Fielding Graduate University

Areas of Instruction:

• Evidence Based Coaching Program

Scholarly & Professional Interests:

• Executive & Individual Coaching
• Organization Effectiveness
• Leading Organizational Change
• Leadership Assessment
• Leadership Effectiveness

Professional Memberships:

• International Coach Federation

Honors and Awards:

• Exxon Education Foundation Scholar

Publications:

• Understanding Organizational Innovation: A Naturalistic Approach. Doctoral dissertation; The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1987.
• "Three Steps to Increasing Supervisory Success," Management Solutions, a publication of the American Management Association, Vol. 32, No. 1, 1987.
• "Using the Employee Attitude Survey to REALLY Increase Organizational Effectiveness." Presentation made at the 24th annual National Conference of the National Society for Performance and Instruction, San Francisco, California, 1986.
• "Avoiding the Pitfalls in Conducting a Culture Audit," Performance & Instruction, Journal of the National Society for Performance and Instruction, Vol. 24, No. 10, 1986.
• "Reaping the Real Rewards of Employee Surveys," TRAINING, The Magazine of Human Resources Development, Vol. 22, No. 11, 1985.

Presentations:

• "Appreciative Coaching: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Increase Executive Coaching Effectiveness," presentation made to ICF Phoenix Chapter, January, 2012.
• "Training: the $10Billion Waste (or 'How to Use Executive Coaching to Significantly Increase the Effectiveness of Training')," presentation to SHRM Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, September 2004.
• "The Changing Role of Human Resources." Arizona State University West, "Executives in Residence Program," Phoenix, Arizona, fall 1999.
• "Managing Organizational Change: The Human Side." Presentation made to American Productivity & Quality Center, San Antonio, Texas, 1998.
• "Strategic Approaches to Cultural Change." Presentation made at Infocast's Utility Cultural Change Institute, San Diego, California, 1997.
• "Leadership and Culture Change." Presentation made at the annual Human Resource conference of the Western Electric Power Institute, Park City, Utah, 1996.

Professional Experience:

• Corporate Leader/ Executive – Intermountain Health Care; Hughes Aircraft Company; Pinnacle West Capital Corporation
• OD/Leadership Development Consultant – experience with clients in various sectors: utilities, health care, pharmaceutical, insurance, government
• Executive Coach – experience working with business leaders in numerous organizations