Tom Ward - Principal Associate, CCHPO
Tom Ward is currently the President of the National Capital Center for High Performance Organizations, one of the Commonwealth Centers for High-Performance (CCHPO), and a Principal Associate with more than 35 years of applied management and consulting experience. He has designed and managed programs for Executive Coaching, Strategic Workforce Development, Organizational Change, Leadership Development, Management Improvement, Workforce Planning, Total Quality Management and Competency Development for a national workforce, and has worked with senior management teams and many line organizations including the Department of Agriculture, the Navy, and the Environmental Protection Agency. His most rewarding work is in helping work groups, management teams, and entire organizations “get unstuck.”
Mr. Ward is certified to administer Prosci Change Management tools, the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, the Lominger Leadership Architect tool suite, and several Center for Creative Leadership instruments including Benchmarks, Skillscope, Prospector, the Developmental Challenge Profile, and KEYS, measuring the climate for creativity, productivity, and innovation. He is also certified by Multi-Health Systems to administer the Bar-On EQ-i, measuring and coaching on individual emotional intelligence. He is the author of “Developing your Strengths,” an appreciative inquiry-based guide to harnessing individual strengths to build more effective organizations, and is a teacher, speaker, guide, and coach on activity and strength-based development. He taught in the School of Management at George Mason University for four years.
During 20 years as a program manager, Mr. Ward was a budget officer; chief trouble shooter for USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation, a $32 billion operation financing crop price supports; Management Team Leader for the USDA Working Capital Fund; Manager of USDA Commercial Industrial Activities; and Major Systems Acquisitions Program Manager, and served on the 1981 OMB task Force to revise Circular A-76 and its Cost Comparison Handbook. He ran trade shows for the National Automobile Dealers Association for two years, and served in the USMC infantry in Viet Nam before college.
Mr. Ward has an MBA in Organizational Development from George Washington University. His thesis correlated environmental stress and life crisis to employee motivation.
tom.ward@highperformanceorg.com