Kathryn Alexander

Kathryn, brings her serial entrepreneur, teaching and spiritual practice background to her work helping leaders and teams create and navigate the desired future. In her 22 years working with change in organizations she has learned the secret that effective organizations are ethical organizations. Working with leaders and teams to address the need to think differently about their problems, she has been instrumental in co-creating significant shifts in organizations. Her passion is creating communities that generate enlightened business practices.

Among her many client contributions are the Future Search strategic planning sessions she lead for the Department of Public Works in San Francisco. These sessions allowed the leadership to envision the future, plan, build teams and implement changes that brought the Department from being a thorn in the Mayor’s side to the 11th most improved in the nation within eighteen months. Working with the leadership team she facilitated their creation of internal and external structures to improve participation, communication and service; the development of teams to measure and improve the quality of service; improve the leaderships ability to work together; improve the service to both other government customers and the residents; improve vendor relationships and internal leadership capacity through the use of customized scorecards. This was done without creating friction with the Union.

The uses of her unique assessment for better understanding culture lead to an ease of implementation and clarity of relationship that accelerated the pace of change without generating friction or resistance. Her values assessments lead to rich discussions that uncover hidden conflicts that could generate ethical and legal issues for her client firms.

By combining her quality and measurement background with an understanding of the role relationships play in getting work done, she balances her approach between focusing on process and facilitating improved cultural dynamics, always with an eye on the impact on business results.

Kathryn has a Master’s degree in Organizational Development and Transformation and has done doctorate work at Saybrook Graduate School in the areas of systems thinking and organizational development. She is also a Spiritual Humanist minister.

Employer:	Ethical Impact LLC
Position:	President, CEO
Time period:	January 2003 - Present
Description:	Ethical Impact L3C is a full service consulting firm that provides education and certification for companies implementing sustalnable business practices.

Employer:	Regis University
Position:	Adjunct Faculty
Time period:	January 1999 - Present

Employer:	The Change Institute
Position:	Principal
Time period:	January 2001 - December 2005

Employer:	W.D.H.B. Consulting Group
Position:	Program Design/Facilitator
Time period:	January 1994 - December 1996

Employer:	University of Denver, University of California at Berkeley
Position:	Adjunct Faculty
Time period:	January 1993 - December 2001

Employer:	University of California at Berkeley Extension, College of Notre Dame, National Hispanic University, John F. Kennedy University
Position:	Adjunct Faculty
Time period:	January 1993 - December 1998

Employer:	Integral Performance Group
Position:	Lead Consultant/Researcher
Time period:	January 1993 - December 1995

Employer:	Vanguard Network
Position:	Principal
Time period:	January 1985 - December 1997

Employer:	Advanced Interactive Systems
Position:	OJT Assessor
Time period:	December 2002

University:	Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center
Time period:	1992 - 1999
Degree:	PhD

University:	John F. Kennedy University
Time period:	1992
Degree:	Organizational Development and Transformation, MA

University:	John F. Kennedy University
Time period:	1991
Degree:	Business Administration, BSc

Books:

-Author of the Birds of a Feather™ cultural assessment and intrinsic motivational framework and Strategic Values an intrinsic values assessment from a systems perspective -Co-Author with Verna Allee of The Quality Tools Matrix™