Anne Murray Allen, founder of the consulting firm, AMA Associates, is dedicated to working with clients in building healthy performance-based organizations.  She is also Contributing Assistant Professor and Director, Executive Development Center for Willamette University's MBA program.

Anne has spent her career pursuing the questions “How does work really get done?”,  “How do people come together to accomplish extraordinary results?”, and “How do we create and sustain healthy performance-based organizations?”  Since 2005, she has helped numerous clients pursue these topics and build effective organizations that thrive in today’s complex global business environment.

Before founding her business, Anne spent over 16 years at Hewlett Packard Company in a variety of professional contexts.  As the senior director of Knowledge and Intranet Management, she was responsible for companywide knowledge management and collaboration tools.  While director in the Strategic Change Office, she led the successful cultural integration of Compaq and HP.  As the worldwide business IT manager for Inkjet Printing Systems, she implemented major platforms to run business processes across the Imaging and Printing Group.  Her experience in manufacturing management extends into the mining and construction industry.  Anne holds an M.B.A. from the University of Denver and a B.A. from Manhattanville College

Email: amallen@willamette.edu
Website: http://www.willamette.edu/agsm/faculty_directory/allen.htm

Dr. Corey Billington is a founding partner of e3 associates, a professional services firm specializing in supply chain, procurement and logistics. He is also Professor of Operation Management and Procurement at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, and also president of the Procurement Sciences Institute. In March 2007, the Production and Operations Management Society selected Corey as the 2007 winner of the Martin K. Starr Excellence in POM Practice Award. Corey is the former Vice President of Supply Chain at Hewlett-Packard. Corey revolutionized the supply chain in the HP printer business. Previously, he worked at IBM, Raychem Corporation, and Kinetics Technologies International. He has published articles in Sloan Management Review, Operations Research, Interfaces, Omega, OR/MS Today and CiME and has acted as an associate editor for IIE Transactions. Previously, Corey was a consulting professor in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at Stanford University. Corey holds a B.S. in engineering management from Claremont McKenna College and B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University

Email: corey.billington@e3associates.com

Lynda Davis is the founder of Strategic Crossroads, LLC.  In her consulting practice, she works with clients world-wide to facilitate their success in Customer-Focused Strategic Planning, Social/Large-Scale Change Initiatives, Leadership / High Performing Teams,  and Conscious Business Creation.  In her Leadership and Transpersonal Coaching practice, Lynda awakens individuals to step into authentic leadership to act with greater responsibility, integrity, and courage to achieve their goals and dreams.

Lynda has worked with CEOs, presidents, and their staffs to deliver successful business results for fortune 500 companies, NGOs and social profit organizations such as Hewlett Packard, ING Bank Amsterdam, FXB International Geneva, Syngenta Seed, Micron, South Dakota Achieve, and the Idaho Non-Profit Center.

Her past experience includes 25 years of business management and consulting experience with leadership roles spanning multiple functions including Marketing, R&D, Customer Experience Management, Quality, and Consulting.   She is a certified Integral Coach and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management with extended learning in Systems Thinking, Personal Mastery and Coaching.  She was a founding member of the Society of Organizational Learning, working closely with MIT, world-class consultants and leaders of Fortune 100 companies to develop and apply new processes for Systems Thinking, Appreciative Inquiry, World Café, and group Dialogue and was instrumental in creating customer-focused business processes in Hewlett Packard.

Lynda’s passion is to work with leaders in and across organizations to move beyond the illusionary beliefs and systems that keep them stuck; resulting in transformational shifts in awareness, effectiveness, and a deepening in their relationship to themselves and to their calling -- thus allowing them to increase their positive impact in the world.

Email: Lynda@strategiccrossroads.com
Website: http://www.strategiccrossroads.com

Dr. Shari Duron divides her time between consulting in a variety of sectors and teaching strategic and change management at Humboldt State University. Dr. Duron applies a grounded teaching approach, based on 20+ years as a senior strategy consultant at Hewlett-Packard as well as a manager & senior consultant with Lockheed Martin Corporation.

