John M. O’Connell
John O’Connell is a management consultant specializing in areas of Organization Development and Effectiveness: Process Facilitation, Leadership and Team Development, Personal and Team Coaching, and Conflict Resolution.
He has worked with a wide range of people and organizations of all sizes, across industries and in the US, Canada and Europe—from individual coaching to large-scale meeting facilitation, with diverse organizations such as AT&T and The Nature Conservancy. He has also worked across many levels and boundaries within organizations, from union members at BART to the top management team at Chrysler Corporation. His projects have ranged from a Strategic Vision offsite with a six-person start-up to large-scale, “Organizational Integration” meetings with 400+ managers and the World Trade Center “New Design Session” with 5,000+ people attending.
In addition to his independent work, John has served on the management team as Senior Vice President of Organization Development for UCSF Stanford Health Care, and as Co-Director and President of The New Games Foundation. He has served as a Faculty Partner with the Center for Executive Development in Cambridge, Massachusetts and as Associate Partner in Paragon Consulting Group, Vail, Colorado. He has also been part of the adjunct faculty of the Boston University Leadership Institute and has taught courses through a number of universities.
John is particularly well known for his work in “active learning,” using learning/simulation games, sea kayaking, Ropes Courses and exercises drawn from the martial art of Aikido as methods for grounding learning experientially. He integrates a wide range of methodologies, such as Graphic Facilitation, Dialogue, Personal Coaching, and Team Performance training, to engage individuals, groups or entire organizations in the organizational learning process.
John is a graduate of the University of Michigan and was one of the initial students invited to attend the graduate program in “Planned Change” with Ron Lippitt and Jim McConnell in 1973. He has also studied R. Buckminster Fuller’s ‘Whole Systems’ approach and had a brief tutorial with him. Over the past twenty years he has woven his career between line management and “Human Relations” management consulting: organization development, facilitation, coaching, mediation and training. The essence of his work has been facilitating "Positive Interaction" within client organizations, enabling them to become more effective and efficient.
In addition to his academic and professional experience, John brings to his practice more than 25 years of martial arts training, coaching and teaching. He is a third degree black belt in Aikido, a discipline which holds a great deal of relevance to the areas of personal development and mastery, teamwork, social interaction and systems analysis.
John lives with his wife Susan Haldeman, a mediator, and their son TMO in San Francisco. He enjoys windsurfing, basketball as a team game, strategy games and outdoor adventures.
Skill Sets:
Organization Development
- Strategy & Strategic Visioning
- Strategic & Organizational Planning
- ‘Fast Time’ Strategy Development
- Team Building
- Team Assessment
- Team Program Design and Leadership
- ‘Team Performance’ Training
- Learning Activities/Games
- Conflict Resolution
- Mediation
- Training
- Coaching
- ‘Shadow’ Consulting to other consultants
- Program Design
- Game Development & Leadership
- Assessment/Feedback Mechanisms
- Process Improvement
- Project Management & Coordination
- Coaching
- Communication & Relationship Building
- ‘Ombuds’ Services
Facilitation
- Process Facilitation
- Process Consultation
- Process Mapping
- Graphic Recording
- Meeting Facilitation
- ‘Large Scale’ Meeting Process
- Small Group Facilitation
- Strategic Visioning Process
- “Dialogue” Facilitation
- Bringing key players together
- Developing common understanding of issues
- Building agreement around plans and solutions
- Establishing plans & responsibilities to achieve solutions
- Follow Up on tasks & assignments
Teaching
- Leadership of hundreds of trainings including Executive and Management education programs
- Ten years of teaching the martial art of Aikido, 3rd Degree Black Belt with twenty five years of training.
- Faculty of Boston University Leadership Institute; San Francisco State University and numerous extension programs
A Few Sample Clients:
- Apple Computers
- AT&T
- Andersen Consulting
- Accenture
- American-Intermediation Svc.
- Broadcom
- B U ‘Leadership Institute’
- The Center for Executive Development
- Chrysler Motors
- Clorox
- Cooley-Godward Law Firm
- DeutscheSportbund
- Digital
- Esprit
- First Nationwide Bank
- Florida Power & Light
- French Hospital
- Genentech
- Graham & James Law Firm
- GTE
- Harvard Club of S.F.
- Hewlett-Packard
- IBM
- Interaction Associates
- Johnson & Johnson
- KLA Instruments
- Kaiser Permanente
- Loretto Health Care
- Marron, Reid & Sheehy
- Merrill Lynch
- Micron Technologies
- Micron Electronics
- Nature Conservancy
- Nextel
- Omega Performance
- PG&E
- Pacifica Parks, Beaches & Recreation
- Peter Block/’School for Managing’
- Price-Waterhouse
- Price-Waterhouse-Coopers
- Pro-Action Associates
- Project Yes!
- Red Sail, Inc.
- Re-pap Canada
- Scripps Health Care
- Sea Trek Ocean Kayaking
- Sequoia Union School District
- Shearson-Lehman Bros.
- Shore-Tel
- Sierra Club
- State of California -
- Dept. of Fish & Game
- Office of Touris
- Sun Microsystems
- Supercamp, Inc.
- The North Face
- UCSF Stanford Health Care
- Uncle Ben’s
- U.S. Government
- Fish and Wildlife Services
- National Park Service
- U.S. Arbitration
- University of California
- VISA
- Marketing Group
- Global Support Services
- Wells Fargo Bank
- West America Bank
- Wyndham Hotels
- Youth Conservation Corps
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