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Amy Renkert
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Amy Renkert has
built her career as both an internal and external consultant in the
areas of organization and leadership development. She has
worked with a wide range of companies using her understanding of
individuals, teams and organizations to help leaders and businesses be
more successful.
Amy provides
design and implementation assistance to her clients as they work
through changes such as acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings,
growth and continuous improvement projects. Her experience in
human systems has helped her clients integrate their leadership and
career development, succession planning, training and performance
management initiatives with their business strategy and culture.
Prior to
launching her career as an independent consultant, Amy held a number of
leadership roles in the Human Resources, Training and Organization
Development functions with the Honeywell-Bull, TRW, Avery Dennison and
GenCorp organizations with both domestic and worldwide responsibility.
Her work as an
external consultant typically falls into the following areas:
- Organization assessment
- Leadership development
- Performance management
- Teambuilding
- Customized training design and delivery
- Executive coaching
Amy is certified
in a
number of training and facilitation programs and is master trained in
the 360-degree feedback process. Her strength lies in
designing and delivering completely customized approaches for clients;
whether it’s individual, team or organization-wide projects to improve
overall effectiveness.
Her educational
background includes a Master of Science in Organization Development
from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve
University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wellesley
College. Amy is a member of the Organization Development
Network and the Human Resources Planning Society.
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Stephen Jenks is a management and organization consultant with
a special interest in entrepreneurship and issues relating to
growing organizations. He was a faculty member at the
Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of
New Hampshire where he taught a course in entrepreneurial
management and new business development for 20 years. He also
was the faculty director of the school's Executive Development
Program from 1979-1981. He was a founder of the Portsmouth
Consulting Group, an association of senior free-lance consultants
that was formed in 1981.
Stephen has extensive experience working with presidents and boards of growing entrepreneurial companies. His primary focus is on general management issues:
- Organizational assessment
- Corporate strategy and structure
- Executive coaching to individual executives and executive teams
- Serving as an external sounding board for executives faced with complex and difficult situations
- Counselor to boards of directors
 Stephen received his B.A. in Psychology from the College of Wooster, and his M.S. and
Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Institute of Technology (now Case Western
Reserve University). He is the coauthor of three books: "The Feel of the Work Place: Understanding and Improving Organization Climate" (Addison-Wesley, 1977), "Designing and Managing Organizations" (Irwin, 1983), and "The Arrogant Leader: Dealing with the Excesses of Power" (Smith/Kerr Associates LLC, 2012).
He also co-authored a chapter in "Executive Coaching: Practices and Perspectives" (Davis-Black, 2002)
entitled “Coaching Entrepreneurs.”
He has served on a number of boards of directors from 1980 to the present, and is the past president of the Association
for Consulting Expertise.
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