WILFRED JARVIS INSTITUTE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Leader of the Nazi Party Fuhrer of Germany
Hitler ranks high among the most destructive tyrants and misleaders in history. Exploiting the widespread economic and social disasters afflicting Germany in the post World War I period, he promised a "Thousand Year Reich". But the political system he created disappeared with his suicide.
Hitler was supremely defective in all the essential techniques and relationships needed for effective leadership.
1. When men and women with serious unsolved personal problems are given power in nations, families or organizations, the people under their control will become their victims.
2. When intelligent human beings lack meanings in their own lives and are threatened by chronic anxieties they are very vulnerable to exploitation by manipulators who diminish their own inadequacies by gaining subservience, devotion and blind loyalty from others.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Director of Graham B Watson & Associates Ltd
Graham Watson is founder director of Graham B Watson & Associates Ltd, a management consulting company specializing in leadership development, strategic planning and facilitation, organization restructure, change management and project management.
Graham has had 30 years experience in business management and change management. He has worked with a number of major organizations in New Zealand, Australia and the United States and has extensive consulting experience in major international firms. He has worked in the private and public sectors, leading large and small teams in a variety of situations. Graham has been a Four Quadrant Leadership educator since 1988 and acts as a leadership coach and mentor to leaders at all organizational levels. Graham is accredited to facilitate and implement Four Quadrant Leadership both as a public program and on an in-house basis. He derives great satisfaction from assisting organizations to implement and maintain the Four Quadrant Leadership methodology. In the change management role, Graham has been lead consultant for a number of organizations undergoing mergers, restructures and change processes. He is regularly invited to speak at conferences and similar on issues of leadership and change management. Graham has a practical, results-focused approach and relates well to people at all levels in an organization.
Graham holds Diplomas in Business and Industrial Administration and Human Resources from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and is actively involved in the Center for Leadership Studies at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
Job Titles:
- Principal / Business Strategies, Inc.
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- Executive Director / Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation
Mr. Ulrich brings a wealth of knowledge and experience gained from over 30 years of corporate management of Training, Organizational Development and Human Resource departments. He was most recently the Director of Management and Organizational Development for Hitachi Data Systems, a position he held for nine years. Prior to that he worked in similar positions at Tandem Computers, Data General, General Electric and General Motors. Throughout his career he has demonstrated a unique ability in providing guidance to Senior Executives as they deal with both personal and organizational effectiveness issues.
Lynn's focus has been on building worldwide management training and organizational development functions. In addition to developing leadership programs, this has involved the design and implementation of human resource planning programs that identify the development needs of employees with potential for assuming greater leadership responsibilities. Throughout his career Lynn has also been involved in the management of employee survey programs that have focused on identifying and addressing key issues, resulting in greater employee productivity and satisfaction.
Mr. Ulrich's primary interest is in assisting leaders in the planning and execution of strategies directed at increasing their own and their organization's effectiveness. He developed a New Manager Assimilation Process that jump-starts an individual taking on a new leadership position. This process continues to be used effectively in the companies where he introduced the program. As an Associate of the Wilfred Jarvis Institute, he is a trained educator of the Four Quadrant Leadership program. Lynn has also had significant success in guiding leaders and groups through a process to identify their Key Success Factors, thus helping them to increase their focus and effectiveness.
Lynn is a graduate of Hastings College, Nebraska. He completed his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Psychology at Kansas State University. He served two years in the U.S. Peace Corps. He serves on the board of the Institute of Computer Technology.
Minh Le - Founder, President
"I have learned more skills from Minh that I use on a daily basis than from anyone else."
Minh Le is President and founder of the Wilfred Jarvis Institute, a training and consulting organization, based in Cupertino, California, dedicated to achieving lasting effectiveness and results in leaders and their organizations. Mr. Le provides senior executive coaching and selection, leadership development, group and team effectiveness training, and facilitation of major organizational initiatives.
