Wally operates his own management consulting and organizational development firm, and frequently collaborates with other consulting organizations as a strategic partner in client engagements and R &D work. His practice covers organizational assessment, research and planning (including employee surveys, culture studies, needs analyses, and audits of organizational change projects); strategic planning and team building (including process design and facilitation of planning meetings); training and feedback programs; and systems work in organizational planning, performance management and other areas.
During more than 25 years of independent consulting experience, he has worked in the not-for-profit, association, governmental and private sectors. Public and nonprofit clients have included Federal agencies (US Fish and Wildlife Service, Customs Service, Departments of Education and Commerce, military agencies, and others), state and local agencies (Massachusetts Departments of Education and Public Welfare, Quincy Public Schools, others), and associations. His corporate work has ranged from pharmaceutical to high-technology to fast food organizations.
Wally’s ongoing interests focus on helping organizations, networks and leaders be proactive in dealing with changes in their environments and, internally, in their relationships with employees, members or constituents. For example:
- designing better ways to handle change by adapting emerging management innovations so that they meet distinctive organizational needs and styles;
- creating processes to leverage communication at individual, group and organizational or community levels through use of dialogue, deliberation and feedback concepts;
- applying the arts (from visual to music to dance) intentionally to enhance creativity, communication and collaboration, as well as to generate individual and social energy; and
- designing and facilitating "contracts" that will guide individuals to participate collectively in ways that serve multiple purposes — personal growth, mutual support, active collaboration, advocacy, etc.
Before forming his own consulting practice, Wally worked for Harvard University and Management Systems Corporation. He has had teaching affiliations with M.I.T., University of Massachusetts, and University of Michigan. He holds a B.A. degree with Honors from Swarthmore College and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.
Online Courses Taught:
CRCRTH618 Creative Thinking, Collaboration and Organizational Change
