Gervase Bushe is the President of Discovery & Design Inc., a Vancouver based consulting firm with associates throughout North America. Europe and Asia. As an Associate Professor of Management and Organization Studies in the Faculty of Business Administration, Gervase has taught in Simon Fraser’s Executive MBA program since 1983 and helped to found the Master's of Technology MBA in 1999 and the Leadership and Organizational Change MBA in 2004.

Gervase has worked with companies to redesign their structures, change their cultures, improve their customer satisfaction and increase their operational effectiveness. He’s known internationally for his innovative work on appreciative inquiry and leadership. He has coached numerous executives and worked with executive and managerial teams. He also has an extensive background in the design and delivery of management training programs in the areas of organizational change and innovation, leadership, human relations, group dynamics, management, organization design, productivity, quality improvement, organizational learning and organizational culture. He has given numerous speeches to corporate audiences, professional associations, and radio, television and newspaper interviews.

Gervase is an award winning author in the field of organizational change and development and on the editorial boards of both scholarly and practical journals. He is listed in Who's Who in Canadian Business. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University.

For more information visit his web page at www.gervasebushe.ca

Dag Furst is President of Furst Consulting Limited, a network of organization development consultants with Dag Furst as its principal. Dag has been an independent consultant since he left Touche Ross (now Deloitte Touche) Management Consultants. With an educational background in Industrial Engineering (Master's Degree) and an initial career in IT (IBM), he has extensive training and over 20 years of successful consulting experience in Change Management, Organizational Effectiveness, Leadership Development and Total Quality Management.

Dag’s mission is to help develop performing and learning organizations by maximizing individual and team contribution.

Dag combines his business, technical and behavioural knowledge to develop practical and successful approaches to organizational change and improvements. With most of his clients Dag acts as an architect of change, facilitator in building strong organizations, and guide in learning and improvement. His approach is to avoid "template" solutions. With his understanding of business needs, technical demands and human dynamics, he assists clients develop solutions that are immediately relevant and that are truly theirs.

He has helped clients achieve significant and meaningful change, is a recognized expert in his field, and has presented at many conferences.

Clients include: Antamina (Peru), Alcan Ltd, Creo Products, Crystal Decisions, City Of Vancouver, BC Gas, (Terasen), Teck Cominco Ltd., Save-On-Foods, Molson Breweries, Northwood Pulp, Placer Dome International, Shell Canada Ltd., TELUS, and WCB.

For more information visit his website at www.furstprinciples.com

Gervase Bushe
Discovery & Design Inc.
3898 Trenton Place
North Vancouver, BC
Canada V7R 3G5

604-986-1819
bushe@sfu.ca

Dag Furst
Furst Consulting Limited
651 St. Andrews Ave
North Vancouver
Canada V7L 4M2

604-789-2277
dfurst@telus.net