Jeffrey Young

Current

• Innovative Business Leadership Coach at Coignite

Past

• Director of Engineering Operations and Effectiveness at Autodesk
• Education and Training Designer at Infinite Discoveries
• Director and Technical Manager at Digital Equipment Corp.

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Education

• Sonoma State University
• New Ventures West
• University of Southern California

• Boston State College

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Industry

E-Learning

Websites

• My Company

Jeffrey Young’s Summary

I help people and businesses ignite their potential to become one of tomorrow's leaders; enabling them to achieve their highest goals, dreams and aspirations, meet their challenges, invent the future they really want, and lead tomorrow's more effective organizations.

Jeffrey Young’s Experience

• Innovative Business Leadership Coach

  Coignite

  (Management Consulting industry)

  October 2002 — Present (6 years 10 months)

  Helping individuals and companies achieve exceptional results through innovative learning.
  
  • Founder of Coignite University – a learning community for practical, collaborative, innovative, and applied learning.
  
  • Led organizations in enterprise change efforts, building effective cross-functional teams achieving better business results.
  
  • Facilitated innovation-based strategic planning and visioning for organizations.
  
  • Designed and delivered management and leadership training to large and small companies.
  
  • Coached executives in future oriented leadership and personal power skills.

• Director of Engineering Operations and Effectiveness

  Autodesk

  (Public Company; ADSK; Computer Software industry)

  May 1998 — January 2003 (4 years 9 months)

  Internal consultant working with the senior management to improve the effectiveness of the software development team for the 3D graphics and animation division:
  
  • Assessed, initiated and managed interventions to learn together how to improve organizational effectiveness and to achieve the business goals of enhanced innovation in a shorter time to market
  
  • Led leadership development coaching for all managers in the division
  
  • Championed change process in cross-functional feature team reorganization; 40% drop in bugs and development cycle time resulted

• Education and Training Designer

  Infinite Discoveries

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; E-Learning industry)

  August 1994 — March 1998 (3 years 8 months)

  Creating and delivering team-based, experiential education modules to build competencies for business and education:
  
  • Designed, implemented, and delivered five training courses in innovation and collaboration and systems thinking skills in simulated realistic situations; published software still earning sales royalties
  
  • Designed and taught systems thinking and team innovation and collaboration courses at the Boston Museum of Science based upon the research of Dennis Meadows
  
  • Led change effort to build collaborative cross-functional teams in two technical organizations

• Director and Technical Manager

  Digital Equipment Corp.

  (Public Company; DEC; Computer Hardware industry)

  1981 — 1994 (13 years)

  Engineering and project management for major operating system and office application software projects:
  
  • Led the design and implementation of the Run Time Library for the VMS operating system at Digital’s VMS Software Engineering Headquaters in Nashua, NH.
  
  • Technical leader for the Office and Publishing application development group based in Honolulu, Hawaii. Awarded full funding for gaining a Master of Computer Science at the University of Southern California Concentrated in Software Engineering with specific emphasis in Cognitive Science and Computer Graphics

Jeffrey Young’s Education

• Sonoma State University

  MA , Organization Development , September 2002 — May 2004

  Research into human collaboration

• New Ventures West

  Coaching 2001 — 2002

• University of Southern California

  MS , Computer Science , September 1989 — December 1990

  Focus in Cognitive Science and 3D Graphics

• Boston State College

  MS , Mathematics , September 1973 — May 1975

Additional Information

Jeffrey Young’s Websites:

• My Company

Jeffrey Young’s Honors:

• Paper on collaboration was selected as Best Research Paper at the OD Network international conference

• Excellence Award for consistently delivering on project commitments at Digital Equipment Corportation

• Software industry review award for “Most Innovative New Product”

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