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Donald V. Fowke
Managing Director
New Management Network

Don is an experienced management consultant in strategy, organization and staffing.  His specialties: corporate purpose, strategic clarity, company-wide alignment with direction, teamwork and organizational culture

Distinguishing experiences that provided the foundation for my RO-related roles

Unusual among RO-based practitioners, Don is an experienced general management consultant holding the certification as Fellow Certified Management Consultant.

He was Managing Director of Hickling-Johnson, 

in strategy, organization and staffing.  He's held managing partner positions in several major management consulting firms,  

He is a long-term member of Young Presidents and then World Presidents.  In addition he facilitated these groups and later was a trainer of others to be group facilitators.
Reads broadly 

Contributions to the field of Requisite Organization

NMN Newsltetter

Don produced a series of Voice America radio broadcasts

  • Herb Koplowitz on Accountability
  • Herb Koplowitz on Strategy-Driven Innovation - Accountability not Culture
  • Ken Shepard on the Global Organization Design Society
  • Don Fowke on Talent Management

2017  Book - The Smart Creative:  Finding, Developing, and Keeping Leaders for the Digital Age

2019  Interview - The Smart Creative - by Joshua Fowke

Contributions to the Global Organization Design Society

Don convened and hosted the Toronto memorial service for Elliott Jaques.

He was an active member of the Toronto Legacy Group that planned how to preserve RO concepts and practice

He was a founding member of the Global Organization Design Society

He championed the development of the GO Society's name.

He championed the design of the GO Society's logo

He served on the GO Society's board from 2007 to 2016 and served as its Chair from 2009 to 2016
 

Presentations - he brought PREZI and animation to presentations

2005 Conference:  Global Talent Management  - video

2007 Conference:  RO Compensation in Entrepreneurial Companies

2012 Conference Presentation:  Talent Pool Management - Focusing on the Development of the Person 

2013  How felt-fair pay is key to conscious capitalism - a document  

2014 Conference:  The Talent Up-Shift - both video and Prezi and article

2014 Conference Steps in Investor Due Diligence - Sustainable Capital - animation

2014 Conference - Designed and produced a one-day workshop on Entrepreneurship

Book Chapter

2007 Implementing a Web-based Requisite Talent Management System  - book chapter..

Other related career experience

Degrees and certifications

Contact Info

Skype
https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-fowke-3432501/

Major organizations and consulting firms that provide Requisite Organization-based services

A global association of academics, managers, and consultants that focuses on spreading RO implementation practices and encouraging their use
Dr. Gerry Kraines, the firms principal, combines Harry Levinson's leadership frameworks with Elliott Jaques's Requisite Organization. He worked closely with Jaques over many years, has trained more managers in these methods than anyone else in the field, and has developed a comprehensive RO-based software for client firms.
Ron Capelle is unique in his multiple professional certifications, his implementation of RO concepts through well designed organization development methods, and his research documenting the effectiveness of his firm's interventions
Former RO-experienced CEO, Ron Harding, provides coaching to CEOs of start-ups and small and medium-size companies that are exploring their own use of RO concepts.  His role is limited, temporary and coordinated with the RO-based consultant working with the organization
Founded by Gillian Stamp, one of Jaques's colleagues at Brunel, the firm modified Jaques;s work-levels, developed the Career Path Appreciation method, and has grown to several hundred certified assessors in aligned consulting firms world-wide recently expanding to include organization design
Requisite Organization International Institute distributes Elliott Jaques's books, papers, and videos and provides RO-based training to client organizations