Her knowledge of foundational and cutting edge OD approaches has been applied to many industries including financial services, law, retail, bio-tech, food, aerospace, manufacturing and transportation. Lisa has worked with client groups in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, Europe, China, Singapore and Australia.

A popular speaker, she has been invited to present her work at several international conferences. She spoke at the Singapore Institute of Management on Using OD to Impact the Bottom Line and has delivered workshops at the prestigious Melbourne Business School in Melbourne Australia.

Sought after as a developer of high potential talent, Lisa has designed and delivered programs and workshops for participants from all over the world. She specializes in the development of multi-session, experiential learning opportunities set in global locations. These custom-designed programs weave together cutting-edge content and external thought leaders with internal business leaders who demonstrate the importance of leaders as teachers. The result is a high-impact talent development program which produces significant return on the organization’s investment.

While with the nation’s largest electronics retailer, Lisa led the process of cultural due diligence, culture planning and integration for the company’s first acquisition. She used her methods and best practices on subsequent acquisitions - resulting in higher ROI on each purchase. Lisa also led the global OD function for a billion dollar specialty chemical company with operations in 43 countries. She also developed and influenced the change strategy for the largest process and technology transformation project to date and crafted an approach to build change capability within the 100 billion dollar organization.

She has worked as a consultant to numerous Fortune 500 companies and has held positions with Best Buy Co., Inc., Northwest Airlines, Target Corporation and H.B. Fuller. She is an adjunct faculty member for Pepperdine University and Augsburg College where she has taught Organization Development in the MBA program.

Lisa is a founding partner of ROI Consulting and Implementation, an international organization development and management consulting firm. After extensive work with leaders across the globe, ROI identified a need to create a separate area of practice focused on preparing global leaders to lead in a challenging world, and the Center for Transformational Leadership was created.

Areas of Expertise:

• Implementation Effectiveness
• Change Management
• Merger & Acquisition Integration
• Group Dynamics
• Leadership and Organization Assessment
• Systems and Strategic Thinking
• High Potential Leadership Development
• Strategy Development and Execution

Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Central Washington University
• Master of Arts in HRD/OD, University of St. Thomas
• Master of Science in OD, Pepperdine University
• Doctoral Candidate, Tilburg University

Certifications & Faculty Affiliations:

• Augsburg College – Adjunct Faculty, MBA program
• Pepperdine University – Adjunct Faculty, MSOD program
• RODC – OD Insititute

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He has used that experience to help others succeed … internally, as the Director of Change Management for Best Buy, a 50+ billion dollar company with the distinction of being one of the world’s largest electronics retailers.

Part of the ground-breaking Change Implementation Team (CIT) chronicled in the best-selling book Big Change at Best Buy, Terry led the group with responsibility for all CITs nationally. With the added responsibility for the OD department, he led efforts to streamline operations, improve processes, build effective teams and provide executive coaching.

Terry has facilitated cross-functional teams to achieve significant business results. He was an integral part of the acquisition integration team for Best Buy’s first acquisition. Terry established change management functions in the newly acquired business, improving business results dramatically in the first few months.

Bringing his systemic thinking into play, Terry makes connections between business results, the customer environment and the employee experience. He redesigned the retail training efforts of a Fortune 100 company to align training, bring an application-based focus and create follow-up processes for supervisors.

Sought after as a speaker, he has presented at international conferences and actively shares his knowledge with his clients and through his affiliation with the international OD Network and OD Institute and the Association of Change Management Professionals.

Terry is a founding partner of ROI Consulting and Implementation, an international organization development and management consulting firm. After extensive work with leaders across the globe, ROI identified a need to create a separate area of practice focused on preparing global leaders to lead in a challenging world, and the Center for Transformational Leadership was created.

Areas of Expertise:

• Implementation Effectiveness
• Change Management
• Merger & Acquisition Integration
• Culture Change
• Leadership and Organization Assessment
• Systems and Strategic Thinking
• Strategy Development & Deployment

Continuing Education:

Terry completed the Leadership Engine course developed and delivered by renowned leadership expert, Noel Tichy from the University of Michigan. He has worked closely with both Noel and Customer Segmentation expert Larry Selden from Columbia University to implement a customer-focused strategy at Best Buy. Terry’s work helped strengthen leaders through increased business acumen as part of an overall plan to maximize profitability.

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Having worked in both high tech as well as various manufacturing organizations, Deb has experience as an external consultant and as an internal manager. She has managed production, quality, training and organization development departments. Through this path, Deb discovered a passion and innate ability to understand and manage human dynamics while driving business results.

