Core Personnel

Keith Owen, Ph.D.
Senior Research Consultant

Dr. Keith Q. Owen graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's in zoology and a doctorate in experimental psychology. Following his doctoral, work he completed post doctoral work in the physiology of stress, clinical psychology and organization development. He has over 20 years consulting with a variety of organizations conducting employee and customer research, strategic planning, change management, leadership development, and program evaluation. A special interest of Dr. Owen is in establishing the business impact of change interventions through developing systems that enable clients to link their leadership practices, employee and customer surveys, and business performance management systems and to monitor the effects of their change interventions. He has also published numerous articles and has co-authored five books in the area of organizational and individual development.

Ron Mundy
Senior Technical Consultant

Mr. Mundy holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. He has been developing applications in the field of human and organization development for over 15 years. Mr. Mundy specializes in conducting coordinated organization diagnosis, developing computer based training and intervention strategies, and implementing Web based applications for human and organization development activities. Mr. Mundy has implemented customized computer related solutions for specific organization development needs for many Fortune 100 companies through research, analysis, planning, program development, program implementation, support, and program evaluation.

Mike Faris, Ph.D.
Organisational Development Specialist

Mr. Faris has been responsible for  the Graduate Diploma in Organization Change and Development at RMIT University since its creation in 1980. Whilst small, the program has a high success rate with approximately 14% of graduates commencing their own businesses.

Mr. Faris' development philosophy is grounded in adult learning methodologies and action research to produce lasting change. He introduced these methodologies into management development in the Australian public service in the '70's. He has worked for over 60 organisations since 1980 in the researching, designing and conducting of training and consulting. Much of his work has been incorporated into Management Development and organisation change (strategy and quality) programs. Most have been in the public sector, State and Federal. Specific non-training consultancies include continuing assistance in corporate and divisional planning in a large city hospital; objectives setting and team development in Telecom; and support for committees of management in secondary education.   Mr. Faris particular consulting interests involve group development issues associated with planning, objectives setting, team building, interpersonal relationships, organisation change and development and manager development to facilitate these.

Wayne Smith
Team & Organisational Development Specialist

Mr. Smith holds a bachelor's degree in human resource management and a master's degree in applied science from RMIT, Melbourne. His masters project was on team goal setting and team effectiveness. He has been consulting for several years after working in Australia and Japan with Pacific Dunlop Ltd., Mobil Oil and Coles Myer Ltd. His consulting focus is on organisational and team development, plus business planning, strategic planning and goal setting. He has worked on many organisational and business improvement programs over recent years. Mr. Smith is also lecturing in HR in the business faculty at RMIT, plus presenting in a post graduate program focussing on organisational development, change management and quality management.

Mr. Read holds a Bachelor of Business (Management) from ECU, Western Australia as well as a Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma in management. Prior to consulting Mr. Read had 15 years experience in management in the corporate sector working for Brambles Australia Ltd and Mayne Nickless Ltd and in the Australian Army where he served in the SAS Regiment as a Troop Commander.

Mr. Read has several years consulting experience with a broad range of clients within the resources sector, finance industry, and government departments. His passion is for organisational improvement through team and leadership development. Mr. Read is also a presenter on University of Western Australia, Graduate School of Management Executive Programs.

Will Guild, Ph.D.
Organizational Research Design Consultant

Dr. Guild has a Ph.D. in Community-Social Psychology from Boston College,(1981). He provides a full range of research services including both quantitative and qualitative research. Dr. Guild has conducted hundreds of research projects for both public and private sector clients, including utilities, computer manufacturing companies, health care facilities, cable networks, financial institutions, and public policy research for government entities. Dr. Guild has a Ph.D. in Community-Social Psychology from Boston College, (1981). He provides a full range of research services including both quantitative and qualitative research. Dr. Guild has conducted hundreds of research projects for both public and private sector clients, including utilities, computer manufacturing companies, health care facilities, cable networks, financial institutions, and public policy research for government entities.

Mr. Guild has a B.B.A. in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin and was licensed as a CPA in 1980. As a data processing manager and software developer, Mr. Guild has more than 15 years experience in database management and software design. He has developed financial accounting software, for the oil and gas industry, marketing software used in over 40 hospitals across the US and inbound/outbound tele-managment software for marketing research and sales management.

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