Principal Bios
Amy Renkert | Stephen Jenks
Amy
Renkert has built her career as both an internal and external
consultant in the areas of organization and leadership development.
She has worked with a wide range of companies using her
understanding of individuals, teams and organizations to help
leaders and businesses be more successful.
Amy provides design and implementation assistance to her clients as
they work through changes such as acquisitions, divestitures,
restructurings, growth and continuous improvement projects. Her
experience in human systems has helped her clients integrate their
leadership and career development, succession planning, training and
performance management initiatives with their business strategy and
culture.
Prior to launching her career as an independent consultant, Amy
held a number of leadership roles in the Human Resources, Training
and Organization Development functions with the Honeywell-Bull, TRW,
Avery Dennison and GenCorp organizations with both domestic and
worldwide responsibility.
Her work as an external consultant typically falls into the
following areas:
- Organization assessment
- Leadership development
- Performance management
- Teambuilding
- Customized training design and delivery
- Executive coaching
Amy is certified in a
number of training and facilitation programs and is master trained
in the 360-degree feedback process. Her strength lies in designing
and delivering completely customized approaches for clients; whether
it’s individual, team or organization-wide projects to improve
overall effectiveness.
Her educational background
includes a Master of Science in Organization Development from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University
and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wellesley College. Amy is a
member of the Organization Development Network, and the Human
Resources Planning Society.
Stephen Jenks
is a management and organization consultant with a special interest
in entrepreneurship and issues relating to growing organizations. He
was a faculty member at the Whittemore School of Business and
Economics at the University of New Hampshire where he taught a
course in entrepreneurial management for 20 years and was the
faculty director of the school’s Executive Development Program from
1979-1981. He was a founder of the Portsmouth Consulting Group, an
association of senior free-lance consultants that was formed in
1981.
Stephen has
extensive experience working with Presidents of growing
entrepreneurial companies on issues of organization structure and
design. His work centers on issues of corporate strategy and
top-level team building. Much of his work is in the form of
executive coaching aimed at helping individual executives and
executive teams work as effectively as possible through coordinated
goals, roles and work styles that best serve the overall
organization. His work often extends to being an external sounding
board for executives to use when faced with complex and difficult
situations.
Stephen
received his B.A. in Psychology from the College of Wooster, and his
M.S. and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Institute of
Technology (now Case Western Reserve University). He is the
coauthor of two books: "Designing and Managing Organizations"
(Irwin, 1983) and "The Feel of the Work Place: Understanding and
Improving Organization Climate" (Addison-Wesley, 1977). He recently
co-authored a chapter in “Executive Coaching” (Davis-Black, 2002)
entitled “Coaching Entrepreneurs.”
He has served
on the Board of Directors of the NTL Institute for Applied
Behavioral Science and was its Chair in 1981-82. He also has served
on boards of the Appalachian Mountain Club, the Portland (Maine)
Stage Company, and Maine Initiatives, a
grass roots fund for change. He was the board chair of
AmericaSpeaks,
engaging citizens in governance, from 2003-2006.
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Amy Renkert
Stephen Jenks
