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Dan Heck

Dan is a veteran facilitator in leadership and process development, problem solving, effective presentations, creativity, and numerous other technical and performance topics. Schooled as a Mechanical Engineer at the University of Illinois, Dan spent 15 years at Honeywell Aerospace as a Principal Product Design Engineer, Principal Manufacturing Engineer, and part time trainer and internal executive consultant.

Dan began independent consulting in 1988 and has since trained, and trained trainers in more than twenty courses from robotics at Motorola to advanced facilitation skills for Hamburger University "Professors" at McDonalds. The most recent addition to Dan's portfolio is the fascinating theory of inventive problem solving known as TRIZ; Dan is one of a handful of trainers certified to deliver Motorola's proprietary TRIZ course.

Dan's primary focus will be to help clients increase employee utilization by transforming fire fighting cultures into effective planning and problem prevention environments using "special cause" problem solving methods such as WDP's RISE method, Ford's Global 8D, and innovation disciplines through TRIZ.
 

 


Ken Nowack

Ken is a licensed psychologist and Executive Director of Organizational Performance Dimensions (OPD) and specializes in 360-degree feedback, coaching, personnel assessment and career development.


Ken has over twenty years experience in the development and validation of assessment instruments and organizational surveys. He has developed extensive 360-degree feedback, personnel selection, succession planning, performance appraisal, and human resources training programs for clients in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
 

He received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles and his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Educational Psychology at the University of California, Davis.