Roelf Woldring

Current

Managing Partner at Workplace Competence (WCI)

Past

General Manager at Chicken Farmers of Ontario
Vice President, Information Technology at Manulife Financial
Director, Information Technology at TransCanada Pipelines

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Education

Henley Management College
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Connections

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Industry

Executive Office

Roelf Woldring’s Summary

A strategic turnaround executive, with proven success at implementing enterprise change.

"My partners and I work with investors and other financial stakeholders to solve enterprise level investment portfolio problems."

" We make things happen."

"We build and guide the teams of high-powered individuals that effectively implement our strategic plans to achieve the mullt-year financial goals of investors and stakeholders."

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Roelf Woldring’s Specialties:

Delivering financial returns to investors and financial stakeholders.
Business strategy success through coordinated tactical execution on the people, process and tooling levels.

Demonstrated expertise:

Leading high powered management teams.
Enterprise turnarounds.
Project / program management and turnaround.
Internet as a business platform.
E-learning. Application architecture. Software Development.
Performance Contracting.
Business Metrics.

Roelf Woldring’s Experience

Managing Partner

Workplace Competence (WCI)

(Management Consulting industry)

April 2001 — Present (8 years 8 months)

WCI has been in business since 1986. I have been active in it since then, although at times I have allowed it to be in the background as I have taken on executive roles.

I have successfully completed hundreds of consulting assignments for clients in Canada and the United States in project management and turnaround (Information Systems and Business Processing Re-engineering), executive coaching, professional development, process improvement, human resource management, balanced scorecard and strategy development.
General Manager

Chicken Farmers of Ontario

(Food & Beverages industry)

August 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 9 months)

Upgraded the management and the operations of the Chicken Farmers of Ontario. Implemented new people management, financial management and operations management processes. Restructured the system used to manage the production of 600 million dollars of chicken annually on 1100 farms. Put in place the people to carry out the new processes. Restructured the presentation of items to the Board, and the committee structure of the Board, focusing the elected Board on long term policy and on industry relations.
Vice President, Information Technology

Manulife Financial

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1997 — 2001 (4 years )

Over 4 year period, title change corresponded to responsibility changes:

VP, IT People and Process - responsible for initiating large scale cultural and people management process change for 1500 IT professionals,

VP, IS Development Services - responsible for creating an Internal "Bid on project" e-commerce software development organization

VP, IT Architecture and IS Development Services - adding global IT architecture responsibilities to above post.
Director, Information Technology

TransCanada Pipelines

(Oil & Energy industry)

1981 — 1986 (5 years )

Comprehensive turn round of a reaction oriented, under -performing IT organization to a service, oriented, unit cost reducing, service metric increasing group.
Integrated a number of IT organizations acquired as a result of the company's business acquisitions into this group.

Roelf Woldring’s Education

Henley Management College

DBA (incomplete) , Management , 1998 — 2001

Received Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Management Consultancy

Activities and Societies:

Distance education program. Left without completing research dissertation - had gained large personal and business benefit from exposure to current research in management while consulting and handling executive roles - time demands of an executive career interfered with the work needed to complete the dissertation.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

PHD (all but dissertation) , Organizational Behaviour / Theory , 1976 — 1980

Entered this program on a full time basis after completing undergraduate education as a evening student, having worked full time for 15 years. Developed an on-going interest in staying up to date with management research as a result. Was invited back into an executive career before completing dissertation. The research work itself, completed as part of an consulting assignment, profiling the internal dynamics of a vice-presidential and senior executive team of forty was both technically challenging and deeply intriguing. (Used multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis to prepare physical interaction models of the group.)

Activities and Societies:

Left without completing dissertation since career interests did not involve university level teaching

Additional Information

Roelf Woldring’s Interests:

Ongoing Technical Interests: Internet as a driver of social and business change. E-learning and E-publishing. Emergency management response, including use of incident command system, reality based emergency simulation, "black web sites" for emergency management team response coordination. Digital Photography