About The Quest Consulting Team
Quest Management Consultants team of professionals is comprised of individuals with extensive backgrounds in management consulting, human resources, training and staff development, communications, diversity training, management, and counseling. In addition to these credentials, each consultant has completed an in-depth training program conducted by one of the profession’s leading consultants.
Joe Wiley
President
Joe’s professional background includes 30 plus years of human resources experience with three major St. Louis corporations: Pfizer, General Dynamics and the Monsanto Company. After 23 years with Monsanto, he chose an early retirement and decided to venture into the human resource consulting business. He founded Quest Management Consultants in August of 2003 and is the 100% owner of the company. Quest specializes in career transition, talent acquisition, executive coaching, and organizational effectiveness. Quest has worked with some of the top companies in St. Louis assisting them with their career transition and staffing needs. A substantial part of his business is conducted with organizations outside the St. Louis area. Quest is a member of OI Partners, which enhances our ability to deliver outplacement service on a national basis.
At Monsanto, he successfully led the Chemical Company’s recruiting initiative and, in addition to recruiting top talent, he developed award winning recruitment programs. Joe also managed a number of downsizing projects across the country. He worked with a variety of career transition vendors which has given him a great deal of experience and insight into the career transition process. He has a strong foundation in human resources with assignments at plant locations, the division level and in corporate assignments. His broad experience in human resources is a plus in assisting client companies with their human resources needs. Since 2003, Quest has completed over 100 searches in a wide variety of industries across many different disciplines. Quest strives to present a balanced slate of candidates for each assignment.
Joe’s broad human resource experience plays a key role in Quest Managements ability to provide cost effective and high quality service. A former basketball star, and member of the St. Louis University Hall of Fame, he is the consummate team player. Joe earned a B.A. in Sociology and a M.A. in Urban Affairs from St. Louis University.
Joe is a member of the following organizations:
- Advisory Board - National Association of African Americans in Human Resources
- Advisory Board - Toussaint Capital
- Board of Trustees- St. Louis Zoo
- Board of Directors - Dollar Help
- Executive Committee - St. Louis University Billiken Club
Joe was recognized in February 2009 by the St. Louis Business Journal as One of the Most Influential St. Louisans. In September 2009 he received the Inclusive Leadership Award which recognizes St. Louis’ most influential minority business leaders.
Finally, Joe finds time to serve as a basketball TV sports analyst for the St. Louis
University Billiken Basketball team.
Howard W. Curtis
Executive Vice-President, Search
Howard Curtis’s background includes over 35 years of human resources experience with two major corporations; as the owner of a consulting business; as a consultant, on assignment, with Fortune 50 companies in the Asia and Europe; and as an executive in the search business. He began his professional career with the Stewart-Warner Corporation in Chicago and then joined Monsanto in the early 1970’s. While at Monsanto, Howard held a number of varied assignments in plant locations, on the staff of the Monsanto Agricultural Company, and at the corporate level. Prior to his early retirement in 1996, he led the Global People Strategies Team with responsibilities for worldwide staffing, succession planning, people development, and international assignments. In 1995, his staffing team filled over 1,000 positions.
At Monsanto, Howard supported a number of businesses with human resources strategies and during the 90’s, the strategies included downsizing. However, in the face of those difficult times, he always ensured the people impacted had quality career transition services. His ability to provide career counseling and leadership development was valued and continues to be in this present role.
Here at Quest Management Consultants, Howard is concentrating on strengthening the retained executive search practice and works with senior level executives in the career transition process.
He earned a B.S. degree in Business and Economics from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois and a M.A. degree in Human Resource Management form Washington University. Howard was awarded an honorary Doctorate Degree in Public Service from MacMurray College.
Howard currently serves on the Board of Friendship Village - Chesterfield and Sunset Hills, Gaining Christ Ministries, on the Advisory Board of Firm Foundation, and trustee emeriti on MacMurray’s Board.
William J. Meyer
Senior Vice President
Bill Meyer’s experience includes over 25 years in human resource training and development. During his career his primary focus has been outplacement consulting and career management. He has consulted with large as well as small organizations in helping them manage reorganization and the subsequent career transitions. His particular area of effectiveness is guiding managers and senior executives toward successful career changes.
Bill owned his own career consulting business for five years. During this period he was selected over many national outplacement firms to provide career transition service to the United States Air Force. In this capacity he designed and implemented a “Train the Trainer” program for 25 career consultants from around the world. As a result, he received a commendation from the United States Department of Defense and continues to enjoy the designation of “preferred provider” at Scott Air Force Base.
In addition, he has authored two comprehensive career development programs that have been instrumental in helping over 2,600 clients attain career satisfaction. He has also written a series of career – oriented articles that have received national as well as local recognition. Bill was interviewed by St. Louis Commerce magazine for his expertise on the key outplacement issues of executives.
As a highly respected professional in the fields of outplacement and career development, he is a requested speaker at professional associations and universities. He is an active member of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and active with the Human Resource Management Association of Greater St. Louis. Bill earned his Master’s in Counseling from St. Louis University.
