Steven C. Van Voorhees is a Kunz and
Company management team member and is an educator, facilitator, and mediator with a 31 year career in Federal service. Mr. Van Voorhees is the team's leader for client services assisting Federal agencies in implementing
alternative dispute resolution systems in contracting and labor-management relations. He served as the facilitator for the Defense Energy Supply Center's examination of contracting authority locations for its global
enterprise and recently provided strategic and technical support for a local union of privatized employees preparing for their second collective bargaining agreement with a successor company.Mr. Van
Voorhees also practices as an organizational development specialist for churches and not-for-profit organizations as well as advising search or discernment committees in faith-based organizations. Currently, he is
assisting a university-based research center with the renegotiation of its Federal contract and its relationship with subcontractors.
Mr. Van Voorhees served for 23 years on the faculty and administrative staff of the
Army Logistics Management College of the Defense Acquisition University. In this role, he was responsible both for teaching and consulting with the Defense Department and other Federal agencies on business
improvement and contract management issues and for the development of original material on project and process management, business planning, labor-management relations, cost benefit analyses, and effective
organizational design. Mr. Van Voorhees taught and consulted extensively on change management and served as a senior level briefer for the Department of Defense on organizational culture change and operational
improvements of several types. As a Dean at the College, Mr. Van Voorhees was also responsible for all aspects of organizational and financial performance and for the assessment, planning, and implementation of several
curriculum initiatives.
Mr. Van Voorhees served as the principal Army school member of the Department of Defense group that established and operated the Acquisition Enhancement Program, which became the model for the
educational management process embodied in the Federal Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act and institutionalized in the Federal Acquisition University. Following passage of the Defense Acquisition Workforce
Improvement Act, Mr. Van Voorhees was assigned to the newly created Defense Acquisition University as part of a small team to develop the organization's structure and functions. Mr. Van Voorhees was also a member of the
Defense Department group that, in 1967, created the policy and procedures for the Federal privatization program (OMB A-76) and was responsible both for the majority of outsourcing studies done in the Federal government
and for the pioneering of many subsequent program innovations.
Mr. Van Voorhees has practiced in and studied the field of government
operations both before and since he entered Federal service. He has
augmented his experiential knowledge with a career-long devotion to the understanding of individual and organizational behavior through his personal studies, consulting, unpaid work in church and community projects, and
in seminars and symposia.
He is a graduate of three Juran Institute Executive Seminars on Quality and the Negotiation Program for Executives at Harvard University. Mr. Van Voorhees is a certified
Myers-Briggs Type Inventory practitioner and is also certified in Interim Ministry and Church and Congregational Development consulting.
Mr. Van Voorhees received a B.A. degree in Public Administration from the
Florida State University.
