BIOGRAPHIES


Roz Turner
Principal

Roz Turner is the founder of Roz Turner & Associates, a consulting practice based in Issaquah, Washington. She has over 20 years business experience as a consultant, facilitator, speaker and author specializing in communication, transition/change management, leadership development, executive coaching, executive team alignment, high performance team development, and culture change. Roz has been assisting a wide variety of clients throughout the US and internationally since 1984.

Her experience includes working five years as a Principal consultant with CSC Consulting Group, a management consulting division of Computer Sciences Corporation, where she helped to lead large scale, complex, and often long-term projects with such clients as:

  • Dynegy

  • American Electric Power

  • Kaiser Permanente

  • Baltimore Gas and Electric

  • Oxychem (Occidental Chemical Corporation)

  • The County of San Diego

Roz Turner has helped to formulate and lead change management teams, designed and introduced new organizational and operating models, designed and facilitated transition and change interventions and helped to align executive leaders and their teams.

Additional client experience includes:

  • Developing a change management program for Expedia.com that has been delivered to over 300 call center agents.

  • Managing a contract, in conjunction with The Tom Peters Group, to deliver worldwide leadership development sessions to Tektronix, Inc. Personally facilitated 23 sessions to over 400 senior executives and managers.

  • Traveling globally in 1991-1992 to deliver over 100 management and leadership workshops in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, in conjunction with The Institute for International Research (London) for such companies as Neumann Steel Pty Ltd (Australia), Pinex Timber Products Limited (New Zealand) and Compaq Computers (Singapore).

  • Providing one-on-one coaching with the executive director and senior managers at Metropolitan Life in Denver over a one-year period. Also conducted focus group and strategy sessions to initiate culture change.

  • Conducting focus group sessions, a culture change assessment survey and executive briefing sessions for Waggener-Edstrom, a leading Portland/Seattle public relations firm, with Microsoft Corporation as its major account

  • Developing and delivering a series of workshops for the healthcare market focusing on self-management in times of organizational change; Under contract with such organizations as Children’s Hospital & Medical Center (Seattle), Northwest Hospital (Seattle), Kaiser-Permanente, and Provenant Health Partners (Denver).

  • Conducting senior executive retreats to facilitate leadership and executive team alignment for such companies as Public Service Company of Colorado, The Denver Post, and Metropolitan Life.

  • Working with senior human resource executives at Weyerhaeuser Corp. in 1993-1995 to design a customized training approach, create training modules and develop a nation-wide rollout strategy. Managers at 40 sites throughout the US were coached to deliver the new training and education program to their employees.

Prior to forming Roz Turner & Associates, Roz Turner had a 12-year career in marketing and management. In this capacity, she worked with senior executive teams of high technology companies in the Rocky Mountain region to help formulate strategic and tactical marketing plans. She was also a manager for United Banks of Colorado, Inc. and an account executive with Krupp Taylor Direct Marketing and Burson-Marsteller Public Relations.

Ms. Turner is the author of the book and video-tape series, Making the Most of Change (When Change is Making the Most of You). She holds an MA in Communication from the University of Denver and BS in Communication from Ohio State University.

June Ramos
Senior Consulting Associate

June Ramos has provided professional coaching, strategic management and organizational development consulting, communications consulting and training/seminar delivery to business/industry and government organizations for more than 25 years both nationally and internationally. June’s primary emphasis is on helping individuals and organizations achieve optimal performance by learning and using tools to build collaborative partnerships and learn how to manage one’s self and others responsibly.

Her focus is on using education and development as a sound way to drive business priorities and business success through learning. Clients want to build the capabilities, the expertise and the skills of the people in their organization. Education and development is also a way to succeed in the marketplace around key initiatives and projects and to align people around new ideas and new corporate practices.

In the course of her career, June has worked as the internal and external communications manager in public relations/corporate communications and was a management/organizational development specialist for two Fortune 500 companies, provided training and consulting for three international public seminar firms throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, France, Australia and New Zealand. She was also the Vice-President of Client Services for a public seminar firm. June’s relaxed yet focused facilitation style enables her to connect with participants and to help them personalize the content and issues for greater understanding and application. She challenges her audiences to answer the question, “so what?”-- that is, how they will apply the material, techniques and strategies in their individual and organizational situations?


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