John E. Tubbesing
Senior Vice President
John Tubbesing is a proven executive who specializes in executive coaching and recruiting. He brings an uncommon diversity of experiences to his clients.
John is a native of Saint Louis who spent 30 years with technology and consulting companies. He has spent the last 6 years consulting and coaching executives in both for-profit and non- profit organizations. John has a B.S. in Marketing and an MBA with a focus in international business from the University of Missouri-Columbia. John has served on the boards of several non-profits and has raised millions of dollars for causes he cares about.
John held several management positions at McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing), the Vice President of Marketing for LDXNet (now part of AT&T), the Executive Vice President at TALX Corporation. He then began a very successful career in consulting, first with the management consulting practice of Ernst & Young LLC and then started his own coaching and consulting business. He also created and ran a major donor program for a large international non-profit.
John has a keen eye for recognizing and helping to develop executive talent. He is a proven sales and marketing executive and general manager. John has worked with those in the investment community to evaluate businesses and has also helped take a company through a successful initial public offering (IPO).
John has friends all over the world as a result of his varied assignments and extensive travel. John also is part of the leadership of a non-profit organization which connects American business executives and owners with opportunities to invest in other countries. He would love to help you “get connected”.
Patricia A. Mathews
Vice President
Patricia Mathews is the President of Workplace Solutions Consultants, which is her own consulting practice in St. Louis. She has over 25 years experience in human resources management and consulting in which her expertise at creating and fine-tuning the processes to manage human assets was developed.
A gifted speaker and author of various articles on human resources management, including Dual Career Couples and Relocation, HR Pitfalls for Growing Companies, and The HR Image Makeover: From Cost Center to Profit Maker, Ms. Mathews has worked with organizations in human resources strategy development, total quality management, and customer service initiatives. This includes development and administration of policies and procedures, employment and recruitment, compensation, wage and salary administration, benefits administration, employee relations, training and development, career development, employee survey administration and analysis, organization development, and labor relations.
Her previous work experience included Vice President of Associate Services for CHAN Healthcare Auditors, Vice President of Human Resources for the Argosy Gaming Company, Human Resources Director for Busch Agricultural Resources (a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.), and Manager of College Recruiting for Occidental Chemical Co., a division of Occidental Petroleum.
She has served as Honorary Co-Chairperson of the President’s National Business Advisory Council, and Co-Chairperson of the HR Special Interest Group for Rising Media. She is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management, the Human Resources Management Association, World at Work, various non-profit organizations and a women’s investment club. She is Past President of the Board of Directors for Art St. Louis.
Ms. Mathews holds an MBA in Operations Planning & Controls from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a diploma from the Royal Academy of Arts & Sciences in Antwerp, Belgium.
Stephanie White-Hieken
Director of Operations & Client Relations
Stephanie White-Hieken comes to Quest with experience in the staffing, cable and oil industries. Prior to joining Quest, Stephanie owned a recruiting business in which she specialized in the placement of information technology and accounting professionals. She gained this experience while working for an international staffing firm for which she recruited, staffed and sold the services of the organization.
At Charter Communications, she worked in the legal department where she worked on a real estate project. She identified real estate issues and worked to get those issues resolved. As a result, she was able to recoup a substantial amount of money for the organization.
Stephanie also worked for Premcor f/k/a Clark Refining and Marketing. She worked as an analyst in the product support group to improve the processes, thereby increasing cash flow. Also, she was the manager of the Solomon Study for Clark. This study compared the efficiency of refinery participants in North America. This study identified the characteristics that made some refineries more profitable than others and based on this information, refineries made necessary changes to optimize the efficiency of their refineries.
Stephanie earned her B.S. in Marketing from Maryville University.
Stephanie handles all workshops, assist clients with their needs, handles interview schedules, reference checks and candidate report preparation. She is outstanding working with people.
Kathie S. McCloskey
Senior Consultant
Kathie McClosekey’s professional background encompasses 30 years in human resources management and organizational development in corporate and operational environments. She has been affiliated with a major healthcare system as well as companies in the defense, medical products, media and insurance industries. Earlier in her career, Kathie held positions as an account representative and branch manager for a major temporary staffing firm.
Kathie served as an organizational development consultant with responsibility for change management, leadership development, HR strategy. She has had responsibilities as a human resource generalist with special emphasis on organizational leadership, career development, training, performance management, recruitment and organizational restructuring.
Kathie worked closely with her client organizations to develop leadership and supervisory training programs and competency-based career development programs. She partnered with a client group to develop human resource initiatives related to the complete transformation of the organization. Kathie has also been actively involved in the development of numerous human resource communications and employee relations initiatives. Throughout her career, she managed corporate restructuring and reduction in force processes, working closely with several career transition firms.
In addition to her experience managing reductions in force, Kathie has been through a career transition process herself and is very sensitive to the needs of our individual clients. She is able to speak to them from the perspective of one who understands the challenges of developing a career transition campaign firsthand.
Kathie earned her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Missouri St. Louis. She is certified as a DDI professional and leadership development facilitator, member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), ASTD and is an active volunteer in the community.