kittennis

here's a professional bio-- personal info to appear soon--

Dr. Kit Tennis has 34 years experience consulting to and managing business, government, academic and nonprofit organizations. In that time, he has developed a consulting philosophy that blends practical realism with a compassionate commitment to building effective, ethical high performance teams and organizations. Kit focuses on enhancing the management and life skills of organization members and broadening the competencies and perspectives organizations need to successfully face the challenges of a rapidly changing environment. Kit is a highly skilled and insightful facilitator and trainer, known for his lively, engaging style and his trust in the innate genius of everyone he meets. His most contemporary work concentrates on global diversity and inclusion, appreciative inquiry, strategic planning, team building, corporate entrepreneurship, organizational cultural renewal, and large systems change strategies.

Kit's broad work experience grounds his expertise and insight into team and organizational work life. In addition to his extensive domestic and international consulting practice, he has administered governmental social service delivery systems, served as a municipal personnel director, managed academic service programs, and developed successful nonprofit human service organizations. During a stint as a popular business professor of organizational behavior, human resources, and international/ cross-cultural management, Kit was a founding Senior Associate of the Colorado World Trade Center.

Kit has been a long-term member of the professional peer review panel of Associated Consultants International, certifying the competency of internal and external organization consultants in the Mountain States region. His own certification is in both societal change and small group development. Among Kit's most recent clients are Hewlett-Packard, DuPont, AGILENT, Moss-Adams, StorageTek, Xerox, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the Bocconi University of Milan, AT&T, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Bank Boston (Fleet Bank), the Graland School, and the Northwest Province of Jesuits.

Kit regularly reviews research submissions for the national meetings of the Academy of Management and the OD (Organization Development) Network, and provides professional development training to consultants, trainers and management faculty. Kit's doctorate in organization development is from the University of Colorado. His dissertation and several subsequent publications addressed the connection between organizational climate and workplace burnout in the U.S. and other cultures. His most recent publication (2004) is “U.S. Experience in Managing Diversity: A Consulting View” in Diversity Management e Societa Multiculturale: Teorie e Prassi, Milan, Italy: FrancoAngeli. He lives in the mountains outside Boulder, Colorado with his life and business partner, Anita Sanchez, and their two teen sons. SanchezTennisAssociates.com