Dr. Duron has been an external consultant and managing partner for several, boutique consulting companies. She specializes in strategic thinking & development, scenario planning, organizational change and leadership development and has focused her recent efforts on local community businesses, primed for innovation and growth. Her book – Thinking Strategically in Turbulent Times: An Inside View of Strategy Making – highlights the strategic concerns of leadership in three major organizations: Los Angeles County, California State University and Hewlett-Packard. She has delivered papers at a variety of professional conferences and contributed to strategy-related articles in Organizational Dynamics and to publications with the Corporate Executive and Strategy Boards.

Dr. Duron has advanced degrees from UCLA (School of Public Policy) and Golden Gate University (Organizational Behavior & Management). Her doctoral research focused on downsizing impacts on productivity in Silicon Valley.

Email: sad30@humboldt.edu

Bob Horenstein is a founding partner of e3 associates. Bob has over 30 years experience in a variety of strategic and operational roles with a focus on professional services. As a Silicon Valley veteran, he has worked with startups, mid-size and large companies in locations around the world. He has broad management experiences ranging from Information Technology, and Software, to R&D, Quality Engineering, and Consulting. His teams at Hewlett-Packard pioneered the development of leading-edge customer design, customer loyalty, and customer experience strategy methods. He also designs and leads large group strategy acceleration events. Bob holds a B.S. in business from San Jose State and M.A. in information systems from University of Northern Colorado.

Email: bob.horenstein@e3associates.com

A strategist and coach, Kathleen Hosfeld has designed strategies, brand and marketing programs to build bridges of trust, loyalty and mutuality between clients and their customers.  Using research-based customer insights and team strategy processes, she has helped companies, as one client said “do a great deal more than we expected and achieve unexpectedly positive results.” Her clients include Fortune 500 and middle market companies, social venture and non-profit organizations. Prior to founding Hosfeld & Associates in 1989, she held positions with Ogilvy & Mather specializing in financial services marketing. She has since contributed to the Center for Ethical Leadership’s study, “The Leadership of Sustainability.”

With Jenny Mish she wrote "Marketing Before and After Sustainability," a summary of best practices beyond "green marketing." She is author of Listening | A Strategy and Marketing blog where she writes about the emerging model of marketing practiced by high-performing sustainable organizations.  She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Pacific Lutheran University.

Website: http://www.hosfeld.com/

Dr. Michael Menke is the president of Value Creation Associates, a firm assisting clients optimize the front end of the value chain:  generating, evaluating, selecting and implementing/acquiring the opportunities that will create maximum shareholder value.  Formerly, he was a Fellow of Knowledge Management at Decision Strategies Inc. assisting a wide range of companies with strategy, decision making and portfolio management.   Before that he was the chief portfolio advocate for HP, advising executives and working teams at all levels and in all segments of HP on strategy development, portfolio management, decision making and new business creation.  Before joining HP he was a founding partner of Strategic Decisions Group, a consultancy where many of the portfolio management approaches in use today by leading companies were initially developed.  He has consulted with Alcoa, Amgen, AT&T, Bayer, Boeing, CIBA-Geigy, DuPont, Exxon, Ford, GlaxoSmithkline, HP, IBM, J&J, Kodak, Lilly, Mitsubishi, Novartis, Owens-Corning, Pfizer, Roche, Shell, Sumitomo Electric, Texas Instruments, Unilever, Xerox et al. on strategy, major decisions and/or portfolio management. 

 He is co-chair of the IEEE standards working group on Strategic Enterprise Decision Management, is a founding member of the Enterprise Portfolio Management Council and has been on the program committee of the PDMA/IIR Strategic & Operational Portfolio Management conference for 7 years.  In addition Dr. Menke has been an invited speaker at dozens of international conferences on portfolio management, innovation, R&D/technology and business strategy and decision making over the past 25 years.  Dr. Menke has a Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford, an M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Cambridge and an A.B. in Physics from Princeton University.

