About Wade

Wade Younger, CSP CEO of The Value Wave, Fruition Performance Management, Portinar, and Youthapedia has written over 30 books and has made personal and organizational wellness his life’s work.

Over the past 16 years Wade has given over 1,800 talks, so he is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on organizational development and process improvement. He has been teaching, lecturing, and consulting since 1990, and is known for his approaches to difficult leadership issues. His stories are hypnotic. His methods are about results.

Younger founded Fruition Consulting Inc., in 1990 to focus exclusively on organizational wellness issues. His research is documented in two major studies: “Structural Piloting,” and “The Internal Economy, A Market Approach.” Younger has implemented Structural Piloting in several diverse corporate and public-sector organizations.

In 2004, Wade went on the create Portinar, an online training tool to provide a mobile learning solution for people on the go.

In 2008, Younger founded Youthapedia. Youthapedia represents the world’s largest collection of living skills products for children which teaches them how to handle tough situations, responsibility and behavior through stories, activities, coloring and multimedia.

And most recently in 2011 Younger created, The Value Wave. The Value Wave is a methodology that connects People Development, Business Processes, Change Management and Lean Six Sigma to drive results in all areas of a sustainable business. It is an Integrated Performance Improvement System.

He is an accredited project manager and Six Sigma practitioner with experience developing solutions and managing implementation, methodologies, execution requirements, enterprise deployment plans, project strategies and quality assurance. He has led projects involving web-site design solutions for several Fortune 500 companies.

Wade resides in Charlotte, North Carolina.

How I started Fruition Consulting