Roelf's Background

Roelf has been working with computers and people since the mid-1960's.During his career, he had the opportunity to gain both technical and managerial experience with all of the aspects of information technology - application development, operations management and project management. He has been a CIO, and handled major turnaround assignments in organizations in both the private and public sectors.

Roelf has had both executive and interim executive posts, usually with a change orientation. His consulting practice has spanned the financial services, transportation, energy and non-profit sectors.

Roelf is an experienced facilitator, mediator and dispute resolver. He has worked extensively with modern competency based approaches to human resource management. He has been involved in the "training for trainers" of facilitators. His executive coaching experience called upon these interpersonal skills, as well as his extensive success in developing subordinates who have gone to succeed in their own careers.

Roelf's graduate studies are in work place psychology. Early in his career, as an IT project manager and IT executive, he realized that technology problems in organizations are ultimately people problems. Consequently, he chose to expand his personal expertise in organizational behavior when he went to graduate school later in his career.

Roelf's Writing ... ...

Roelf's first piece of serious business writing was the creation of a Critical Path Method manual for Canadian National Railways in the 1960's. He has not stopped writing in a work context ever since.

Some of his material from the past 20 years is available on this web site, related WCI web sites, or through links to Roelf's personal web site. Other parts are published by WCI Press in Canada and HRD Press in the United States. Click here to see publications that you can access on the Internet.

Roelf is the developer of WCI's Competency Styles® program (www.competencystyles.com).

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