Skalstad Consulting, Inc.
Through unique products and services, SCI creates new competitive advantages for organizations in these industries:
- Settlement services
- Vendor management
- Business consulting
- Technology
- Financial services
Even in the most challenging economic environment in years, your company can grow more efficient, productive and profitable. Let us show you how.
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Mission
Skalstad Consulting, Inc., brings the most innovative products, services, intellectual capital and resources to the table to create solutions that refine your culture to meet your goals. We are committed to helping clients achieve peak performance, maintain leadership positions and raise their companies to the next level.
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Bob Skalstad,
President and CEO
Bob Skalstad, a twenty five-year veteran of the financial services industry, is the President and CEO of SCI and an Executive Vice President and a Principle of Corporate Management Advisors (CMA). His background in financial services, technology, vendor management and consulting established his client list and reputation as a top performer with CMA and was the foundation for his decision to leverage his experience to create SCI. Learn more about Bob Skalstad >>>
Rick Daly,
Executive Director of Consulting Services
Rick Daly, an authority on strategy, learning styles, and the development of employees and teams at all levels, is Executive Director of Consulting Services for SCI. He has worked with more than 80 clients throughout the world and served as the Chief Learning Officer for three financial services leaders. Rick’s passion is improving business performance by helping clients develop their people and processes to achieve sustainable advantages. Learn more about Rick Daly >>>
Marylyn McCormack,
Senior Vice President, Training and Development
A recognized Master Trainer-of-Trainers, Marylyn McCormack serves as Senior Vice President, Training and Development, for SCI. With over twenty years in the field of training and development, instructional design, project management, process improvement, leadership, change management, measurement and coaching, Marylyn is a Recipient of the Torch Award from the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). Learn more about Marylyn McCormack >>>
Raelin Sawka Musuraca,
Senior Vice President, Marketing and Customer Experience
A twenty-year integrated marketing communications veteran focused on leveraging digital and social media tactics, Raelin Sawka Musuraca is Senior Vice President, Marketing and Customer Experience, for SCI. With a particular passion for user-centered design, Raelin’s core focus lies in refining and integrating the customer experience along all touch points beginning with marketing and then diving deep into the organization. Learn more about Raelin Musuraca >>>
Bob Skalstad, President and CEO
Bob Skalstad is the President and CEO of SCI and an Executive Vice President and a Principle of Corporate Management Advisors (CMA). Bob has been instrumental in assisting CMA in becoming one of the nation’s leading and most respected executive search firms in the U.S. Over the years, CMA has broadened its reach to other industries including Vendor Management, Settlement Services, Technology, Insurance and Investment Banking. Since its inception the company has placed more than 7,000 executives.
In 2007, Skalstad created Skalstad Consulting, Inc. (SCI). The company was born in response to the recent “melt down” of the Financial Services Industry. Now more than ever, financial institutions and service providers are looking for new and creative ways to be more competitive, efficient and productive in the most challenging environment in years.
SCI delivers unique solutions to the Financial Services Industry (specifically, banking, mortgage banking, insurance, settlement services, vendor management, consulting and technology) to meet their needs. The synthesis and vision of SCI provides clients an edge over their competition.
The goal of the company is to use a creative blend of industry knowledge, experience and skills to provide our clients with unique solutions utilizing the best products, practices, services, intellectual capital and resources available in the market today.
Skalstad, a twenty five-year veteran of the financial services industry, joined CMA in 1996. He quickly became an integral member of the company and the management team. His background in financial services, technology, vendor management and consulting established his client list and reputation as a top performer with CMA and was the foundation for his decision to leverage his experience to create SCI. His employment background includes national account sales, management and consulting with companies such as; Unisys, co-founder of CMSI, TRW Information Services/Strategic Management Services and ALLTEL Information Services.
A key to Skalstad’s success is his commitment to building long-term client relationships. His belief in anticipating the needs of clients and exceeding their expectations with exceptional service and cutting-edge solutions has set the benchmark for SCI and the industry. Skalstad’s vision for the future is to continue to help clients achieve peak performance, maintain leadership positions and take their companies to the next level.
Skalstad received his Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the Towson State University in Baltimore, Maryland. His professional memberships include Mortgage Bankers Association, ALTA and TAVMA. He is very active as an industry speaker, conference presenter and moderator.
Rick Daly, Executive Director of Consulting Services
Rick Daly is the Executive Director of Consulting Services. His passion is improving business performance by helping clients develop their people and processes to achieve sustainable advantages.
