CPM Instructor: Jeff Russell

Jeff Russell, co-director of Russell Consulting, Inc. (RCI) with his wife Linda, specializes in helping leaders build productive, supportive, and motivating work environments. RCI helps companies develop their leadership and strengthen team performance to achieve their great performance goals and outcomes. By guiding the exploration of key values held in common by organizational members and developing strategies and actions to express these values-in-action, RCI helps organizations achieve their strategic vision. Through processes that include "visioning" retreats, Future Search conferences, process redesigns, improving decision making processes, implementing quality improvement strategies, and providing a variety of skill-building seminars, RCI enhances long-term organizational effectiveness and performance.

Consulting Expertise

Jeff conducts an array of leadership and team development seminars on such topics as:

• business process reengineering
• decision making and problem solving
• leadership and strategic thinking/planning
• leading change
• managing conflict and win/win negotiations
• performance coaching skills
• performance management
• project management
• team building fundamentals
• team leadership and facilitation skills
• total quality tools and techniques
• train the trainer

Jeff consults with public and private organizations in the areas of:

• balanced scorecards/dashboards
• customer and employee focus groups
• developing leadership
• employee attitude surveys
• employee retention programs
• Future Search conferences
• leading and implementing change
• organizational design
• self-managed teams
• systems thinking applications for business
• team assessment and intervention
• total quality management
• training needs assessment
• visioning and strategic planning

Training Expertise and Professional Background:

Jeff serves as an adjunct faculty member at UW Madison, UW-Milwaukee, and UW-Green Bay. He is also on the teaching faculty of the UW-Madison and UW Milwaukee Small Business Development Centers.

Jeff has a bachelor's in Humanism and Cultural Change and a Masters of Science degree in Industrial Relations from UW-Madison. Before forming RCI, Jeff served as human resource coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA). At DOA, Jeff developed and coordinated their employee assistance, leadership and employee development, and equal employment opportunity/affirmative action programs.

Conference Presenter and Author

Jeff and his wife Linda have co-authored six management books: Managing Change, Managing the Problem Employee, So You Want to be a CEO?, Leading Change Training, Strategic Planning Training, and Change Basics (ASTD Press, 2006).

Learn more about Jeff by visiting his Website at www.russellconsultinginc.com