Our primary focus is our Generative Leadership and Coaching Excellence Programs.
We also do consulting engagements with selected clients under the name Enterprise Performance Consulting and draw on a network of leading authorities in their fields to support our program participants and clients.
GENERATIVE LEADERSHIP FACULTY & COACHES
Robert Dunham
Robert (Bob) Dunham, founder of Enterprise Performance, works closely with executives and management teams to design competitive enterprises. He has been developing the content of the Mastering Professional Management (MPM) program since 1981, drawing from his own executive experience, from consulting for companies, and from producing executive and management development programs. Prior to founding Enterprise Performance in 1993, Bob was a Vice President of consulting for Business Design Associates (BDA), an international business process redesign firm. Prior to working with BDA, Bob was Chief Operating Officer for Action Technologies, Inc., and co-holds two patents for their ActionWorkflow technology.
Prior to that he served as Vice President of System Development for Motorola Computer Systems, where he directed the development of three hardward and software system product lines and delivered over one hundred and fifty software product releases to the marketplace. Earlier in his career, he led the on-board software development team for the Hubble Space Telescope for several years.He has trained hundreds of executives and managers, and has authored numerous papers on business and management. In addition to executive and management development, Enterprise Performance also mounts projects with client companies for operational performance improvement based on its body of practice, including Toshiba America, IBM, Discovery Channel, Scholastic, Adobe Systems, Fidelity National, Silicon Valley companies and many others.
Bob has combined communication and language, management practice design, and approaches to embodied action-learning that shift our capacities for action in an integrated approach to building executive and management capability. The program produces embodied learning, rather than just theory, in management and leadership, and draws on the work of Dr. Fernando Flores in language and action, and the work of Dr. Richard Strozzi-Heckler in the discipline of Somatic Leadership. Bob earned two degrees from Stanford University, completed three-years of post-graduate work in Ontological Design, and four years in Somatic Leadership with Strozzi Institute. He is currently Executive in Residence, Adjunct Faculty, and teaches at Presidio School of Management.
Suzanne Zeman, CMSC
Suzanne has been delivering, designing, and producing education, consulting and coaching to bring about change and innovation for over 20 years. She has considerable experience managing, training and coaching high performing teams. Suzanne translates complex theories and ideas into action, and has worked with executives and teams in private industry, the public sector, and non-profit organizations, with individuals and groups as large as 300. She has traveled widely and brings a multicultural perspective to her work.
Prior to joining Enterprise Performance, she worked with the consulting firm Dublin Group. As a senior consultant she handled numerous projects including developing a communications strategy and implementation plan for Philips Consumer Electronics and communication and education strategies for Wendy’s International. Suzanne also organized all of the educational programs to support the North American organizational redesign of Levi Strauss.Suzanne began her career as a research scientist, having received her BS in Chemistry from Rutgers University and her MS in Chemistry from Tufts, where she received a NDEA IV Fellowship. Additional post-graduate work included completing the 3-year Ontological Design Course with Dr. Fernando Flores, certification in Mastering the Art of Professional Coaching, and was designated a Certified Master Somatic Coach from Strozzi Institute.
Marcia Orlowski
Marcia’s business background spans 20 years in the design and implementation of value generating programs. She has leveraged the performance of organizations through coaching people to more effective actions both as individuals and teams. Her core work focuses around coaching people and organizations to develop processes for initiating and managing change that deliver measurable improvement in quality, service, and business performance. She has worked with technology, consulting services, health care, financial services and utility corporations. She has held the positions of vice-president of systems and development for Business Design Associates, an international consulting firm, manager of systems engineering and product marketing for EG&G Wakefield Systems, and senior engineer for RCA Automated Systems.
Recently as director of clinician training and client development for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s nationally recognized program, the Personal Health Improvement Program, Marcia worked with a team formed from three investor health care sector companies. The team developed a comprehensive model for the integration of mind-body based disease management clinician and patient education programs into the delivery of primary care. She has co-authored a study of the business and clinical outcomes of this program that has been implemented in over 25 health care companies.Marcia holds a masters degree in Education and bachelors degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. She is a graduate of the three year Ontological Design Course and has completed three years of training in the discipline of Somatic Coaching and Leadership with Strozzi Institute.
