December 1st, 2006
William S. Slaughter III is the founder and president of SSA Consultants, an organizational development and management consulting firm with clients across the United States and internationally.
Slaughter founded SSA Consultants in 1970 and has grown the business from a one-man operation to a consulting firm with 29 employees. SSA has attracted a senior group of professionals from around the United States and Europe. The firm has provided consulting services for hundreds of organizations and has trained over 100,000 people. SSA's consulting experience includes such diverse projects as facilitating strategic planning for a $2 billion start up for a major petrochemical company, cultural transformation of North American facilities for a large international firm, and the research, planning and training of a $3 billion manufacturing company's vertical integration venture into retailing. In addition, SSA has provided assistance to many public and non-profit organizations.
An active community servant, Slaughter belongs to the American Red Cross, American Heart Association, Baton Rouge Area Foundation, Baton Rouge Rotary Club, and Alzheimer’s Services of the Capital Area, among many other civic organizations. He serves as chairman of the board for the Capital Area YMCA. He is a past president of the E. J. Ourso College of Business Dean’s Advisory Council and currently serves as a member of the council’s building committee. In 1997, Slaughter established the SSA Consultants Inc. Scholarship in the E. J. Ourso College of Business to benefit a deserving undergraduate business student. He was inducted into the E. J. Ourso College of Business Hall of Distinction in 2004.
Slaughter received his Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1966. Two years later he received the first of two LSU degrees, earning an MBA in 1968. In 1973, Slaughter completed his doctoral studies at LSU and earned a Ph.D. in management. While he began his career in the banking industry, Slaughter spent nine years as a professor at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. He left Southeastern Louisiana University in 1978, and has since served as a faculty member in the LSU Department of Continuing Education.
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