Ken Frey

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Ken Frey
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Ken is a management consultant who, since 1978, has helped organizations manage change effectively. He provides services in developing clear strategic plans, designing management accountability structures, implementing coherent management practices, planning development of the managerial leadership talent pool, and facilitating team development. Some representative assignments include:
  • re-focusing the management practices in two divisions of one of the world's largest power generating organizations
  • re-designing the management structure of an operational division of a governmental agency
  • facilitating a multi-stakeholder strategic planning process to advise on key governmental initiatives
  • re-designing the management structure of a department in one of the world's largest mining companies
  • facilitating a program of leadership development for school principals
  • completing an organizational review of a children's hospital in a developing nation

Clients with whom Ken has worked include: Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.; Co-op Atlantic; The Co-operators; The Federal Department of External Affairs; The Federal Department of Indian Affairs; International Child Care; INCO Ltd.; Kitchener-Waterloo Record; MDS Health Group; Ontario Hydro; Ontario Ministry of Agriculture & Food; Ontario Premier's Council on Economic Renewal; Royal Bank of Canada; Saskatchewan Wheat Pool; J.M.Schneider Inc.; Shell Canada; Union Gas; and The University of Guelph.

Degrees and certifications

  • B.Sc(Agr) - University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada 1969
  • MSc - University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada 1971
  • EdD - University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1980

Contact Info

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.
Founded as an assessment consultancy using Jaques's CIP methods, the US-based firm expanded to talent pool design and management, and managerial leadership practice-based work processes
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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
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
A Toronto requisite organization-based consultancy with a wide range of executive coaching, training, organization design and development services.
A Sweden-based consultancy, Enhancer practices time-span based analysis, executive assessment, and provides due diligence diagnosis to investors on acquisitions.
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