Ken Wright

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Ken Wright
President
Ken Wright and Associates Ltd.
Ken is an executive coach specializing in the areas of transition issues, developing organizational and team capability, managing high potentials and potential derailors. His experience comes from sales management, corporate recruiting and as VP of Marketing and Director of Management Development and Organization Effectiveness.

Ken combines assessment tests with his experience as a manager to coach executives to leverage their assets and minimize their blind spots. He supports teams in managing change and transition, new leadership, personality issues, problems of fit as well as retaining and developing high potential future managers. His clients include IBM, Honeywell, First Data Resources, Kelloggs, Mitsui, Robert Bosch Corporation, First National Bank, Merck and BJC Health Systems.

Ken has studied at the Centre for Creative Leadership.
Dr. Clayton Lafferty, CEO of Human Synergistics was his mentor in the use of 360 degree feedback and he is certified in the use of Level III Executive Self-Assessment. He studied the concepts of Requisite Organization and Executive Leadership under the aegis of Dr. Elliott Jaques.

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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