Business Growth Specialist Steve Blue Named American City Business Journals Feature Contributor

WINONA, Minn. - Nov. 25, 2013 - PRLog -- Steve Blue is now putting his three decades of management, executive, consulting and speaking experience in markets all over the world as a feature contributor to American City Business Journals. Each month, commencing in December 2013, he will interview a compelling CEO from a mid-size company about key business issues that involve culture, growth, and organizational development. Key targets include those companies that report $5 million in revenue and show fast growth. A young CEO that shows considerable potential and track record will also be considered as a potential interview subject.

“I am honored to have been chose to contribute to such a well-respected business publication, having been a long-time reader from the perspective of a leader and a consultant,” notes business behemoth Steve Blue. “This channel provides me with a new way to reach my target audience, including managers and executives who have pain points and issues that they are struggling to address in their organizations. However, by interviewing various CEOs who may have undertaken similar problems, readers will be able to access ideas and strategies that they can enact within their own organizations for a positive transformation.”

In commenting on the addition of Steve Blue as a features contributor, Ed Stych, National Special Sections Editor for American City Business Journals, stated, “We are committed to high-quality journalism, providing relevant information and insightful stories to our readers so that they can make better business decisions, find solutions, and benchmark the best practices of other businesses like themselves. Steve encapsulates all those objectives because he has the experience and expertise to draw out the best information from the CEOs that he will be interviewing. This will lead to some compelling stories for our readers.”

Blue is seeking potential interview candidates for his upcoming monthly articles with American City Journals. Those CEOs interested can submit their information by visiting www.stevenlblue.com.

About American City Business Journals
American City Business Journals (ACBJ) is the largest publisher of metropolitan weekly business newspaper and websites with participation in 40 markets and websites in three additional markets, including New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles.   ACBJ has nearly 11 million unique monthly visitors to the 43 websites. Each publication focuses on local and regional businesses and the issues impacting those organizations. ACBJ subscribers are among the nation’s most highly coveted demographics, including an average net worth of more than $1.68 million and an average household income of $227,000. Eighty-five percent have at least a four-year college degree and 66 percent are in top management positions at their companies. For more information, please visit http://acbj.com.

About Steve Blue
With more than three decades of management, executive and consulting experience in markets all over the world, business growth authority Steve Blue’s career credits include forming astoundingly successful international ventures and transforming corporate and entrepreneurial businesses with no international presence into global powerhouses.  This visionary executive success-oriented speaker and consultant, currently serving as CEO of Miller Ingenuity (www.milleringenuity.com), is a globally regarded “turnaround specialist” whose skills in strict operational control, cash management and high stakes negotiations, coupled with his firm but fair nature, have transformed companies into industry giants.

Blue has had an instinct for outperforming his peers in profit generation from the beginning of his career.  Early on he became the “go to” guy, taking the helm of underperforming divisions and transforming them into highly profitable corporate units. This is where he honed a deep knowledge of most functional areas of a company, and Blue worked in industries as diverse as publishing and industrial automation. In each and every assignment he substantially increased productivity and reduced costs.

Now as an esteemed corporate CEO of one of the longest standing companies in its industry, Blue demonstrates a rare and enviable gift for avoiding the kind of cookie-cutter, follower thinking that kills innovation and leads to stagnation.  He fuels his business model—and those of other enterprises he assists—with unquenched curiosity and a relentless scan of the horizon in pursuit of new opportunities and consistent, record-breaking businesses performance.  This has established Blue as a world-class expert on crafting business models that lead to managed, measured, and meaningful growth. In his 32 years in business, the last 15 as a P&L executive, Blue has solved unimaginable problems and has never failed to deliver double digit gains.

In recent years, after achieving amazing levels of personal career achievement, Blue has become an in-demand keynote speaker across a wide variety of industries and audiences who benefit from his enlightening, empowering and proven growth and success methodologies.

Blue holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the State University of New York and a MBA from Regis University.

Learn more at www.stevenlblue.com.