RapidChange Group has a growing list of experts and practitioners who we collaborate with, study with, play with and generally learn from and leverage their wisdom for the benefit of our clients. Here are some of our most recent project partners …
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Best Business Practices
Bonnie Hagemann
CEO, Executive Development Associates. Specializes in best practices research (including the annual Trends in Executive Development report), critical thinking skills and executive coaching. She is the author of “Decades of Differences.”
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Doug Claffey
CEO, WorkplaceDynamics, the premier employee survey company in the world, featuring the most user-friendly, solutions-oriented web survey tool for HR executives. Claffey, a B Corp. advisor, and former GE, Space.com and McKinsey executive, is a leader in healthy workplace research and advisement.
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Rick Joi
chief technical officer, WorkplaceDynamics. Rick has developed survey questions, tools and algorithms that allow us to mine the answers of more than a million employees at 5,000 companies. That data-mining gives RapidChange the ability to determine measurable improvements and successful engagement efforts, tools and insights from a broad spectrum of professions, industries and services.
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Tom Kohler
is a pioneering graphic facilitator, community builder and mediator. He has served as executive director of Savannah Chatham Citizen Advocacy for 30 years and is the author of “Waddie Welcome and the Beloved Community.”
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Shannon James
leads an Online Product Development firm located in Savannah, GA, focused on Web Application Strategy, New Product Development, and IT Project and Product Management. She has more than a decade of experience in project management, including work at WebMD, Glaxo Smith-Kline and Mead Johnson.
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A. L. Addington
is an independent business and education management consultant and the former dean of business in the University of Georgia system. He has worked in a broad range of management roles, from mediator to investor relations, from management process to strategic planning.
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Neuroscience and Cognitive Development
Magaly Rodriguez
is the founder, retired, of RapidChange Group. She has been on the cutting edge of change management and adult education practices for more than three decades. A former nun, Rodriguez has linked behavioral theory, practical experience and neuroscience to create practical tools for conflict resolution and managing large, diverse organizations. Rodriguez stepped down from full-time RapidChange work in 2008.
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David Hawkins
is the former research partner of Linus Pauling and the developer of RapidChange’s “Courage Scale.” The scale is based on Hawkins’ decades-long research into how emotional states impact individuals and groups. For instance, his research suggests that approaching people when they are angry can result in more positive and constructive movement than waiting for them to “cool off.” Anger reflects a high emotional engagement with the issue, while apathy is a much harder hill for managers to climb.
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Blake Long
is a pediatric cardiologist, medical school professor and published medical philosopher and proponent of strategies that make hospitals and health care more efficient deliverers of health care.
