Roelf Woldring

Current

CEO at Transformation Partners
Managing Partner at WCI / WCI Press - Workplace Competence International Limited

Past

General Manager at Chicken Farmers of Ontario
Vice President, Information Technology at Manulife Financial Limited
Director, Information Technology at TransCanada Pipelines

Various: Critical Path Method Analysis, Business Analyst, Project Manager, Operations Analyst, etc at Canadian National Railways, McGill University and a variety of others

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Education

Henley Management College
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Connections

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Industry

Executive Office

Roelf Woldring’s Summary

A proven enterprise TRANSFORMATION leader.

I have done it.

I have coached others to do it.

I can help you do it,
or do it for you,
or help you find the person to do it.

Transforming enterprises takes a different set of skills, values and attitudes than running a company well.

Talk with me, and you will understand why.

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Roelf Woldring’s Specialties:

Turning around existing enterprises or programs / projects, either by leading them myself, or coaching you to do it, or by finding the right person to do it for you.

Roelf Woldring’s Experience

CEO

Transformation Partners

(Management Consulting industry)

December 2009 — Present (1 month)

Turns out that I am better at transforming organizations than I am at most other things.

So I have started Transformation Partners, which is really just an out spring of the consulting business at WCI, under a different brand name.

At Transformation Partners... ....

We work in partnership with you.

We will help you figure out how to

1. turn around your enterprise or business problem area,
2. start it up and set it up for success if that is what you are doing,
3. help you staff it with the right transformational leaders,
4. lead it ourselves if the business deals makes sense to you and to us,
5. monitor progress on the transformation, and help you keep it on track.

That's what the word "partners" means.
Managing Partner

WCI / WCI Press - Workplace Competence International Limited

(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

1986 — Present (23 years )

As a management consulting firm, we have been working with clients on people, process and tooling issues for over 20 years. Our website has detailed information on the services we provide.

In the last years, we have been more and more involved with organizational transformation. Roelf Woldring now focuses on this.

We will work with clients in any of the areas described on the web site but find that we are most valuable when we can address problems that require INTEGRATED people (HR), process management (business process re-engineering) and automation (information technology) solutions to succeed.
General Manager

Chicken Farmers of Ontario

(Food & Beverages industry)

August 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 9 months)

Upgraded the management and the operations of the Chicken Farmers of Ontario. Implemented new people management, financial management and operations management processes. Restructured the system used to manage the production of 600 million dollars of chicken annually on 1100 farms. Put in place the people to carry out the new processes. Restructured the presentation of items to the Board, and the committee structure of the Board, focusing the elected Board on long term policy and on industry relations.
Vice President, Information Technology

Manulife Financial Limited

(Public Company; MFC; Financial Services industry)

1997 — 2001 (4 years )

Over 4 year period, my title changes corresponded to my changing responsibility as I worked to transform this IT organization.

VP, IT People and Process - responsible for initiating large scale cultural and people management process change for 1500 IT professionals,

VP, IS Development Services - responsible for creating an Internal "Bid on project" e-commerce software development organization

VP, IT Architecture and IS Development Services - adding global IT architecture responsibilities to above post.
Director, Information Technology

TransCanada Pipelines

(Oil & Energy industry)

1981 — 1986 (5 years )

Comprehensive turn round of a reaction oriented, under -performing IT organization to a service, oriented, unit cost reducing, service metric increasing group.
Integrated a number of IT organizations acquired as a result of the company's business acquisitions into this group.
Various: Critical Path Method Analysis, Business Analyst, Project Manager, Operations Analyst, etc

Canadian National Railways, McGill University and a variety of others

(Management Consulting industry)

1970 — 1986 (16 years )

I got lucky. I had to start work in my teens while I was finishing my high school education at night.

That meant that I was learning about project management, application development, information technology and a variety of business environments in a "hand on" way during the day.

At night, I choose to learn more about people at work. First, I did so through first undergraduate studies in history, psychology and sociology. Then later, after working for over 15 years, through graduate studies in small group psychology, organizational psychology, organization theory, and organizational change.

This rich mix prepared me perfectly for an on-going career focused on helping people succeed at and through work.

Roelf Woldring’s Education

Henley Management College

DBA (incomplete) , Management , 1998 — 2001

Received Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Management Consultancy

Activities and Societies:

Distance education program. Left without completing research dissertation - had gained large personal and business benefit from exposure to current research in management while consulting and handling executive roles - time demands of an executive career interfered with the work needed to complete the dissertation.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

PHD (all but dissertation) , Organizational Behaviour / Theory , 1976 — 1980

Entered this program on a full time basis after completing undergraduate education as a evening student, having worked full time for 15 years. Developed an on-going interest in staying up to date with management research as a result. Was invited back into an executive career before completing dissertation. The research work itself, completed as part of an consulting assignment, profiling the internal dynamics of a vice-presidential and senior executive team of forty was both technically challenging and deeply intriguing. (Used multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis to prepare physical models of the interaction of the members of this group.)

Activities and Societies:

Left without completing dissertation since career interests did not involve university level teaching

Additional Information

Roelf Woldring’s Interests:

Ongoing Technical Interests: Internet as a driver of social and business change. E-learning and E-publishing. Emergency management response, including use of incident command system, reality based emergency simulation, "black web sites" for emergency management team response coordination. Digital Photography