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Kathleen Ryan

Principal: The Orion Partnership, a consulting firm near Seattle

Noteable: “an instinct for translating complex human behavior into practical concepts”

Practice focus: supports executives as they meet the challenges of rapidly changing business environments; helps individuals and groups address the difficult-to-talk-about, underlying issues that frequently block high performance

Published: Driving Fear Out of the Workplace: Creating the high-trust, high-performance organization (1991), co-authored with Daniel K. Oestreich, received the Society for Human Resource Management's 1992 Book Award.

The Courageous Messenger: How to successfully speak up at work (1996), co-authored with Daniel Oestreich and George Orr

Currently writing: Finding the Magic: How groups achieve extraordinary results, co-authored with Geoffrey Bellman

Published topics: accountability, collaboration, organizational transformation, resistance to change, group process facilitation, sexual harassment, and peer pressure

Founding member: Community Consulting Partnership — a Seattle-based effort that helps volunteers improve their organization consulting skills while they provide service to local non-profit organizations

Education: BA degree, University of California at Berkeley; Master’s in Public Administration, University of Southern California.

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