Richard Cronen

Richard W. Cronen is a founding partner of Meridian Consulting, Inc. located in Northern California.  He has over 30 years experience as a business owner, senior executive, CEO, and consultant.  Richard has provided consulting, coaching and training services to private sector, government, military, and not-for-profit organizations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Italy. 

He specializes in organizational re-design, process improvement, strategic planning, and change management.  His strengths and talents include:

• Strategic Thinker – The ability to see patterns within the complex and to effectively select the appropriate response.  Richard is future-focused and effectively helps his clients challenge old assumptions about how work should be organized and conducted.
  
  
• Transformation Planner – Skilled in the tactical planning of strategic initiatives and the practical steps that lead to the transformation and integration of people, processes and systems.  Richard has extensive experience in successfully managing large-scale change initiatives and coordinating multi-faceted projects. 
  
  
• Interpersonal Relating – Accomplished at building powerful interdependent relationships, Richard is adept at building rapport that allows him to work effectively as a consultant, coach and seminar leader, as well as with colleagues.
  
  
• Innovator – Richard is gifted at seeing what is possible, making the complex understandable, turning concepts into practical solutions, and building collaborative alliances to turn ideas into reality.

• Manage complex re-organization projects, develop strategic change initiatives, and design and implement competency-based succession and talent management programs.
  
  
• Design, implement, and evaluate a wide-range of training and skill-building programs.
  
  
• Conduct strategic planning sessions, needs analysis sessions, and other problem solving and decision-making sessions in both the public and private sectors.

Richard helps his clients improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their operations by eliminating the white space between functions, reducing non-value added activity, identifying hidden operational costs, and building open operating systems. He incorporates team and open book management principles, in creating integrated growth strategies. Richard is very experienced in helping leaders improve skill sets, increase management capability, and effectively manage organizational change.

You can contact Richard Cronen at: r.cronen@meridianconsultinginc.com

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