Dean Michelson, Senior Executive Associate

Dean Michelson has gained considerable experience, knowledge and hopefully some wisdom as a catalyst for change, a leader and manager, an organizational effectiveness consultant, and an entrepreneur. Michelson has worked with numerous organizations, large and small, private and public, for-profit and not-for-profit, Fortune 100 and small family owned enterprises in the United States, Europe and China

He is a results-oriented executive with extensive experience improving performance and decreasing costs in a diverse range of industrial, manufacturing, distribution, service, and non-profit organizations. Michelson has a strong track record propelling revenue and profit growth in startups, spearheading business turnarounds and increasing profitability and market share through exemplary strategic planning and hands-on management. His broad-based expertise includes overall business leadership, mergers and acquisitions, profit and loss management, risk management, compliance, finance, startups and turnarounds, market expansion, product development, and labor relations. Dedicated to building and motivating teams that consistently exceed expectations. Some examples of his successful consulting engagements include:

• Adapted the Total Quality Management (TQM) methodology used in manufacturing to the health care industry and helped to invent the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) system used today in many consulting and health care organizations throughout the country.
• Prevented a multi-million dollar strike at a food processing plant over a two-year period using innovative communication and organization development methods.
• Transformed a "good-old-boy," "who-you-know" culture of a major multi-national corporation into a high performance learning organization.
• Managed several not-for-profit organizations by setting new strategic direction, developing strong branding programs and obtaining new funding and revenue streams.
• Led a strategic planning process that integrated three community hospitals into a viable health care system
• As a serial entrepreneur he has also launched five new businesses: an organization consultancy, a toy manufacturing company, an alternative health care organization, a wine-making and distribution company, and a social networking site on the Internet.

Dean provides values-driven leadership and guidance utilizing his talent and energy as a change agent to contribute and collaborate in organizations that support strong professional learning environments. As an advocate of life-long learning and knowledge management, he seeks unique challenges that requires creative solutions to reinvent the future for existing organizations in a context of respect for the stories and traditions of the past.

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