Destra Consulting Group, LLC

David W. Hannegan, Jr., Ph.D.
David is a principal in Destra Consulting Group, LLC, a Boulder, Colorado based organization development firm. Over the last 22 years, David has had considerable experience in the deployment of operational improvement transformation efforts, and the design and delivery of training and education programs for a variety of populations. He brings expertise in areas of leadership development, building high performance teams, virtual teaming, and capacity-building for change acceleration.

Most recently, David has been working as the account lead with several healthcare systems on their Lean Transformation efforts. This includes consulting to their senior deployment team, ensuring that Lean and Change Management are integrated into their improvement efforts, and developing internal capability. David's leadership development experience has been with executives and high potentials to enhance their skills to be more effective interpersonally and organizationally. This includes utilization of 360° assessments and personal coaching on an ongoing basis. He has also worked extensively in the virtual team arena, both in team start up and team-leader development, to enhance team effectiveness in a dispersed work environment.

David comes to Destra from GE where he was a Program Manager for Training and Education at the Corporate Leadership Development Institute in Crotonville, New York. His other work experience includes the Professional and Organization Development Department at Ernst & Young LLP, Management Education for Storage Technology Corporation, and Assistant Director for the Professional Development Program at the Colorado Outward Bound School. His most recent clients include BJC Health Care, Ministry Healthcare, Orica Corporation, and Sealed Air.

David received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Speech Communication from the University of Denver, and received his B.S. from Union College, NY.

Marte Pendley, Ph.D.
Marte specializes in the area of strategic business transformation. For over 20 years she has worked with executives, managers and project teams across industries to successfully implement new strategic directions. Marte has been engaged in large-scale change efforts catalyzed by rapid growth, deregulation, mergers and acquisitions, increased competition, process redesign, technology implementation and other marketplace challenges. She was instrumental in the design and development of a Performance Breakthrough Center for Boeing. Marte is passionate about the synergies to be gained by using communication strategically in large-scale change and innovation. She has also conducted extensive research in knowledge management practices and processes.

Prior to becoming a principal at Destra, Marte held roles as Training and Management Development Director for The Gap Stores, Inc., Human Resource Development Director and Corporate Communications Director for Mervyn's Department Stores and as a senior consultant with The Tom Peters Group/Learning Systems. From 1991 to 2002 she was President of her own consulting practice. Marte's clients include Ameritech (now a division of SBC), AT&T, Barclay's Global Investors, Boeing, Kaiser Permanente, Pacific Bell, Sybase, Wyeth and others.

Marte holds a Ph.D. in Human and Organization Systems and a Master's in Organization Development from the Fielding Institute. She lives in Denver, Colorado, USA.

Aled F. Roberts - Australia Affiliate
Aled brings to Destra over 25 years of broad ranging, practical experience as a senior manager and consultant on three continents with global companies. Based in Melbourne, he is Destra's Australian affiliate and currently works as a consultant, trainer and coach for several clients on a variety of areas including Change Management and Lean/Six Sigma.

In all his work, Aled's primary objective is to ensure that his clients fulfil their potential as businesses, teams and individuals. This is achieved through focusing on service quality and providing them with fit for purpose process improvement and change acceleration tools and frameworks.

Throughout his career Aled has been closely involved in all aspects of improving and reengineering business processes - from evaluation, through documentation, design and improvement, to implementation. He was part of BHPBilliton's global Shared Services initiative, where he held a number of positions in the areas of process reengineering and internal customer relationship management. One of Destra's lead consultants and faculty in our work with Telstra, Aled has worked with a number of our other clients including Orica, Rio Tinto Barrick Gold and National Australia Bank.

Prior to joining BHPBilliton Aled held senior financial positions with the French and Australian subsidiaries of the US automotive parts manufacturer, Dana Corporation, twice a winner of the prestigious Malcolm Baldridge Award, and Price Waterhouse in the US and Canada.

Aled combines his chartered accounting qualification with a degree in French and German. He is proud of his Welsh heritage and speaks Welsh at home with his wife and two sons.

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