BarnHouse Enterprises offers a team of professionals with decades of experience in consulting major corporations world wide.

 

Eileen Morgan, Ph.D.

Eileen Morgan, Ph.D., is a partner in the organization development and strategy implementation firm BarnHouse Enterprises. Formerly a partner in Morgan Kayhoe, Inc., she has worked globally with a wide variety of corporations, industries, and non-profits.

 

Morgan’s work centers on strategy implementation in large organizations, aimed at increasing an organization’s capability to deliver business results. Morgan, as she is known, was a founding consultant for GE’s acclaimed Work-Out™ and Change Acceleration Processes, and served on the faculty of GE’s Leadership Development Institute for ten years. Recent clients include Ingersoll-Rand, multiple businesses within The General Electric Company, General Motors, Cable & Wireless plc, The Chicago Tribune Company, The 3M Company, Pillsbury, United Distillers & Vintners, and Stanley Works. She has been a faculty member in several of the country’s premier executive leadership institutions including GE Crotonville, Boeing Leadership Center, Cornell University’s Executive Education Center, and General Motors University. Morgan is also a faculty member with The Fielding Graduate University’s Masters in Organization Development program and Fielding’s Center for Innovation in the Non-Profit Sector.

 

Much of Morgan’s consulting work over the past several decades has been with global companies. She spent her early corporate years with The Chase Manhattan Bank in assignments ranging from organization development manager, where she consulted with senior Operations and Systems executives, to line management, implementing global operations marketing strategies for international ship owners and operators. While affiliated with The Experiment in International Living (now World Learning, Inc.), Morgan developed programs in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Her first book, Cutting the Red Tape: How Western Companies Can Profit in the New Russia, was published by The Free Press in 1993 and co-authored with a Russian psychologist.Morgan was involved with the launch of General Electric's corporate wide change processes known as Work-Out™ and CAP (Change Acceleration Process). In October 1993 Morgan was a featured speaker for the first GE Russia-Ukraine Work-Out™ with business heads and joint venture partners. She has consulted extensively in England, Europe, India, Ireland, Russia and Central Europe.

 

Dr. Morgan is also the founder of Ethical Capital, a consulting, training, and organizational strategy component of BarnHouse Enterprises dedicated to developing organizational resources that build ethical capacity in global organizations. A frequent speaker at organizational and business ethics conferences, she is the author of Navigating Cross-Cultural Ethics: What Global Managers Do Right To Keep From Going Wrong (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998). She earned a doctorate in Human and Organizational Systems from The Fielding Graduate University, an M.A. in Organization Development, and an M.S. in Counseling. Her current research and practice interests include accelerating systemic change in global companies, business ethics in the cross-cultural context and global management competencies.When not spending time with her organizational “day job.”

 

Morgan is a cabaret singer and performer, known as Morgan, The Ph.Diva.

 

Keith Melville

Keith is a professor, consultant, writer and workshop leader. For 20 years, he has been a member of the core faculty of the Fielding Graduate University, a Ph.D. program for mid-life adults. In his work as professor at Fielding, and in other settings (including the Chautauqua Institute), he has designed and led hundreds of seminars and workshops, including workshops on midlife development and change.

 

One of the themes of his writings – which include five books and more than 50 magazine-length reports on a wide variety of topics – is personal life style choices, and cultural influences that shape those choices. This was the topic of his first book, Communes in the Counter Culture, (New York: William Morrow, 1971), which was a featured Book of the Month Club selection. He is also the author of Marriage and Family Today, (New York: Random House, five editions) which for years was a leading college text. He was the senior writer of a volume on The Quality of American Life, prepared for the Carter White House as part of the work of the President’s Commission for a National Agenda for the 1980’s.

 

He was one of the founders of the National Issues Forums, a consortium of community-based discussion groups that now convenes groups in more than a thousand communities nationwide.

 

For 18 years, Dr. Melville was Senior Vice President of the Public Agenda Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan firm started by former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and pollster Dan Yankelovich which examines public issues and interprets the public’s views on those issues.

