Professional summary
On the first day of first grade, our teacher asked us to color a picture of a buffalo in brown crayon. Feeling creative, I used black and brown crayons, earning a reprimand. Ever since, I’ve been fascinated with the tension between organizational freedom and accountability.
After college, I was privileged to serve as the first financial controller for Morning Star, now the world’s largest tomato processing company. Our founder introduced the startup team to the core principles of self-management, which we adopted immediately. At Morning Star, I learned that organizational self-management is real, it works and it drives superior business performance.
In 2008, I co-founded the Morning Star Self-Management Institute, with the mission Read more
On the first day of first grade, our teacher asked us to color a picture of a buffalo in brown crayon. Feeling creative, I used black and brown crayons, earning a reprimand. Ever since, I’ve been fascinated with the tension between organizational freedom and accountability.
After college, I was privileged to serve as the first financial controller for Morning Star, now the world’s largest tomato processing company. Our founder introduced the startup team to the core principles of self-management, which we adopted immediately. At Morning Star, I learned that organizational self-management is real, it works and it drives superior business performance.
In 2008, I co-founded the Morning Star Self-Management Institute, with the mission of instantiating organizational self-management principles with effective education, tools and practices.
As a partner in NuFocus Strategic Group, I now speak and consult on self-management throughout North America and around the world. I also share the message of organizational innovation through my book (Beyond Empowerment), TEDx talk and numerous articles and posts. Gartner Research Director Mark McGregor wrote that “Doug is a leading expert in the field of organizational design.”
NuFocus is a full-spectrum international consulting firm born in Canada, delivering client solutions for business strategy, marketing, operations, finance, international trade, infotech, entrepreneurship, HR, leadership, learning systems and organizational innovation (my personal calling).
I also work with Great Work Cultures, Work Revolution and the Center for Innovative Cultures to co-create the organizations of the future.
I'm always happy to connect with anyone who wants to learn how to make organizations thrive with engaged, innovative and self-directed leaders.
Specialties: Organizational Design, Talent Development, Culture, Leadership, Speaking, Consulting, Self-Management.
Engagement overview
Engagements vary. An organizational transformation project typically lasts a year. Pricing is for the total project and runs anywhere from $250,000 to $1,000,000 depending on the size of the organization. We typically deal with individual departments, divisions and leaders in larger companies. We also do consulting by the hour for $500/hour, typically by skype or phone. Since our work is deeply impactful on the culture of an organization, and every engagement is different, we retain a large quantum of flexibility on pricing and delivery. Our span is worldwide. We put our clients first and pride ourselves on our quality of work.
Clients
• Apollo Education Group
• Community Catalysts
• County of Merced
• Credda
• CultureAmp
• Double Good
• Dynamic Events
• FuelEd Schools
• Haier Group
• Lufthansa
• Moonshot Education
• Morning Star
• New York University
• Orion
• Reed Mariculture
• Shore Consulting Group
• Steuben Foods
• Sudwerk
• Workhound
• Zappos
• Apollo Education Group
• Community Catalysts
• County of Merced
• Credda
• CultureAmp
• Double Good
• Dynamic Events
• FuelEd Schools
• Haier Group
• Lufthansa
• Moonshot Education
• Morning Star
• New York University
• Orion
• Reed Mariculture
• Shore Consulting Group
• Steuben Foods
• Sudwerk
• Workhound
• Zappos
