Overview
Bill Blair has over 35 years of diverse experience in Senior Executive Leadership roles within the printing and graphic communications industries. Bill has held integral leadership positions in a variety of public companies, privately-owned companies, and Private-Equity-held companies. His extensive experience in business development and manufacturing operations in both domestic and international entities gives him insight to help business executives target and solve difficult issues facing the business world today.
Bill has a reputation for delivering double-digit revenue and profit growth results by identifying challenges and crafting ideal solutions for sales productivity and effectiveness; cultural transformation; staff engagement, retention, and development; and attracting, mentoring, and developing our next generation of Millennial leaders.
Core Competencies
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- Coaching / Mentoring / Teaching
- Building and motivating high-performance teams
- Successfully leading organizations through transformational growth
- Sales / Business Development Management
Drivers / Motivators
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- Adding value through top talent development
- Introducing organizational leadership to technological resources to increase productivity
- Helping business leaders find solutions to complex performance problems
- Developing our next generation of Leaders
- Accountability
Background
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- President and Managing Partner, Blair Business Solutions, LLC, Consulting Services
- Senior Vice President, General Manager, Geographics
- Executive Vice President & Division Manager, Athens Paper
- CEO, The EPI Companies
- President & CEO, Heidelberg Canada, Ltd.
- Advisory Board Member, Clemson University’s Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics
- Certified Harrison Assessments Consultant Partner
- Lived and worked in Canada for four years