The Board of Directors of the Institute of Management Consultants USA is the governing body of the Institute. Officers and Operating Committee members are selected by an annual vote of the Institute membership. The Nominating Committee is charged with creating a slate of Officers members each year, and welcomes input from the membership. A Governing Committee oversees adherence to bylaws and evaluates performance of the Board and Executive Staff. Next: International Affiliation
The current Directors and Officers are listed below.
2010-2011 Directors and Officers
Drumm McNaughton, Ph.D., CMCChairman and CEO (2008-2011)Term Expiring 2011
Drumm is the Chairman and CEO of IMC USA. A member since 1999, he has served in multiple roles including Board Member of the Southern California Chapter; Chapter President and Board Member of the San Diego Chapter; and on the National Board of Directors as Director, Vice Chair of Professional Learning (2 years), and Chair-Elect. He is the founder of IMC USA's Academy for Professional Development, and has served on the Confab Committee as Sponsors / Exhibitors Chair and on the Program Committee. He has been a CMC since 2002. In his consulting practice, Drumm brings 30+ years of world-class professional experience and expertise in organization redesign and change, team-building, and leadership development from multiple industries and disciplines to achieve educational excellence in our schools, colleges, and universities. He has served organizations including large urban school districts such as Los Angeles Unified School District; institutions of higher learning such as the Capella University, Chapman University, and Art Institute of California; adult education organizations such as The Success Institute and IMC USA's Academy for Professional Development; government organizations such as the U.S. Navy and the Government of Guam; and large and mid-cap companies in the high-tech, telecomm, biotech, chemical, defense, and financial services industries such as Applied Materials, Dell Computer, DuPont, Dataskill, and Orange County's Credit Union. All told, he has added $400 million to organizations' bottom lines. He also is a faculty member at TUI, Capella, and Central Michigan Universities where he teaches in the MBA and PhD programs in areas such as consulting; leadership and management; and organizational design, development, and change. You may reach Drumm at chair@imcusa.org.

Mark Haas CMC, FIMC Immediate Past Chair Term Expiring 2011 Mark is President of Research and Organization Management, a strategy and performance management consulting firm based in Washington, DC. For organizations whose performance is acceptable but not exceptional, ROM identifies strategic, operational, and cultural issues critical to success that are currently under-performing and then creates consensus and action plans to align operations and management and execute against mission. His advice to clients has included development of WW IV military strategy, reorganization of an urban school system, development of energy R&D plans, realignment of a biomedical research agency administrative units, assessment of a nonprofit board and leadership performance, building large scale systems models, development of health information exchanges, and improving organizational agility. Clients include the National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, MITRE, trade associations and professional societies, national labs, colleges, oil companies, schools, state agencies, and professional service firms. He is a Certified Management Consultant, Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants, author, expert witness, invited speaker, Baldrige quality examiner, and has been listed in Whos Who Among Emerging Leaders and Who's Who in America. He holds degrees from Colgate and Harvard Universities.
Don Scellato CMC Vice Chair Professional Development Term Expiring 2012
David Norman CMC Vice Chair Member Value Term Expiring 2012 David founded his own consulting firm, David Norman & Associates (DNA), in 1995 to offer results-oriented services to small and mid-sized companies, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies. The firm specializes in financial, operational, and general management consulting services tailored to the clients specific needs. Besides being a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), David is also a Certified Business Manager (CBM), a Paul Harris Society Member of Rotary International, adjunct business faculty at Pfeiffer University, and a professional photographer.
Further, David is Chair, Vistage group#2034, in Charlotte. Vistage is the worlds leading CEO membership organization and is dedicated to making CEOs/business owners better leaders, making better decisions and achieving better results. David has over thirty-five years experience consulting with the owners/executives of a wide variety of, mostly, closely-held clients, not-for-profits and governmental entities. In addition, he has helped management through development of long-range plans and strategic plans, and assisted in resolving succession issues. He has served as Interim Executive Director at several not-for-profits undergoing change. He has assisted troubled organizations with improving operations, strengthening management, and increasing profitability. Some of the industries served include: dealerships, wholesaling, distribution, textile (weaving, spinning, knitting, hosiery, apparel manufacturing), construction, real estate firms, medical practices, machine shop, retailing, lumber manufacturing, associations and governmental bodies.
