Level Headed: Inside the Walls of One of the Greatest Turnaround Stories of the 21st Century - Softcover

J. Doug Pruitt is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sundt Construction Inc. which provides preconstruction and construction services through a variety of delivery methods such as construction management at risk, design-build, program management, and design-bid build. Sundt Construction has divisions to service projects in commercial and institutional buildings, highways, bridges, dams, light rail, multi-family and senior housing, telecommunications, wastewater and water treatment, utilities, mining and power. Mr. Pruitt joined the Sundt family of companies in 1966. He has served as Executive Vice President and Manager of the Sundt’s Building Division, Vice President/Manager of Construction Management Services and Chief Estimator of Sundt’s Building Division. In May of 1992, assumed the position of President and Chief Operating Officer and in 1998 became Chairman and CEO. He is the author of articles on concrete slipform mechanical cores for high-rise buildings and has chaired committees for the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) producing brochures and videos on “Total Quality Management”, “Partnering” and “Workforce Development.” Mr. Pruitt holds an AS in Civil Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and a BS in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix and a graduate of the Arizona State University Management Institute and the Stanford Executive Development Program.

Richard Condit is the Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Sundt Construction Inc. which has an annual volume of $1 billion in preconstruction and construction services through a variety of delivery methods such as construction manager at risk, design-build, program management, build to suit and design-bid build. Sundt is a highly diversified general contractor with self performed capabilities in concrete, civil and utility construction processes. Richard has responsibility for Human Resources, Strategic and Tactical Planning and Marketing and Business Development administration for the company. He joined the Sundt family of companies in 1993. Richard holds a BS in Agricultural Education from the University of Arizona.

Level Headed takes you behind the scenes of one of the greatest business turnaround stories of the twenty-first century. Your narrators are Doug Pruitt Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sundt, and Richard Condit, Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer. Both men led Sundt from the front lines during its darkest times, triumphing over extraordinary challenges by implementing solid business fundamentals. For the first time ever, in these pages, Pruitt and Condit reveal the real life story of how one of the most profitable companies in American business fell so fast, and then rose back up from the ashes more successful than ever. What can other businesses, especially in these troubled economic times, learn from the story of Sundt and its remarkable turnaround? In a word: Everything!