Terrence  Metz Author of Evaluating Organization Development
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Terrence Metz

President and Curriculum Developer
Morgan Madison & Company

Terrence has taught over 300 classes. He is the lead instructor and primary curriculum developer for MG Rush Facilitation Training and Coaching. Through professional and academic endeavors, Terrence has focused on improving group decision-making processes. Terrence is passionate about using and teaching the FAST Facilitative Leadership Training technique so that groups and teams make more informed decisions, own their plans, and make adjustments to ensure success reaching objectives.

Biography

Since the end of 1999, Terrence Metz has been a founding principal partner and vice president at Morgan Madison & Company.  For over twenty years, through professional and academic endeavors, Terrence has focused on improving group decision-making processes.  His experience has proven that the two most important components to effective decision-making processes are:
1. Higher quality information assures higher quality decisions
2. Properly managed conflict, provides groups with more “options” to consider —
 and groups with more options have been proven to make higher quality decisions

Terrence is passionate about using and teaching the FAST Facilitative Leadership Training technique so that people and teams make more informed decisions.  Terrence is the lead instructor and primary curriculum developer for MG Rush Performance Learning. He earned his Six Sigma Green Belt® from Motorola University and wrote most of the existing FAST curriculum.  Terrence made the FAST technique more robust by adding and enhancing decision-making tools such as PowerBalls and the FAST quantitative SWOT technique that is used worldwide by Fortune 1000 companies.  He introduced the concept of holism to the field of structured facilitation as a method for keeping discussions on target and aligning deliverables throughout an organization.

Since 1999, Terrence has taught nearly two hundred classes.  His facilitation philosophy aligns perfectly with the FAST technique as shown by Dr Dyer’s statement, “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

As an undergraduate of Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) and MBA graduate from NWU’s Kellogg School of Management, his professional experience has focused on process innovation, idea management, and product development.  Terrence has a P&L background in capital goods markets with highly engineered-products and services (eg, Honeywell).  He is an expert group facilitator, instructor, and developer of workflow processes and Voice of the Market inputs that accelerate commercial success.  His engagements have included strategic development, business planning, problem-solving, continuous improvement, organizational design, process design, customer cognitivity workshops, and market-based product development and launch.  His clients include senior officers and general management among numerous private and public companies and global corporations.

Terrence completed additional graduate work in inter-cultural decision-making processes at Marquette University, is a former board member of the Product Development Managers’ Association, and a long-time member of the IFA (International Association of Facilitators), MFNA (Midwest Facilitators Network Association), TMAC (Technology Management Association of Chicago), WFS (World Future Society) and the newly formed Chicago Data Visualization Group.  Most importantly, Terrence is an effective listener and equally adept at teaching FAST classes as well as galvanizing consensus around important and challenging issues for organizations and groups.

Education

    M.B.A. – Marketing and Finance, 1994 Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Emphasis on marketing and finance)
    B.S. – Interdepartmental Studies, 1977 Northwestern University

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

    Graduate Studies in Rhetorical Communications, 1981-84
    (Emphasis on group and inter-cultural decision-making processes) Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Personal Interests

    . WFS (World Future Society)
    . MFNA (Midwest Facilitators Network Association)
    . IFA (International Facilitators Association)
    . Editor and contributor (2001): FAST Session Leader by Mr. Gary Rush
    . Editor and contributor (2000): A Process for Deciding by Mr. Gary Rush
    . Woodland School District #50 SIP (School Improvement Program)
    . Gagewood Lion’s Club Baseball
    . ICAA Coach (Illinois Certified Amateur Athletics)
    . Vestry and Treasurer, Church of St. Francis
    . Editor and contributor (2000): A Process for Deciding
    . Business Process Redesign and Certified Green Belt (Motorola University)

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Books

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Change or Die - the Business Process Improvement Manual Reached Number 3 in Organizational Change Books on Amazon

By: Terrence Metz

Co-author and founding principal partner and vice president at Morgan Madison & Company, Terrence is the curriculum developer and lead instructor for MG Rush Performance Learning. During his professional and academic endeavors, he has focused on improving group decision-making processes. His experience has proven that properly managed conflict, provides groups with more "options" to consider -- and groups with more options have been proven to make higher quality decisions.

With a Baccalaureate in Science from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) and a MBA from NWU's Kellogg School of Management, his professional experience has focused on process innovation, idea management, and product development. Terrence is passionate about using and teaching the FAST Facilitative Leadership Training technique so that people and teams make more informed decisions.  

Read his weekly blogs: http://facilitativeleadership.wordpress.com/

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Join one of his classes: http://www.mgrush.com/ 

Since 1999, Terrence has taught nearly two hundred classes.  His facilitation philosophy aligns perfectly with the FAST technique as shown by Dr Dyer's statement, "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

He earned his Six Sigma Green Belt® from Motorola University and made the FAST technique more robust by adding and enhancing decision-making tools such as PowerBalls and the FAST quantitative SWOT technique that is used worldwide by Fortune 1000 companies. He introduced the concept of holism to the field of structured facilitation as a method for keeping discussions on target and aligning deliverables throughout an organization.

Terrence has a P&L background in capital goods markets with highly engineered-products and services (eg, Honeywell).  He is an expert group facilitator, instructor, and developer of workflow processes and Voice of the Market inputs that accelerate commercial success.  His engagements have included strategic development, business planning, problem-solving, continuous improvement, organizational design, process design and improvement, customer cognitivity workshops, and market-based product development and launch.  His clients include senior officers and general management among numerous private and public companies and global corporations.

Terrence completed additional graduate work in inter-cultural decision-making processes at Marquette University, is a former board member of the Product Development Managers' Association, and a long-time member of the IAF (International Association of Facilitators), MFNA (Midwest Facilitators Network Association), TMAC (Technology Management Association of Chicago) and WFS (World Future Society).  Most importantly, Terrence is an effective listener and equally adept at teaching FAST classes as well as galvanizing consensus around important and challenging issues for organizations and groups.