A highly regarded organization development consultant, executive coach, and leadership development facilitator, Devon is dedicated to growing and developing individual leaders, and working with teams and organizations to solve complex problems. Devon’s success lies in his ability to listen to the client, ask critical questions, and apply a systems perspective to supporting teams and organizations in their efforts.
An expert at driving organization alignment and facilitating group processes. Extensive experience leading employee engagement initiatives, strategic planning, values and mission identification, strategic talent management, succession, and organization design.
A skilled leadership development facilitator, with extensive experience designing custom engagements that inspire and grow leaders. Areas of expertise include: systems thinking, organization design, strategic thinking, leader-as- coach, transformational communication, and leading in new roles.
Devon has extensive experience coaching leaders, executives and teams; building coaching practices; and designing and leading coaching training and certification programs for leaders, HR professionals and external coaches.
Professional Background
Previously Devon worked as a Senior Consultant for the NeuroLeadership Institute. He focused on leadership and performance management by applying brain science to support a wide array of businesses to meet their human capital needs.
Devon worked for over five years as a Principal Consultant for Linkage, providing strategic consulting on organization and leadership development, and talent management through consulting services, workshops, tailored assessment, and executive coaching. In this role, Devon used his passion for truly understanding client needs to design customized solutions and to partner with sales teams to develop new, and expand on, existing business.
Prior to Linkage, Devon was the VP of Leadership Development for eight years at FCC Services, an organization effectiveness consulting firm, where he lead the leadership development practice area and built the executive coaching practice. He doubled revenue and program offerings in the first five years.
Devon has served as a faculty member at the University of Denver – Daniels College of Business, the University of Waikato in New Zealand, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He conducted research, and designed and taught communication and leadership development courses.
Devon has a PhD in Organizational Communications from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a BA in Conflict Studies from Earlham College. When not working, Devon can be found traveling, or in the mountains with his family skiing, hiking, climbing and mountain biking. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Partial Client List
Devon has worked in many industries, with an extensive focus in healthcare, energy, financial services, and agriculture. Clients include: Nintendo, Amway, Accenture, Microsoft, Sunovion, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Toyota, Mercedes Benz, Lenovo, HCA, Whirlpool, State Farm, Farm Credit System, The Wonderful Company, McDermott Energy, Sandoz, Siemens, Fidelity, Centura Health, Frito Lay, Verizon, American Bankers Assoc., USDA, Seven Generations Energy, Avocados from Mexico, CoBank, SAP Ariba, Banco Popular, Ingram Content Group
How Devon Can Help Your Organization
Devon is available to speak and consult with individuals and groups on leadership development, executive coaching, strategic planning, systems thinking as well as individual and organizational development and assessments.
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