Christopher Dawson Email & Phone Number

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Dawson Consulting Group in Silicon Valley, California, is an organizational effectiveness firm, founded in 1989, focused on helping organizations align culture with strategy through optimization of executives, leadership teams, and the key processes and structures they are responsible for. The firm is composed of senior professionals with background in psychology, organizational development and human resources. The firm is located in Silicon Valley, but also has a significant presence in Honolulu.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Individual and Team Leadership Coaching with Top Executives. Senior Partner with the O'Brien Group out of Cincinnati

Leadership coaching with four senior project managers. Succession planning.

Organization transformation, executive team assessment and development, CEO advisory. I performed numerous individual and team leadership assessment and coaching projects, as well as pre-hire candidate assessments of a new cohort of hires by new and first-time CEO Alicia Moy and her new team as she shaped the organizational culture to be more proactive, leadership initiative and accountability against the backdrop of an entrenched, unionized 'utility' culture.

Howard Hughes Corporation is large national real estate firm with 10 development projects at various stages of evolution from conceive and build to operate. I worked mostly with the Honolulu team, the corporate HR team in Dallas and executive leadership around issues of talent identification, development plans and support in optimizing development plans over time. I also did many pre-hire candidate 'fit assessments' looking at risks and rewards of various finalist candidates for top leadership positions across the entire company.

CEO coach, Strategy, Leadership & Culture Change organizational transformation. Design and implementation of strategy process. Design & implementation of New Legacy Leaders middle management development program. Helped organization transition from potential closure to vibrant growth.

Strategic planning and organizational effectiveness. Executive team and individual development. I helped manage the hiring, development and final succession of the new President, working with the then President, Richard Dahl and the Board to optimize both the process and content decisions of that very successful process.

Honolulu, Hawaii , Us

Culture alignment with strategy; executive team alignment with culture; executive coaching and development. I was essentially Outrigger's external senior organizational development professional, working closely with CEO David Carey on a diverse set of challenges the organization faced as it made strategic acquisitions in the Pacific and Southeast Asia, as well as US Mainland. I did pre-hire candidate assessments on all senior hires, continuing with the most senior in a coaching role in context of the top leadership team. I consulting to organizational design, process and to all the functional groups at one time or another over my 27 year relationship with the organization.

Executive Coaching of Physician Executives

Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

Executive Coach and Organizational Development Consultant in a variety of EA's many divisions. I worked closely with Andy Billings, VP of Sustainable Profitability, my primary sponsor mostly on leadership development in both the Redwood Shores, Los Angeles and briefly with the Copenhagen Studios.

Executive and Individual and Team Coaching. I came into CalPers' Investment Division in a challenging time following revelation of a 'pay to play' breach of ethical practices. I was coach to Real DesRoschers and his Investment Team, doing both individual and team development in an often tense and suspicious period shortly after the prior head of investment had been terminated.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Assessment and recommendations for organizational design to accommodate explosive growth. CEO and team development coach in scaling the organization.

Honolulu, Hi, Us

Organizational assessment, culture change, individual and executive leadership assessment and development plans. CEO and executive team coaching. Consultation to strategy design and implementation in this rapidly grown Professional Employment Organization.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Professional development and supervision of PhD and Master's level Organizational Psychology students.Oversight, quality control and matching of students and internships for the San Francisco campus Field Placement program.

Duarte, Ca, Us

Org effectiveness of clinical information system implementation. Individual & team development in support of enterprise culture change and organizational transformation

Culture assessment and change road map aligned to future business capabilities.

Executive competency development and candidate selection

Consultation to HR around competency based assessment and interviewing.

Pasadena, California, Us

Leadership effectiveness with top executives and Board of Directors. Culture Change and Talent Management.

Louisville, Ky, Us

Executive Level Individual and Team Development. Culture change and organization transformation.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Executive effectiveness, talent management, team development consultant

Midland, Michigan, Us

Executive On Boarding and Leadership Coaching; Team Building

Beaverton, Or, Us

Strategic planning; culture alignment; executive coaching; team development

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Helped LinkedIn executive team align and optimize company culture during a period of explosive growth just prior to their successful IPO. My sponsor was Dan Nye company president brought in by Reid Hoffman but later replaced by Jeff Weiner who took the company successfully through the IPO and Microsoft acquisition.

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Management consulting firm

Individual and Team Executive Coaching with DigiDesign Leadership Team

Wilmington, Ma, Us

Parallel engagements focused on culture change to align with new strategy and structure, along with executive individual and team assessments, coaching and implementation.

Conceived and founded this management consulting firm - spun off in 2006

Phoenix, Az, Us

Conducted culture change and individual/team executive assessments with this rapidly-growing organization.

Monterey, Ca, Us

Culture change, initially in the Latin America region, and subsequently around creating an Innovation Culture enterprise wide.

Culture change focused on innovation. Executive and team development to the President and divisional leadership teams. HR team effectiveness

Executive Coaching to Top Leadership Team. Succession Planning

San Jose, California, Us

Culture change, organizational design, executive leadership and team development to C-level team.

Consulted to CEO and executive team with focus on better collaboration between corporate center & regions; Innovant spin off; numerous organizational effectiveness, executive coaching and team building projects.

Designed and delivered enterprise change management program to support 2-year/18 module Oracle ERP implementation. Team effectiveness and leadership coaching to Core team, Executive Steering Team and regional geographies in support of a high performance culture.

Chicago, Il, Us

Executive assessment and coaching. Organizational effectiveness and culture change programs. RHR taught me the business as I transitioned from Clinical and Healthcare Administration work to organizational development. I went through their 2-year very high quality training in Chicago in 1-2 week windows couple times a year. I left at the beginning of year 4 after surpassing all billing goals but then not receiving the very modest bump in salary and bonus that had been promised in writing. I left RHR on good terms during a period when many other junior consultants departed under similar circumstances. I was the 'new guy' asked to take over all the Honolulu accounts (Hawaiian Electric Company and Bank of Hawaii). When I left RHR all my Hawaii clients opted to continue with me, complaining they had 'broken me in' after 2-3 cycles of changing consultants which they saw as disruptive. I worked with Bank of Hawaii for more than 25 years consulting to 3 CEO succession transitions, disruptive change in the finance sector brough on by Glass-Steagall, and helped on the people side for all of Bank of Hawaii's many strategic acquisitions. Hawaiian Electric lasted 15 years doing very similar kinds of projects: moving a conflict-avoidant 'utility' culture to a more professional one with greater accountability and higher performance standards.

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Designed and managed therapeutic community for innovative 100-bed inpatient psychiatric facility. I was very proud of my accomplishments in creating a true therapeutic community. This experience got me excited about management, leadership and organizational development which I pursued with RHR shortly after leavingl Villa Fairmont Inpatient.

Mba, Graduate Business

Ph.D, Clinical Psychology

Ms, Counseling Psychology

Ba, Psychology

Philosophy

Hs Degree, General Hs