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Author Biography: Biographies of Robert W. Jacobs, Barry Johnson, Frank McKeow

By Susan M. Heathfield, About.com

How to Add Value in Continuing Strategic Change

Guest Writer Robert “Jake” Jacobs is the founder of Robert W. Jacobs Consulting, Inc., a global consulting firm dedicated to supporting organizations in achieving rapid, sustainable, organization-wide transformation. He is a leading authority on the complexities of whole-systems change.

He is the author of Real Time Strategic Change: How to Involve an Entire Organization in Fast and Far-Reaching Change (Berrett-Koehler, 1994), and a co-author of The Change Handbook: Group Methods for Shaping the Future (Berrett-Koehler, 1999). Jacobs can also be reached at (734) 475-8253.

Guest Writer Barry Johnson is president of Polarity Management Associates Organization Development in Grand Rapids, MI.

Author of Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems, he is an authority on organization development, management development and rapid, sustainable large systems change. Johnson can also be reached at (616) 233-3291.

Guest Writer Frank McKeown is a co-developer of the Real Time Strategic Change approach and a leading organizational consultant on change, strategy and leadership.

He is the author of several papers about change, a co-author of The Change Handbook: Group Methods for Shaping the Future (Berrett-Koehler, 1999) and principal of McKeown Associates. McKeown can be reached at (808) 254-6649 or fmckeown@hawaii.rr.com.

The article was first published in HR Professional magazine in 1999. This is its first publication online.

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