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Dorie Blesoff

MSLOC, Adjunct Faculty, MSLOC

Biography

Dorie Blesoff runs an independent consulting practice that specializes in strategic leadership development and designing and facilitating sustainable change. Her work includes leading practice areas such as appreciative inquiry, participatory methods for strategic planning and employee engagement, strengthening leadership, and executive coaching in facilitating change. Until 2002, Dorie served in Human Resources and Organizational Development leadership roles in multiple industries: healthcare, manufacturing, and professional services, most recently at PricewaterhouseCoopers as an HR executive for Business Process Outsourcing, North America. Her current client base includes a wide range of organizations, including Fortune 100, mid-size family businesses and non-profits.

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Teaching/Advising
Courses

LOC 310 Learning Orgs for Complex Environments Major change factors, including technology, globalization, and demographics, and their impact on organizations; how organizations are creating and responding to these changes through organizational design, learning systems, and human resource changes.

MSLOC 441 Designing Sustainable Strategic Change This course will focus on how strategic organizational change can be effectively designed, implemented and sustained, using one primary model and going deeply into each element using a variety of learning modalities.

We will study one primary model and various methods to address the practical realities of this assumption: An organization’s success lies in its ability to pursue its Vision & Mission as it responds to changes in its environment with appropriate changes in strategic direction, accompanied by sustainable realignment and behavior changes within the organization.

Topics covered will include overall model of sustainable change, participatory methods for strategic planning and large-scale systems change, “transition” vs. change, the power of execution, motivational theory, gaining commitment to change, power/politics and coalition-building in the change process, dynamics of culture and change.

MSLOC 440 Executing Strategic Change This course will provide students with additional concepts, tools and knowledge of strategic change. This will include looking at the broad models surrounding change as well as exploring the different interest groups, impacts and implications of change. Students will gain skills in the diagnosis of change, identifying frameworks to utilize in the support and guidance of change, and understanding a variety of assessments and concepts for strategic change. Since Strategic Change has wide ranging implications, we will look at change using macro, micro and systems frameworks.

Professional
Employment History

2002 Independent Learning & Change Consultant
Provide leadership team facilitation in strategic planning and designing change efforts, design and deliver customized leadership development programs, provide employee and management workshops on diversity, communication, and teamwork. Client base ranges from Fortune 100 to local non-profits in multiple industries.

1999 - 2002 PricewaterhouseCoopers
Served as HR leader in North America for Business Process Outsourcing with oversight of all HR practices, and multiple acquisitions & integrations of workforces.

1994 - 1999 Fel-Pro/Federal Mogul
Director of Organization Development at Fel-Pro in Skokie, IL. When it was acquired by Federal Mogul, I became Director of Global People Development.

1985 - 1994 West Suburban Hospital Medical Center
Director of Human Resources Development (Employee Relations, Patient Relations, Training & OD, Performance Management, Recruitment).

Last Updated: 2007-07-27 16:25:52

LOC 310		Learning Orgs for Complex Environments Major change factors, including technology, globalization, and demographics, and their impact on organizations; how organizations are creating and responding to these changes through organizational design, learning systems, and human resource changes.

MSLOC 441		Designing Sustainable Strategic Change This course will focus on how strategic organizational change can be effectively designed, implemented and sustained, using one primary model and going deeply into each element using a variety of learning modalities. We will study one primary model and various methods to address the practical realities of this assumption: An organization’s success lies in its ability to pursue its Vision & Mission as it responds to changes in its environment with appropriate changes in strategic direction, accompanied by sustainable realignment and behavior changes within the organization. Topics covered will include overall model of sustainable change, participatory methods for strategic planning and large-scale systems change, “transition” vs. change, the power of execution, motivational theory, gaining commitment to change, power/politics and coalition-building in the change process, dynamics of culture and change.



MSLOC 440		Executing Strategic Change This course will provide students with additional concepts, tools and knowledge of strategic change. This will include looking at the broad models surrounding change as well as exploring the different interest groups, impacts and implications of change. Students will gain skills in the diagnosis of change, identifying frameworks to utilize in the support and guidance of change, and understanding a variety of assessments and concepts for strategic change. Since Strategic Change has wide ranging implications, we will look at change using macro, micro and systems frameworks.

2002		Independent Learning & Change Consultant Provide leadership team facilitation in strategic planning and designing change efforts, design and deliver customized leadership development programs, provide employee and management workshops on diversity, communication, and teamwork. Client base ranges from Fortune 100 to local non-profits in multiple industries.
1999 - 2002		PricewaterhouseCoopers Served as HR leader in North America for Business Process Outsourcing with oversight of all HR practices, and multiple acquisitions & integrations of workforces.
1994 - 1999		Fel-Pro/Federal Mogul Director of Organization Development at Fel-Pro in Skokie, IL. When it was acquired by Federal Mogul, I became Director of Global People Development.
1985 - 1994		West Suburban Hospital Medical Center Director of Human Resources Development (Employee Relations, Patient Relations, Training & OD, Performance Management, Recruitment).