Email: mmenke@value-creation.com

With over 25 years of global business innovation experience, Mike Northcott balances his personal consulting work with philanthropic fundraising.  A lifelong pragmatist, Mike strives to cut through the Gordian knots of jargon and operational complexity that slow decision-making and the delivery of results. Having worked across almost every business function, from sales to supply chain operations, he has developed an appreciation for the cultures and languages that make up a company. His areas of concentration are in strategy development, large group alignment, and new business opportunity development.  

In addition to his consulting work, Mike has extensive personal experience leading and managing teams to success. This hands-on experience informs his consulting engagements and allows him to guide his clients from concepts through implementation. Clients have included international high-technology businesses in computing, medical equipment, as well as NFL franchises.

In his career Mike has lived and worked in Europe, Asia Pacific, and North America. His philanthropic endeavors take him to China on a regular basis. A trained medical technician, Mike will happily remove your appendix if better-qualified medical assistance is unavailable.  

Email: mbnpdx@gmail.com

Eric Smuda is a founding partner of ResearchLink Partners, a customer knowledge consultancy. He has more than 18 years of market research experience, primarily in the high tech, telecommunications and energy industries, and has held senior leadership positions as both a supplier and a client. His areas of expertise include: customer and employee satisfaction, brand equity and development, new product development and market sizing and segmentation. He has successfully linked operational metrics, employee and customer experience and brand equity metrics to financial outcomes thereby helping companies become more profitable through becoming more customer-centric.

Prior to forming ResearchLink Partners, he led the Technology Group for Market Strategies. Previously he formed a corporate market research function for Duke Energy, where his efforts focused on extending Duke's brand equity to various new product launches. Prior to that Eric served as Compaq’s director of worldwide customer research. Eric and Ron collaborated on the design and creation of HP’s worldwide Total Customer Experience organization during the HP-Compaq merger. Eric is a RIVA-trained moderator and has completed Black Belt process improvement training. He earned his MBA and BBA in Marketing at Southern Methodist University.

Email: eric.smuda@researchlinkpartners.com
Website: http://www.researchlinkpartners.com

Chris Soderquist is the founder and President of Pontifex Consulting, an organization committed to helping individuals, teams, and organizations in building their capacity to develop strategic solutions to complex issues.  Chris uses his extensive experience in Systems Thinking/System Dynamics, group facilitation, communication skill development, and statistical/process analysis—integrating the “hard stuff” and the “soft stuff”—to facilitate the development of solutions that are effective and actionable.  For over 15 years, he has worked with Fortune 1000 companies, international development organizations, national and state government organizations, and communities to help them better achieve the future they desire. 

Chris has been a member of the curriculum development team for Integral University’s Business and Leadership Center, and delivered a session on Integral System Dynamics at the Integral Sustainability Seminar.  He is a contributing author to The Change Handbook (Berrett-Koehler, 1999) and has published several features in The Systems Thinker.  Chris has facilitated two webinar series for isee systems (developers of the system dynamics software iThink and STELLA) to help their clients build more effective “systems models” for organizational improvement.

Email: chris.soderquist@pontifexconsulting.com
Website: http://www.pontifexconsulting.com

David Wong is Managing Partner of Integrated Execution, LLC. David enables business leaders to effectively and efficiently execute strategies across their organizations and value chains while balancing customer and business priorities. His consulting expertise is focused in the areas of defining the total customer experience (TCE) and the associated value delivery system (VDS) to support it, leading large-scale process improvement and re-engineering initiatives, and solutions lifecycle development and implementation. He has 23 years of experiences at Hewlett Packard leading large business transformation efforts resulting in millions of dollars of savings, and has consulted with other Fortune 1000 companies as well.

David is a patent holder on a leading-edge value chain requirements management process that translates customer requirements into clear and actionable business requirements across complex value chains. He is co-patent holder on several customer experience related processes. He has presented at many conferences on value chain improvement, customer experience definition, and systems thinking applications. He has extensive experience in applying systems thinking tools to understand and reduce the complexity of business systems.

Email: dave@integratedexecution.com
Website: http://www.integratedexecution.com