Resources for General Managers

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Email the Global Organization Design Society's office and ask for a conversation with Ken Shepard, the President of the Society, to discuss how you can explore this approach to organization design.  He can describe other organizations in your sector who have used the methods and may be able to introduce you to another CEO or General Manager who wold be willing to talk with you.

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The following senior managers have been identified as sponsors of organization design and management based on levels of work complexity, levels of human capability and accountability:

 

Financial services

Robert Pearce
Former President & CEO,
Personal & Commercial
Client Group
BMO Financial Services

Timothy Hart
CFO & Treasurer,
First National of Nebraska 

  

Jos J. Winterman
Former CEO
Canadian Tire Acceptance 

 

Information technology

Roberto Wagmaister 
CEO
Grupo Assa

Andres D'Alessio
CEO
VIRIDIAN S.A.

Modesto Miguez
Ingeniero CPP,
Central de Monitoreo


Healthcare
George Weber
Secretary-General Emeritus
International Federation of
Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies  
 		 George Weber
President & CEO
Royal Ottawa Health Group 		   Judith Shamian
President & CEO
VON Canada 

John Watkinson
Former Managing Director
of three award winning hospitals
in the UK Public Health Service

        


Heavy manufacturing      
  Denis Turcotte
Former CEO
Algoma Steel    		   Raul Timerman
Former President
CONARCO
              		   Arturo Acevedo
CEO
Acindar 
  Arthur (Art) Mann 
Chairman
Donsco Inc. 		   Carlos Leone
Former CEO
Acindar 		   Mark Kaminski
Former CEO
Commonwealth Aluminum 
  Wilfred Brown
(Deceased)
Former Chairman & CEO 
Glacier Metal Company 		        


Mining      
  Sir Roderick Carnegie
Former CEO
CRA 		   Leigh Clifford
Former CEO
Rio Tinto		   Mark Cutifani
CEO 
Anglo American
former CEO
AngloGold Ashanti  
  Adrienne Nickerson
Director of Operations, 
Canadian Oil Sands 		   Anne Marie Toutant
VP Optimization & Integration
Suncor Energy Inc. 		   Michael MacSween
VP Major Projects,
Suncor Energy Inc 


Construction      
  Grant Beck     
President & CEO, 
The Graham Group 		  Tom Baxter Tom Baxter
Former President
The Graham Group		    


Utilities      
 Peter Mills Peter Mills    
General Manager HR
Sydney Water 		   John Fielder
President
Southern California Edison 		   Jason Tratch
CEO
Galex Group  

 

Agricultural services
Thad Simons
President & CEO 
Novus International		 Giovanni Gasperoni
Former Executive VP Marketing and Sales,
Novus International		 Joe Privott
Former CEO
Novus International 

 

Chemical and allied products
Ron J. Harding
Former President, 
Mallinckrodt Baker, Inc. 		        

 

Government 

General Maxwell R. Thurman
Training and Doctrine Commander
U.S Army  

Lt. General Alcide LaNoue
Surgeon General 
U.S Army

Dr. Francis J. Harvey
Secretary
U.S Army
Ruth Hubbard
Former Deputy Minister
Public Service Commission of Canada		 Michael A. Kirby
Deputy Under Secretary 
U.S Army 		 Tom Kelly
Deputy Under Secretary
U.S Army
 

 

Non for profit / Common good organizations
George Weber
Secretary-General Emeritus
International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies  
 		 George Weber
President & CEO
Royal Ottawa Health 		 Judith Shamian
President & CEO
VON Canada
John Morgan
Lead Pastor
Pinon Hills Church
 		        

  

Major organizations and consulting firms that provide Requisite Organization-based services

A global association of academics, managers, and consultants that focuses on spreading RO implementation practices and encouraging their use
Dr. Gerry Kraines, the firms principal, combines Harry Levinson's leadership frameworks with Elliott Jaques's Requisite Organization. He worked closely with Jaques over many years, has trained more managers in these methods than anyone else in the field, and has developed a comprehensive RO-based software for client firms.
Founded as an assessment consultancy using Jaques's CIP methods, the US-based firm expanded to talent pool design and management, and managerial leadership practice-based work processes
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Former RO-experienced CEO, Ron Harding, provides coaching to CEOs of start-ups and small and medium-size companies that are exploring their own use of RO concepts.  His role is limited, temporary and coordinated with the RO-based consultant working with the organization
Ron Capelle is unique in his multiple professional certifications, his implementation of RO concepts through well designed organization development methods, and his research documenting the effectiveness of his firm's interventions
A Toronto requisite organization-based consultancy with a wide range of executive coaching, training, organization design and development services.
A Sweden-based consultancy, Enhancer practices time-span based analysis, executive assessment, and provides due diligence diagnosis to investors on acquisitions.
Founded by Gillian Stamp, one of Jaques's colleagues at Brunel, the firm modified Jaques;s work-levels, developed the Career Path Appreciation method, and has grown to several hundred certified assessors in aligned consulting firms world-wide recently expanding to include organization design
Requisite Organization International Institute distributes Elliott Jaques's books, papers, and videos and provides RO-based training to client organizations