Overview

Professional History

  • Communities Evangelist for Deloitte's Global Consulting KM group

 

  • Led the Worldwide Consulting & Integration Knowledge Management Program for Hewlett-Packard Services

 

  • Joined Digital Equipment Corporation in 1983 in the St. Louis office

 

  • Moved to Detroit in 1986 Launched Digital's first knowledge management program in 1996

 

  • Helped develop the corporate KM strategy for Compaq in 2000

 

  • Held a wide variety of field and headquarters management roles in presales, consulting and systems integration

 

  • Part of HP's Merger & Integration Clean Room in 2001-2002

 

  • Previously employed as Manager of Computer Services at St. Louis University of Medicine, 1979-1983 and computer programmer and research assistant at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, 1975-1979

Education

Stan Garfield attended Northwestern University in Evanston and Washington University in St. Louis.

Hobbies and Activities

Stan Garfield's favorite sport is basketball

Stan Garfield likes to relax by walking, listening to music, playing cards, having good conversations, and dining out.

Stan Garfield's favorite song growing up was Portrait of My Love by The Tokens.

Stan Garfield's favorite sports team is the Detroit Pistons.

Stan Garfield has studied Judo when he was young.

Family

Stan Garfield's mother is Amy Garfield

Stan Garfield is married to Barb Hayes.

Stan Garfield's ancestors were from Russia and Germany.

Stan Garfield's siblings are David, Joan, and Ann.

Stan Garfield's father is the late Sol L. Garfield.

Accomplishments

Stan Garfield's biggest accomplishment is publishing a book on Implementing a Successful Knowledge Management program.

Stan Garfield won the WUMB weekly giveaway an uprecedented two weeks in a row.

Identity

Stan Garfield's typical day consists of reading, writing, and communicating.

Stan Garfield can write well.

Stan Garfield is at their best any time except late at night.

Fame

Stan Garfield was on television in the 6th grade in a PBS show called Parlons Francais.

Stan Garfield has been interviewed about knowledge management.

Stories

The last time Stan Garfield laughed so hard it hurt was with his SHAM discussion group.

The best day of Stan Garfield's life was when the Spirits of St. Louis beat the New York Nets in game 3 of the 1975 ABA playoffs.

Stan Garfield had a good impact on his children.

The biggest turning points in Stan Garfield's life were switching majors from journalism to computer science, moving from Missouri to Michigan, and staying in Michigan instead of moving to Florida.

Future

Stan Garfield's dream house is on Lake Michigan in the town of Glen Arbor, MI.

If Stan Garfield could speak to the world from the floor of the United Nations, he would tell everyone to stop fighting and hating and start talking and loving one another

Connections

Stan Garfield met Warren Buffett in Omaha on May 2, 2008.

Stan Garfield knows Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, Carla O'Dell, and Susie Buffett.

Stan Garfield would like to meet Bob Dylan.

Web Presence

The URL to Stan Garfield's MySpace profile is http://www.myspace.com/stangarfield

The URL to Stan Garfield's Facebook profile is http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=759180240

The URL to Stan Garfield's personal website is http://stangarfield.googlepages.com/

The URL to Stan Garfield's LinkedIn account is http://www.linkedin.com/in/stangarfield

Adventure

Stan Garfield met with danger when he fell out of the raft during a whitewater rafting trip in Colorado.

Stan Garfield broke his collarbone.

Stan Garfield once ate turtle roti.

Early Years

Stan Garfield was raised in Oak Park, Evanston, Omaha, St. Louis, and Tenafly.

When Stan Garfield was a kid, they wanted to grow up to be a scientist.

Friends

Stan Garfield's closest friends are his SHAM discussion group members, and friends who live in Boston, St. Louis, and New Jersey.

Stan Garfield's significant other is Barb Hayes.

Today

Stan Garfield's lives in metro Detroit, Michigan in the USA.

Projects

Something interesting Stan Garfield has worked on is stats for the Spirits of St. Louis and Washington University basketball teams.
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