Following 10 years with IBM, half of which was in IBM Canada’s Customer Executive Education group, I joined the DMR Group (now Fujitsu Consulting), to initiate the firm’s executive consulting practice, and launch the firm’s education and training business. The curriculum of The DMR Institute included general management skills, leadership, and professional development, as well as technical skills programs. The audiences included both employees and customers, and extended geographically across Canada, the United States, Australia, and Europe.
I left DMR in 1989 to set up an independent practice (now CYOR Inc.) concentrating on facilitating the development of business strategy in client organizations. At that stage, most of my clients were in the Financial Services and Health Care sectors.
In late 1990, I joined with three other senior practitioners to form Johnston Smith International (now Mercer Delta), established its Strategy practice, and continued to design and deliver management training programs. Here the concentration was on formulating corporate and business unit strategy leading to major change management assignments for the Firm.
In mid-1998, I left Johnston Smith to return to independent practice, concentrating on facilitating strategic sessions for public and private sector clients.
Over the past five years I have been working with colleague Julia Gluck formulating a unique and powerful approach to creative problem solving and the pursuit of strategic opportunities. The insights are the distillation of over 25 years of exposure to people in facilitated sessions and training environments, and define the practices that allow personal creative energy to flow freely. Using techniques embodied in The Energy Exchange™ teams produce richer solutions faster, and improve their mutual understanding and collaboration in the process.