Will Ellis, Ph.D.
Will Ellis is the President and founder of
Common Ground Consulting and a consultant who works on long-term,
organizational learning interventions, experiential training,
leadership development and community service. Will offers consulting
services and workshops to assist his clients in creating results.
Will has focused mainly on long term consultative
relationships with a few select clients on their organizational
development and culture change. Typically, through multi-year
commitments, he has worked with small to mid-size organizations
and managed a culture change process with a large chemical company
for over 20,000 employees over two years. During that project
he supervised 120 staff across five regional sites plus the leader
training of 250 internal resources.
With the help of many others Will created
the concept of Leader Forums, a long-term developmental process
that helps organizations implement new found lessons back at work,
continue to build on organization learning after workshops and
to connect people growth with organizational growth. Will's clients
create measurable results, in both the culture and the bottom
line.
Within the automotive industry Will's clients
have included Visteon, Ford, General Motors, Freightliner and
May & Scofield. Other clients have come from a variety of
industries including Dow Chemical, Dow Corning, DuPont, Texaco,
Chevron Texaco, Eastern Michigan University, Owens Corning and
Steelcase.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Will
worked with clients on pioneering organizational change projects
including performance management, employee work teams, employee
involvement, quality circles and leadership development, focusing
on implementation at the work site and measurement of results.
Will received a Masters in Psychology from
Western Michigan University and his doctorate from West Virginia
University. He began his career in 1974 as a trainer in the Executive
Education program at the University of Michigan.
Will also works with his clients in a variety
of community settings including Habitat for Humanity, Focus:HOPE,
The Children's Hospital, The Coalition for Temporary Shelters
(COTS) and Lula Belle Stewart Center.
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