Our Associates
Jim Dowd
Donna Denio
Masao Isihara
Takashi Hasunuma
Charmaine
Sullivan
Yvonne Bryant Johnson
James
J. Dowd is Senior Fellow and Managing Director, Executive
Education, at Harvard Business School.
From 1994 to 2004 he was Professor of Organizational Behavior
at IMD, a leading institute for executive education located
in Lausanne, Switzerland. For five years he was a member of
IMD’s Management Committee with responsibility for the
portfolio of custom-designed partnership programs. From 1994
to 1999 he directed the open enrollment program Mobilizing
People, focusing on leadership and teamwork. He was faculty
Program Director for IMD’s custom programs with Bertelsmann,
Hoffman-LaRoche, Julius Bär, and RWE, among other clients.
His research and teaching interests focus on leadership, organizational
values, and individual commitment to organizations.
He has acted as consultant to several international companies
in the areas of organizational change and development, executive
coaching and development, and team-building at senior management
levels. He has designed and directed several executive programs
at IMD addressing the behavioral implications of major strategic
and cultural change programs. Professor Dowd has jointly
developed and delivered several such programs in collaboration
with other major business schools, including Columbia University,
Northwestern University, and Ashridge Management College.
In 1994 Professor Dowd was elected to a three-year term
on the Board of Directors of the
Organizational Behaviour Teaching Society. He is also a
member of the Academy of Management.
He is the author of several case studies and co-authored
the 1993 book Vision, Values and Courage: Leadership for
Quality Management, with Neil H. Snyder and Dianne Morse
Houghton. His most recent work focuses on the development
and implementation of corporate values statements, and on
the development of leadership competencies for competitive
advantage.
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Donna Denio, founder of Center For Balance By Design
and co-president of communication and outreach, is a specialist
in leadership development, internal and external communications
and team building.
Donna holds a graduate degree in business administration
from Northeastern University and studied architecture and
interior design at the Univer sity of the Philippines. She
has twenty-five years of experience in organizational leadership.
Donna works as a business-focused partner with professionals
and organizations to design and implement growth strategies
and is committed to the creation of work relationships and
work cultures that support change and learning as natural,
evolutionary, and sustainable processes.
She was named the first female principal at both an international
engineer-constructor and a national architectural-engineering
firm. Donna is a member of NEWIRE (New England Member in
Real Estate) for over 20 years, a member of the NEWIRE Legacy
Council and Public Strategy Committee and alternate CREW
Network delegate; is a charter member and past president
of the Boston Chapter of SMPS (Society for Marketing Professional
Services); the membership chair of ACEC MA (American Consulting
Engineers Council); is the co-founder and steering committee
member of the BSA-SCUP (Boston Society of Architects-Society
of College and University Planners) College and University
Roundtable, an active Rotarian and a member of the Zoo New
England Advisory Council.
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Masao Ishihara has been working with the LEGO company
for more than ten years to develop "Constructionism"
based learning tools, activities, facilities and businesses
using them. His company, Learning Systems, was founded in
Japan n 1997 to distribute LEGO's educational tools including
LEGO MINDSTORMS. He has been working closely with Tufts
University to introduce Engineering Educational approaches
to Japanese educational institutions. His current project
includes working with MIT Media Lab to develop art and science
education programs using the latest hand-on educational
devices developed at MIT. He is also a director of academic
programs at CREFUS robotic education center, who has more
than 70 schools in Japan.
He joined Robert Rasmussen and Associates LLC in 2006 to
provide Japanese companies with LEGO SERIOUS PLAY programs.
His past and current projects includes leading japanese
customers such as JR Tokai (Railway), ISL (Management Education
Institute), Hakuho-do (Advertisement Agency), and KAIL (Management
Education Institute).
