RPM Associates, LLC is...
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an independent consulting firm with deep roots in the worlds of higher education, nonprofits, and government led by consulting professionals with extensive experience as advisors to senior leadership.
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Mr. Maddox is a Principal and co-founder of RPM Associates based in our Nashville office. David brings more than 20 years of higher education experience to the practice. He is the author of the book Budgeting for Not-for-Profit Organizations published by John Wiley, and regularly serves as a speaker and teacher on planning, budgeting, and financial management. Formerly a member of KPMG's Higher Education Consulting practice, he started his own practice, Maddox Management Consulting, in 2000. In 2008, Mr. Maddox joined forces with Robert Stickney and RPM Associates opened its doors. In nine years of independent practice, Mr. Maddox has conducted a wide range of projects with significant emphasis on planning, budgeting, and financial analysis.
Mr. Maddox started his career in higher education as a market research and product development specialist at Congressional Information Service, a private publisher whose main clients at the time were academic libraries. After receiving his MBA at Vanderbilt University, he returned to the academic world, in this case as a manager in Vanderbilt's Human Resources department. With his hands-on experience in that setting he moved to the University of Chicago where he held management positions in Human Resources, Auxiliaries, and finally in the University's Office of Budgeting and Financial Planning. Among his assignments there was coordinating a major assessment of administrative costs at the University that had far-reaching implications for the institution's management. He left the University of Chicago in 1996 to join KPMG's Higher Education, Research and Other Nonprofits practice as a consultant. There he worked on a number of large-scale process redesign efforts and refined the firm's Activity-Based Costing methodology for higher education. Mr. Maddox is active as a teacher & speaker:
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Mr. Stickney is a Principal and co-founder of RPM Associates based in our New Orleans office. He has more than 20 years of experience in higher education, government, and non-profit management. A former private sector architect, Robert has deep experience helping owners navigate the management and administration of the capital construction process and, once completed, the operation and maintenance of their facilities. Mr. Stickney also has significant experience in the areas of financial reporting, the design and testing of internal controls, supply chain management, procurement, and budgeting.
Prior to the founding of RPM Associates, Mr. Stickney was a Director in KPMG’s Forensic Real Estate and Construction Advisory Practice. He has also held management positions in the Office of the President, the Vice President for Finance and Administration, the Department of Housing and Residence Life, and the Office of Campus Planning at Tulane University. Robert is the co-author of an article entitled “Construction Risk Management for the Power and Utilities Industry.” He has previously authored articles on student housing, university construction, and facilities management. He has been interviewed and quoted in several national publications such as The New York Times and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance on the subjects of university housing, construction, and off-campus development. As a management consultant, Mr. Stickney has worked with more than 35 individual clients in a variety of industries, including colleges and universities, non-profits, state and local governments, federal agencies, hospitals and healthcare systems, financial service companies, technology service companies, and the power and utility industry. His clients have included Yale University, the City of Chicago, the State of Louisiana, the Center for Disease Control, American Express Corporation, Cisco Systems, and Exelon Corporation. Robert is a lifelong resident of New Orleans and is committed to the crescent city’s recovery efforts. |
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Edwin T. Callahan, Ph.D.
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For the past twenty years, Dr. Edwin T. Callhan has served as a general manager and senior operating executive, as well as a management consultant. His skills are in creating new operations and driving effective change across complex organizations. His focus is on measurable and sustainable results, and he is known for motivating his own and his clients’ staffs to achieve ambitious goals.
Ed’s consulting engagements covered a wide range of projects, including:
Previously, Ed was responsible for launching the new School of Continuing Studies at the University of Redlands, where he was the founding dean. Prior to becoming a consultant, Ed served as chief operating officer at a Silicon Valley marketing consultancy, Applied Communications and its successor Bite Communications. Ed also served as the chief administrative officer at the university's largest academic unit, the School of Humanities and Sciences, where he was responsible for a $214 million budget and 550 employees. His areas of direct oversight included finance, information technology, human resources, facilities planning and renovations, graduate student services, and diversity recruitment.
Prior to coming to Stanford, Ed held progressive management positions at the University of Chicago, including associate dean of the Humanities Division and assistant dean of Student Services.
Ed holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he trained as a historian and wrote his dissertation on the intersection of law, politics and religion in western Europe during the medieval period. After earning his degree he served at Chicago as a lecturer for four years, teaching both history and literature courses. His undergraduate degree, also with an emphasis on the history of ideas and the medieval period, is from the University of Dallas. More recently, Ed honed his business skills in the Advanced Management Program at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
Ed’s consulting engagements covered a wide range of projects, including:
- Strategic planning.
- Construction of detailed multi-year financial models and planning scenarios.
- Functional analysis of key systems, organizations and processes for out-sourcing and change management initiatives.
- Development of key performance indicators, dashboards and scorecards.
- Creation of strategic marketing plans.
- Restructuring of operations and organizational development.
- Advising throughout all stages of a company’s sale, include valuation, initial presentation, negotiating strategy, and analysis of the purchase offer.
- Merger planning and integration.
- Analysis of the financial and organizational implications of full compliance with employment laws and regulations.
Previously, Ed was responsible for launching the new School of Continuing Studies at the University of Redlands, where he was the founding dean. Prior to becoming a consultant, Ed served as chief operating officer at a Silicon Valley marketing consultancy, Applied Communications and its successor Bite Communications. Ed also served as the chief administrative officer at the university's largest academic unit, the School of Humanities and Sciences, where he was responsible for a $214 million budget and 550 employees. His areas of direct oversight included finance, information technology, human resources, facilities planning and renovations, graduate student services, and diversity recruitment.
Prior to coming to Stanford, Ed held progressive management positions at the University of Chicago, including associate dean of the Humanities Division and assistant dean of Student Services.
Ed holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he trained as a historian and wrote his dissertation on the intersection of law, politics and religion in western Europe during the medieval period. After earning his degree he served at Chicago as a lecturer for four years, teaching both history and literature courses. His undergraduate degree, also with an emphasis on the history of ideas and the medieval period, is from the University of Dallas. More recently, Ed honed his business skills in the Advanced Management Program at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
