Gary W. Craig, MA, SPHR

Mr. Gary Craig is a non-traditional senior organization development and change management professional with over fifteen years of increasingly responsible experience driving optimal performance and human capital within organizations. He has a record of achievements in improving individual and organizational performance through  analysis, design and implementation of leadership, management development, human resources development, process improvement, change management and cultural interventions. Most recently, Mr. Craig was a Principal Consultant with Perot Systems Corporation, a $3B technical solutions company. Prior to that, he founded his own management consulting firm, Organizational Effectiveness Consultants Group, (OEConsultGroup) in 1989, but worked almost exclusively with Vector Group, Inc., a boutique global consulting firm for eighteen years. He contributed significantly to a number of large-scale strategic initiatives in the US, UK, Europe, Mexico and South America. Most of his work focused on organizational effectiveness which can include organizational diagnostics, individual assessment, executive coaching, leadership development, group facilitation, management and employee training and teambuilding. Mr. Craig teaches at two online universities including Jones International University®.

An avid writer, Mr. Craig published several articles in the field of organizational development, leadership and human resources. He co-authored and published an article with Mr. Claude Lineberry in the UK entitled The Management Mirror: Helping Senior Executive Teams See Their Own Reality. Both authors were selected as "Highly Commended Award Winners" by the Emerald Literati Club for writing one of the best papers published in their chosen field in 2002. He recently co-authored and published with Barbara A. W. Eversole Seeing the Elephant: Linking Theory and Practice to Integrate the Parts of Executive Coaching and Propose a Definition in the proceedings of the Academy of Human Resource Development 2006 conference. Mr. Craig held numerous leadership positions at the local and national level of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) as President of the Rocky Mountain Chapter in Denver, Chair of the National Advisors for Chapters and as a member of the ASTD National Board of Directors. He was invited to be the first Organization Development Forum Field Editor for “Performance in Practice” where he authored several articles on organization development and effectiveness including The Human Side of Change, Making the Culture Enhance Organizational Performance, Moving toward Organization Development and Performance Consulting, Emerging Trends in Leadership Development and Managing Human Resources during Uncertain Times.