Professional Profiles

Steve Wilders
Steve has been a professional in the area of management consulting and training for more than 25 years. Since co-founding Jackson Wilders Group, he has extensive experience

consulting for organizational effectiveness coaching executives and managers for individual growth and development. facilitating both large and small groups including strategic planning, "lessons learned/best practices" after a national product launch, process improvement teams, etc. conducting skill development programs

Steve has worked with a wide variety of organizations including high tech, biotech, oil, journalism, education, destination management, construction and public sector, throughout the United States as well as internationally. His international experience is widespread and includes Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America and Asia as well as Canada and Mexico. He is consistently described as highly professional, extremely effective, relevant, and results-oriented.

His first experiences in training and organizational development were with the United States Navy's Human Resource Management Program where he served as an internal consultant to ship and shore commands worldwide in the areas of organizational development, training, training film production, and cross cultural relations. Steve's Navy career lasted 12 years and included a tour of duty on a river patrol boat in the Republic of Vietnam.

Upon leaving the Navy, Steve was hired as a senior consultant with an international consulting firm where he supervised a team of consultants/trainers in the implementation of a worldwide productivity improvement system for a Fortune 100 company. Additionally, he developed a self paced management development program for that company's top managers. With a desire for practical experience and bottom line accountability, Steve then affiliated with a large construction subcontractor, first at the corporate level developing and implementing productivity improvement measures, then as the general manager of a division. While in this position, division sales increased from $3 million to $9 million, net profit increased 9%, and repeat customers increased by 40%.

Steve earned an MS in Systems Management from the University of Southern California and a BS in Communications from Chapman University. He and Ada Jackson Wilders, co-founder of Jackson Wilders Group, have been married for twenty-eight years, have two daughters, and reside in Carlsbad, California.

Ada Jackson Wilders
In 1986, Ada, along with Steve Wilders, co-founded Jackson Wilders Group for the purpose of providing management consulting and training services. She has more than 23 years of experience in managing the operations of a consulting/training firm with responsibility for business development, project development and financial planning. In addition to these responsibilities, she also is a co-trainer on a number of programs offered by Jackson Wilders Group.

For ten years prior to her entry into the business world, Ada worked as an educator at various public and private schools in Massachusetts, Tennessee and California. She received a BS in Education, Magna Cum Laude, from Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts and did post graduate work in Montessori Education. Her college education was completely financed by scholarships.

Ada and Steve had decided when they first had children that her primary focus would be as a mother. She was able to work part time at professional responsibilities after their daughters had started school. Now that both daughters are adults, she is able to work full time.

Associate Consultants/Trainers
At Jackson Wilders Group, we have a number of associates with whom we have worked over the years. We utilize our associates when we have determined that there is a synergy based on the customer's organizational needs and the associate's depth of experience in the specific need area. All associates are seasoned professionals with a number of years of experience in business, training and consulting.