Gerald Brokaw - Principal, CCHPO

Gerald Brokaw is currently the President of the Charleston Center for High-Performance Organizations, LLC, one of the Commonwealth Centers for High-Performance (CCHPO). CCHPO is a management consulting network focused on improving organizational performance and managing large scale organizational change in the public and private sectors. Areas of consulting emphasis for the Centers are large-scale organizational change, development of high-performance executive leadership teams, project management, executive coaching, emotional competence, values and ethics, organizational diagnosis and work culture surveys, integration of the continuous learning and improvement philosophy into organizational work cultures, design and implementation of product quality and service quality programs, and design and delivery of executive development programs.

Mr. Brokaw is a principal, primary presenter and facilitator for the Building High-Performance Organizations for the Twenty-First Century seminar, for a variety of custom designed Continuous Learning and Improvement Process Workshops, for the CCHPO Project Management Curriculum, and for the Organizational Diagnostic Change Model and change process. Mr. Brokaw is also an adjunct faculty member at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Federal Executive Institute for senior federal executives, the Naval Sea Systems Command Project Management College, and has been a guest lecturer for the Federal Quality Institute, the Naval Medical Quality Institute, and the University of Maine. Before associating with CCHPO and establishing the Charleston Center, Mr. Brokaw was Managing Associate in Coopers & Lybrand's Organizational Change Management Group (now IBM consulting) and was the Executive Director of the Management Technology Corporation. In these capacities he led major improvement initiatives for divisions of General Electric, General Motors, International Paper, Continental Telephone, Honeywell, and the Department of the Navy as well as a variety of other Fortune 100 and Public Sector organizations.

Mr. Brokaw has personally conducted numerous strategic planning efforts, team development activities, project management sessions, and individual skills workshops. He is certified to administer and interpret the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Human Synergistics Instruments, Prosci Change Management tools, the Leadership Philosophy Questionnaire, and the Lominger Leadership Architect. He uses these and a variety of other tools with his varied skills to assess leadership style, improve teamwork and team skills, and enhance group problem-solving.

gbrokaw@highperformanceorg.com