EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA, May 30, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Ralph B. Johnston, CMA, Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Management Foundation Inc., has been recognized by Worldwide Who's Who for showing dedication, leadership, innovation, and strategic planning excellence in Management Leadership Consulting.

Mr. Johnston has 25 years of experience in his field and five years of experience in his current role. His areas of expertise include accelerating revenue growth, market share, profitability and shareholder value for multi-million dollar industry leaders. He is skilled at initial public offerings (IPOs), market development, prospecting, bidding for success, developing turnaround terms of reference and financial accountability profiles for clients, conducting think-tank / leap frog out-of-the-box solutions interaction workshops and presentations to clients, getting clients organized to minimize variability in manufacturing and business processes, giving them step by step methodology processes to increase their ability to implement changes to achieve measurable success objectives, and continues overseeing all aspects of his "Think - Tank Strategic" company and client base.

Mr. Johnston is a highly accomplished manager with proven experience. He is best noted for his ability to be a good leader, strong organizer, understand and implement processes and come up with accountability matrixes and quantified financial targets. He has a reputation as being the go-to person for delivery of troubleshooting constructive business processes and financial realignment in Western Canada.

He attributes his success to being able to greatly understand industrial and energy manufacturing business processes. He became involved in his profession because of his skills and was an in-house consultant for a major international corporation and traveled the world working with senior executives on improving quality of process outputs by identifying the cause of defects and minimizing variability and increasing accountability in improving manufacturing processes to " Make Your Numbers" . Due to business growth in Alberta, Canada, he started a strategic plan to build his own company in the hottest economy in North America. He pursued a career working with emerging companies, undertaking initial public offers (IPOs), venture capital raising for new business ventures, manufacturing and energy business process improvement undertakings and kept growing in skill expertise until eventually he decided to found his own company in these related business fields.

Mr. Johnston received a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation in 1985, an Economic Development Degree from the University of Waterloo in 2006 and a Real Estate Degree from the University of Mount Royal in 2011. He is Chairman of a Province of Alberta Regional Services Commission and belongs to several municipal task forces, the Alberta Urban Municipalities of Alberta (AUMA), the Certified Management Accountants Association of Alberta and is an elected member of an Alberta municipality. Mr. Johnston wants to continue to develop his expertise in his area of management leadership strategic planning for manufacturing and business processes and to grow a stronger North American and worldwide client base.

Strategic Management Foundation Inc. is a think tank consulting firm that provides the oil and gas energy, industrial and manufacturing business sectors with new and innovative strategic process planning expertise to achieve continuous improvement.

For more information, visit http://ca.linkedin.com/in/ralphbjohnston.

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