Jan Irene Miller
Jan Irene Miller is a dynamic coach of teams and a successful designer of real world business solutions in multinational markets. Most recently, as the founder and director of Engineering and Industrial Solutions Consulting in North America for Origin, she recruited and led a team of 30 technical consultants who solved product data management issues in companies including Lucent, Dana Spicer, Advanced Design Communications, Coinco, Australia Defense Institute, Lockheed and Philips Consumer Electronics.Teaching and consulting in more than 20 countries, she was recognized by Computerworld Smithsonian Competition for Technical Innovation.
A systematic thinker, she is an expert in the global deployment of information technology. She progressively developed her skills as a Software Programmer, Systems Analyst, Project Manager, Technical Software Consultant, Global Marketing Manager and Director of Professional Consulting in complex IT projects for fourteen years with Control Data, Silicon Graphics and Origin Technology in Business (formerly a Philips Electronics Company). You can see her website at: www.fitforleadership.com
Johanna Klouda
Administrator of GLP and Assistant to Robert Dunham
GLP GUEST SPEAKERS
The following is a short sampling of the guest speakers that have been featured in the Mastering Professional Management (MPM) program.
Richard Strozzi-Heckler, PhD.
Richard Strozzi-Heckler holds a Ph.D. in Psychology, is a 6th Degree black belt in Aikido, and has been teaching somatic coaching, aikido, and leadership over the last twenty-five years. He is co-founder of the Lomi School, Strozzi Institute, and the Two Rock Aikido dojo. He is a successful writer, having published four books including: the classic The Anatomy of Change; In Search of the Warrior Spirit, which chronicles how his teaching helped an Army Special Forces unit dramatically increase its measurable performance; and most recently Holding the Center, Sanctuary in a Time of Confusion.Richard coaches senior executives in embodying new leadership skills. He has worked with executives of companies such as The World Bank, Cemex Corp., AT&T, Cargill, as well as officers in the US Marine Corps, Navy Seals, and Army Special Forces. His approach is based on the somatic (body-action) approach which he outlines in his book The Anatomy of Change.
Richard’s approach enables us to shift our abilities and open up possibilities for new abilities, through awareness and focus on how our bodies enable or prevent capacities for action. Leadership, in this perspective, is the ability to move with others in a way that produces certain results: a compelling vision of the future, trust for the leader and team members, a commitment to excellence, and the ability to produce effective action to fulfill the vision. In Richard’s coaching, we can build our ability to produce these results by shifting the range of leadership actions we can make.Richard offers courses, including Somatics and Leadership, and consults with corporations, businesses, and executive teams. He has worked with thousands of individuals, including CEO’s, managers, gang kids, professional athletes, psychologists and health professionals.
Matthew Budd, MD
Dr. Budd, a past Harvard Medical School professor, has developed an approach for improving health, well-being, and organizational effectiveness based on the interrelationships of language, emotion, action, behavior and the body. His book on this approach, You Are What You Say, has just been released.In twenty-five years of practicing medicine with the Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) Dr. Budd became aware of the those people who have stress or emotionally based physical symptoms but no physiologically identifiable source of their symptoms. He discovered that this population accounts for a majority of people visiting physicians (approximately sixty percent), and is an immense health care problem with little effective response available to physicians.To address this issue, Dr. Budd spent ten years in intensive study in the biology of cognition, linguistics, and emotional patterning, and then developed the Ways to Wellness Program that evolved into the Behavioral Medicine Department at HCHP. The goal of this program and the department itself was to supply a missing dimension in health care, the recognition of and intervention in the emotional aspects of wellness and illness in a way that is integrated, not alternative to main stream health care. The program is a major success with patients improving in their general life-function scores, and their rate of appointments with physicians falling 50%. The program has been reported in more than twenty articles in scientific journals and the press, and in a radio special on PBS. In 1995 the program was produced under the name of the “Personal Health Improvement Program” and is now marketed and delivered nationally by a major pharmaceutical company.
To introduce this approach to the physician community, Dr. Budd and a team from HCHP developed the New Physician Orientation Program in 1990. All new primary care physicians joining the plan were students in this year-long effort which focused on building skills for success in managed primary care practice. In this program he observed first hand the difficulties physicians have in succeeding in managed care environments. He subsequently founded HSC Associates, a consulting and education company organized to enable leadership to align their organization around strategy and build internal skills for delivery.Dr. Budd is a graduate of Amherst College, where he received the Phi Beta Kappa award, and Harvard Medical School, where he was elected to AOA. He trained in Internal Medicine at the University Hospitals of Cleveland and the Massachusetts General Hospital and in Pediatrics at the Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Budd served as clinical Chief of Internal Medicine at HCHP’s Cambridge Center, and twice won the Joseph L. Dorsey award for innovative contributions to the Harvard Community Health Plan. Dr. Budd is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and Assistant Professor of Medicine (ret.) at Harvard Medical School.
