About the Panelists

David Kane is the President of Triad Systems Group and an acknowledged leader in the area of organizational change including leadership, mobilization, design and renewal. He is a specialist in building organizations’ capabilities to accelerate major change and achieve sustainable results. Working extensively in the process industries, he has been involved in a wide range of significant improvement initiatives including Operational / Supply Chain Excellence that have combined a variety of hard tools including lean six sigma with innovative change management approaches. One of his major clients cited David as instrumental in their $2 billion cash flow improvement. David’s clients have included General Motors, Union Carbide, BASF, ICI, Shell, ExxonMobil, Praxair, Millennium, Rohm and Haas, Eli Eli Lilly, Aventis, Cooper Industries, AstraZeneca, Borealis, TD Williamson, Central Garden & Pet, British Petroleum, DuPont and the United States’ Veterans Health Administration. He has written numerous articles and been active in the organizational effectiveness field for the last 25+ years.

David can be contacted at:
Email: dkane@triad-systems.com
Mobile: 610-825-5994

Michael Kutner is a Principal with the North Highland Company, a global management and technology consulting company headquartered in Atlanta and operating locally from offices in Philadelphia and Washington DC. Last year North Highland was ranked by Consulting Magazine as the 3rd best global consulting company in the world to work for, the 4th year in a row they were ranked in the top 5. If you have consulting experience and are looking for a new challenge, Michael will gladly take your card tonight.

Michael started his career with Cigna Corporation as a commercial underwriter, and then joined General Electric’s Quality organization, earning his Black Belt and Master Black Belt designations. This period in the 1990’s and early 2000’s turned out to be the hey-day of GE’s Six Sigma program and convinced Michael of the power of process-based organizational transformation. Michael left GE to help Johnson & Johnson grow and solidify their Process Excellence program and joined their Consumer Pharmaceutical Group in 2002, where he led their Process Excellence program until 2006, when he left to join North Highland.

5 years ago Michael caught the volunteering bug and has been trying to make up for lost time. He currently serves on the Board of Supporting KIDDS, a Delaware-based non-profit providing support to families with children dealing with the sudden loss of a parent. Michael is a Penn State grad, and serves on the Alumni Board of the Abington branch campus of Penn State University, where he’s leading the “Alumni Back In The Classroom” Initiative. If you’re a Nittany Lion Michael would welcome a “We are..” chant.

Michael most recently turned his attention to the area of storytelling and how it can be used in the workplace to re-energize the collaborative problem solving mindset in organizations. To encourage growth in this field, Michael is currently volunteering as a consultant to the Board for First Person Arts, a Philadelphia based nonprofit organization training people in the storytelling techniques that transform real life into memoir and documentary art.

Last year Michael went skydiving because things were getting a little boring.

He is excited and pleased to be here tonight.

Patricia A. Oceanic, MSOD is employed by Nemours Foundation (Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children) as Director of Talent Management, leading the Organization Development and Talent Acquisition departments. She is responsible for organization/system level changes, such as driving culture change, 360 degree leadership assessments, executive and physician coaching, and health equity and inclusion initiatives. On the recruiting side, she is currently leading an effort to staff a new hospital, opening in Orlando, Florida in October, 2012, and to ensure the culture of hospital aligns with Nemours’ overarching values.

Prior to her employment at Nemours, Pat initiated and led a global diversity initiative for W. L. Gore and Associates. Affinity groups were established and barriers to success were identified and addressed. Mentoring programs and other leadership skills were developed and delivered by Pat.

Other experience includes a career in financial services at Wells Fargo Bank, where Pat was Vice President, Senior Human Resources Business Leader, Delaware Valley, where she lead the effort to consolidate 500 retail branch office and their staff post-merger.

Among her credentials, Pat holds a Master of Science Degree in Organization Development from The American University in Washington, D.C. and the N.T.L. Institute, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Ursinus College. She has earned a diploma in Ontological Coaching from the Newfield Network, an International Coach Federation certifying agency, Otto Kroeger Associates as a qualified Myers-Briggs facilitator, Franklin Covey, as a certified instructor, and the Hay Group as an accredited administrator of Dr. Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence 360 degree assessment

Pat lives on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay with her husband, daughter, and their dogs and cats. You can contact Pat by emailing her at pat.oceanic@yahoo.com, or calling (410) 275-1733 or (302) 293-6267 (mobile).