Problem-Solving. With a concentration in consumer goods and marketing, Tom has been a Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey and an advertising Account Executive for Procter & Gamble, where he developed the rigor and discipline to solve problems, analyze opportunities and deal with complexity in a variety of settings.

Top Management Experience. Throughout the 1980s, Tom served as Senior VP of Corporate Planning and Business Development at Marriott Corporation, helping the company grow from $1 billion to $7 billion.

Process Facilitation. Over the last 11 years, Tom has focused his professional practice and personal development on using leading edge techniques to achieve the simultaneous resolution of business and relationship/emotional issues. These include Appreciative Inquiry, Polarity Management, Real Time Strategic Change, Strategic Assumption Testing, and other processes to help top teams deal with increasing complexity and accelerating change in markets, technology, and competition.

Self Awareness.  Tom’s ongoing “inner work” allows him to connect in a deeply personal way with the hopes and concerns of the people he works with.  Part of his non-corporate work includes staffing experiential weekends for men that reconnect them to their feelings, their integrity and their mission in the world.  He is also pursuing independent study in transpersonal psychology and global shifts in values and mind-sets.

1965-67

Entrepreneur. Co-founded Allen-Curren electronics, designing and manufacturing psychedelic lighting systems to discotheques in Philadelphia and New York.

1966-67

U.S. Naval Officer, operating off Vietnam.

1968-71

Compton Advertising, for Procter & Gamble. Learned the fundamentals of packaged goods marketing as Account Executive on Cascade Dishwashing Detergent.

1971-73

McKinsey & Company. Senior Engagement Manager. Built basic consulting skills, with an emphasis in analytical problem solving. Specializing in marketing and strategy. New York Office.

1973-77

Marriott Corporation, SVP Strategy Development. Helped the company grow from $1 billion to $7 billion in the 1980s. Among the top ten executives in the company. Member of the Finance Committee.

1977-90

New Venture Manager, Courtyard by Marriott. A two year assignment to create and launch the most preferred hotel product in the middle market.

1982-84

Center for the Study of Human Relationships. Royal Oak, Maryland. Individual, couples and group process experience and training. Hundreds of hours of professional training.

1988-94

The Hawthorne Group (Early Phase). Founder of a consulting boutique focused on strategy, group dynamics and coaching. Early work focused on strategy development.

1990-95

Expanding the tool kit. Continued the on-going process of learning, synthesizing and packaging the most relevant tools and methodologies for strategic thinking or organizational alignment. (5-10 days annually in this type of training).Examples: creative thinking methodologies, conflict management, polarity management, situational influence skills, Strategic Assumption Testing, Appreciative Inquiry, Real Time Strategic Change, SimuReal, Open Space Technology, Psycho- Dynamics, training games and methods.

1990- ongoing

McKinsey Change Center, New York. As a Fellow at the McKinsey Change Center, participated in a two year effort to understand and apply leading edge technologies for managing change in large organizations. This work resulted in a set of methodologies that are available outside McKinsey & Company in non-competing client situations.

1995-97

Initiation work with men. Staff experiential weekends (New Warrior Training Adventure) for men that reconnect them to their feelings, their integrity and their mission in the world. Shadow work and Inner King training with Cliff Barry. On-going men's work in a variety of forms. 35 days off site work since 1995.

1995- ongoing

Angles Arrien. Studied relationships and intimacy from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of the world. 30 days off-site work since 1997.

1997- 98

Coach U. Completed approximately 100 hours of training in personal and business coaching at CoachU and AttractionU.

1997

Boulder Change Lab. Creates and launches the Boulder Change Lab, a four month executive development program of workshops, coaching, reading, peer support and action learning.  

2000-ongoing.