Gary R. Frank, PhD
| Summary Profile | Gary is a consultant with 28 years of experience. He is the former Manager of Organization Development at Storage Technology Corporation, a Fortune 500 firm, and a former member of the graduate faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His work focuses primarily on guiding clients through major organizational changes to operationalize strategy through structure and create high performance work systems. In addition, he consults in the areas of alternative reward and compensation system design and implementation. Gary has consulted with organizations in a variety of industries including high technology manufacturing, sales and service, heavy manufacturing, consumer food products, health care, training and education, chemical production, pharmaceuticals, oil transport, law enforcement and corrections, and public education.
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| Professional Experience | Principal, Performance Development Associates Colorado, 1991 - present Manager of Organization Development, Storage Technology, 1986 - 1991 Associate, Voorhis Associates, 1981 - 1986 Assistant Dean, University of Colorado, 1979 - 1981 Director of Administration, Boulder County Sheriff's Department, 1976 - 1979
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| Professional Focus | To help people in organizations create high performance work systems using participative approaches to strategic planning, organization and process redesign, and organization development.
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| Education | Ph.D., University of Colorado MPA, University of Colorado. BA, Ohio University |
| Author and Presenter | Gary has presented papers and symposia at Ecology of Work, Organization Development Network, and Association for Quality and Participation conferences in the U.S. and Europe. His published work appears in The Change Handbook: Group Methods for Changing the Future, People in Charge: Creating Self-Managing Workplaces, Discovering Common Ground, and Large Group Interventions as well as conference proceedings.
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| Partial Client List |
Medical University of South Carolina, ProBuild Holdings, Inc., Health Care Service Corporation, Jeppesen Aviation, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Microsoft, Scottsdale Insurance Company, R. W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Nabisco, Ethicon Endo Surgery, Acterna, Quantum Corporation, Central Intelligence Agency, Weyerhaeuser, Monsanto, Storage Technology, Coherent Technologies, Armstrong World Industries, Dowty Aerospace, Roche Ireland, Ltd., Levi Strauss, Amoco, Corning Inc., Clorox, and Timken Steel.
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What Our Clients Say About Our Work
Strategy Development and Deployment, Organization Redesign, and Leadership Development:
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Dan, HR Director Avago Technologies