Valerie Walling CPA CMCTreasurer
Term Expiring 2012
Valerie Walling is President of V Solutions Consulting. Her consulting practice provides services in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance (SOX) and corporate governance, business processes, virtual CFO / accounting management, internal controls and anti-fraud design, financial analysis and reporting, budgeting, forecasting and operations reviews and problem-solving. Over the past nine years, Valerie has helped clients ranging from public companies to start-ups to manage financial, accounting, internal audit and operational consulting projects. She became involved in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for Duke Energy Services in 2004. This led to other SOX projects and has become a key area of expertise. She recently performed a comprehensive financial and regulatory risk assessment for a large government entity. Her prior business experience included managing financial and operational issues for large companies and reporting to public company Boards of Directors.
Valerie, a CPA, has over 20 years of experience in industry and consulting, as well as three years of Big Four audit. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Colorado Chapter of Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) and the Ken-Caryl Master Association (a community of 10,000 residents, 500 developed commercial acres, 4,800 acres of managed open space). She has a BBA in Accounting from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She and her husband, Charlie, have two teenage boys.
Gayle Carson, Ed.D., CMC Term Expiring 2011
Gayle is President of the Carson Research Center, a full service management consulting firm that has developed the exclusive ROI process. The Right people in the right jobs, Ongoing work flow process and Interpersonal internal/external communications. We are experts at evaluating workflow and communication patterns that exist within entrepreneurial companies. She works on-site with senior managers and team leaders to identify key issues while working side by side to implement changes that are practical and solve real problems.
She translated business trends, making them understandable and applicable to the CEO, entrepreneur and innovation team for the next three to five years so there is guaranteed transformation and profitability in the organization. Gayle is a Certified Management Consultant, a Certified Speaking Professional and holds a Doctorate in Education. She is listed in over 40 Who's Who books, has published two books, over 500 articles and has appeared on the cover of USA Today and the Larry King Radio show. She is the developer of the Cable Series "Business Today" and has consulted in 50 countries and 49 states.
Lee Czarapata CMC Term Expiring 2011
Lee Czarapata is the senior consultant and implementation manager for Runzheimer International, an international management consulting firm located in Rochester, Wisconsin, specializing in business travel costs, living costs, and employee mobility costs in general and serving over 2,000 businesses and government agencies worldwide. He consults and works with leaders and top management within the public and private sectors on business vehicle program costs.
Lee has been with Runzheimer International since 1981, and has consulted with companies such as IBM, Xerox, Federal Express, Boise Cascade, IKON, DANKA and Comerica to help them best utilize their business vehicle plan resources. Lee has also worked with the IRS and Treasury Departments to establish the wording for a Revenue Procedure that defines nontaxable business vehicle reimbursement plans. He has been interviewed and quoted by magazines and newspapers across the country, including "The Wall Street Journal", "USA Today" and "Forbes". He has also written and assisted with articles for publications, such as "Real Estate Today", "Boardroom Reports" and "Automotive Fleet". Lee has also been used as a consultant and as an expert witness in numerous legal situations throughout the country.
Jim Rodgers CMC Term Expiring 2011
Jim Rodgers, The Diversity Coach, is President and Chairman of J.O. Rodgers and Associates, Inc. (Decatur, GA). He is a world-class speaker, master facilitator, author, experienced consultant and trusted advisor to organizational leaders. He has built the premier consultancy in the diversity management field for companies seeking to implement diversity management as a core strategy. He is the author of Managing Differently: Getting 100% From 100% of Your People, 100% of the Time.
Jim has distinguished himself in the field of diversity management. He is the only CMC to have a practice focused in this emerging field. His unique approach combines the disciplines of change management and strategy implementation, with the principles of diversity management, to produce a sustainable outcome for his clients. In addition to the National IMC BOD, Jim serves on the board of The High Museum of Art (Vice Chairman-Membership), the Advisory Council of Habitat for Humanity-Atlanta (former Board Chair), and the Advisory Council of the Diversity Leadership Forum.
David Goldsmith Term Expiring 2013
David
is the President and co-founder of MetaMatrix Consulting Group which specializes
in consulting, speaking and coaching services that increase leadership and
management performance. His firm’s services are based on David’s model,
Enterprise Thinking, which focuses decision makers on their core value to their
organizations—all leaders are paid to think—and arms clients with 12 universal
activities and the essential "tools” all leaders need to perform optimally, but
that are not taught in business schools or through on-the-job training. His
diverse client base is global, and management in energy, insurance, finance and
banking, telemarketing, high tech, logistics and trucking, retailing,
hospitality, tourism, manufacturing, aerospace, government, military, and
education have sought David’s expertise to create strategies that win
organizationally and personally.
