Experienced Professional in Consulting and Management

Forty years of consulting experience, with emphasis on strategic management and planning, organization development, and performance improvement:

• Many types of successful projects including executive coaching, business planning, team building, conflict management, organizational changes, mergers, acquisitions, and strategic management
• Work with companies ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to small businesses, and with government organizations at federal, state, and local levels

A Few Examples...
• Planned and facilitated the organizational merger of two companies to form a highly successful $5 billion corporation
• Created an ongoing strategic management process that allowed a large health maintenance organization to increase its membership by 100% and profitability by 300% in four years, while in a highly competitive, turbulent environment
• Helped a corporation turnaround from a worsening $100 million annual loss to profitability within two years
• Helped a law firm turn around from the brink of bankruptcy to debt-free, stable, profitable operation in eighteen months
• Helped develop consensus regarding major system changes for a complex federation of large international financial companies
• Facilitated reorganization and work changes to reduce costs by 10% while improving service in a large public utility

• Vice President, Corporate Strategic Development, Health Net: accountable for strategic management and planning, plus integration and coordination of the distributed product and process development work throughout the corporation
• Vice President of Human Resources, Blue Cross of California: directed three departments with staff of 120 and functions of personnel administration, organization development, consulting, management development, work management (methods) improvement, and training for the corporation
• Several line and program management positions with Rockwell Corporation at Manager to Director level, including extensive interaction with many government agencies while successfully marketing and directing fifteen government contract programs
• Program Manager, General Dynamics Corporation
• Member of four boards of directors

• Involving both individual and group counseling (concurrent with full-time positions; phased out this practice in 2005 to concentrate on consulting and teaching)

Plus Strong Academic Experience

• Full professor, now emeritus, at California State University, Northridge
• Formerly Chair, Department of Management
• Teaching areas include leadership, strategic management, organization development, conflict management & negotiation, decision making and creativity, organizational behavior

• Over fifty publications and conference presentations
• Editor for five years of Consultation: An International Journal

Educational Background

• Ph.D., 1980, management (organizational behavior and change), UCLA
• M.A., 1975, educational psychology (counseling), California State University, Northridge
• Ph.D., 1963, chemical engineering, University of Utah

Some Past and Current Clients

• Atomics International
• Berger & Norton, A Law Corporation
• Blue Cross of California
• Blue Cross of Southern California
• County of Los Angeles (various agencies)
• Excel Corporation
• Harman International
• Health Net
• Health Systems International
• Hot Section Technologies
• JBL, Inc.
• Kaiser Permanente
• Las Virgenes School District
• Los Angeles Department of Water & Power
• Los Angeles Police Department
• MasterCard International
• McDonnell-Douglas
• Newhall School District
• PacifiCare Health Plan
• Precision Products Inc.
• Quidel Corporation
• Rex Enterprises, Inc. (unrelated)
• Rockwell International
• Rogers, Mackey, Price & Anderson, a Law Corporation
• Saint Jude Medical
• Southland Bagel Corporation
• State of California (various agencies)
• United States Government (various agencies)

How to Contact Me