Dorie Blesoff MSLOC, Adjunct Faculty, MSLOC

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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MSLOC 441		Designing Sustainable Strategic 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.
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.

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).