Don Minnick is a Principal in Interpersonal Skills Laboratory, LLC, and has provided consulting, leadership development, team facilitation and training design services to organizations for over 30 years. He has served a wide spectrum of clients in business and industry as well as human service organizations. Areas of specialization include: organizational effectiveness work conferences and management training programs; high-performance team-building and facilitation; executive coaching; 360-degree performance feedback processes; succession planning and leadership development; conflict management; strategies for increasing personal visibility and documenting transformational change associated with organization development activities. Don has designed and managed organizational development and training programs for several major international corporations and led in the design and delivery of programs for international branches of American corporations in Europe and Asia. Clients include: Kraft Foods, NASA, Texas Microsystems, United Space Alliance, Texas Instruments, Union Carbide Corporation, British Petroleum, Tenneco Oil, Pennzoil, Praxair, Inc., St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Transco Energy, E.J. Gallo Winery, Mease Hospital System-Tampa, Lyondell Petrochemicals, Reichhold Chemicals, Air Liquide, Jacuzzi Brands, The Hartford, and Lockheed-Martin Corporation. Don received his B.A., in Psychology from Rice University, Houston, TX, and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Texas, Austin, TX., with an emphasis on team and organizational performance and leadership development. In addition, he has received post-graduate education at the National Training Laboratory (NTL) in organization development, process consultation, experiential learning and team facilitation. Don has conducted research leading to published articles in the areas of: success skills for global executives, organization survival: becoming an indispensable organization member, and the information-execution matrix: bridging the gaps to increase success agility. Executive-briefing forms of these articles have been published in the Journal of Business Strategy and the Proceedings of the Global Business Development Institute 10th Annual Conference. Don has been a long-time adjunct professor in the MBA programs at the University of Houston at Clear Lake and at the School of Executive Education in the Jones School of Management, Rice University. He is currently an adjunct professor at the McCoy School of Business Administration at Texas State University. Ron Dukenski heads up Quadrangle Management Consulting, LLC, and is an Associate in Interpersonal Skills Laboratory, LLC. Ron has been a consultant to organizations for over 30 years. With a broad background in large and small organizational change management, Ron has served a variety of clients in business and industry as well as in voluntary and social service organizations throughout the world. Ron has designed and conducted numerous organizational effectiveness work conferences and management training programs on strategic thinking and strategy implementation, the management of change and innovation, strategic organization design, breakthrough project management, leadership development, organizations as systems, strategic partnership alliances, interpersonal communications, conflict management, consulting and facilitation skills, and vision, values and culture change. Included on Ron's list of clients are Arco, AT&T, Bankers Trust, Blyth, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Citibank, Cognizant, Dun and Bradstreet, FMC, Ford Motor Company, General Electric, Global One, GTE, Altria (The Philip Morris Companies), Pfizer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Praxair, Texaco, Trizetto, The Hartford Financial Services Group, United Technologies and Xerox-as well as The American Red Cross, The Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, and the Heal the Children Foundation. Prior to establishing his own practice, Ron staffed and managed organization development units for several major corporations and was also a senior project director for the Delta Consulting Group in New York. He has been on the National Advisory Board of the Institute for Management Studies, and his international assignments have involved work in Canada, the UK and Europe, Russia, the Middle East and Latin America, as well as in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and other parts of the Asia-Pacific region. Adjunct faculty / guest lecturer assignments have included presentations at Yale, Bridgeport and Fairleigh-Dickinson universities.
Ron holds degrees in business management and marketing from Fairfield University and in the behavioral sciences from the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. He has completed post-graduate professional education programs at NTL Institute along with Columbia University's Advanced Management Program in Organization Development and Human Resource Management. Ron was on the original consulting team for Xerox's Baldridge award-winning Leadership Through Quality initiative as well as for GE's world-renowned Workout process. He is writing a book with a working title of Coming To Terms: The Conflict Management Workbook, based on his many years of experience as third-party problem-solver and executive coach. Quadrangle Management Consulting, LLC, provides an array of organization development services for clients large and small around the world. Headed up by Ron Dukenski, a management and organization development practitioner with over 35 years of experience, Quadrangle serves clients in business and industry as well as in voluntary and social service organizations. Quadrangle consultants have created numerous organization effectiveness work conferences and executive training programs on strategic thinking and strategy implementation, the management of change and innovation, strategic organization design, breakthrough project management, organizations as systems, strategic partnership alliances, interpersonal communications, conflict management, consulting and facilitation skills, and vision, values and culture change.
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