Chad Stewart

Background
Chad is the Founder and a Principal of Interkannections and the Co-Director of Integral Japan. He has been working since 1992 in the areas of Global Leadership Development, Organizational Development, Sustainability and Talent Management as a coach, consultant, facilitator, project manager and trainer for companies, governments and NPOs. He has also worked with the United Nations Centre for Regional Development and helped establish an environmental committee for Mie Prefecture, Japan.

Projects and Results include:

• Bottom Line Productivity Improvement: Worked with a management team to completely remove a planned overseas cost center and redesign the existing organization around customer satisfaction resulting in a cost savings of millions of euros and profitability increases in the hundreds of millions of yen
• M&A Integration: Supported a three-party international merger resulting in a reported dramatic increase in “buy-in,” communication, collaboration, performance improvement and stress reduction
• Value Chain Integration: Supported a top leadership team in clarifying its current value chain, determining future nodes of engagement, creating a stakeholder management strategy, and installing an ongoing planning process to implement expansion in target nodes of engagement
• Vision, Mission & Strategy Clarification & Implementation: Guided the leadership team through a process of vision, mission & strategy clarification and linked the results to clear projects and role & responsibility that allowed the organization to dramatically outperform prior revenue generation
• Organizational Culture Transformation: Guiding the transformation of an R&D culture in a major automotive manufacturer from an “I” center to a “T” center resulting in significant product improvement, cost advantages, leadership and decision-making enhancement and global coordination ability
• Systems & Processes Redesign: Worked with an internal team to map the organization’s existing systems & processes, clarify effective and ineffective ones in the context of the organization’s current value chain, and redesign the overall system resulting in increased ease of use, improved client satisfaction, and some time savings
• Leadership Pipeline Development: Installed a leadership pipeline in an acquired firm with “no leadership” resulting in pipeline members matching or exceeding the leadership standards of the owner company within three years
• Leadership University Creation and Installation: Created and installed a “leadership university” (complete with internal trainers system) in a organization that allowed it to develop leaders who are producing results equal to its global partner organization
• Ongoing Training & Development: Created customized Training-Of-Trainer programs for R&D leaders to develop their colleagues and subordinates from “experts” to managers and project managers
• Organization Design: Designed a local multicultural organization for a foreign entity with the result that it went on to outperform most of its sister organizations in Asia, Europe and North America
  
  

Education

• M.A. in Intercultural Relations from the Intercultural Communication Institute in Portland Oregon
• Certified: Leadership Development Framework and Profile (currently training to become a certified MAP scorer)
• Certified: Spiral Dynamics integral (SDi) Level 1 and Level 2 (Natural Designs, Personal Emergence, Applications)
• Certified: Cultural Training Tools (Level 1)
• Certified: Negotiations for Strategic Success
• Certified: Negotiating Intercultural Conflict
• Certified: Global Executive Coaching
• Certified: Advanced Intercultural Training.

Languages

English (native), Japanese (business).

Personal Development

Chad’s second vocation is spending time with his wife, daughter, son, and ferret. He practices a personal ITP that incorporates Taoist energy work, witness meditation, reading, transformational imagery, Hatha Yoga, weight-training, running, and Brazilian Jujitsu.

Focus

Developing world-class sustainable and restorative projects and organizations that provide value simultaneously through five performance measures (Principles, Profit, People, Purpose, and Planet).