STEVE
DIETRICH
STEVE@DietrichDAS.com? ||? www.linkedin.com\in\Level5Leadership?
https:\\steve.dietrichdas.com? ||? 📍South Bend, IN 46530? ||? ☎️ 425.200.0825
?The most valuable professionals of the future are not the
ones walking a straight predictable line, they?re the ones standing in the
muddy waters intentionally building the complex bridges between the machine and
the mind.?
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
My background is
anchored in the synthesis and joint optimization of Positive Psychology,
Science and Technology, Systems Engineering, Organizational Development,
Strategy, and Personal Transformation. As I develop and integrate my Artificial
Intelligence tools and skills, this will allow me to help individuals and
organizations transform into stronger, more dynamic teams and people. Fully
realized people and teams with enhanced capabilities, greater creativity,
building better solutions and process efficacy.?
Organizations and individuals who have more grit, insights, and who
develop and thrive with every opportunity or challenge. Engaged and exhilarated
during the process of discovery, creation, development, and celebration. I?ve
spent a life discovering and developing ?the simplicity on the other side of
complexity,? and my greatest satisfaction is helping others recognize and build
their own agency, power, and potential. I strive every day to be a Level 5 Leader,
empowering colleague, and to forge an environment of respect, collaboration,
curiosity, encouragement, accomplishment, play, and gratitude.
CORE COMPETENCIES ? The Joint
Optimization of Science, Tech & Engineering with Business, Strategy, Risk,
OD, Project Management and with Level 5 Leadership, Team and Personal
Development.
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Leadership & Culture: Level 5 Leadership, Positive Psychology (UPenn), organizational
development (OD), culture change, cross-functional team integration,
human-centered design, collaborative win-win-win environments, and positive,
solution-focused team development.
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Complete Systems Paradigm: Interdisciplinary Systems Architect & Integrator; Synthesis of core
scientific systems (physics, chemistry, biology), systems engineering (R&D,
design, AI, mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, computer), business systems
(OD, project and risk management, structure, processes, leadership), human
systems (biology, psychology, social, transformational change).
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Business Strategy and
Solutions: Core business identification, active leadership, communication,
culture and environment, processes and policies, rewards systems, personnel
development, products, plans, strategy, quality, values & data-guided
decisions, ai integration, growth and development.
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Innovation, Creativity, Designs
and Solutions: Psychologically safe environments, collaboration, brainstorming,
priming, play, AI tools, project deconstruction and rebuilding, competitive
analysis.
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Development, Growth, and
Transformation:? Positive
Psychology (PERMA), Applied Somatic Organizational Development (ASOD), Socio-Technical
Systems (STS) Design, identity grit, priming, neuroscience, coaching, somatic
visioning, positive acceptance, Mettatations?️ and Mettapeutics?️.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dietrich Designs And Solutions | Entrepreneur, Strategic Partner, Consultant
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Organizational Development: Partnered with SMBs and NPOs on defining organizational and business parameters,
product/service strategies, operational designs and communications.
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Strategic Identity
Architecture: Built full-spectrum brand development and digital
infrastructures, creating marketing strategies and plans, logos, taglines, and multi-function
responsive websites, both fully coded and using CMS web platforms. Created business and strategy aligned content and media.
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Employee Transformation: Cognitive reframing and valuing of work inputs and outputs.? Developed training programs and new
procedures that enabled staff to understand their roles within the total
system, resulting in increased efficacy, collaboration, contribution, and job
satisfaction.
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Leadership Consulting and
Change Management: Building and developing foundational resilience
and progressive emotional intelligence skills to navigate complex
organizational changes. Recalibrating personal and professional agency for
executive and senior level leaders.
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DDAS Entrepreneurship: Created Android Apps. Own several websites for wide range of endeavors.
Mettatations?️ and Mettapeutics?️ | Cultivating,
Healing, Developing, Flourishing.
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Synthesizing East and West: Discovered, developed, and teach a proprietary system of practices, tools,
classes, and courses integrating positive psychology, neuroscience, coaching,
counseling, yoga, meditation, prana breathwork, and somatic self-touch for
emotional, relational, and personal growth.
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Transformational
Coaching/Consulting: One-on-one personalized sessions to address
individual specific needs, creating custom practices and action plans for
sustainable positive transformation.
Bayer Diagnostics (now Siemens Healthineers) | Systems
Engineering Scientist / Fluidics
ADVIA Centaur Immunoassay System is a high
throughput, always ready, continuous operation system that handles 70+ routine
and specialized diagnostic tests using several different assay protocols. It?s
a complex fully automated system with 70+ valves using volumes as low as 10μL.
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Cross-Functional Systems
Integration: Spearheaded the fluidics subsystems for the Advia
Centaur; served as the central subject matter expert and team leader coordinating
Mechanical, Electrical, Software, Reliability, Technical Writing, Manufacturing,
Field Service, and Bio-Chemical Departments.
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FDA Risk Analysis: Risk identification and mitigation using Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
and Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) for entire
system. Ensuring all designs, operations, and results met rigorous healthcare
quality standards and specifications.
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Systems Testing, Evaluation,
and Optimization: Designed and executed scientific experiments to
evaluate designs, parts, sequences, volumes, angles, dispense speeds, chemical
solutions, reagents & assay protocols+ for the optimization of every
current and future assay. Every mm, every μL, angle, temp, and
flow rate mattered; incorrect results had significant diagnostic consequences
and liability.
EDUCATION
■ Master of
Business Administration (MBA) | Bowling Green State University [AACSB]
o President,
Graduate Student Senate || Leadership and Organizational
Transformation.
■ B.S. Biology
(Pre-Med Program) | The University of Toledo
■ Psychology |
Baldwin-Wallace University
CERTIFICATIONS??????????????????????????
? Positive
Psychology Foundations | University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
? Google AI
Professional, Generative AI Leader | Google
? AI
Foundations & Essentials, Building AI | Google, DeepLearning, IBM,
MS-LI, UHelsinki
? Project
Management, and Leadership Training
? Risk
Analysis (FTA/FMECA) & Quality Systems Training
? Certified
Life Coach (+Advanced) & CBT Coaching Certification
? 200 HR RYT
Yoga Certification, 100 HR Meditation, Reiki
AI, TECHNICAL, and SCIENTIFIC SKILLS & TOOLS
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Gemini, NotebookLM, AIStudio; CoPilot, MS Office, Claude,
LM Studio, VSCode, CoPilot, Notion, WordPress, Adobe Creative Suite, HTML/CSS,
C++, Python, etc.
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Fractional Factorial Designed Experiments (DoE),
Statistical Analysis Systems, Fluid Dynamics.