Russ Volckmann, Ph.D.

Dr. Russ Volckmann has been an Organization Development Consultant for over twenty years, including twelve years in the division of Consulting, Research and Development of Kaiser Permanente, the world's largest HMO. His practice has included consulting to projects, reorganizations, team building, conflict management, labor-management relations, and inter-organizational relations. In addition, he has provided project management and consulting skills training programs.

His current work focuses on organizational learning, application of complexity theory to organizations, executive coaching, consulting to project management--including coaching, governance structures, strategic partnerships between companies, team building, and planning-- approaches to change management, creating a WOW! service culture, use of dialogue, and the application of pyramid building methodology for generating shared systems learning developed with Prasad Kaipa and Chris Newham through partnership in a consulting firm, The CPR Group (http://www.mithya.com/cpr/cpr.html), based in Campbell, California.

He was the first chair of the Bay Area Organization Development Network and founding Editor of Vision/Action, a professional quarterly journal, for five years. He has consulted to government, non-profit, and business organizations and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Frankfurt, West Germany; the Army Intelligence School at Fort Juachuca, the University of Arizona, Sonoma State University, Golden Gate University, and John F. Kennedy University.

Dr. Volckmann earned a master's degree and doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, in political science. He was a Fulbright Fellow in India. He also did graduate studies in Humanistic Psychology, with an emphasis on application in organizations, at Sonoma State University. His recent publications include articles in Project Management in Health Care (published by the University of San Francisco), and Non-Linear Systems and Organizations: A Somewhat Annotated Bibliography and Enterprise Development: Creating Shared Meaning through Pyramid Building.

  • Choose the Pyramid section on the left for more information on building pyramids and related concepts, including the article: 'Enterprise Development: Creating Shared Meaning through Pyramid Building', by Russ Volckmann, Prasad Kaipa and Chris Newham.

Email Russ Volckmann at russ@leadcoach.com

 

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