Gordon Walter was originally an engineer. He worked as a production manager for Proctor & Gamble and on high performance metals development for the Boeing Aircraft Company. He became a Professor of Management and Organization at UBC in 1970, where he primarily taught MBA students and Executive Program participants in the Sauder School of Business. He also taught MBA's at UCLA's Anderson School of Business. He has been a full time business-man for over a decade and his primary expertise and consulting talents are in the following areas:-Strategy implementation: From resource flows to tactics, to adaptation moves in marketing/sales.-Mergers and acquisitions: Planning, sequencing implementation phases, and meshing issues-Organizational diagnosis, design, redesign, and re-engineering-Reorganization: From downsizing to turnaround-Implementing improved management policies and proceduresConsulting Experience (primary issues and activities):-Strategy implementation, organization redesign and post-redesign procedures and safeguards, inter-unit coordination and synchronization issues.-Merger and acquisition planning and implementation.-Facilitator of management retreats in ongoing, in-house, modes of organization analysis, diagnosis and change.-Crisis intervention, with related strategic planning and team building.-Executive and CEO coaching, as well as executive group coaching. Executive career transition planning.-Conflict management: Team mediation. Labour mediation & negotiations. Development of advanced programs and conducting related training.-Worked with many medium and large corporations in a variety of consulting roles, as indicated above. Primary work with smaller businesses as a TEC facilitator and coach.Currently serves as a coach to CEO's of early stage companies.O'S