Workshop Facilitator Profile
The course facilitator is an experienced business executive and coach who has been trained to facilitate a wide variety of planning, problem solving, creativity and project leadership processes. He has many years of experience working and consulting in a wide variety of organisations around the world.
The course facilitator is an avid student and has attended training with Santa Clara University, Tulane University, Advanced Practical Thinking (trainer for Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking), The American Supplier Institute (QFD, DOE), W. Edwards Deming, Designed Learning, Eureka Ranch (creativity), GOAL/QPC (Hoshin Planning), Global Business Network (Scenario Planning Facilitator), Hope College (Brain & Learning Institute), Innovation Associates (Leadership & Mastery), Lean Enterprise Institute (Lean Thinking, Leading Lean Thinking), Sandra Janoff and Marvin Weisbord (Future Search) and Juran Quality Institute (Management of Quality).
The course facilitator has cross-cultural experience – over 35 countries in Americas, Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South East Asia.
The course facilitator has earned a B.S. in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in Political Science and Psychology from Williams College.
Prior to 1990 the course facilitator was a Senior Engineering Manager for Intel Corporation and later Director of Corporate Quality and Design Research for Herman Miller.
Partial List of Companies that have Benefited from the Course Facilitator’s Expertise:
- AT&T
- Citibank
- Daimler Chrysler
- Deloitte and Touche
- Fuel Cell Energy
- GE Capital Services
- General Motors
- Herman Miller
- Intel
- M&M Mars
- Mellon Financial Services
- Merck
- PWC
- Prudential
- SAF-Holland
- Schering-Plough
- Steelcase
- United Engineers of Malaysia
- Western Union
Key Benefits for attending this course
- PREPARE yourself and your leadership team to see and act on the future for timely and accurate results
- ANALYSE new ideas and use creative thinking to make better decisions
- UTILISE scenario planning as a structured process that will help you consider alternative futures
- OBTAIN different techniques for a wide variety of business environments that can be applied at different stages of the planning process
- ENSURE successful implementation and execution of strategies by fostering better support for decisions
- CREATE a great strategic team by building their ability to handle conflict and change to avoid issues that derail successful planning sessions
- CONVERT good thinking into a significant competitive advantage
- ACCELERATE company improvement and innovation initiatives by periodically monitoring and reviewing the plan
Who Should Attend
CEOs | MDs | VPs | Directors | Division Heads | Senior Managers | Practitioners
from the industry:
Banking & Finance | Telecommunications | Oil & Gas | Utilities/Energy | FMCG | Pharmaceuticals
from the following division:
Strategic Planning | Corporate Planning | Strategy Management | Business Strategy/Planning | Sales & Marketing | Business Development | Operations | Finance | HR
