William F. Cummings

Dr. William F. Cummings is an internationally known scholar, consultant, teacher and speaker. His multi-faceted career has taken him across the United States, Europe, and the Far East, and inside the world’s most powerful corporations, as well as its most prestigious universities & hospitals.

Dr. Cummings received his high school education in a California Monastery, and then attended the University of Wisconsin where he earned degrees in philosophy and divinity. At Catholic University in Washington, D.C., he received an STL in Theology and an MA in Semitic Languages, followed by extensive doctoral work in Rome, Italy, where he earned his SSB Re Biblica and his SSL Re Biblica from the Pontificium Institutum.

Upon completion of his formal education, Dr. Cummings held teaching positions at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California, Notre Dame, Indiana, and the Monastery in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, before entering the business world with TWA in New York. From 1967 to 1975 he was Manager of Organizational Development for Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco, and from 1975 to 1986, he was Vice President for Charter Medical Corporation in Macon, Georgia.

Dr. Cummings retired from the corporate world in 1986 and launched his own companies: Cummings Consolidated Corporation, and Cummings Management Consultants. Through them, he leads seminars, designs and conducts strategic planning, recruits executives, lectures on leadership and customer service, teaches and coaches business and academic chairmen, presidents, and managers, and produces weekly leadership articles. His clients have included universities, hospitals, and physician groups throughout the world as well as corporations such as Bechtel, GEICO, TWA, GFB, Quaker Oats, KFC, BB&T Bank, 13 WMAZ TV, and Heiberg of Norway.

Dr. Cummings is a past president of Macon Rotary Club, past chairman of the United Way of Macon, and has served on numerous Boards such as Wesleyan College, the Georgia Bar Disciplinary Board, the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism, the Georgia Bar’s Fitness Board, the Georgia Industrial Children’s Home, the Macon and the Forsyth Chambers of Commerce, the Macon Volunteer Clinic, & Medical Billing Resources.

He is the author of more than five hundred published articles on Leadership, more than one thousand TV shows on Leadership and the author of “Behind Your Back”. His new book is called “My Daily Dose”, “a prescription for every working symptom with directions included”.

Dr. Cummings is survived by his wife of 50 years, Ann Conkey Cummings of Forsyth; son, William F. Cummings, Jr. (Bernt Heiberg); daughter, Gena Cummings Howell (Mike); grandchildren, Michael Howell and Austin Howell; brother-in-law, Dr. George Austin Conkey.

A casual reception and celebration will be held from 5:00 until 7:00 PM Thursday, April 19, 2018 at the Morgan View Farm, 34 Shi Road, Monroe County. In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made to the donor’s favorite charity.

Visit www.snowsmemorialchapel.com to express tributes.

Snow’s Memorial Chapel, Cherry Street, has charge of arrangements.