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Takashi Hasunuma is CEO and President of Robert Rasmussen Associates-Japan, Inc. He is currently Program Director of a leadership and management training NPO in Kyushu Island, Japan; Kyushu Asia Institute of Leadership where he came across with Masao Ishihara and then, Robert Rasmussen in 2006 and 2008 respectively. These occasions made him commit to the promotion of LSP in Japan and became a facilitator in 2008.
He started his career a trader of chemicals and then a new technology researcher at Mitsubishi Corporation in 1974, until he became an Executive Director at Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc in 1989.
Takashi acted as one of the founding members of Globis Corporation in 1994 and developed executive training program with case method for Japanese multinational manufacturing and comprehensive trading companies; inclusive of Hitachi, NTT, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, and Marubeni during 1994 – 1997. Globis Corporation is now a leading private business school, approved by Japan’s Minister of Culture & Science. Then he became Managing Director(s) of Texchem Group of Companies of Malaysia, and manufactured and sold plastics packages for multinational semiconductor and hard disk drive manufacturers in Thailand, Singapore and Philippines during 1998-2004.
Back in Tokyo, 2004, he jointly started Potomac Associates, Inc, an executive and professional search consulting company and concurrently became Program Director of KAIL in 2005.
He has an MBA from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, United States (1985) and a BS in Industrial Management from Waseda University, Japan (1984).
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Charmaine Sullivan, has a broad range of experience
that helps individuals and organizations to develop innovative,
strategic solutions for business and personal success.
Prior to founding WIN-ovation Works LLC in 2001, she retired
from Procter & Gamble after 27 years of working in all
facets of the consumer products business from strategy development
and upstream research to process development and manufacturing.
Charmaine has talked with consumers in over 30 countries
and has expertise in consumer research using creative techniques
to understand unarticulated needs, then applying these to
product and business development. She has worked with numerous
global teams on billion dollar brands and has also managed
intellectual property business development.
Her company’s mission is to inspire people to bring
their best thinking and passion to the workplace and team
efforts. As a certified practitioner of both Insights™
and LEGO® Serious Play™, she works to leverage
individual and group styles to tackle challenges and to
seek solutions to complex, emotional issues. Her customized
tools and proven processes build upon the principles of
creativity, the power of self-understanding, team collaboration,
setting clear intentions for the future, and making outcomes
actionable.
Charmaine has a B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University
of Illinois and an M.B.A. in International Marketing from
Xavier University. In addition to working with Fortune 500
clients, she has worked with small to medium start-up companies
as well as non-profit organizations.
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Yvonne Bryant Johnson, is President and CEO of Bryant & Associates, LLC, an executive coaching, facilitation services and training company located in Atlanta, GA. Her company successfully orchestrated the Atlanta Business League’s First Annual Congress on the State of Black Business in Metro Atlanta. In addition, the company provided facilitation services for the historic National Conclave on HIV/AIDS Policy for Black Clergy in NY. Named “One of Atlanta’s Top 100 Black Women of Influence” for 2007 and 2008, Johnson is also an Executive Coach for the Executive MBA Program at Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University. She is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta, Leadership America and the inaugural class of the Greater Atlanta Economic Alliance Academy.
Since 1998 Johnson has shared 25+ years of corporate experience and business acumen to guide corporate executives and professional organizations toward sales, leadership development, and customer service excellence. Throughout her career and business she has served the following customers: AGSI, The Home Depot, Southern Company, Georgia Power, AGL Resources, The Ritz-Carlton Hotels, Chick-fil-A, AT&T, The Federal Home Loan Bank Atlanta, Partnership Against Domestic Violence, the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, Georgia Microenterprise Network (GMEN), Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the Arthritis Foundation and many other corporations, non-profit organizations and small businesses.
Ms. Johnson’s educational accomplishments include earning an MBA from Emory University, and attending Johns Hopkins University and the Universities of London and Ghana. She graduated with honors from Spelman College, and in 1996 was one of the first Spelman graduates to receive the Alumnae Achievement Award in business.
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