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Meet the People at Capelle Associates Inc.

Ronald G. Capelle (download Acrobat PDF)
Dwight Mihalicz (download Acrobat PDF)
Raymond Daigneault (download Acrobat PDF)
John W. Young (download Acrobat PDF)
Karen King (download Acrobat PDF)
Bob Lavery (download Acrobat PDF)
Christine Rothman
Rob Symes

Ronald G. Capelle, President & CEO, is an international expert in the assessment and implementation of organization design. With more than 25 years of experience, Ron brings a wealth of knowledge and insight to our executive clients.

Ron has consulted with a wide variety of national and international organizations including advanced technology, financial services, communications, health care, manufacturing, oil and gas, retail, and transportation, and all levels of government. His global consulting experience includes work with organizations in the private, non-profit and public sectors. This extensive experience provides Ron with a comprehensive knowledge base from which to understand the complex issues of organization assessment and change.

As well as consulting, Ron has completed extensive research into organization design and uses the data to offer clients a customized, proven approach to strategic organization design. He has written Changing Human Systems. This best seller has been used in over 50 college and university courses. His views on organization design were recently profiled on World Business Review, a television series hosted by Alexander Haig, and previously on The Executive Forum, a television show hosted by (former Apollo 13 Commander) Jim Lovell. He has been a radio phone-in show guest, is a frequent conference presenter, and has written articles for professional journals.

With a Ph.D. from York University, Ron is also a Certified Management Consultant (CMC); a Certified Organization Development Consultant; a Registered Psychologist (CPsych); a Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP), and has completed the academic requirements for the Directors Education Program (University of Toronto Rotman School of Management and ICD Corporate Governance College).

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Dwight Mihalicz, Senior Vice President, has over 25 years of organization experience. He brings extensive experience and knowledge to our corporate clients. His past experience includes senior management positions in national and international organizations and directorships on the Boards of two European-based organizations. In these positions he was involved in the leadership and strategic planning for large-scale, complex projects such as global redesign and start-up operations. Throughout his career, Dwight has obtained extensive experience in project and change management processes with large organizations.

He has provided organization design consulting services across all sectors, including utilities, financial services, health care services, and not for profits. His services have included organization design assessments, planning and managing organization design implementation projects, and conducting task alignment improvement processes.

Dwight had extensive experience in supporting executives and executive teams transition their organizations using customized transformation projects. This has included a variety of projects from single business one location organizations to large, complex national and multi-national organizations.

Dwight completed his MBA at the University of Ottawa and is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC). He is the author of several publications.

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Raymond Daigneault, Vice President, has over 30 years of senior managerial and executive experience. Before joining Capelle Associates, Raymond has held line and staff roles in large organizations, and managed diverse business functions such as risk management, strategic planning, operations, change management, process improvement and training services. He has a strong background in merging and restructuring business units, designing organizations and implementing cost effectiveness programs. He has been accountable for planning and executing a joint venture program to merge a line of business from two major organizations to create a new company. Raymond brings significant business experience to our clients.

He has provided organization design consulting services to organizations in varying industries/sectors including Health Care (Pharmaceutical, Laboratory Services) Financial Services (Banking, Insurance, Association), Manufacturing, and Retail. His organization design consulting experience include conducting organizational assessment of opportunities and designing and implementing change programs tailored to the unique requirements of our clients.

Raymond has extensive experience in project management and change management processes with large organizations and in working with senior executives and executive teams.

Fully bilingual, Raymond is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and is a Fellow of the Institute of Canadian Bankers (FIBC). He is currently completing his studies to obtain his Master of Business Administration degree from Dalhousie University.

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John W. Young, Vice President, has over 25 years of private sector experience in human resources management at both tactical and strategic levels in the manufacturing, distribution and hospitality industries in the USA, Canada, the UK and internationally.

He has extensive experience in aligning people development systems and organizational design with the goals and cultural values of business units during periods of rapid international growth as well as in start-ups, acquisitions and divestments. Throughout his career, he has worked as a member of senior management teams on the design and implementation of integrated, cost-effective approaches to enhancing individual and team performance.

In addition to his role with Capelle Associates, John serves as a director of a US corporation and as a member of the faculty advisory board for the hospitality program of a US University. He is a regular conference presenter.

John completed his MA at the University of Edinburgh, his MS in Organization Behavior at California American University and holds his designation as a Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP).

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Karen King, Vice President, has over 25 years of experience in education, training and consulting. She has worked in the business sector, in the government sector, both municipal and provincial, and in the education sector. Her prior positions have included developing and managing a province wide leadership program, and creating and managing a training and development department for a large financial services organization.

She is passionate about creating environments that are conducive to optimizing and drawing out each person’s capability and potential.

Karen has a B.Sc. from the University of Waterloo and a M.Ed. from Brock University.

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Bob Lavery, Director, Research and Analysis, manages our database, statistical analysis and research functions.

Bob’s previous experience includes in-depth statistical analysis of complex situations. Before coming to Capelle Assocites, Bob held a variety of positions, including operating his own research, statistics and data management company.

Bob received his BSc from the University of Toronto and his MSc from Western Ontario. He has a Ph.D. from Queen's University, and completed post-doctoral work at the University of California. He is author of several articles published in professional journals.

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Christine Rothman, Manager, Client Services, has over 17 years experience in administration and office management and has developed expertise in streamlining office procedures. She has worked in various industries including; manufacturing, not-for-profit, educational and travel.

Christine is responsible for managing the office and implementing and improving the office and financial procedures at Capelle Associates.

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Rob Symes, Manager, Marketing, graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Leeds in England. He has worked in a variety of sectors in both the United Kingdom and Canada, including retail, not-for-profit and media. He recently completed certification in Management Fundamentals at the University of Toronto.

Rob is responsible for maintaining our client database and helping to co-ordinate Capelle Associates' executive briefings and other marketing activities.

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