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Through my consulting practice, ODinsight, I help clients like you develop and implement profitability improvement strategies. I will work collaboratively with you to discover ways to revise and restructure unproductive areas of your business and to facilitate the growth of new business.

ODioodle Photo is my photography practice. My passion for photography is fueled and energized with my travels. As I travel, I visually document my experiences of other cultures and people with the hope of being able to share my personal insights of their lives with you.

Volunteerism is very important to my own groundedness and personal outreach. For many years I have focused my energy on Teen Living Programs, a not-for-profit social service agency in Chicago who’s mission is to help homeless youth become productive members of society.

My family and friends have been a important and wonderful source of support and enjoyment in my life as I stay connected to the very heart and soul of my existence.

My left brain, which I refer to as my guiding matrix, strives to organize my life equally into these four quadrants of interest. My right brain, which I call my bubbling swamp, pulls me away from a structured existence and lures me into the excitement and energy that I feel as I take life as it comes to me.

Professional Bio

ODinsight LLC, my consulting firm, focuses on organizational assessment, development and change. I assist individuals, teams and organizations develop and implement strategies for improving productivity and effectiveness. I facilitate personal and organizational change and growth by looking at ways to revise and restructure existing unproductive processes.

Recent Work
• development and implementation of organization and productivity improvement strategies for individuals and small businesses.
• change management facilitation for organization undergoing a merger.
• executive coaching and guidance to transitional management team during major leadership turnover in areas of process improvement, team building and conflict resolution.
• meeting facilitations for not-for-profit agencies, university faculty and local community boards.
• development and delivery of training workshops for judicial performance feedback coaching.
• development and delivery of masters course on large group interventions in an OD masters program.
• board leadership of Teen Living Programs, a city-wide social service agency helping homeless youth.
• major organizational redesign and implementation of self-directed work teams, resulting in 85% reduction in middle management and significant cost savings.

Management Experience
I have over 30 years of operational management, internal and external consulting experience. I have held various Senior Director and Division Manager positions in the corporate audit, finance, information technology, strategic planning and marketing organizations at Ameritech and at Illinois Bell. I have owned my own consulting practice, ODinsight, since 1999.

I have made several presentations to industry professional and academic groups on the subject of developing self-directed work teams. My work on self- directed work teams has been the subject of several articles published in various professional journals. I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics, and a Master of Science degree in Organization Development from Loyola University.