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Joseph P. Foran

Consultant

Joe brings 30 years of pragmatic experience as a manager, consultant, and analyst in business and government to the practice of Organizational Development. Since 2000, he has practiced in organizational development, facilitation, partnering, training, and Alternative Dispute Resolution consulting.

He is widely valued by his clients for his unique blend of experience as a corporate P/L manager, personal creativity, scientific and technical understanding, program and project management experience, and knowledge of facilitation techniques, team development processes, and interpersonal dynamics.

His career began with 11 years at the U.S. EPA - including service as the Agency's Deputy Chief of Staff - followed by Division Director and Vice President positions in ground-breaking technical and scientific businesses, including ABB Ltd., Groundwater Technology, Inc., The Cadmus Group, Inc., ISSI Inc., and his own company; Atlantic EcoTechnologies, Inc.

He has created and managed new programs, offices, and companies, had P/L responsibility for revenue budgets of up to $8 million, managed program budgets of $850 million. Joe has managed scientific and engineering staffs as large as 105 people, served as Program Manager and Project Manager for a variety of private and government contracts, and served as lead auditor, management consultant, trainer, or policy analyst on a variety of diverse projects and studies.

As a facilitator and trainer, he works with clients to build interaction and meeting management skills, to coach and counsel individual employees, and to moderate their meetings, intervening when difficult issues emerge and providing problem-solving, conflict management, and other skill sets so that Team members can work through such issues in order to remain productive.