Earl D. Sedlik

Courses

• Spring 2024
• Summer 2024

Personal Statement

Earl Sedlik holds Priority Hire status as an Accounting Instructor at North Seattle College where he began teaching Accounting Principles in 2009. Sedlik also teaches these courses at South and Central Colleges. As of Fall 2015, Earl began teaching Entrepreneurship courses at Western Washington University. Sedlik built a career as a marketing management and strategic development resource with broad operational skills and a record of innovative performance across many industries. He is particularly suited to address concerns in market segmentation, strategic initiative in a competitive environment, and new product development. As the principal of The Sedlik Group, he has been serving high-tech, higher education colleges, and retail marketing challenges since 1980. Sedlik combines a rare blend of technological savvy with direct operational leadership. High-Tech Operational Role Sedlik brings a recognized record of effectiveness as an operational manager with noted strengths in marketing and sales responsibilities for high tech enterprises. His career has been particularly focused on product development, effective operational entrepreneurship, and marketing launch functions. As the principal of The Sedlik Group for over 30 years, Sedlik leads by crafting a clear sense of focus on the target market segment and the mission to meet their needs. He acts as a change agent to energize the efforts with constructive direction. Impact in Many Industries The Sedlik Group client list includes a broad range of companies facing the pressures of change from growth or competition. For example, Sedlik’s clients are active in software development, on-line e-learning delivery, on-line incentive management, software publishing & distribution, banking, restaurants, international trade of high tech products, kitchen appliances, retail distribution, cable TV development, television advertising, professional services, secondary education, medical clinical trials, lottery operations and marketing, non-profit housing development, higher education, and commercial real estate development. Sedlik normally functions as a key operating executive within the executive team structure – often responsible for operations, sales, and/or marketing. Educational Services Leader Earl Sedlik established an educational and training enterprise named Business Education for International Economic Development, BEIED, www.BEIED.com, to serve corporations and academic institutions by developing and delivering educational and professional development curricula elevate individual competencies. BEIED addresses specific curriculum development and faculty recruitment for MBA-level education opportunities in China and Eastern Europe. In 2004, BEIED presented well-received business management seminars to a broad cross-section of innovative managers under the co-sponsorship of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria in Sofia. Sedlik sustains a recognized leadership role in e-learning innovations and continues to provide personal consulting services within selected industries. With senior faculty status at DeVry’s Keller Graduate School of Management MBA program, where he taught marketing, economics, new product development, global human resource management, management of diversity, and international business. Sedlik served on the University of Washington School of Sociology Advisory Board and on the Technical Advisory Committee of the Accounting Department at North Seattle Community College. He complete 7 years of service as the Board Treasurer of Full Life Care - a Washington state and national leader in adult day health services, and as Board President at Regional Hospital, a Long Term Acute Care Hospital, affiliated with Tacoma-based Franciscan Health Services. COO in Education After a twenty–year adjunct affiliation with Seattle-based City University, Sedlik was elevated to the position of Senior VP and Chief Operating Officer of the Shepherd Group, CU’s management firm. Sedlik had served as CU’s MBA Program Director, where he coordinated an internationally renowned endeavor to bring quality business education around the world. As the COO, Sedlik spearheaded the development of subsidiaries directly involved in providing a full range of state-of-the-art educational services to institutions of higher learning. Inheriting a corporate trauma, Sedlik led a negotiating team toward a successful resolution of a strategic separation through which Shepherd and City University terminated their management contract thereby transforming Shepherd into a real estate holding company. Sedlik served as the Executive Director of Seattle’s Pratt Fine Arts Center preparing this premiere 30-year old educational art institution of over 300 artists serving over 3,000 annual enrollments to sustain its operating efficiencies into the next 30 years. Rensselaer Engineer;Harvard MBA; Dedicated to Education Earl Sedlik, a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and The Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, is a noted author and teacher at the MBA level in the fields of marketing, high tech marketing, international business, global human resource management, and business strategy development. Sedlik received City University's (Bellevue, WA) inaugural award for Distinguished Teaching and launched special MBA programs in Germany, Romania, and Bulgaria. Sedlik is a Senior Faculty at DeVry University’s Keller Graduate School of Management, where he taught between 2000 and 2009. Outstanding Civic Record He is quite active in community affairs as the past-president of several civic associations. As a candidate for Seattle City Council in both 1991 and 1996, he won strong endorsements from The Seattle Times and a rare first time and continued “Outstanding” rating from the Seattle Municipal League. Sedlik served two terms on the Seattle Park Board of Commissioners where he was the Chair of the Naming Committee and an active representative on the Arboretum Foundation Board. Earl has formally advised several mayors with distinction on such issues as historic preservation and rehabilitation (Pioneer Square), housing development (funding for non-profit endeavors, and transportation (the Citizens Advisory Board on the I-90 Freeway). Sedlik Family Snapshot Earl is a native New Yorker who grew up in Miami, Florida and moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1964 to develop computer software. He met his spouse, Charyl Kay Tyndell, in Seattle and returned East to attend Harvard. The Sedliks moved to Connecticut and began their family as Earl and two Harvard classmates launched a fast food restaurant chain. As adoptive parents of an African-American, the Sedliks began a life-long dedication to trans-racial adoption and encouragement of adoption. With a commitment to raise their family in Seattle, the Sedliks returned there in 1974. Their adult children, Molly and Adam, live in the Seattle area pursuing careers in social services and non-profit causes. Charyl Kay Sedlik recently culminated a 38-year medical career as a Senior Executive sales representative for Merck pharmaceuticals. The Sedliks are avid supporters of women’s basketball, and enjoy international travel, gourmet cooking, and the arts.

Degrees & Certificates

RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, BS - ENGINEERING SCIENCE; HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, MBA