Speaker, Author of "Teamwork Is An Individual Skill", and Redefining Responsibility Worldwide
San Antonio, Texas Area
- Current
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- Founder & President at Partnerwerks, Inc.
- Past
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- Senior Consultant at Cutter Consortium
- PhD, consultant at Org research, Academia
- Consultant to at DTE Energy
- Consulted to at Landmark Graphics
- Education
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- The University of Texas at Austin
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Christopher Avery’s Summary
World-class expert on personal and shared responsibility...
Popular speaker, author, and mentor Christopher Avery PhD, is committed to redefining responsibility in all societies throughout the world. He supports people and organizations in realizing exponential gains by recognizing and accessing untapped resources.
Christopher broke new ground with his pragmatic and insightful research on individual and shared responsibility in the workplace. This work was readily adopted by groups in R&D and Supply Chain Management worldwide. His book "Teamwork Is An Individual Skill" describes the principles.
Christopher innovates in leadership development, organizational culture, personal growth, and coaching/teaching/counseling with two field-tested breakthroughs, the Responsibility Process™ and the Keys to Responsibility™. His intent is to accelerate performance, success, and sustainability while increasing personal freedom, choice, and power worldwide.
He earned a Doctorate in the Communication of Technology from The University of Texas at Austin. He's been president of Partnerwerks Incorporated since 1991 and a senior consultant with the Cutter Consortium's IT and Agile Project Management practices.
Christopher co-authored the Declaration of Interdependence, an integral set of values guiding agile and adaptive approaches to business. He is a co-founder of the Agile Project Leadership Network focused on supporting and developing great project leaders.
Featured or quoted in hundreds of media reports he also authors a prolific stream of articles, columns, and essays read by professionals in more than 50 countries.
Christoper is an avid cyclist and a certified shotgun instructor devoted to developing responsible youth and families through competitive clay target shooting.
Christopher Avery’s Specialties:
Exemplary team skills and leadership development for engineering and scientific professionals and their enterprises. Supporting individuals in taking personal responsibility in shared-responsibility environments.
Extensive experience developing integrative mindsets and skills for independent thinkers who must collaborate in competitive environments.
Training, Leadership Development, Leadership Coaching, Team Development, Organizational Change and Development.
Christopher Avery’s Experience
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Founder & President
Partnerwerks, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
December 1990 — Present (19 years )
Responsible for strategy and execution of management consulting business serving technology corporations worldwide. Developed expertise and creative properties in teamwork, partnering, collaborative leadership, and personal and shared responsibility among educated professionals. Applied this expertise to improve performance of R&D project teams, enterprise executive teams, team-based organizations and matrix structures, virtual supply-chain integration, joint venture management, and technology commercialization.
Representative clients: 3M, AMD, Applied Materials, AT&T, AT&T Wireless, Charles Schwab, General Motors, Halliburton, IBM, Management Centre Europe (Belgium), Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia (Finland, Hong Kong), Prudential, Sasol (Italy, Germany, South Africa), Vitro (Mexico), U.S. Army, Wells Fargo, and Whole Foods Market. -
Senior Consultant
Cutter Consortium
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
2004 — 2008 (4 years )
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PhD, consultant
Org research, Academia
(Management Consulting industry)
1983 — 2008 (25 years )
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Consultant to
DTE Energy
(Public Company; Management Consulting industry)
2005 — 2007 (2 years )
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Consulted to
Landmark Graphics
(Public Company; Management Consulting industry)
1996 — 2000 (4 years )
Christopher Avery’s Education
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The University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. , The Communication of Technology , 1982 — 1989
- Activities and Societies:
- Phi Kappa Phi
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Christopher Avery’s Interests:
personal responsibility, leadership, team leadership, freedom, choice, power
Christopher Avery’s Groups:
APLN, Tele-Seminar Secrets
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Berrett-Koehler Authors Community
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