“If you are looking to grow and develop; both professionally and personally, you will eventually need to get out of your comfort zone. Enter Darrell Mullis... Darrell and his "Stratactics" business associates have spent the last few years making me; and several hundred of my fellow leaders at Herman Miller, feel completely uncomfortable... in a really good way! Darrell and his team have developed and co-facilitated "Accountable Communications" workshops for Work Team Leaders across our enterprise and they have met with me and my Work Team on several occasions to help us reach a much greater degree of direct, open, and honest communication and operational efficacy. Stratactics doesn't use a canned approach or program. They work with the client to fully understand the desired outcomes and needs, they meet with each member of the Team to determine what is and isn't working, and they lead the Team through the difficult and often uncomfortable work of directly addressing issues in a pragmatic, adult oriented, and accountable fashion. It's not "infotainment" with these guys - it's real work - work that can sometimes make you squirm... but work that ultimately leads to observable behavior change and measurable results. So, if you are willing to roll up your sleeves and dig in, Stratactics will help you with the heavy lifting!”

Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity

Tony Cortese
SVP of People Services
Herman Miller

“We have used Darrell’s company Stratactics various time during 2006-2009 and I can say that there classes are very helpful and useful and have always created a high value add for our organization. Stratactics approach to Basic Financial Training for Executives and the Accountable Communication Program is an excellent preparation of managers to face really live problems in there respective business units. The classes/programs have been well constructed and covered the topic well. Trainers have always been knowledgeable and enthusiastic and based examples relevant and tailored to the audience and made the subject easy to understand. An easy approach to learning, and most importantly, a sense of humor made otherwise potentially dry topics very enjoyable and interesting. I highly recommend the use of Stratactics and its people for engagements in training and coaching.”

Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, Creative

Mats Bjoerkman
North American Service Controller
ABB Inc




“Darrell Mullis facilitated some train the trainer/coach sessions that I participated in and subsequently provided some consulting/coaching to me as I transitioned into a new role. After my transition, I hired Stratactics to facilitate Accountable Communication sessions with my teams. Stratactics’s sessions incorporated adult learning techniques that kept the audience awake and engaged. And, the Accountable Communications techniques that Stratactics teaches provide a real advantage, helping associates work together and partner more effectively with their stakeholders. My associates have thanked me numerous times for the opportunity to take the Accountable Communications course and they acknowledge the powerful way it has transformed their relationships.”

Top qualities: Personable, Expert, Creative

Lecil Sullivan
SVP, HR Team Leader
Wachovia

Accountable Communication has truly been a breakthrough program for our organization. It gave our  leaders the skills and tools to unlock the organization’s potential and drive our business to greater results.

Lenn Eason
Managing Director of Client Services
Wachovia Securities, LLC

"The Financially Strategic Selling training accomplishes two major objectives for our sales force. First, it drives home the fundamentals of basic financial understanding by emphasizing the impact on financial results. Second, we take that financial knowledge and apply it to the specific goals that our clients have. It enables us to work with our customers to find ways they can improve their results."

Charlie Young
VP Sales; ABB North America, Automation Technology Division

"Effectively training co-workers in today's business environment demands flexibility, customization, and accessibility. Stratactics worked with our Executive Financial Staff and our University Team to produce a tailor-made, online learning solution for our Leadership Academy participants. I am happy to be a Stratactics customer."

Erika Hernandez
Manager of Training & Development; Amcor Sunclipse North America

"Stratactics' Accountable Communication program has provided me with the internal resources and self-awareness to transform the most difficult business situations into effective and productive partnerships."

Jeremy Smith
Senior Manager; Learning Solutions, Herman Miller

"Accountable Communication gave us the skills and tools to listen and give clear and direct feedback, make our communication more accountable, authentic, and straightforward, … and focused leaders on the actions and behaviors that will produce results, even in the most difficult situations."

Lenn Eason
Senior Operations Manager; Retail Investments Group, Wachovia Securities

"The turnaround of the ABB Group has been a truly remarkable success and the improved results within the North America, Process Automation Division, has been even more dramatic. I'm convinced the incremental performance is attributable to providing an empowered team with the tools, process and transparent information required to make timely decisions. The key was our decision to partner with Stratactics."

Bronson Reed
VP of Finance; ABB North America, Automation Technology Division

"During the Stratactics financial training program, lots of light bulbs went off. My maintenance head came back from the training, met with his managers and really went to work on reducing energy costs. We've already identified five million dollars of improvements to work on next year."

Eddie Black
Regional Operations Manager; Almatis, Inc., Little Rock, AR

"Focusing on EBITDA and Cash Flow, Almatis blew away all goals for 2004, and we are already way ahead of plan for 2005. It helps to focus!!"

Dan Ruhs
Plant Manager; Almatis, Inc.

"I think it, BLAST, is an excellent program. The content is clearly laid out, easy to use and well organized. Key items are reinforced. The content makes a good and straight forward attempt to draw attention to the relevance of understanding accounting information to a person's job. The relationship between the 3 statements is demystified."

Eric Cookson, MBA, CA.CBV Ontario, Canada



I LOVE IT! Everything from the course overview, the narrator and Billy the guitar playing investor is amazing. It's remarkable and a very handy too for businesses and schools. I know that school systems are normally broke, but it could make a really big difference in convincing more students to pursue degrees in Accounting or Finance. It would also be great for small businesses.

Sonja Williams Owner Passionate About Diversity

"To make the training operational, tactical and create immediate offsetting cost reduction, we spent the final 1/2 day of the training developing cost reduction ideas, even small ones, vetting them and assigning ownership. Worldwide, we reduced our costs by $14mm in the first year, by $11mm in the second year and $15mm in the third year."

Dan Ruhs,
Plant Manager, Almatis