Ed Ford

Why Do Business With Ed Ford & Associates?

Since 1980, Ed Ford has been president and founder of Ed Ford & Associates.  This educational seminars & consulting company has a NEW logo and is celebrating over 30 years of working with companies and organizations.

The “How We Communicate with People” Seminar is being introduced to Utah and Idaho companies, organizations, and charity groups in 2016.

A partial list of Utah and Idaho companies and organizations
Ed has worked with as a broker, consultant, and supplier (1990 – 2005):

For ten of the last thirty years Ed has been serving national and international companies out of New York City and Salt Lake City.  Ed is in the unique position to hold educational seminars on communication and provide consulting for companies and organizations in Utah and Idaho as he did for some of the companies he worked with in the New York office.

A partial list of domestic and international companies and organizations
for Total Recognition Programs (2005-2015): 

(For more detailed information and design of TOTAL RECOGNITION PROGRAMS click ENRICHMENT tab.)

A partial list of Utah and Idaho companies and organizations
that have held educational seminars through Ed Ford & Associates (2010-2015):

Ed’s move from the New York office to manage the Salt Lake City office and now living in Saint George is permanent.  He will be near more of his family and twelve grandchildren, will enjoy his cabin in Montana, and will travel less, presenting the communication workshop, “How We Communicate With People”, primarily in Utah and Idaho.

ED FORD’S EXPERIENCE

Ford, a communication strategist for companies, organizations, and individuals, has been president and founder of Ed Ford & Associates for the past 30 years.  He is a leader in how to communicate an organization’s objectives and core values to its employees while providing the non-financial recognition and enrichment of employees.

Ed loves to challenge organizations to re-examine current practices and recommends the “best ways” to improve communication with their employees while implementing the innovative methodology and process of COMMUNCIATON, RECOGNITION, and ENRICHMENT for employees.

ED’S BACKGROUND

Ed Ford is recognized as a leading authority who helps individuals and members of organizations improve their communication with people.  The education and coaching of individuals in the seven components of individual development defines Ed Ford & Associates. 

Ford’s career has included Consulting with hundreds of organizations, and countless Education Seminars, Symposiums, and Workshops for Individuals in the United States and Canada.  He has traveled over four million miles for organizations such as IBM, Prudential, Marriott, McDonalds, IHC, SkyWest, Flying J, Boise Cascade, La-Z-Boy, State of Utah, and Salt Lake County.  Ed has been recognized in a published book “The Top 101 Experts: Tools to Help Individuals on the Road to Success”.  The exact same communication skills effective for employees apply to individuals.

FORMAL EDUCATION

Ford did undergraduate work at Oregon State University and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial-Organization Psychology (I/O) from Brigham Young University.  He has attended selected graduate studies at the University of Chicago and the Wharton School of Business. 

His field research – holding hundreds of educational seminars in every major city in the United States and Canada, attended by over 20,000 HR professionals, employees, and individuals where he taught the “Best Practices” for improving Communication, Recognition, and Enrichment – earned his status as a guru in his field of study.

PERSONAL

In his youth Ed often lived in remote locations with his dad building hydroelectric dams in Hells Canyon, Idaho, Hungry Horse, Montana, and The Dalles Dam on the Columbia River.  There was no telephone in his mobile home and he didn’t even have a phone until he went to college. If you wanted a date, you had to talk to the person face-to-face in a convincing manner at school!  Ed feels fortunate to have grown up without texting or Facebook.

Ed’s love and lifetime motivation is his high school sweetheart and wife, Jeanie, their five children, and twelve grandchildren.  He was born and raised in Idaho and Utah, and has lived the last 30 years in California and Utah.  The source of inspiration for his research and writing was living in the mountains near Alpine, Utah, spending summers in his remote cabin in Montana, traveling the world, and now living in St. George, Utah loving the sunshine and activities.  He and his wife of 50 years moved to St. George in 2013 to slow down and catch their breath after traveling over 4 million miles worldwide.  In 2016 Ed plans to limit his travel, educational seminars, and consulting to Utah and Idaho.

ED FORD & ASSOCIATES MISSION STATEMENT

The Mission Statement for Ed Ford & Associates is created from over 200 years of combined formal education, certification, and experience of its President and Advisory Board members.

It is a statement of why Ed Ford & Associates’ Educational Seminars are unique in their development, implementation, and measurement.

The innovative methodology and process is delivered through workshops and seminars.

FOCUS – Communication, Financial Education, and Personal Development.

IMPACT – Affects every aspect of an individual’s life.

• Individual Success
• Financial Success
• Great Self-Image
• Happiness in the True definition
• Peace in the Family
• A Fabulous Career

Ed Ford’s formal education, certification, and over 30 years of experience are a testament to the mission statement of Ed Ford & Associates.

REFERENCES

Since 2005 Ed Ford has served as a trustee of 8 Pillars University, which offers a complete learning curriculum of high quality, real world, no-strings-attached financial education format of live seminars, books, cd’s, workbooks and videos.

As a consultant Ford was Senior Director of Program Development for the Michael C. Fina Company (2002-2012) in New York, NY.  He designed and presented programs based on communication, recognition, and motivation for hundreds of companies and organizations, including numerous Fortune 1000 companies, and hundreds of public seminars for individuals.

Ed Ford was a consultant and program designer for Stonebridge Institute, a national organization that created video education programs for the individual development of people presented by Stephen R. Covey and other such noted presenters which addressed Personal Development, Financial Education, Health and Vitality, and Work/Life issues.

Ed Ford was an associate with The Pacific Institute in Seattle, Washington.  They delivered customized seminars and facilitated video education programs that empower organizations and individuals to improve performance and reach their full potential.

As a member of the Advisory Board for the American Indian Services in Provo, UT for 10 years (2000-2010), Ford served with Steve Young and other community leaders.  The primary purpose of the Board was to raise money for college scholarships for 4,000 American Indian Students.  This was accomplished through speaking engagements, live seminars on Individual development, celebrity golf tournaments, and special fund-raising events.  Ed’s specialty was numerous fund-raising seminars on individual development throughout Utah and Idaho.  The Executive Director was Dale Tingey.

Ford has a Special Interest in the study of foreign wars fought by American soldiers. His grandfather fought in WWI on the Western Front in France on a light machine gun where the life expectancy was thirty minutes, lost a lung to mustard gas, and was listed missing for seven months.  Ed’s father served in WWII on Okinawa and was with the first troops deployed in Japan after the surrender.  Ed’s father-in-law was a Marine and fought in Guam. Ed has visited veterans in the VA Hospitals in Boise, ID where his 93-year old father resided, and plans to continue visiting veterans in the St. George area with his golden lab, Yeatsie.