"It is not what you know or who you
know, but rather, what you can think
 of in time that makes a difference in life!"

RICHARD ALAN ENGDAHL
Organisational Evolution Consultant 

   Ph.D. University of Washington: Organizational Theory, Administration Theory and Organizational Behavior, Organizational Development, Human Resource Systems, and Speech Communications.

  MBA, University of Michigan: Industrial Relations & Marketing
                                          
   BS University of Michigan: Architecture and Design  

  Twenty years of experience in Health Care Administration field to include Masters in Health Care Administration from US Army Medical Services and Baylor University.  

 Sixteen years of senior level administrative and human resource management experience.  

   Chief Imagineer (CEO), Organisational Imagineering International, Ltd. (US & New Zealand)  
     Past President & CEO, Virtual Publishers, Ltd.      Advisory Board Member, Organization Development Institute, USA  
     Past Board member, North Carolina Quality Leadership Foundation, USA  
     Past Chairperson, Wilmington Quality Foundation, USA  
    16 year Board member & past president of DARE, Inc. (Wilmington Downtown Area Reviatalization Effort, Inc.), USA  
    Board Member & Educational Liaison for New Zealand & Australia, Pro-Change International, USA  
    Principle architect of University of North Carolina’s Total Quality University TQ model and developed the facilitation skills training used by the university to train its TQ teams and leaders.     Governor's appointee and past Chairperson, North Carolina Quality Leadership Award Council  
    Professor Emeritus, Cameron School of Business Administration, University of North Carolina, Wilmington – 17 years, teaching management courses. 

    Current Mentor for PhD Program candidates, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

    Thirty years of organization development consulting experience; professionally certified as a Registered Organization Development Consultant and Professional Facilitator  

Richard has published many articles in U.S. national and international business journals as well as several chapters in organization development text books. He has twice been a Keynote speaker at the New Zealand Organisation for Quality annual conference. He has conducted training for managers from senior executive to first line levels in every hemisphere and in diverse cultural situations. His model of training course development has been featured in a prominent human resources text for four revised editions over the past 15 years.  Richard’s favorite management philosopher is the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland – the advice given Alice at the fork in the road is the underlying principle of all good management, i.e., that you have to know where you are trying to get to in order to choose a path. Richard is author of two books: Developing Your Own Workforce: It Takes More Than Big Boots To Stomp Out Ignorance (The manager as teacher facilitator), Virtual Publishers, Ltd., 2000.   ISBN 0-967445-0-5, available as a VirtualBook on disk on request at www.oii.co.nz .  And, Management Skills Upgrade V.20/20: Going from Knowing to Doing, Trafford Publishing, 2004.  ISBN 1-4120-3944-4, available on-line at Amazon.com.

                        AVAILABLE AS
Speaker -- Board Member -- Consultant