Current role and interest
Tom Foster is an international speaker, working with CEOs and executive managers on the structure of their organizations. He has logged more than 16,000 direct service hours as an executive coach and conducted more than 700 workshops with more than 10,000 CEOs on managerial leadership practices.
Distinguishing experiences that provided the foundation for my RO-related roles
Tom holds degrees in Communication, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels
He has 14 years in television production - honing his influence, scripting, and efficient messaging skills.
His years as a Dale Carnegie instructor again hone his communication and particularly his teaching skills.
His ten years of experience in a CPA firm gives him solid understanding of business profit and loss.
Tom has extensive experience in executive coaching and consulting.
Major resources on this website
Making the Organization Part 1 2024 Interview by Chris Comeaux, CEO of Teleios,
Making the Organization Part 2 2024 Interview by Chris Comeaux, CEO of Teleios,
Contributions to the field of Requisite Organization
Tom has been a Vistage (formerly TEC) group chair since about 1995. Vistage is a global franchise organization that chairs local small groups of CEOs and executives of small and medium-sized businesses. The groups hold monthly meetings, and the group chair meets several hours a month with each group member to deal with that member's organizational issues.
After being mentored in the early 2004 by Kathryn Cason, Tom incorporated Requisite Organization into his Vistage chair activities. Then, he began teaching workshops on RO at Vistage conferences, convening chairs from around the work.
From there, Tom travelled over the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Austria, and China providing' RO-based workshops to other groups. He has delivered over 16,000 hours of direct executive coaching and led more than 700 workshops on related topics.
Tom has likely taught RO concepts to more business leaders than any other RO-based consultant.
Tom has produced many short YouTube videos based on his RO work.
Tom Foster writes a Management Blog
He designed and produced two web-based courses, Timespan 101 and Hiring Talent: Decoding Levels of Work in the Behavioural Interview
2013 - Book: Hiring Talent, Levels of Work in the Behavioral Interview,
2015 - Book: Outbound Air, Levels of Work in Organizational Structure
Degrees and certifications
Bachelor of Science - Communication, University of Texas at Austin 1973
Master of Science - Communication, University of Texas at Austin 1975
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