Our Consultant TeamOur team is composed of experienced organization development, systems thinking/strategy, and social change consultants with a deep understanding of how to foster profound transformation in organizational and social life. They are highly skilled at partnering with leaders and teams at all levels and in all types of organizations and systems.
Individual consultants specialize in executive coaching, process redesign, executive team development, training design, culture change, sustainability, multi-sectoral relationships, lean production and project management. Managing Partners
Consultants
Social Change Advisors
Ned Hulbert
In addition, Ned has worked extensively with smaller companies making crucial transitions and with public sector clients, including Peace Corps, Social Security, the FAA and local governments. He is active in an international NGO that is developing collaborative projects between government, private sector and civil society organizations. Ned also has consulted to independent schools. Mary Day Mordecai
Prior to joining Growing Edge, Mary Day designed and managed executive development training programs for Boston University School of Management. For several years, she was an instructor with Outward Bound, specializing in experiential courses for managers and executives. In addition, Mary Day has significant experience with not-for-profit organizations, both as a trustee and as an organization development consultant. Jim Ritchie-Dunham
Prior to joining Growing Edge, Jim founded Strategic Clarity in 1994 while teaching decision sciences and operations research at the ITAM in Mexico City. He is co-author of Managing from Clarity: Identifying, Aligning and Leveraging Strategic Resources. Jim also designs and leads executive training seminars on strategic decision-making and collaborative systems thinking. His clients have included executive teams of A.T. Kearney, CARE, Intel, NSA, PetroleosMexicanos, Royal Dutch/Shell, Society for Organizational Learning, and Thorlo.
In addition, Jim is an associate of the Psychology Department at Harvard University. Previously he was a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a professor of operations research and decision sciences at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), an advisor to the Mexican Secretary of Health, and a petroleum engineer at Conoco. Conrado Garcia Madrid
In recent years, Conrado has specialized in managing multi-stakeholder projects using dialogic techniques to bring together the perspectives of different actors involved with the organization, helping the development, communication and implementation of the strategy. Recent projects include large schools and water systems.
Additionally, Conrado has designed and presented executive education programs and conferences in México, USA, Canada, England, Turkey, Holland, Ecuador and Venezuela. Andrew Leaf
As Vice President for Development at Thomas Blodgett Associates, Andy was responsible for design, development, and delivery of sales, sales management, negotiating skills and related training programs. Additionally, Andy has had extensive experience in education, both in instructional and administrative roles, and remains actively engaged in educational reform. In recent years he has consulted to a number of independent schools on leadership and organizational issues. Michael McCann
As a graduate of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland's Organization and Systems Development program, he is a keen observer of systems at many levels including individual, interpersonal, group, organization and larger (multi-sectoral) systems. Michael specializes in Appreciative Inquiry, a remarkably positive approach to large-scale systems change. He is currently coaching senior executives in collaboration with the renowned Marshall Goldsmith. Annabel Membrillo Jimenez
Annabel has extensive experience coordinating and managing multidisciplinary teams in projects in different sectors of the public arena, such as: community development programs, light and power companies, water management systems, among others, developing long-term relationships.
Prior to joining GEP, Annabel was Coordinator and founding member of the Society for Organizational Learning (SOL) Mexico chapter, where she organized and managed large-scale events, inviting personalities such as Peter Senge and Arie DeGeus. Adam Pattantyus
In addition to having served as a Captain in the US Army, Adam holds Industrial Engineering degrees and an MBA. Adam has been a founding board member of New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility and Treasurer for Sustainable Step New England. Luz Maria Puente
Luz Maria teaches strategic management courses at the Anahuac University in Mexico City and has co-authored several articles on strategic management. Previously, she worked for Banamex, developing the use of futures and options as a risk management tool for export-import companies in Mexico. She also worked in Citibank trading emerging markets debt instruments. Hal Rabbino
Hal teaches executive education courses in strategy through the Anahuac University in Mexico and George Washington University. He has published numerous articles on strategic management in industry journals. He is co-author of Managing from Clarity: Identifying, Aligning and Leveraging Strategic Resources. Hal is bilingual, teaching and coaching in both Spanish and English. He previously worked with Arthur D. Little International for both public and private sector clients in the consumer goods,manufacturing, energy and public health industries. Orland Bishop
Orland is co-founder and Executive Director of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation in Los Angeles, California, a unique organization devoted to the mentoring of young people and the creation of communities to support them. Orland personally counsels and guides dozens of young people at any given time and uses the core idea of “genius to genius” mentoring which helps to reveal the inherent gifts in each individual while seeking ways for each to live productively and originally in the world.
Through ShadeTree, Orland has pioneered approaches to urban truces and working with at-risk youth that combine indigenous wisdom and practices with contemporary methodologies designed to mentor the human potential and create intentional communities. He focuses on processes that support people to come into deeper inner and collective agreements in order to heal violence and social exclusion. Orland is completing a book on the first ten years of his mentorship and community-building work, soon to be published by Steiner Books. Nicanor Perlas
Nicanor travels extensively internationally, giving lectures, seminars and workshops on globalization, sustainable development, social movements strategy, and on the vital link between spiritual development and planetary transformation. He has also authored over 100 monographs and articles on these themes and others including philosophy of science, strategic governance, epistemology and the second scientific revolution. At the same time, he has retained his local roots and provides strategic guidance to Lifebank’s micro-credit initiative for the poor which has reached 23,000 microentrepreneurs on the island of Panay.
Nicanor advocates ‘threefolding’, in which business, government and civil society are recognized as distinct organizing realms which can join efforts, where feasible and appropriate, to solve major world problems. This theme and civil society’s power to change the world is the subject of his most recent book, Shaping Globalization: Civil Society, Cultural Power and Threefolding, (2000), which has been translated in nine languages.
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