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business people cheeringDestra Consulting Celebrates 25 Years!

The big news for Destra is that we are celebrating our 25th Anniversary this year.  Destra was founded by Pamela Dennis back in the mid-80’s, and we have grown from a small firm doing mostly local work to an Internationally recognized consulting group with an affiliate office in Melbourne, AU.  While it was our work helping GE develop and deploy WorkOut™ and CAP™ that put us on the map, we have since worked with clients ranging from the City of Boulder to Target in locales from Colorado to Canada, South Africa to Singapore.  It was our work with the two largest companies in Australia that allowed us to open an office in Melbourne and develop a cadre of Associates in Australia. 

Our work continues to evolve with client needs. Recently we’ve been providing project manager education and skill development to the IT department of a packaging company, working with several healthcare systems on lean/six sigma and change management deployments, developing internal change leadership capability for minerals and retail clients and creating and delivering webinars.

Destra continues to expand our client base, expertise, and depth of knowledge, and we look forward to an even more exciting future!

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Project Manager Workshops

Enhanced skills in relationship building and influence for Project Managers are a keen interest for several of our clients.  The need accompanies this realization – even good project management software and project management training do not provide Project Managers with the nuanced behavior needed to gain support for cross-functional or complex projects. Destra has responded by working with these clients to custom design workshops that help Project Managers:

  • understand the interests and needs of customers,
  • gain support from functional peer groups,
  • communicate well with globally diverse teams,
  • meet commitments and schedules
In our view, this skill set will continue to grow in importance for Project Managers.