Ron Kitlas has 30 years experience in change management, internal communications, organization and leadership development. During his career he has held leadership positions in Human Resources, most recently as Chief HR Officer for LG Electronics, N.A. Prior to LG, Kitlas was a Vice President leading Global Sales, Services and International HR for a $4b technology company where he worked with business leadership to create change strategies and development systems which fostered a performance-oriented culture.
Kitlas was also Chief HR Officer at Ingersoll-Dresser Pump Co and held senior HR positions at AlliedSignal and Kellogg Company.
In addition to HR experience, he had profit and loss responsibility for a $40m real estate services company where he applied organization change, pricing strategy and market segmentation to improve annual net operating income by 35%.
Kitlas graduated from the University of Detroit and Michigan State University School of Law. He has attended executive education programs at Wharton and the Ross School of Business. He is certified as a green belt in Six Sigma / Process Excellence and holds an International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited professional certificate in Leadership Coaching for Organizational Performance.