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OE Consulting provides purpose driven companies, philanthropies, and nonprofits with executive search and organizational effectiveness solutions.Framework thinking —My intellectual training is in political economy; this is the thinking I bring to any challenge: using data to understand and address complex human, organizational, and environmental systems.Relationships first —Our firm is initially hired for our expertise. But the sustainability of our work lies in our collective personal and ethical commitments to place our clients’ mission and wellbeing ahead of any other consideration. The highest complement we have ever received from a client: “OE are precisely who they represent themselves to be.”Career progression —For two decades I worked at the program level, trying to make services and products work with on the ground to the benefit of people and places, often in post conflict communities. For the past two decades I’ve worked at the organizational and systems level, with the same ground-level outcomes in mind.Job progression —I began my career as a commodities broker, earned a doctorate from the London School of Economics, and have worked in economic development and global health since 1984. Since returning to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1996, I’ve served as CEO, executive director, and consultant to small companies, philanthropies, and nonprofits.Practice areas —Talent, strategy, organizational design, evaluation & learning.Purpose —Consultants work in mere supporting roles, but I’ve been privileged to contribute to: the profitability of privately held companies; measuring the impacts of philanthropic investments; developing a global center on disability in the U.S.; developing a full spectrum community health care system in East Africa; increasing educational and professional opportunities for people with disabilities; advancing the careers of women and people of color in business, philanthropy, and finance; reducing human trafficking; and supporting at-risk activists to create accountability for war crimes around the world.Personal —A fifth generation Californian, I spent three immediate post-university years overseas working at a series of farms, factories, and refugee camps. There, I performed administrative tasks, loaded trucks, counted human beings, and wrote a series of oral histories eventually read by nearly ten people. Beyond work, I focus on bikes, backpacks, and books. If I could spend the rest of my life just hanging around and eating (I can’t), I would rotate among Vietnam, Italy, and New Orleans.

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