Our Team
Expert consultants dedicated to operational excellence.
Welcome to Human Capital Associates. It is my sincere hope that as you seek to improve your organization, we can earn a shot at your business. Our programs and processes have demonstrated results and have been executed in many of the world's leading organizations.
Our associates are individuals who have been there and take pride in their assignments, far beyond making a living! Frankly, we all love what we do. Thanks for visiting our site, considering us, and making a commitment to Realizing Enterprise Excellence.
We hope to see you in the marketplace.
Our Senior Team
Robert Blaha, PresidentRobert has more than twenty-five years of experience dealing with leadership, high-performance work, and major Six Sigma and Lean implementations. He has held senior management positions with four major corporations — Ford, Monsanto, Engelhard and Asea Brown Boveri (ABB). During Mr. Blaha’s tenure in industry, he held line and staff positions in organizations ranging from construction to mining to service.
In 1993, Robert founded Human Capital Associates. HCA was created after thoroughly analyzing major initiative disconnects within organizations. HCA processes in business transformation, program and leadership development, and lean6sigma process improvement have resulted in improved organizational capability, billions of dollars in documented savings, and increased revenues for his clients.
Blaha is an internationally sought speaker and has authored numerous articles and three books, Beyond Survival, The Archer Chronicles and The Lean6sigma Accelerator, on high performance work systems, leadership, and achieving organizational wide commitment to change. He has also been cited and featured in Quality Digest, Human Resource Management, Chief Learning Officer, and Harvard Management Update as an expert on Business Transformation.
Robert has extensive and varied speaking experience. His highly customized approach to each client has resulted in consistently high evaluation marks. Robert has also been cited in several periodicals including.
Since November 2001, he has served as a board member of Tournament Gold/Attendeez, based in Omaha, NE. Since February 2003, Robert has served as the Vice Chairman and member of the board of directors of Integrity Bank Trust, a commercial bank based in Colorado Springs, CO.
Robert holds a BBA from the University of Iowa where he was the Forrest Eveshevski Scholar Athlete. He also is a graduate of the University of Michigan’s Human Resource Executive Program.
Robert can be reached by phone at 719.590.1171. His e-mail address is rblaha@hca-leadership.com.
Charles Johnson, Vice PresidentCharlie has supported manufacturing and service industry organizations worldwide for more than thirty years. From the shop floor to the executive offices of organizations like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Georgia-Pacific, Milliken, GlaxoSmithKline, Stone Container, Merck-Medco and Boehringer-Ingleheim, he has partnered and teamed with employees to drive continuous improvement and lasting personal and organizational change.
For more than ten years, Charlie has worked with the Competing Values Framework assessment from the University of Michigan to facilitate current state diagnosis and future state planning to understand organizational culture and drive business success. CVF permits organizations to take a snap shot of their current culture, explore the levers and opportunities to change culture while defining a roadmap for sustainable change.
Charlie has spent a significant portion of the past decade training and mentoring LeanSixSigma champions, master blackbelts and blackbelts in the defense and pharmaceutical industries. In this role, Charlie has expanded his personal knowledge and application of continuous improvement tools while partnering in their respective organizations to effectively drive fundamental improvement by focusing on customer, capability and culture.
Charlie received undergraduate and MBA degrees from the University of Georgia and remains active in campus and alumni activities today. He is an avid, but unfortunately average golfer still holding on to the dream of breaking 80 someday.
Charlie can be reached by phone at 404.406.1286 or through Human Capital Associates at 719.590.1171. His e-mail address is cgjohnson2@aol.com.