Brian McDonald
Biography
Brian McDonald is President of MOR Associates. Maximizing Organizational Resources (MOR) was created in 1983 to assist clients in developing strategies designed to elicit the contributions employees want to make to enhance the success of their enterprise. Brian has increasingly focused his practice on developing leaders, enhancing strategic-thinking and consulting on continuous improvement efforts.
http://www.morassociates.com/
Within the past five years, Brian’s expertise in designing and delivering leadership development has resulted in his facilitating four MIT Leader to Leader programs, two rounds of New England Business Service (NEBS) Leadership Development Program, and three iterations of the New York State Education Department’s Leadership Academy. Brian played a key role in the development of each of these programs and others. He has participated in GE Capital’s Leadership Symposium in Europe. Brian is also currently facilitating a leadership development program at the University of Pennsylvania for high potential administrators.
Brian is also co-leading with the former CIO of MIT Jim Bruce an IT-Leadership Program involving many schools in higher education.
http://www.morassociates.com/itlp/v-ldrshp-home.html
Brian has been consulting to IT organizations for the past fifteen years. This has included work with MIT, Stanford, Emory, NYU, and Tufts University. At Tufts he facilitated the formation of their Information Technology Council. This council, made up of sixteen representatives drawn from the seven colleges and the central office, reached agreement on the services that need to be centralized, those that should be decentralized, and how all of them would be supported financially. At MIT, Brian has consulted to the Information Services Leadership Team on strategic direction, organizational design and improving customer satisfaction. His firm, MOR Associates, has conducted large-scale customer satisfaction surveys for IT organizations at MIT, Stanford, NYU, UC-Berkeley, USC, UChicago and others.
http://www.morassociates.com/educause_oct_05.html