Over the last decade, he has served as the Chief Learning Officer for three financial services leaders, which gave him the opportunity to fine-tune tools and tactics to build world-class performance. Daly is recognized as an authority on strategy, learning styles, and the development of employees and teams at all levels. He has worked with more than 80 clients throughout the world.
Daly’s work has earned numerous awards, including:
- Chief Learning Officer of the Year finalist (Corporate University Exchange)
- Chief Learning Officer for one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” (Fortune magazine)
- One of the “100 Best” (Training magazine)
- “Best” honoree (American Society for Training & Development)
- Creator of a “Top Leadership Program” (Executive Excellence magazine)
- “Best Use of Technology” (Corporate University)
- Excellence award (Corporate University Exchange/Fortune)
- Best in Class L&D Functions: Innovation in Measurement (Corporate Leadership Council)
Rick Daly earned his doctorate in Education/Organizational Behavior from the University of California at Berkeley.
Marylyn McCormack, Senior Vice President, Performance Technology
Marylyn McCormack is a recognized Master Trainer-of-Trainers, university instructor, project manager, and performance consultant with an established track record of increasing organization revenue, time-to-proficiency, client satisfaction and performance.
She has over 20 years in the field of training and development, instructional design, project management, process improvement, leadership, change management, measurement and coaching, along with extensive experience leading teams of instructors, designers, training coordinators and project managers. She has assessed training and performance needs, led projects, designed, developed, facilitated, and evaluated workshops/design projects/performance paths for government and diverse private industries.
Other accomplishments include:
- Assessed, designed, developed and evaluated customized, modularized, blended operational training programs for employees, both new hires and existing, incorporating job standards/competency models, operating systems, procedures, regulations, policies, company goals, adult learning principles, instructional design methodologies and tailored to participants learning styles and company culture, which decreased time to proficiency by at least 29 %, reduced fraud and employee errors and enhanced operational efficiency.
- Selected as a Keynote speaker for the International Conference of the American Society for Training and Development. Her topic was “How to Develop Your Trainers: Using Competencies to Customize Your Own Master Plan.”
- Recipient of the Torch Award from the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) for continually exceeding expectations and for outstanding contributions to the organization.
Marylyn is a former Vice President with Langevin Learning Services and Instructor with California State University Extended Education program. In these and other positions, Marylyn has coached subject-matter experts, managers/directors, supervisors, Vice Presidents and trainers. She gives them the “how-to skills and knowledge” needed to achieve peak performance levels on the job.
Raelin Sawka Musuraca, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Customer Experience
Raelin is versatile and energetic customer experience strategist with experiences ranging from successful growth of an Internet advertising start-up to leading dynamic change at a 30-year-old, $300M title and settlement services corporation. Molded by cross-discipline studies at Carnegie Mellon University, Raelin is a twenty-year marketing communications veteran with more than fifteen years of digital marketing experience.
Prior to joining SCI, Raelin was Chief Digital Strategist at GatesmanMarmionDrake+Dave, Pittsburgh’s fastest growing advertising agency three years running. At GMD+D, Raelin led Web and social media efforts with national grocery distributor SUPERVALU, tri-state gaming firm MTR Gaming, national restaurant chain Quaker Steak and Lube, regional grocer SHOP ‘n SAVE, as a well additional agency accounts.
Having both agency and client experience, Raelin previously served as Marketing Director of National Real Estate Information Services (NREIS), a $300M national vendor management firm. At NREIS she planned and executed a closely integrated sales, marketing and public relations strategy leveraging Web, email, webinar, and social media campaigns in addition to traditional direct mail, trade show and PR activities. She also directed an internal advertising agency, Sharp Creative, that served mortgage industry partners such as Urban Settlement Services, SLS a division of HSBC, Credit Plus | Ariston, and ServiceLink (Fidelity). The agency also served clients such as EDMC, Eaton, University of Pittsburgh, ThoughtDrivers (Pitt Ohio Express), ABARTA, and VigilantMinds (now Solutionary).
Raelin also managed the interactive groups of Blattner Brunner/Lighthouse Interactive and then the marchFIRST, Pittsburgh office. At Brunner she was influential on many high-profile accounts including PPG Industries, SEI Investments, Advisorport (now PNC Managed Investments), Pittsburgh Paints, United Way and Pittsburgh Corning Glass Block. Internally, she was responsible for profit management, recruiting, personnel, quality, and processes as the team grew from 1 to 35. During her leadership, Lighthouse was designated two years in a row as one of the Top 100 Interactive Agencies in the country. Raelin has also been personally awarded a PNC Advisors, Recognition of Excellence for her leadership role in delivery of $2M Web Portal in just under 4 months.