edge: The Journal of Law Office Economics and Management.
Dr. John Olmstead received a B.A. from Park College, an M.B.A. in marketing and finance from Southern Illinois University, and a Ph.D from Century University in business administration with emphasis in marketing and organizational development. His doctoral dissertation "An Exploratory Approach for Addressing Leadership Characteristics in Law Firms Using the Case of a Voluntary Bar Association," introduced an approach for addressing leadership interpersonal characteristics and interpersonal preferences for leadership roles. Dr. Olmstead is an adjunct advisor with Century University. He is an associate member of the American and Illinois Bar Associations, a member of the Institute of Management Consultants, National Bureau of Certified Consultants and the Association of MBA Executives. He is also a member of the Legal Marketing Association and the Association of Psychological Type. He is currently serving as an advisory member on the Illinois State Bar Association Law Office Economics Section Council, on the Legal Marketing Association Research Committee, on the board of the Institute of Management Consultants - St. Louis Chapter, and on the Executive Advisory Board of the National Bureau of Certified Consultants.
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