Don Swartz

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Currently: founder and president, Effectiveness Resource Group, Inc.

Founder: International Institute for the Study of Systems Renewal, a non-profit educational corporation that pioneered adult learning in applying whole systems theory and thinking to the design and leadership of change

Co-created in 1979 with Dr. Gordon L. Lippitt the Organization Systems Renewal (OSR) Master's program

Consulting clients: over 500 organizations throughout the United States and Canada in public and private sectors, profit and not-for-profit, raw materials industry, manufacturing, distribution, transportation, government, sales and service, social service, unions, wholesale, retail; from one-person entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 corporations

Previously: Director of Training, Education and Development at Weyerhaeuser, leading the first internal organizational effectiveness consulting group in the company

Awards: American Society for Training and Development's first annual Gordon Lippitt award (1988)

email Don@consultdon.com

Faculty
  • OSR-1 Master's (1980–1982)
  • OSR-2 Master's (1982–1984)
  • OSR-3 Master's (1984–1986)
  • OSR-4 Master's (1986–1988)
  • OSR-5 Master's (1988–1990)
  • OSR-6 Master's (1991–1993)
  • OSR-7 Master's (1993–1995)
  • OSR-8 Master's (1995–1997)
Visiting Presenter
Page updated Wed, March 25, 2009
Graduate program in Organization Systems Renewal
College of Arts & Sciences
901 12th Ave., P.O. Box 222000,
Seattle, WA 98122-1090

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