For over 25 years, Vicky Keith has consulted with large corporations in the areas of complex organizational change and strategy implementation. clients appreciate Vicky's honest assessment of "What's really going on" and her focused approach to helping work groups who are caught-up in unproductive behavior. You can count on her to help you raise the level of performance in your organization, quickly.

Vicky's Expertise: She specializes in getting groups of powerful people to come to conclusions that they will stand behind.

What She Has Learned: Attempting to change a corporate culture head on doesn't work. You change culture by changing behavior - and executives can learn to set the example. Cultural change occurs when people do things differently, not the other way around.

Highlights - Works She Has Done:
Lead Change Consultant for Boston Scientific initiative to get out from under a corporate warning letter from the FDA. The initiative includes complete re-engineering of the quality systems, including all aspects of management controls, complaint handling, distribution, supplier controls, training, risk management, process validation, software validation, master planning, and field actions. Served as change consultant for re-organization of Quality, Clinical and overall structure of the company.

Senior Consultant for the World Bank's modernized anti-poverty fighting initiatives, for example: work with Bank economists and National cabinets of Bolivia and Ghana to localize control of anti-poverty funding; work with Bank officials, National leaders to worldwide press corps in anti-corruption initiatives in seven African nations.

Lead consultant for IBM's efforts to accelerate complex change. Consult with executive teams to implement strategic imperatives and streamline core processes, for example: entering the e-business market; leveraging the services business across Europe; developing the software market in China; leveraging the emerging markets in the Pacific Rim, China, Middle East and Africa; integrating global industry channels and country-specific traditions. Lead responsibility for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Australia.

Lead Consultant for GE "Work-Out" efforts in GE Appliance, Aircraft Engines, Medical Systems, Capital, Supply, Plastics and Corporate. Lead Consultant for GE "Change Acceleration Program" in GE Plastics.

Lead Consultant for significant work re-design initiatives (using "work-Out" methodology) at Darden Restaurants, First Data Corporation, Transamerica, McKesson, Lotus, Frio-Lay, Pacific Gas and Electric, Bell South, FDIC, PepsiCo, National Steel, Bristol Meyers Squibb, AT&T, Delta Airlines.

Consultant to Walk Disney Attractions executive team, strategically differentiating culture and goals across EuroDisney, Walt Disney World and Disneyland, including mediation of multi-cultural conflicts at EuroDisney (now Disneyland Paris).

Faculty for GE's Crotonville facility, Pepsi Cola Leadership Institute, Northern Telecom Leadership Institute, Boston University Executive Programs, Columbia University Executive Programs.

Vicky was formerly the director in Boston University School of Management's Executive Programs. Before entering the consulting field, she was on the faculty of the University of Missouri, the University of Maine, and the University of Maryland Extension in Japan. Vicky holds a Bachelor's degree in Sociology, a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology, and has completed the coursework for her doctorate in Organizational Development.