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.
Email Russ Volckmann at russ@leadcoach.com