Our Trainers:
Associates of the Institute are highly qualified and experienced professionals who believe team-based systems are generally a better, more efficient way to organize a business than traditional systems. They also believe that team performance must be measured and proven to be effective. Without clear measurements, teams rarely create sufficient value to justify their existence in the corporate world.
Our associates have decades of experience consulting, coaching, and training in team-based environments. All complete rigorous training in the Teaming Up process and know how to coach and develop people. Our clients are regularly asked to evaluate our associates’ performance to ensure quality , growth, and customer satisfaction. |
Dr. Darrel W. Ray
Dr. Darrel W. Ray has consulted throughout the United States since 1978 and has directed major departments in two organizations. He specializes in Management Development, Team Building and Self-Directed Work Group implementation. As a psychologist Dr. Ray has studied groups and group dynamics since 1976, and has worked with groups and organizations in development and change efforts throughout his career. He has been a pioneer in the development of Self-Directed Work Teams in both union and non-union environments.
A graduate of George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, he holds a doctorate in counseling psychology. Dr. Ray is certified by two national organizations as a trainer and holds certifications in Neurolinguistics as well. He is a professional member of the Association for Quality and Participation, American Psychological Association, and The American Society for Training and Development.
His published works include articles in a number of national journals including:
The Journal for Quality and Participation • Manage Magazine • Working Woman • Management World • Training and Development Journal, • The Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology • Evaluation and Program Planning • NAPM Insights • Supervisory Management
He has been interviewed and written about in such publications as:
Industry Week • Fortune • Entrepreneur • The Employment Review • The Houston Chronicle • The Kansas City Business Journal • The Wall Street Journal • Black Enterprise Magazine • many others...
He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs across the nation. He has also been included in Who’s Who in the MidWest. Dr. Ray’s books TEAMING UP: Making the Transition to a Self-Directed Team-Based Organization published by McGraw-Hill, and THE PERFORMANCE CULTURE: Maximizing the Power of Teams published by IPC Press, are available through IPC or Amazon.
Dr. Ray recently has started a blog dealing with issues facing team-based work systems and the leadership of those organizations.
It can be found here: http//:longtermchange.com/wordpress.
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Laura Northcutt
Laura Northcutt, Senior Consultant for IPC, has been helping individuals and groups work more effectively for over twenty years. Her multidisciplinary background – which includes over ten years experience coaching leaders to higher levels of effectiveness and more than thirteen years developing and delivering interactive, experiential training – contributes to her innovative approach to consulting and training, delivered with a high level of energy to IPC clients.
Laura’s undergraduate work in Music Therapy/Music Education at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, led her to pursue a graduate degree in counseling. During this time she worked with Project refocus, a Presidential Award-winning program at UMKC for dislocated workers. Promoted to Coordinator of Counseling, Laura led her group of counselors in redesigning services in order to provide increasing levels of service to the wide range of clients. In the early 1990s, Laura was invited to speak about her innovative and holistic approach at numerous conferences including the Canadian Association for Guidance and Counseling National Conference and the JIST National conference. This led to further contracts developing and delivering customized training and consulting services for clients including the Maryland Institute for Employment Professionals, numerous Sprint groups, several FAA teams, and Deloitte and Touche. In addition, Laura co-founded StrategicPaths, Inc., a ropes course offering custom-designed services to corporate and non-profit businesses.
Recruited to the Saturn Consulting Services team in 1993, Laura joined the groundbreaking team-based organization as a consultant and facilitator. After just three months with that team, she was invited to become a member of the team selected to coach the over one-hundred-member group of consultants and facilitators leading General Motors’ efforts to increase employee involvement and develop effective leaders at all levels throughout its North American organization which included GM Canada.
Joining IPC over two years ago, Laura has led the redesign of materials based upon customer input and needs. Her ability to communicate with individuals at all levels of the organization leads to increased levels of involvement and enthusiasm among participants. Because implementing even small changes in the way an organization does business often results in resistance and/or reluctance to change, having a credible yet personable consultant aboard facilitates the process. Laura is frequently requested by IPC clients for these reasons.
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David Elder, Senior Consultant
David Elder has over 25 years of consulting, training, teaching, and leadership experience. David’s career has included executive positions with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Heartland Regional Medical Center and Farmland Industries and Kellogg Sales Company.
David graduated from Missouri Western University with a BS, Psychology. He attended Central Missouri State University and graduated with a Master of Science, Administration from Central Michigan University. His academic focus was organization development.
David has provided consulting services for clients since 1999. Those services include organization assessments, leadership development and coaching, organization design and restructuring, and the creation of high performance work groups/cultures. He has published materials for the American Institute of CPA’s and The American Institute of Banking.
David is a member of the graduate faculty (MBA) at Baker University. |
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