David
is also a professor at NYU, and was named NYU’s Outstanding Professor of the
Year Award for teaching two self-developed executive-management courses for the
past decade. He co-founded the NY Chapter of the National Speakers Association,
growing membership from 5 members to more than 1000 in three years by creating
the organization’s first virtual chapter. His business experience includes
founding and operating nine businesses in different industries, selling the last
to a 400-franchise company. David’s business accomplishments have been
highlighted with awards (Central NY Entrepreneur of the Year and 40 Under 40)
and featured in media (NY Times, Japanese Entrepreneur Magazine, Financial
Times, CNN). His speaking career, for which he has been named one of Successful
Meetings Magazine’s Hottest Speakers, spans more than twenty years, speaking 5
years at Wharton School of Business and to firms internationally on topics such
as strategic and tactical planning, change management, technology, leadership,
marketing, new product and service development, innovation, forecasting.
Jack Veale CMC Term Expiring 2013 Jack's career
began in Idaho, where he served in various positions at a high growth family
owned business for 12 years. He left the Boston area after working for
the company that was the basis of the book; "A Civil Action." Jack served
in operational, general management, IT and financial positions, concluding as
the $100 million company's CFO by age 30. Jack formed PTCFO, Inc
after leaving Idaho to return to New England. Twenty Five years later,
PTCFO's focus and success involves ownership and management succession,
and transition, along with company transformation of closely-held, family owned
or ESOP companies. Using employee surveys and management retreats, the
transformation process focuses on strengths and challenges to build empowered
teams.
Jack has authored "Creating Strategic Innovation," a workbook to
develop leadership through empowered teams, and co-authored "Don't Do That," a
book on best practices for avoiding typical governance problems with ESOP's.
Jack has formed and served on several non-profit and for-profit boards, and has
served as Founder and President of the Connecticut Chapter of the National
Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). He has been an active
member in many associations including: Institute of Management Consultants,
Family Firm Institute, The ESOP Association, the National Center for Employee
Ownership, the Connecticut Venture Group, The Attorneys for Family Held
Enterprises, Rotary Club International, Alliance of Mergers & Acquisition
Advisors, just to name a few. Jack and his wife Laurie have been
married 30+ years and have two adult children.
Pat Schumaker CMC, CPATerm Expiring 2012
Pat is President of Schumaker & Company, a management, operations, and technology consulting firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Schumaker & Company performs management and operational assessments, information technology and systems studies, project management and quality assurance services, needs assessment and feasibility studies, business process reengineering and quality improvement programs, and performance measurement development for private and public sector organizations. Schumaker & Company is results-oriented -- our goal is to bring about practical improvement, not propose academic theoretical scenarios. We focus on the implementation of solutions. We have a dual perspective: determining the right solutions (based on objective analysis) and a framework to get from here to there; in other words, a way to manage the change. Pat is a Certified Management Consultant, Project Management Professional, and Certified Public Accountant and holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Ohio State University.
Judith Light CMC FIMC Chair, Chapter Presidents Council
Judith Light CMC, FIMC, works with people in public and
private sector organizations to increase personal, team and organizational
effectiveness. With 27 years experience,
Judith has conducted engagements in large scale organizational change (Appreciative
Inquiry), planning for strategy and results, customer service, leadership
development, ethics awareness, and best practices in hiring and retention. Clients in the public sector include
utilities, state agencies, and several Federal organizations. Private sector clients include firms from
high technology, architectural design, land development, insurance, food
processing and distribution, property management, defense contractors, waste
management and service providers.
She holds a Master of Arts and Humanities, Colorado College
and a BA, CU Boulder. She volunteers with Colorado Springs Youth Symphony BoD
and is a past president. Interim management positions include VP Operations,
Ice Castle International Training Center and Director of HR, Saligent,
Inc. Judith is certified in Appreciative Inquiry through Corporation for
Positive Change and is qualified to conduct "EQ at Work” emotional intelligence
leadership development. She has been a
guest faculty at Argosy University, National Association of Interpretation
Leadership Institute, Western Executive Center (Federal training site) and
Defense Systems Management College Executive Program.
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