ALLENVISION - Key Persons

A bad boss creates fear - a leader creates confidence. A bad boss fixes blame - a leader corrects mistakes. A bad boss knows all, - a leader asks questions. A bad boss makes work drudgery - a leader makes it interesting.

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• Coach

Coach Bill focused on building trusting relationships, fostering personal growth, inspiring courage, and finding and resolving simmering tensions that arise in fast-moving environments. Coach Bill was an expert at setting up those conditions. Furthermore, Campbell went to extraordinary lengths to build psychological safety. In essence, people knew that if they took risks, their manager would have their back. Moreover, he set clear goals, each role was meaningful, and members were reliable and confident that the team's mission would make a difference.

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• Administrator
• Consultant
• Vice President, Advanced Analytics

Cathy Allen is an accomplished leader, consultant, administrator and collaborative researcher. Her major strengths are in higher education, project management, program development and review, policy analysis, institutional research, quantitative and qualitative research methodology, survey development and writing.

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• Chief Financial Officer and Director of Administration at Professional Engineers Ontario
• Vice President, Audit and Regulatory

Daria is an accomplished executive with 25-years experience in public and private sectors in a variety senior roles. Daria has served as the Chief Financial Officer and Director of Administration at Professional Engineers Ontario. He provided leadership for accounting, budgeting, finance, internal audit, strategic and business planning, customer service, billing, project management office, document management, mail room, facilities, and procurement. He was instrumental in strengthening the association's financial position. Daria has provided management consulting services which resulted in winning repeat businesses and gaining customer trust and confidence. At the DTE/Probyn Energy Solutions, he served as the VP for the transition consulting and co-authored "The People-side of Restructuring." The company established its brand in the Canadian marketplace in less than one year. At Scarborough PUC, Daria served as manager of business planning and budgeting where he helped develop and strategically focus the organization's $80 million budget. Daria played a key role in assisting operational managers and their teams to achieve operational efficiency. Under Daria's leadership, Scarborough PUC became the first utility in Canada to fully implement activity-based costing and use it in its rate setting process. Throughout his careers, Daria developed, trained, and built teams leading to enhanced business processes, improved operations and customer service, and delivery of outstanding results. Daria is an accomplished executive with 25-years experience in public and private sectors in a variety of senior roles. Including at the Ontario Energy Board where Daria led audits of regulated entities resulting in the OEB's increased regulatory oversights; as the Chief Financial Officer and Director of Administration at Professional Engineers Ontario; management consulting services, and as manager of business planning and budgeting at Scarborough PUC.

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• Founder and Principal of Ideas for Action
• President and CEO, Ideas for Action, LLC

Jean Frankel is founder and principal of Ideas for Action, LLC. She is an internationally known and respected management consultant, educator, facilitator and executive coach, and is a trusted thought partner to senior academic and administrative leaders in colleges and universities, as well as CEOs and executive directors of professional and philanthropic nonprofit organizations. Frankel's current or recent clients include senior leaders at the University of Michigan, Washington State University, Michigan State University, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. As an experienced consultant, Frankel also helps organizations find solutions to critical issues and challenges. She is a proven strategist, with group process and analytical skills enhancing her ability to develop collaborative solutions with clients in the areas of strategic planning, leadership development, and organizational structure, process and culture change. In addition to her work in higher education, Frankel is also regarded as a major contributor to the unique body of knowledge of association management and leadership in membership organizations. She is co-author of three best-selling books -The Will to Govern Well, considered a classic on association governance, Building a Knowledge-Based Culture, focusing on the special dynamics of membership organizations, and her new work on leadership From Insight to Action: Six New Ways to Think, Lead and Achieve, all published by Association Management Press. Prior to founding Ideas for Action, LLC in 1995, Frankel led large-scale planning and organizational change efforts for major corporations such as American Express and AT&T. She has also had functional responsibility in strategic planning, marketing and sales, information technology, customer service, engineering, manufacturing and human resources. Frankel holds a B.A. from Muhlenberg College, did graduate work in Journalism and Mass Communications at New York University, and is a graduate of Columbia University's Executive and Organizational Coaching Certification Program, a strategic partnership between the Columbia Business School and the Teacher's College Executive Education Department. Certified at the highest level as an Executive and Organizational Coach from Columbia University. She is also certified in the following leadership assessments tools: NBI (Neethling Brain Instrument), Hogan Development Series (HDS, HPI, MVPI), MHS Emotional Intelligence Inventory (EQ-I 2.0) and Culture in the Workplace Assessment. (CWQ) Jean Frankel is the founder and principal of Ideas for Action, LLC. She is an internationally known and respected management consultant, educator, facilitator and executive coach, and is a trusted thought partner to senior academic and administrative leaders in colleges and universities, as well as CEOs and executive directors of professional and philanthropic nonprofit organizations.

Job Titles:

• Expert
• Goal Alignment Expert

Jim Harcourt is a goal alignment expert. He is an accomplished integrative thinker, who sees the problem, embraces its multi-varied nature, and understands the complex interactions of its human, organizational, policy and structural relationships and uses competing organizational interests. As a senior executive with over 30 years of experience, Jim founded J. A. Harcourt and Associates Limited in 1999 with the vision of enabling his client base to respond to aggressive (and often volatile or ill-defined) enterprise goals through the identification and achievement of fully integrated, pragmatic and highly innovative alignment of all enterprise goals, strategies and resources. Since its inception, J. A. Harcourt and Associates has been highly successful in assisting private and public sector enterprises in aggressively achieving their enterprise strategies. Jim is the creator of the Alignment Model of Governance and the discipline of Contribution Based Budgeting. His alignment methodologies and related software have enabled enterprises to reach levels of alignment and performance previously not achievable through traditional approaches. His success in these undertakings has led Jim to be considered a "Pragmatic Visionary" by many of his executive clientele. Jim's executive experience includes Executive and Vice President positions in a variety of corporations including: KMPG International Campbell Soup Canada AVCO Financial Services SHL Systemhouse International

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• Chief Executive Officer

Kim inspires and develops leaders to achieve strategies for long-term success. With more than 25 years of accomplishment as a chief executive in the public, private and association sectors, Kim knows that developing and implementing strategy is the key to any organization's long-term success. He provides governance, strategy, restructuring, operational excellence consulting services, and finds and develops exceptional leaders. Kim Allen brings clients a big-picture view that balances innovative thinking with the practical mindset that can only be gained by leading organizations. He draws on his 25+ years of accomplishment as a chief executive in the public, private, regulatory, and association sectors and experience across all major business functional areas. As an agile leader, Kim works with business leaders around the world to build and strengthen governance, strategy, organizational alignment, and operational excellence. Also, he works with clients to find and develop exceptional leaders. Kim cares about the people and understands the bottom line.

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• Global Organizational Development / Human Resources Executive

Paul Frederik is a Global Organizational Development and Human Resources Management professional with 25+ years of executive leadership success. Expert at analyzing and interpreting organizational structures and change, business transformation, developing strategic direction, and creating continuous process improvement programs that add value, focus on efficiency and align with company objectives. Proven success in resolving complex organizational, financial and technical deficiencies; developing and implementing innovative methodologies; and maximizing sales and service productivity to position companies for long-term growth and success. Dynamic leader recognized for sound judgment, troubleshooting, and initiative under pressure.