[Re]Create the Organization You Really Want!: Leadership and Organization Design for Sustainable Excellence. - Tapa blanda

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Dr. John Latham is an organization architect with over 35 years of experience working in and with commercial, non-profit, and government organizations around the world. He has enjoyed a diverse professional life from his first adult job with the U.S. Air Force to Vice President of Corporate Quality and Business Excellence for a $1.3 billion in vitro diagnostics manufacturer with operations in 40 countries to an international consultant on leadership and design for sustainable excellence. John is the founder of the Organization Design StudioTM a digital media, education, and design firm focused on helping leaders, entrepreneurs, and the consultants who help them, create the organizations they really want. His firm focuses on innovative ways to design organizations and systems that create value for multiple stakeholders including investors, customers, employees, suppliers and partners, society, and the natural environment. John has designed a wide variety of organization systems and processes from leadership and strategic management systems to production systems to measurement and analysis systems. He has worked with a variety of organizations including several Baldrige Award recipients across several industries: commercial, non-profit, healthcare, education, and start-ups. Some of his clients have included Boeing, Kawasaki, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), The Ritz-Carlton, British Airways, Motorola, U. S. Department of Energy, Lockheed Martin, U. S. Defense Depot San Joaquin, U.S. Technology Resources, Poudre Valley Health System, Long Beach Unified School District, VA Cooperative Studies, Pro-Tec Coating Company, Monfort College of Business, and Virtjoule, Inc. He has published scientific and technical papers on leading transformation and the design of organizations and systems in several journals including INNOVATION and Quality Management Journal. He is a two-time recipient of the Gryna Award from the American Society for Quality for publishing the paper that made the largest contribution to the extension of understanding and knowledge of philosophy, principles, or methods of quality management during the previous year (2013 and 2014). John served as a judge/examiner for several, organization excellence award programs. He served as a judge for the Colorado Performance Excellence Award, the Robert W. Carey VA Healthcare Award, and the Army Communities of Excellence Award. He served as an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for nine years and led site visits to some of the nation's highest performing companies. He also served as an honored assessor for the JRD TATA QV Award in India. He lives near the base of the Rocky Mountains in Monument, Colorado with his wife Penny. They have three grown children and one grandson.