Deb has provided consultation and leadership development for companies around the globe. She is a frequent speaker at ODN and PMI conferences and a guest speaker at the Antioch University McGregor School of Business, Wright State University and University of Dayton.

As a thought partner with senior leaders, Deb quickly reframes a problem and comes up with unique ways to solve difficult business problems. Over the past twenty years, Deb has done extensive work on initiatives such as the creation of a new business unit, the closure of a facility, numerous acquisition integrations, business transformation, global leadership development and cultural transformation.

A graduate of the highly acclaimed MSOD program at Pepperdine University, the focus of her thesis was Improving Acquisition Performance. She also earned a B.A. from Capital University in communication and an Associates degree in Computer Information Systems from Sinclair Community College and holds a Certificate in Organization Development from National Training Laboratories.

Deb is the managing owner of ACT Strategic, an international consulting firm, and is a founding partner of the Center for Transformational Leadership, an organization focused on preparing global leaders to lead in a challenging world.

Areas of Expertise:

• Global Leadership Development
• Talent Management
• Organizational Culture
• Group Dynamics
• Leadership and Organization Assessment
• Systems and Strategic Thinking
• Change Management
• Strategy Development and Execution

Professional Experience:

• Organizational Change Consultant - ROI Consulting
• Organization Development Consultant - Implementation Institute
• Director, Organization Development - NewPage Corporation
• Organization Development Consultant - MeadWestvaco
• Organization Development Consultant - LexisNexis

Education:

• Associate of Arts in Computer Information Systems Sinclair Community College
• Employee Engagement
• Bachelor of Arts in Communication
• Master of Science in OD Pepperdine University

Certifications & Affiliations:

• Organization Development Certificate, National Training Laboratories
• Organization Design, University of Southern California
• Myers Briggs and Insights Personality Styles
• Junior Achievement Board of Directors, Dayton, Ohio chapter
• Capital University

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Angela leverages her broad business background to deliver results, such as improved profitability, increased efficiency and effectiveness, and higher employee engagement. Examples of her work include:

• Led the implementation and measurement of corporate strategy for specialty retailer with over 450 locations. Partnered with CEO and Sr. Leadership to implement strategic plan to drive business results. Focused on change management to ensure all employees understood the corporate strategy and alignment with individual goals and objectives. Delivered financial results and survey results showed an increased understanding of how individual performance impacts business results.
  
  
• Led the planning, development and implementation of organization-wide talent management process to optimize human capital. Focused on all levels of leadership to effectively implement goal and objective setting, pay for performance, employee development and succession planning processes. Results were increased employee engagement and a reduction in turnover.
  
  
• Led organization design and process improvement initiatives for multiple operations functions at a Fortune 100 insurance company. Leveraged six sigma methodology, improved or redesigned business processes, implemented organization structure changes, conducted training and put controls in place to measure and sustain the process improvements. Business results showed improved productivity, quality and customer satisfaction.

Areas of Expertise:

• Strategy Development and Execution
• Organizational Alignment
• Talent Optimization
• Change Management
• Cultural Transformation
• Measurement
• Business Process Improvement
• Strategic Marketing

Education:

• Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, University of St. Thomas
• Master of Business Administration, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

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Mike has had the opportunity to work with clients in a number of industries including health-care, utilities, food, aerospace and manufacturing. Additionally, Mike has worked on-site with global clients in France, China and Australia.

For use as part of the Implementation Effectiveness Methodology, Mike has worked to design, develop and test several change management tools used within a number of client organizations. He has also created and maintained a number of change work plans as well as drafted and maintained a number of other client specific change deliverables such as sponsor plans, communication plans and stakeholder analyses. Additionally, Mike understands the significance of generating leadership commitment for each change initiative to maximize the effectiveness of the change and to garner engagement for the initiative.

Working with a global manufacturing organization, Mike designed and developed content for a global leadership program attended by high-potential leaders. As a result, participants developed their leadership capability and business acumen while being provided with strategies for how to build trust and work in a high performing team. With a focus on experiential learning, Mike is also experienced in developing supporting materials slides, participant materials and facilitator guides to be used with various technological mediums such as WebEx, Articulate and PowerPoint as well as classroom delivery.

Additionally, Mike was a speaker at the 2011 ODN Conference with a presentation titled “Using Social Media for Your Virtual Brand—A Millenial’s Perspective.” As a millennial, Mike provides a unique viewpoint for utilizing social media for consultants looking to set their firm apart from their competition. Mike is also able to provide a fresh perspective as a consultant by understanding how to leverage engagement for an ever-changing workforce and organizations that are looking to accommodate a new generation.

