Who are the experts
needed to take your organization to the next level? Manufacturing
engineers? Project managers? Corporate trainers? Software
designers?
CEATH Company associates are all of the above—plus attorneys,
accountants, financial analysts and more. They are experts
in their respective fields, bringing years of experience to
bear on your challenges and opportunities.
Our goal is to build your internal capabilities for meeting
your own challenges. We never want to build a permanent home
for ourselves—we assemble a team of experts for your
particular challenge, work with you to resolve the issues
and leave as soon as you’re ready to handle things on
your own. We may start out as consultants, but we frequently
end up as personal friends.
Martin Ramsay is an internationally
recognized expert in combining organizational and human resource
development with business information technology to leverage
organizational effectiveness. He has a background in information
systems design and organizational development. He combines
this experience when he works on projects with such clients
as Vermeer Manufacturing, General Motors, Arvin Industries,
the US Army SWCPOC and many others.
Wayne
Townsend
Wayne Townsend is an executive manager with a solid record of
achievement in situations requiring integration of diverse elements
impacting various systems. He has a keen understanding of the
critical relationship between business performance and the cultural
support environment as well as the ability to analyze issues,
design innovative solutions, and implement practical plans.
His career with General Motors spanned many years and although
he initially worked in the manufacturing and engineering departments,
most of his experience has been in sales, service and marketing.
He held a number of increasingly responsible positions in both
field and corporate functions.
Loren
Ramsay
Loren has a masters degree in chemical engineering and 20
years of experience in groundwater supply and contamination.
His background is in consulting, but he also teaches courses
at engineering schools and universities. His wide international
experience includes contamination investigations at the DOE
sites in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, design of arsenic removal plants
for European water supplies, investigation of radioactivity
at Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, Lithuania, and groundwater
remediation at major well field, T¨ököl Air
Base, Budapest.
Nick Poppenk
Nick has extensive experience in the automotive and training
and development fields. He worked for General Motors Europe
where he assisted in the design and implementation of components
of the GME Quality Network Retail System (QNRS). He also consulted
around QNRS implementation issues within Vauxhall, Opel and
the NSCs. Nick also had extensive consulting experience with
General Motors of Canada. In the past he has served as President
of Podemos Performance Inc., co-founder of V/NS Educational
Video Inc. and The New Service Alliance Inc., Chairman/CEO of
Impco Health Services Ltd., president of Wilson Learning Limited
(Canada) and corporate lawyer with McCatthy & McCarthy in
Toronto, all of which makes Nick a rather broadly-based and
unique individual.
Liane
Gray-Starner, Ph. D.
Liane Gray-Starner has a doctorate degree in organizational
communications which she puts to use working with organizations
in industry, academics, and non-profit sectors. She consults
to implement organizational change for increased effectiveness
in such areas as communnications, interpersonal relationships,
process design, and training development. She has worked with
such diverse clients as the government of Singapore, Saab Opel
Sverige, the US Office of Public Debt, and Marietta College.
Hill Kemp
Hill Kemp has twenty-five years of successful industrial operating,
project and management experience and an additional ten years
experience in organizational development consulting with a specialties
in team-building strategic planning and redesign. His many projects
have included consulting services to leading chemical, paper
and steel companies including work process redesign, team-building,
strategic planning, cooperative partnering, quality training
and use of facilitation.
Tony
Alexander
Tony Alexander is a transplanted native of the United Kingdom.
He now lives in California where his emphasis is leveraging
employee involvement while keeping a keen eye on the bottom
line. His background includes extensive work in automotive and
retail management, where his focus has always been on the customer.
Tony now brings this focus and his international perspective
to clients all over the globe.
John Ramsay,
Ph. D.
John Ramsay has a Ph. D. in Mathematics. In one life, he is
a professor, growing students to apply mathematics in the real
world. But, in another life, he becomes Super Consultant, when
he applies his mathematacial modeling to real world problems.
Some of the problems he has helped solve include improving throughput
for Vermeer Manufacturing's agricultural division, helping the
city of Wooster, Ohio determine the sequence of street repaving,
and calculating the placement of stress grommets on giant building
banners.
Scott
Carper, MBA
Scott Carper sees finance as a tool for improving effectivity
in the future. He works with the "numbers" side of
organizations, using accounting and financial history as a source
of information, but focusing on the future through predictive
analysis of resource allocation. He has worked as controller,
director of materials, and vice president of finance in both
the manufacturing and healthcare sectors. Scott has his MBA
degree and enjoys making the financial side of business a useful
and interesting tool.
Kathy Varty
Kathy Varty has a deep compassion for people, whether they be
CEOs, line supervisors, or people who work "in the trenches."
Much of her work has centered on the manufacturing sector, where
she helps companies implement high performance work teams. She
designs and delivers workshops on a wide variety of topics such
as effective communications, supervisory skills, and teamwork.
Her clients appreciate her caring concern for delivering just
the right skills in just the right way at the right time.
John
Cooper
John Cooper is based in Great Britain where he specializes in
organisational change and development. His work with some of
the world's best know companies has earned him considerable
respect as a leading expert in the field of corporate culture
and behavioural change management. Although no stranger to the
board room, John's approach to culture change extends, beyond
mere strategy, to the practical implementation of change down
at the front-line of service or product delivery. For example,
after working with the Board of Vauxhall Motors to help them
define behaviours required to support a major re-positioning
of the Vauxhall Brand in the UK, John was the architect and
project amanger responsible for the delivery of Brand Awarness
training to some 10,000 staff across the UK within Vauxhall's
retail network. John's background includes marketing, sales,
finance and IT management, as well as Training and HRD. He has served as Director of Training and Development for Bull Systems, as MIS and Operations Director for Want, and Director of Education for NCR. John
has also been responsible for a high profile education effort
to bring multimedia and high-speed networking technologies to
schools and colleges in the Longon region.