James Flaherty
James Flaherty is the author of Coaching – Evoking Excellence In Others (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999). He has devoted his career to organizational development and leadership training in both the corporate and public sectors. His uniquely effective approach to management education is based on discoveries in twentieth-century philosophy and linguistics. His work includes practical applications of the work of such thinkers as Heidegger, Flores, Habermas, Austin and Searle.For more than fifteen years, Flaherty has led workshops in coaching, communication, leadership, and project management for more than 12,000 people. These courses have been conducted for many Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, FMC, Chrysler, Pacific Telesis and Digital Equipment Corporation.Educated at the University of California in psychology and literature, he lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.
Peter J. Denning, PhD.
Peter Denning is Professor of Computer Science and University Coordinator for Process Reengineering at George Mason University. He served previously as vice provost for continuing professional education, associate dean for computing, and chair of the Computer Science Department in the School of Information Technology and Engineering. He is founding director emeritus of the Hyperlearning Center, formerly the Center for the New Engineer, founded in 1993. He was the founding director of the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS) at the NASA Ames Research Center, was co-founder of CSNET, and was head of the computer science department at Purdue.Dr. Denning received a PhD from MIT and BEE from Manhattan College. He was president of the Association for Computing Machinery 1980-82, chair of the ACM publications board 1992-98 where he led the development of the ACM digital library, and is now chair of the ACM Education Board. He has published four books and 260 articles on computers, networks, and their operating systems, and is working on two more books. He holds two honorary degrees, three professional society fellowships, two best-paper awards, two distinguished service awards, the ACM Outstanding Contribution Award, the ACM SIGCSE Outstanding CS Educator Award, and the prestigious ACM Karl Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award.
Ariana Strozzi-Heckler
Ariana is cofounder and CEO of Strozzi Institute. She works with businesses and individuals to develop effective communication processes, generative focus skills, team and leadership competencies, conflict resolution strategies, integrity and trust. She has worked with a variety of professionals including CEO’S, CFO’S, COO’S, therapists, consultants, teachers, small business owners, children, and handicapped adults to integrate the wisdom of one’s presence and leadership into their personal and professional pursuits.Over the last ten years, Ariana has developed the powerful metaphor of working with horses to develop mastery and inter-relational skills. Her Leadership, Somatics & Horses and Somatic Horsemanship seminars focus on developing a centered presence, communication, listening, authenticity, vision, intention, balance and intuition. Horses are great teachers as they reflect back to us moment by moment the strengths and weaknesses of our presence, leadership, and intention.Ariana received her BA in Zoology from UC Davis where she specialized in Animal Behavior Systems and Wildlife Ecology, then working with birds of prey to refine her skills in nonverbal communication and presence. She has worked with horses for over 30 years, winning championships in numerous equestrian events and styles. A former President and Vice President of Petaluma Business & Professional Women, she has managed and owned several businesses prior to RSI.
Richard Ogle, PhD.
Richard Ogle is the founder and president of Southampton Software Inc., a knowledge-management software and business-communications consulting company based in Menlo Park, California. He is a coach in effective thinking and writing ¾ which he shows are linked skills. He currently offers a course in effective thinking and writing called Writing from the Clearing.Dr. Ogle is currently leading a team engaged in developing software designed to facilitate business communication and information retrieval on the Internet. He is currently completing a book on writing and thinking, in addition to his consulting in organizations. He holds a doctorate in linguistics from UCLA, taught linguistics, writing and the language arts for over 18 years at the University of Essex (UK) and the University of California at Davis. His academic publications include articles on language, rhetoric, linguistics, the history of ideas, legal language, bioethics, business communication and business development. He was also editor of the award-winning book Understanding Computers and Cognition by Prof. Terry Winograd (Stanford University) and Dr. Fernando Flores (Action Technologies, Inc.), and most recently, The Living Organization: Transforming Teams into Workplace Communities by Dr. John Nirenberg of the University of Phoenix.
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