Gene Morton's Background & Experience
Accelerated Solutions, Ltd. (1982 – Present)
– President & Founder
- Strategic and business planning: Facilitate planning as well as the
resulting implementation and management team development.
- Restructuring: Design and facilitate the clarification of roles, definition
of accountabilities, performance evaluation, performance tracking and reporting systems, and
quality improvement.
- Sociotechnical redesign: Participative redesign of work processes and
structures for improved performance, quality and efficiency.
- Project Leadership and Implementation Skills: Assess and coach managers
through complex internal projects, reorganizations, computer conversions, acquisitions,
mergers, shutdowns and runoffs.
- Facilitation: Adjunct faculty for executive development program THE SEVEN
INTENTIONS® of Values Centered Leadership, Saltwater Institute.
Recent projects
- Energy company project process improvement.
- Leadership transition retreats for dialysis center managers and clinical leaders.
- Restructure independent mental health agency organization.
- Construction company strategic planning, role definition, performance evaluation, computer
conversion, executive coaching and leadership succession.
- Facilitate Partnering sessions for new construction projects.
- Participative redesign of (a) a technical education group’s organization structure
and client services delivery systems; (b) manager roles, structure and care delivery system of
a university hospital involving over 400 of 1000 employees including clinic physicians; and
(c) manager roles, organization structure and the nursing service-delivery-system of a 350 bed
skilled care facility.
Gerald H. Phipps, Inc. (2000 – 2002)
– Manager: Administrative Services
Organize and direct the delivery of company support services. Establish policies and direct the
following functions, personally and through direct reports:
- Plans: Strategic, business and succession
- Human Resource Management: All aspects plus executive coaching
and development
- IT: Consult to computer conversion and the ongoing delivery of
MIS and telecommunication services
- Administrative Services
- Partnering for construction projects: Design and facilitate
sessions
First Greatwest Corporation (1977 – 1982)
– Vice President, Corporate Planning and Human Resources
Member of the Holding Company Executive Team responsible for the planning, organization development
and human resource management functions for the holding company and subsidiaries.
- Organized and led strategic planning and review processes
- Served as project leader and/or consultant in organization changes,
reorganizations, the implementation of computer conversion, and ongoing operations
- Directed and implemented corporate-wide Human Resource Management policies
and programs and compensation systems.
- Designed and implemented the communication and implementation of
acquisitions, divestitures and mergers
In addition, served as Senior Associate, Human Resource Planning and Development at
Ashland Oil, Inc. and as Manager, Employee Development at Murphy Oil Corporation.
Education
M.A. Industrial Psychology, University of Tulsa; PSOD, GSPD and Organization Development training
with NTL Institute – 30 weeks of advanced training in organization, small group and leadership
behavior
Certifications
Certified Organization Development and Small Group consultant since 1984 through regular peer reviews
of Associated Consultants International; Trainer with FGI of Omaha, Nebraska in The Center for
Creative Leadership’s Looking Glass Simulation®; Myers Briggs Type Indicator®; Clark
Wilson Multi-Level Management and Organization surveys®
Affiliations
Associated Consultants International Co-Coordinator and Peer Review Panel Chair; American
Psychological Association; and the Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Publications
Nursing Management, Nonprofit World, Organization Development Network Proceedings, ASTD
Proceedings, Training and Development Journal and a proprietary book, Guide to Merger
Management, 1982
Professional Presentations
National Organization Development Network, National ASTD, Lincoln Personnel Management
Association, Associated Consultants International
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