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TeamTech principals have a 25-year track record of growing leadership, streamlining systems and fostering collaborative action.
Kathleen Harnish-Doucet is one of the principals of TeamTech, Inc., a Kansas-based firm providing strategic facilitation and consulting services. Kathleen has successfully led efforts to improve collaboration and resource management practices within and across state and local governments. Her particular expertise is in linking and leveraging efforts across units of government to improve efficiencies and effectiveness of efforts. From November 2002 through Fall 2004, she co-facilitated Kansas Governor Sebelius' BEST (Budget Efficiency Savings Team) project, an effort that resulted in significant budgetary savings for the state of Kansas. In 2005 Kathleen, with her partner Joel Wright, brought the idea for The Kansas Collaborative to the state, county and local governments of Kansas. This idea became a reality in November 2005 with more than $26 million saved to date. Most recently, TeamTech was asked by Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson to assist Kansas with the implementation of collaborative opportunities provided by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA). An expert in the field of facilitation and systems improvement, Kathleen coauthored the 1993 top-selling video, Implementing Total Quality Management, which was produced and marketed by CareerTrack® and was a coauthor of the 2003 book, The Facilitative Way: Leadership That Makes the Difference. Kathleen is also the coauthor of the 2006 booklet, Making Dollars & Sense. Kathleen earned a bachelor of business administration degree, graduating summa cum laude from Pittsburg State University, and an MBA summa cum laude from the University of Kansas. Kathleen received the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1991 as well as completed an internship with Dr. W. Edwards Deming, one of the key creators and teachers of the total quality management concepts. Contact Kathleen at kathleen@teamtechinc.com
Joel Wright has spent over 30 years working for and with organizations that wanted to achieve outstanding bottom line results through the wholesale involvement of people. His career-long interest has been mastering the art of facilitation so he could bring a dramatic new dimension to organizational development, strategic planning, problem solving, team building and the handling of emotionally difficult situations. Joel has worldwide client experience with such diverse organizations as the Chicago Department of Economic Development, Community Council Tairgwaith Wales, Inter-American Development Bank, Kentucky Commerce Cabinet, Mobil Oil Indonesia and Sprint. Since 2002, Joel and his business partner, Kathleen Harnish-Doucet, have focused on creating the Breakthrough Team Process. This process was first used in the BEST (Budget Efficiency Savings Team) project for Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius and now in the work of The Kansas Collaborative, a joint effort between the State of Kansas, The Kansas Association of Counties and the League of Kansas Municipalities. |
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