| Richard Pascale, Ph.D. |
As an advisor to CEOs and senior executives of many Fortune 500 companies, his work addresses the intersection of strategy and organization. His specific expertise encompasses the design, facilitation and mobilization of large scale organizational change in pursuit of strategic intentions. He received his MBA and doctorate from Harvard Business School and was a Baker Scholar. Dr. Pascale recently co-authored Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business, which bridges from recent findings in the life sciences to practical applications in mobilizing change. He co-authored (with Anthony Athos), the best-selling book, The Art of Japanese Management, a selection of numerous book clubs and published in 20 languages. His 1990 book, Managing on the Edge: How the Smartest Companies Use conflict to Stay Ahead, received critical acclaim as one of the best business books of the decade. Dr. Pascale has published numerous articles, and received the McKinsey Award for best article in the Harvard Business Review. His most recent article, “Crisis at the Summit” (coauthored with George Parsons) appears in the March 2007 Harvard Business Review. His article, “Your Company’s Secret Change Agents” (coauthored with Jerry Sternin) was among the most widely read articles on change in the Harvard Business Review in 2005. Other articles include “Laws of Jungle and the New Laws of Business,” Leader to Leader; “Changing The Way We Change,” Harvard Business Review (co-authored with Mark Millemann and Linda Gioja), and “The Re-invention Roller Coaster," written with Tracy Goss and Anthony Athos, Harvard Business Review. Pascale’s current and former clients include AT&T, BAE Systems, British Gas, British Petroleum, Cable and Wireless, Ciba Geigy, Coca Cola, Cummins, Diageo, Genentech, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Guinness, Intel, JP Morgan/Chase, Levi Strauss, Motorola, The New York Times, and Royal Dutch/Shell. In conjunction with articles and books, he has conducted extensive research at BP, Ford, General Electric, General Motors, Honda, Matsushita, Monsanto, Sears and Shell. Pascale served as advisor in Iraq to U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad during the summer of 2005. This work entailed the transition of the new ambassador into his post and the management of the largest U.S. mission in the world. He was a White House Fellow, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Labor and Senior Staff of a White House Task Force. In the latter capacity, he participated in the reorganization of the Executive Office of the President, which established the Office of Management and Budget. He has been active in consulting to government and not for profit organizations, including the World Economic Forum, the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom, the United States Army, the Department of Interior, U.S. AID, the Sierra Club, the Appalachian Regional Commission, Save The Children, and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. BBC dedicated a program series to his work. He is also the subject of a four-hour video on Transformation available through the BBC Executive Video Series. |