Destra Consulting Group, LLC

Bruce E. Ellis
Bruce specializes in High Performance Work Systems and Organizational Development. His primary areas of focus are sales, marketing, business growth and structure. He has done extensive work in the technology and telecom sectors with companies including AT&T, Lucent, Comcast, StorageTek, SBC, Boeing and Lockheed.

Bruce is a pioneer in the Wireless Entertainment industry in North America. He was recruited by MASP AG, Oslo Norway/Bern Switzerland to co-found North American operations of Mobile Entertainment start up Cellus, USA, Inc. In his role as Chairman and CEO, he led his team to build Cellus into a well-known company in the Mobile Content and Management sector, securing contracts with Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, Wal-Mart, Target, Syniverse, Boost Mobile, Bell Canada, General Mills, Best Buy, 7-Eleven, BMI Music, ASCAP, Warner Music, EMI, SONY, Universal and more. After orchestrating the multi-million dollar acquisition of Cellus, Bruce continues to maintain a robust executive network in the mobile, music, consulting and telecom industries.

From 1996 to 2001 Bruce was President of the Bee Group, Inc., a consulting firm focusing on Organizational Change, Process Management, Executive and Major Account Selling Models and Breakthrough Thinking.

Bruce is an active participant and speaker at the USC Marshall School of Business, Center for Telecom Management. He enjoys mountain climbing, skiing and golf. He is past President of the Rocky Mountain Llama and Alpaca Association and lives in Franktown, Colorado.

David W. Hannegan, Jr., Ph.D.
David's expertise is in leadership development, virtual teaming and building internal capability for change. His leadership development work is with executives and high-potential employees to develop their interpersonal and organizational effectiveness, including the use of 360 assessments, to create personal development plans. David has 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. His work with companies such as GE Capital, Sun Microsystems and 3M includes developing cadres of staff who can either lead quality initiatives or who become certified to deliver training and consulting internally.

David has held leadership positions in training and organization development at GE's Leadership Development Institute in Crotonville, NY, Ernst & Young's Professional and Organization Development Department and the Colorado Outward Bound School. He received his Ph.D. and Master's in Speech Communication from the University of Denver and his Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Union College, NY. David lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

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.

Carole Robin, Ph.D.
Carole has been helping people and organizations in the business, non-profit and public sector thrive for over 25 years. She specializes in leadership development, executive coaching and team building, strategic alignment, facilitation, culture and whole system change and organizational improvement and decision-making. She has consulted to organizations ranging in size from start-ups like Fulcrum Microsystems and Inhale Therapeutics (now publicly traded Nektar) to large systems like Kaiser Permanente and NASA.

Carole is a former industrial control sales and marketing manager (She worked for Honeywell and Gould) She has a Ph.D. in Human and Organization Systems and a Masters Degree in Organization Development from the Fielding Graduate Institute and a B.S. in Chemistry from Northwestern University. She has served on numerous non-profit boards and is the recipient of two Congressional Awards for Community Service. Carole was raised in Mexico and speaks fluent Spanish. She resides in Palo Alto, California, USA.

Carole is on sabbatical from Destra having received an expanded appointment at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business for Academic Year 05-06. She will be designing and teaching classes on Interpersonal Dynamics, High Performance Leadership and Coaching. Carole remains a full Destra partner during her sabbatical.

Graeme Newnham - Australia Affiliate
Graeme has been consulting, training, and developing internal capability using our Change Management, Six Sigma, QFD and Express! (Destra/client version of GE's WorkOut™) methodologies. His recent client work has included consulting with BHP Billiton, Telstra and Australia Post. Graeme has over 25 years of experience in the Organizational Development arena via Management and Consulting roles in both Human Resources and Sales and Service. He has a strong background in Training, Development and Customer Service as well as in managing large, national Sales and Service Teams.

Prior to joining Destra, Graeme worked in corporate environments including the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Link Telecommunications and Toyota where his responsibilities included Business Development, Line Management, Change Management, as well as P&L responsibilities. He implemented programs that grew sales volumes and led projects in areas such as customer service improvements, in-house recruitment, absentee reductions and Trade Union negotiations. Graeme further enjoyed building, staffing and managing Call and Contact Centers. Graeme received a Bachelor’s degree from La Trobe University. He also holds a Diploma of Education and a Graduate Diploma of Business Administration. Graeme lives in Melbourne, Australia.