Doug Wesley

As an Executive Practitioner with ChangeCraft, Doug Wesley is a veteran professional change agent. He was educated in social sciences and trained as a therapist. Then, he worked as an entrepreneur and a manager to test his theories in real life. In 1977, he and a partner formed a consulting firm, The Hall Wesley Group, to design and conduct a dozen different seminars that showed leaders how to get the best from their relationships with people.

After a decade of training thousands of managers for corporate clients, Wesley came to understand that individual performance is shaped more by an organization’s structure and culture than by the interpersonal behaviors of its leaders. Within a few years, he had shifted his work entirely to the emerging technology of transforming organizations, and was serving as a trusted and innovative advisor to many chief executives.

Wesley is an inventor and a writer. He authored both of our computer-based training programs and invented the concepts that underlie them. He developed our Functional Job Analysis process, which databases the content of all an organization’s jobs in such a way that activities can be separated from positions and organizations so they can be analyzed. With Kaye Whitefeather, he created the foundation for our transformation methodology. Most recently, his seminal work on retaining knowledge workers was excerpted for publication in Information Outlook magazine.

For the last two decades, his consulting work has increasingly focused on the most difficult of organizational changes: those that require reinventing work structures and transforming corporate cultures in stable companies that are proud of their successful histories. To this end, he formed ChangeCraft with a small group of veteran change agents to focus wholly on organizational transformation. Wesley was the Principal Change Agent for our Lucent Technologies, Motorola and USA Today projects.

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