Around 1943 Bird founded his own firm, Dillard E. Bird Associates, consultants to management in Cincinnati, Ohio. Among others he was expert for the United States Office of the US High Commissioner for Germany in 1937, the National Wholesale Druggists' Association in 1949,National Wholesale Druggists' Association (1949). N.W.D.A. Year Book. p. 110 and the SEE Foremanship Foundation in Dayton, Ohio in 1951.