Minh has more than 20 years of management experience in the high-tech industry. He has been with Hitachi Data Systems as Vice President of Marketing, Vice President of Leadership Programs and Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness. His broad base of experience includes marketing, sales, systems engineering, and business program management for Hitachi, IBM and StorageTek.
Minh combines his expertise in leadership development with advanced technology. He has successfully applied the leading-edge GroupSmart technology in executive coaching, organizational change management, strategic plan development, global project management, resulting in break-through results in record time.
Minh is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the University of Hawaii, and has a B.S. from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. He has served on the boards of several Bay Area companies and non-profit foundations, including the American Leadership Forum of Silicon Valley.
For over a decade, Paul Anderson has combined his many years of management experience in the financial sector with his proven facilitation, coaching and organizational development skills to form his own, highly successful consulting business. Mr. Anderson is dedicated to assisting individuals and teams in building their capacity, achieving their mission, and improving the quality of their life in the workplace. He has provided leadership programs to firms such as Levi Strauss, Sun Micro Systems and Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, as well as local government agencies.
Currently, Paul is Dean of the School for Managing, whose faculty includes such internationally famed authors and teachers as Peter Block and Meg Wheatley. Mr. Anderson is associated with the Leadership Center West, whose use of Dialogic, a program for improving communication, is having a profound effect on organizations in the Bay Area. As a facilitator of the individual and team assessment tool, the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument, he is helping organizations raise awareness, understanding and acceptance of differences in thinking preferences.
Mr. Anderson is a trained educator in the Covey Leadership Center's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and Principle-Centered Leadership. He is an associate of the Wilfred Jarvis Institute and received his training as a Four Quadrant Leadership educator from Wilfred Jarvis. Mr. Anderson brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the area of leadership and to the development of human potential within dynamic organizations.
An ex-U.S. Navy Officer, serving a term in Vietnam, Mr. Anderson earned his MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and has a BA in Economics from the University of California, Davis.
"Steve Peck adds an unrivaled level of creative enthusiasm and compassionate leadership to our Foundation. He is a vital aspect of the ongoing success of this program!"
Steve Peck has 20 years of experience in facilitating group learning in camps and other experiential environments.
Steve has worked with numerous camping programs throughout the United States. He has worked with the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation since 1992 and is currently the director for the weeklong summer camp for 165 burn-injured children. As director, he manages a program staff of 14 and a counseling staff of more than 80 adults. Along with his active role in running the camp, he coordinates and plans games and learning activities for holiday parties, camp reunion picnics, adult retreat weekends, ski trips and other Burn Foundation events. He has done extensive work with the Northwest Burn Foundation since 1998 and is currently the director for their weeklong summer camp. He has been the program director for Wonder Valley Family camp since 2001 and recently took on the directorship for Riverway Ranch Camp. He has also worked with The Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation, Illinois Fire and Safety Alliance, and the Intermountain Burn Center. To round out his work with burn foundations, he has presented several workshops for enhancing training concepts at the bi-annual burn camp conferences.
He has spent 5 summer seasons working for The Biking Expedition as a bicycle tour leader. The Biking Expedition runs a wide variety of three to four weeklong bicycle tours for teenagers throughout the United States. Steve has led the majority of his trips in the New England states but he has also led trips in Nova Scotia and California. While the destinations alone provide for quality trips, it is the group dynamic that elevates most trips to excellent. Steve works hard to plan and organize games designed to increase the level of teamwork and cohesiveness among group members.
Steve grew up attending YMCA camps. He evolved into a counselor and eventually to camp director his last five seasons. As camp director, he was responsible for planning and overseeing daily activities, handling camp finances, and overall discipline.
Steve has a business degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with concentrations in Finance and Production Operations. He spent almost two years as a cost accountant for Chevron and five years a Financial Analyst for Hitachi Data Systems before branching into Team Effectiveness. As an associate of the Wilfred Jarvis Institute, he specializes in designing, organizing and facilitating experiential learning for clients. He also is a First Aid and CPR trainer. Other teambuilding events include work with the California State Rural Health Association, KLA-Tencor, Hitachi Data Systems, and Hughes Dental to name a few.