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Expert Instruction
Ed Katz - Entrepreneur, Inventor, Author, Teacher
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Ed Katz has changed the way businesses move. He realized early on that office moving is a service; give the customer superior service and they'll be back. Minimize the disruption, damage, and downtime normally associated with moving -- let them stay in business -- and moving becomes a painless experience.
His training programs & seminars offered through the International Office Moving Institute help moving companies, furniture dealers, and project managers
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Ed Katz
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develop or improve their commercial moving business, and help inhouse move crews improve service quality.
Ed Katz has spent more than 30 years listening to customers and developing methods and tools to either minimize moving complaints or eliminate them altogether. Better still, he's willing to share what he has learned.
When Ed Katz founded Peachtree Movers in Atlanta, GA, he moved furniture like every other mover. And heard the same complaints. Moving means packing and unpacking and everyone hates it. Besides the drudgery and inevitable lost and mixed-up files, productivity comes to a complete standstill. The customer is out of business. To add insult to injury, the mover damages walls, floors, and furniture getting to the truck. Haphazardly stacked on the moving van, many items such as glass, framed art work, and computers undergo a beating in transit and emerge at the new location marred or broken, sometimes worse. After the move, the customer feels as battered as his or her belongings.
But Ed Katz took customer complaints seriously and began developing methods and tools to eliminate or minimize the grievances. To minimize damage, Katz devised protection systems for building surfaces and sensitive electronic equipment. To minimize office disruption, he developed moving methods that allow customers access to records and files right up to the time they're rolled out the door. To his customers' delight, Katz began moving the contents in the furniture rather than the contents and the furniture, and thus the "boxless" move was born. By virtually eliminating the costly downtime of packing, his customers stayed in business and loved it.
Moving "boxless", using his patented Spider Crane® and Space Gobblers™ combination, gave companies planning a move a green-tech option never before available. Katz realized that his unlikely sounding devices were not only smart for business by saving customers time and money but the process is environmentally-friendly, with fewer truck loads burning less gas and less packing materials thrown away after the move.
In 1996, Peachtree Movers was chosen "Number 1" in both updating the industry and customer satisfaction by the National Moving and Storage Association. Shortly before Katz sold Peachtree Movers in 2000, it received the Consumer's Choice Award for Best Office Mover in Atlanta. His methods, techniques, and inventions have been featured in numerous trade journals, business magazines, and the Wall Street Journal. Katz's innovations have brought him international recognition, and the unofficial title of guru of office moves.
As a first-time author, Katz was chosen Distinguished Author of the Year for 1999 by the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) for Commercial Relocation: A Comprehensive Guide for Industry Professionals & Service Buyers. Katz produced Moving Computers, his first self-paced, multimedia training CD in 2000, and two years later released his second book, Office Moving for Movers. His latest work, Move Your Business (Without Becoming A Moving Target) was published in 2004.
Katz holds a master's degree in urban renewal and city planning from the University of Pittsburgh, and spent four years as a Wall Street stock broker and investment counselor before moving to Atlanta to sell commercial real estate. It was the horror stories of building landlords that introduced him to office moving.
For all his success and achievements as a businessman, inventor, and author, Ed Katz is most passionate about teaching. A natural behind the podium, Katz receives rave reviews as keynote speaker, guest lecturer, and training instructor for his fresh enthusiasm and his ability to motivate and inspire an audience. Despite what would seem to be a painfully dry subject, for tens of thousands of industry professionals, a session with Ed Katz has been a truly unforgettable experience.
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College advisory council elects Katz president
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MAY 9, 2008 -- The Continuing Education Advisory Council for Georgia Highlands College in Cartersville, GA has elected the head of the International Office Moving Institute (IOMI) as its president for the coming year.
Cartersville resident Ed Katz, who founded the world's only university of office moving in 1997, will head up the 20-member council chartered to help Georgia Highlands, a unit of the University System of Georgia, develop training and classes most needed by business and industry in the college's northwest Georgia service area.
"The council is a very active group, they help organize and put on training such as our leadership certificate, a 10-module program designed to enhance local workforce skills and the recent seminar for human resources professionals," said George White of the college's Continuing Education department. The council was organized in 2002 and coordinates with college staffers to support community needs.
As head of the Advisory Council, Katz plans to further the progress already achieved in bringing quality business training to northwest Georgia.
"My goal is to find out the specific needs of the community and open up the college to involve more businesses to develop seminars and courses that would benefit the workforce," Katz said. "We will continue to provide very affordable programs such as how to supervise, resolving conflicts in the workplace, and computer skills for those entering the workplace or retraining." According to White, tremendous growth over the past several years in |
the college's service area is expected to continue.
Katz, a businessman, entrepreneur, author and inventor with a passion for teaching, is founder and former chairman of Peachtree Movers in Atlanta, GA. He developed and holds numerous patents on devices used by the moving industry and products to protect office building surfaces.
His moving methods, techniques, and inventions have been featured in numerous trade journals, business magazines, and the Wall Street Journal. Katz's innovations including The Boxless Move® have brought him international recognition, and the unofficial title of guru of office moves. As a first-time author, Katz was chosen Distinguished Author of the Year for 1999 by the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) for Commercial Relocation: A Comprehensive Guide for Industry Professionals & Service Buyers. Katz produced Moving Computers, his first self-paced, multimedia training CD in 2000, and two years later released his second book, Office Moving for Movers. His latest work, Move Your Business (Without Becoming A Moving Target) was published in 2004.
For all his successes and achievements, Katz is most passionate about teaching. A natural behind the podium, he's a much-sought-after keynote speaker, guest lecturer, and moving industry training instructor. He holds a master's degree in urban renewal and city planning from the University of Pittsburgh, and was a Wall Street stock broker and investment counselor before moving to Atlanta to sell commercial real estate.
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