Our Partners
Dave Ernsberger
Dave Ernsberger is founder and managing partner of ePartnerships. Founded in 2001, ePartnerships has worked extensively with clients in the United States and Europe. It is a consulting company dedicated to leadership development and sales operations and strategy planning. In recent years ePartnerships has expanded its consulting offerings and services to include Community Planning and Real Estate Management and Planning.Ernsberger founded his consulting practice after a highly successful 32-year career at IBM Corporation, where he was recognized as a highly valued, innovative leader and partner to all of IBM’s customers. His last assignment at IBM was Group Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Support, Technology Group. In this position, his responsibility included worldwide revenue and gross profit for five technology divisions, which included semiconductors, disk drives and storage subsystems, liquid crystal displays, networking technologies, and technology design and integration services. Under his leadership, the Technology Group’s revenues grew from $500 million in 1993 to over $10 billion by the end of 2000. Key accomplishments leading to this extraordinary growth were the building of a highly motivated global organization, a network of business alliances with several of the largest OEMs in the IT industry, and the development of a world-class distribution partner structure.
In late 1996 and 1997, Ernsberger served as Vice President of the Storage Division and had P&L responsibility for the disk drive business line. During this period, the disk drive business line was one of the largest growth and profit contributors in IBM.
Additional assignments during his IBM career included Vice President of the Western U.S., Regional Manager for Texas and New Mexico, Director of Large Systems Marketing for the U.S., and numerous other sales and service leadership positions.
Dave also served as a member of IBM’s Senior Management Group that provided senior direction to all of IBM’s global businesses.
Ernsberger has been a member of the board of directors of Bell Microproducts, Inc. and Skillset Software, Inc. He also serves on numerous boards and committees for local non-profit organizations.
Jim Ehlers
Jim Ehlers worked for IBM for 27 years. He started as a salesman and held several management positions in sales, industry marketing, product marketing, change management, and performance improvement consulting.For 8 years Jim Ehlers also worked for The Coca-Cola System. First he was in The Coca-Cola Company’s Learning Consortium that introduced a senior management competency model and the concepts of Peter Senge’s learning organization.
He also worked as a Division Organizational
Development Director
with Coca-Cola Enterprises focusing on management development, sales training, succession planning and performance management.
Jim created Ehlers Group after retiring from Coca-Cola and has worked on projects with several companies to provide management development, selling, coaching and feedback skill programs. He developed a process for and has created job specific competency models for over 35 jobs. He created competency assessment instruments to collect data for employee development and for creating high leveraged Organizational
Development programs.