Areas of Expertise:

• Change Management / Implementation Effectiveness
• Systems and Strategic Thinking
• Project ManagementCurriculum Design/Development
• Experiential Learning

Professional Experience:

• Change Consultant/Director of Curriculum Development
  Implementation Institute
• Scholarship Coordinator/Head Coach
  Minnesota Heat Basketball

Education:

• Bachelor of Arts in Sociology
  University of Minnesota—Twin Cities

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David brings with him over 30 years of experience, particularly in Oil and Gas, as a Human Resources generalist and as a Leadership and Organization Development specialist. He is environmentally astute and understands the complex demands of stakeholders, the need for good governance and the increasing requirement for triple bottom line reporting.

David has worked throughout Australasia and lived and worked in Europe, USA, Mexico, South Africa, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Korea, Hong Kong, and China.David has experience working in the following industries – Food and Beverage, Construction, Refining, Insurance, Manufacturing, Marketing, Mining and Professional Football. David’s current clients are drawn from the Oil Distribution, Mining, Utilities and public benefit sectors.

David is a highly experienced Learning and Organization Development professional facilitator with a wide range of Global experience, particularly in Asia. He has deep experience in the development of Organizational Capability, particularly at the leadership level. He has developed Leadership Competency Frameworks, Learning Architectures, and run international high potential programs including assessment design and delivery of assessment centre methodologies. He is clear that strategy is everything and that any organizational and leadership assignment must be in service of the agreed strategy. He is an experienced coach to CEO Level with over 20 years experience in the development of senior leaders.

David has extensive international experience and has worked in public benefits in Australia, the United States and China, increased leadership effectiveness in a British and Italian oil and gas Joint Venture in Indonesia and designed and coached the leadership of a US$6.6bn LNG project in West Papua to transform from construction to operations. Additionally, he has worked to optimize the organization performance and leadership effectiveness of one of Australia's largest Petroleum Distributors, designed and implemented Foundation, Core and Functional Competence for a major Oil and Gas organization and developed an intervention that doubled the number of non-whites in sub Saharan Africa.

Areas of Expertise:

• Facilitation of behavioural change at a group and individual level.
• Strategy Formulation
• Organization Development
• Coaching and feedback
• Organizational Culture
• Understanding how to work effectively in cross cultural settings – particularly in Asia
• Leadership Development – Program design, delivery, evaluation and direction
• Formulation of organizational competence and supporting learning architecture
• Talent Management – acquisition, retention and leadership assessment

Education:

• Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Business Studies
• Graduate Diploma – Human Resources Administration
• Master of Science in OD, Pepperdine University

Certifications:

• Accredited in Myers Briggs – Extended Analysis, FIROB and Belbin

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Stacey leads initiatives with a focus on delivering practical solutions. Three examples of her work include:

• Led organization design initiatives for multiple business and staff functions at a Fortune 100 manufacturing company. With a focus on alignment and optimization of resources to drive business results, design work included: sales and marketing of $1.1 billion transportation business, sales and marketing of $100 million healthcare business, marketing of $600 million consumer business, Accounting and Engineering organizations.
  
  
• Led the Change Management activities for an acquisition integration initiative of a global $500 million business at a Fortune 100 manufacturing company. Created and executed a change strategy that focused on the organization, culture and people transition. Created global frameworks to support organization alignment, assessment and selection of talent, cultural understanding and action planning, and leadership and organization assimilation. Facilitated cultural focus groups with acquired and acquiring company leaders to build understanding of each organization’s cultural strengths and determine areas to integrate or maintain to achieve acquisition ROI.
  
  
• Managed the development and communication of a variable compensation program aligned with organizational goal achievement. Created communications strategy that included online training materials and messages on how employees could impact the results through their daily work achievements. Continuously communicated status of program results and highlighted employee performance in the organization that positively impacted the overall payout. Feedback showed an increased employee understanding of how daily performance impacts variable compensation.

Stacey maintains long-term relationships with her clients because of the results she delivers. She has worked as a consultant with multiple Fortune 100 companies and has held positions with 3M, The Hartford, and Navitaire (an Accenture Company).


Areas of Expertise:

• Organizational Alignment
• Talent Optimization
• Human Capital Measurement
• Cultural Transformation
• Change Management
• Merger and Acquisition Integration
• Strategy Development and Execution

Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Economics and Business, University of Minnesota
• Master of Business Administration in Strategic Management, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

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