Consulting Skills Inventory

Design and Implementation

See also:

• Negotiation and Strategy
• Planning and Execution
• Evaluation and Instruction

Management Intervention Specialist, International Law and Human Rights Programme, Parliamentarians for Global Action, New York, 2004–2005.

• Facilitated and participated in weekend staff retreat.
• Wrote feasibility study for possible alternatives, designed management reform on that basis along with extensive staff interviews and analysis of questionnaire replies.

Member, Executive Board, Central Eurasian Studies Society, 2002–2005.

• Key team member guiding organizational takeoff of a new international interdisciplinary scholarly organization with membership doubling every year from 2001 to 2005.
• As Chair of Institutional Linkages Committee formulated and implemented strategies for developing cooperation with professional and media organizations.

Organizational Design Specialist, International Law and Human Rights Programme, Parliamentarians for Global Action, New York, 2003–2004.

• Acted as Rapporteur for an international interparliamentary conference organized by an NGO.
• Designed final structure of an institution issuing from that conference, and defined its responsibilities, based upon own expertise and research and intensive consultations with individuals involved.

Consultant, Caucasus Working Group, Centre for European Policy Studies, 2000–2002.

• Brainstormed ideas for insuring stability, security, and development in the Caucasus.
• Advised on problems of energy development and pipeline construction, emphasizing issues of organizational design in critiquing proposed security architectures.

Principal Investigator, Research Grants, 1985–2001: Policy Research Initiative (Ottawa), 1998–2001; World Society Foundation, 1996–1998; [U.S.] Social Science Research Council, 1994–1996; Department of External Affairs and International Trade, Government of Canada, 1993–1994; Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1991–1994; Department of National Defence, Government of Canada, 1989–1991; [U.S.] Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies, 1985–1988.

• Designed policy and research questions so as to answer problems defined, formulated plans for answering them, executed research.
• Designed and implemented workshops on a topical issues of international political and economic affairs.
• Supervised research assistants, administered funds.

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