 

Gruffie Clough

Gruffie is a leadership and team process consultant from Denver, Colorado. She has designed and facilitated multiple healthy community partnerships throughout the United States. She has worked on an on-going bases with over 30 communities to increase collaboration and dialogue skills. She is one of the authors of the "Facilitating Community Partnership" materials and training events. In addition to this work, she works with corporations in the areas of leadership and team development. She is also an Outward Bound course director and leads wilderness adventures. She and her husband Bob, also work with community development projects in Kenya and Ethiopia.

 

Daniel J. Distelhorst, Ph. D.

Dan is uniquely effective in guiding groups towards getting good work done together. He has extensive expertise and experience in:

• Executive Coaching & Executive Team Development
• Facilitation
• Cross-Cultural Collaboration Education – showing people from different cultures
  (gender, ethnic, organizational, professional, etc.) how to work together respectfully and effectively
• Change Implementation Planning
• Management Training & Leadership Development

 

In addition to serving his wide variety of clients over the past 4 years as an independent consultant, Dan draws on 30 years of prior experience within organizations. He gained 13 years experience as a line manager with the Air Force, Xerox, and as the managing owner of a small business. He acquired thirteen years of training & organizational development (OD) experience at ISC and Group Health. He holds a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Development from the Fielding Graduate Institute (1995) and teaches on the adjunct faculty for Gonzaga University’s Masters Program in Organizational Leadership.

 

Meg Hartzler

Meg has been consulting with organizations since 1987. The challenges of major change efforts have been the focus of her work:

• executive and organizational alignment
• accelerting change acceptance
• redesigning key processes
• building capability and culture to support the change.

 

She has extensive involvement with General Electric’s Work-out™ and Change Acceleration (CAP) processes and was a member of the team that designed a methodology for preparing internal coaches and consultants to facilitate those processes.

 

Before moving to consulting, Meg led early total quality implementation in a Fortune 500 company. In the public sector, she led the reorganization and new team development of a troubled school. As a consultant, she has worked nationally and internationally in a broad range of organizations.

 

As a result of her passion for teamwork, she has become a recognized author in the area of team effectiveness. Meg’s books, Team Fitness and Tools for Virtual Teams, are how-to manuals for building winning work teams. Meg holds a Masters degree from the University of Colorado and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa.

 

Eric Malmborg

Eric Malmborg is an organizational development consultant specializing in team effectiveness, leadership development, multi-group collaborative efforts and organizational change. Prior to founding Malmborg & Associates, Eric worked with Dr. Carl Larson in his company, Learning Profiles, a company doing research and consulting in the areas of diversity, interpersonal and team effectiveness, and collaborative change efforts. Eric also served as Vice President of Programs for the American Leadership Forum, an organization created to develop the capabilities of distinguished leaders in America in order to effect fundamental change in both the private and public sector. Eric was instrumental in designing and conducting executive programs for the Colorado Outward Bound School, and also co-founded and led The Executive Ventures Group, a consulting organization known for their innovative team-building programs.

 

Eric has also been intimately involved with efforts to adapt GE's Work-Out™ process in a variety of GE customer/partner organizations including E&J Gallo Winery, Tri Valley Growers, Federal Express, StorageTek, General Mills, Columbia Energy Group, Texas Eastern Products Pipeline Company, Kelsey-Sebold Medical Clinics, Metavante, and General Motors. In that capacity, he has helped to introduce GE's Work-Out™ and Change Acceleration Processes, and has designed and delivered training to in-house facilitators/coaches to increase internal capability to support those processes.

 

Mike McNamara

Mike has worked as an internal consultant, implementing change initiatives within organizations for twenty years. Working with business leaders and key stakeholders, he develops frameworks and drives change processes to improve business performance.

 

Mike draws from his experiences at GE where he led large scale change initiatives to improve productivity and quality, through the effective application of Work-Out, Change Acceleration Process and Six Sigma concepts. His experience spans heavy industrial, military equipment and high volume medical device manufacturing, in addition to financial services and electric utility operations. Mike’s talents enable him to develop effective consulting relationships with individuals and groups, producing improved and sustainable business results through process change and skill development.

 

Mike completed his bachelor’s degree in Management Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his master’s degree in Business Administration at the University of Massachusetts. He is currently pursuing an advanced certificate in Change Management at the NTL Institute.