Management level lecture given by Peter Schutz – Former CEO of Porsche, A.G.
Lecturer, Author
Scheduled for Monday, September 10th from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and Tuesday, September 11th from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
 

Peter W. Schutz
 

Peter was born in Berlin, Germany on April 20, 1930.  After leaving Germany in March of 1939, the Schutz family settled in Chicago, Illinois after a two-year stay in Havana, Cuba.

Peter grew up and received his formal education in Chicago, including a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Schutz served as CEO of Porsche A.G., the automobile company, in Stuttgart, Germany, from January 1981 until January 1988.  Porsche was mired in the midst of its first money-losing year in 1980.  During the Schutz tenure Porsche worldwide sales grew from 28,000 units to over 53,000 units in 1986.  Revenues grew from DM 850 million to DM 3.7 billion and profits after tax grew from DM 12 million to over DM 125 million.

Prior to his tenure at Porsche, Mr. Schutz served 15 years at Caterpillar Tractor Co. in Peoria, Illinois in a variety of engineering tasks.  Subsequently he spent 11 years at Cummins Engine Company in Columbus, Indiana, three years in corporate strategic planning and eight years as Vice President
responsible for salesand service of truck engines in the U.S. and Canada, with revenues of over $850 million.

In 1978 he assumed responsibility for the Diesel and Gas Turbine operation of Klöckner - Humboldt - Deutz
(KHD) in Cologne, Germany, where revenues grew to exceed DM 1 billion per year.

In 1987, his alma mater, IIT, honored him with the Outstanding Achievement Award, and the Henry Townley
Heald Award, awarded for business ethics that have impacted an industry. (Other recipients of the Heald
Award include: Mies Van der Rohe, Edward Teller, Buckmeister Fuller, Jonas Salk, Bill Hewlett, and Ted
Turner.)

Today, Peter W. Schutz and Sheila Harris-Schutz operate their own company, Harris and Schutz Inc. 
Peter has lectured on leadership and business management techniques in the U.S.A., Europe, Australia
and Asia.  This includes over 800 presentations to TEC (The Executive Committee, a worldwide organization
of CEOs), as well as sales meetings for a number of corporations, convention key notes, business
conferences, strategic planning meetings to varied organizations on various topics.

Schutz is the author of a book, The Driving Force, Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People, published
by Leadership Publishing Company and available in book stores or on Amazon.com.