Management Consultants Forum                          Dallas Fort Worth Chapter

   
April 21st, 2008

Effects of Company Culture
on Strategic Efforts

Help your clients identify challenges
and underdeveloped potential

The culture of an organization often determines the level of success that can be achieved. What is the ideal vision required to propel an organization to high performance?

How do you develop sustainable, profitable growth strategies that are scalable to meet the needs of any size client?

This month’s forum, highlights the Pacific Institute and its work with Fortune 500 companies as well as major international organizations. You will hear examples of rapidly accelerating cultural effectiveness within businesses large and small.

Mark your calendar and register right away for what promises to be a mind-expanding Forum!

MAKE SURE YOUR CLIENTS LEARN ABOUT VITAL LABOR TRENDS FROM YOU !

Some thoughts on Company Culture

"Be selective. Keep your mind available for critical information, on which you will be required to act."
Rosemary McMahon, World Health Organization

"Organizational culture is built in countless small ways, on a daily basis. The manager's interactions with others all help establish the norms about what is valued and how things are done." David L. Bradford, Stanford University

"Experience tells you only so much about a company; its culture tells more..." Deal & Kennedy, Harvard Business School

"Culture is a pattern of basic assumptions-invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration."
Edgar Schein, M.I.T.

"The first EDSer to see a snake kills it. At GM, the first thing you do is organize a committee on snakes. Then you bring in a consultant who knows a lot about snakes. Third thing you do is talk about it for a year." H. Ross Perot

MAKE SURE YOU ARE AWARE OF THE LATEST IDEAS IN COMPANY CULTURE AND STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT!

"Get smart, get known, and get business!" Network, enjoy the informal interchange with professional colleagues, and come prepared to challenge the speaker with your probing questions.

Please note the new venue for our Management Consultant's Forum. We are now meeting at the Doubletree Hotel - 4099 Valley View Lane, Dallas (North I-635 frontage road west of Midway).

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Leif Johnson
Senior Managing Director of Business Alliances, Pacific Institute, Seattle, Washington

"Innovative" "Dynamic" and Vibrant", are a few terms equated with Leif Johnson. As Senior Managing Director of Business Alliances for The Pacific Institute, Leif’s high-energy presentations model a commitment and passion to the performance enhancement process of The Pacific Institute’s curricula.

Leif has worked successfully with Fortune 500 companies as well as international companies. By helping organizations identify challenge areas and the under-developed potential within those organizations, Leif is proven to mentor success and high performance.

Leif focuses on delivering profitable organizational growth strategies that are sustainable and scalable. He has a track record of rapidly accelerating measurable cultural effectiveness in various sized businesses. Results are accomplished by focusing organizations toward the goals and needed changes that bring positive leadership and organizational outcomes. Skilled and knowledgeable at coaching world-class senior executives and leadership teams, the processes used by Leif and The Pacific Institute identify the ideal vision required of a high performance organizational culture, as well as identifying techniques to audit current leadership styles and cultures.

Leif is a graduate of the University of Washington, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, with an emphasis on human potential. During his athletic career, he participated in Pac-10 football and baseball Championships, three Rose Bowl games, and a National College Football Championship in 1991. The National Championship Team members were honored by the President at the White House.

After graduation from the University of Washington, Leif was recruited by The Pacific Institute and placed in the position of leading the international effort in the production and distribution of books for Pacific Institute’s Publishing. This included translation of most of the publications into foreign languages.

Leif has served on the Board of Directors for the YMCA and chairs, with his wife Nancy, a large annual capital campaign for catholic schools in Seattle. He is involved in various community outreach activities, including coaching local youth groups. A family man with five children, Leif and Nancy make their home in Seattle.

Doubletree-Galleria Hotel 4099 Valley View Lane, Dallas 75244 (three blocks west of Midway Road on north frontage road; parking in front or back of hotel) Click here for interactive Google Map
  

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