Dr. Eli Sopow

Current

• Associate Faculty, School of Leadership at Royal Roads University
• Special Advisor, Change Management at a national federal agency
• Book author at Corporate Personality Disorder

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Past

• Senior Vice President at Reputation Corporation
• Associate Deputy Minister at Government of British Columbia

Education

• The University of British Columbia
• Fielding Graduate University
• Fielding Graduate University

• Royal Roads University
• University of Victoria

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Connections

81 connections

Industry

Executive Office

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Dr. Eli Sopow’s Summary

I serve as an advisor, facilitator, presenter, coach, consultant, and confidant. My passion, learning, and expertise is change management, leadership development, organizational behavior and strategic communications. I'm the author of the 2008 book Corporate Personality Disorder: Surviving & Saving Sick Organizations. I believe that organizations are more humanistic than mechanistic and that emotional awareness, especially self-awareness, is the foundation of leadership. I call this organic approach to life and leadership, "bioleadership." Check out more at my web site at www.bioleadership.org

Dr. Eli Sopow’s Specialties:

Helping understand, mediate, and change the nature of organizational personalities and behavior and the impact on human relationships.

Dr. Eli Sopow’s Experience

• Associate Faculty, School of Leadership

  Royal Roads University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  2002 — Present (7 years )

  Part time Associate Faculty Member, Schools of Leadership and Management.

• Special Advisor, Change Management

  a national federal agency

  (Executive Office industry)

  2001 — Present (8 years )

  Provide counsel on transformation, change management and employee engagement and leadership. Also conduct employee engagement and leadership research and analysis as well as executive presentations and workshop facilitation.

• Book author

  Corporate Personality Disorder

  (Management Consulting industry)

  April 1991 — Present (18 years 9 months)

  Most organizations are suffering the kind of angst described in my book Corporate Personality Disorder (www.bioleadership.org). Why is this? Because too often we still design and run workplaces like a Mechano set rather than the organic entities that they are. Through my "Bioleadership" workshops, research, and mentoring you will discover and realign your organization's "personality" with the needs of the human personalities within the workplace. The result is always enhanced engagement, morale, job satisfaction and productivity.

• Senior Vice President

  Reputation Corporation

  (Privately Held; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  1996 — 1999 (3 years )

  Worked with wide range of international clients from Vancouver BC, Canada base. Specialized in strategic communications planning, issues and crisis management, change management plus public and employee research. Also conducted over 200 workshops on aligning corporate reputation to external environment.

• Associate Deputy Minister

  Government of British Columbia

  (Legislative Office industry)

  1987 — 1991 (4 years )

  Head of Public Affairs Bureau, Premier's Office. Responsible for all government marketing, public opinion research, media relations, plus crisis and issues management. Served as advisor and staff member to Cabinet and Planning-Priorities Committee of Cabinet.

Dr. Eli Sopow’s Education

• The University of British Columbia

  Certificate Peer Counseling , 2004 — 2004

• Fielding Graduate University

  PhD , Human & organizational systems , 2000 — 2003

  Research focus (continuing) is the impact of human emotion and cognitive factors on workplace engagement, behavior and leadership, plus application of complexity science to organizational systems.

• Fielding Graduate University

  MA , Human Development , 2000 — 2002

• Royal Roads University

  MA , Leadership & Learning , 1997 — 1999

  Masters degree research focused on the application of complexity science to health care leadership.

• University of Victoria

  Diploma, Public Sector Management , Public administration

Additional Information

Dr. Eli Sopow’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

Dr. Eli Sopow’s Interests:

Author of Corporate Personality Disorder: Surviving & Saving Sick Organizations

Dr. Eli Sopow’s Groups:

Special Advisor to the Commander, Royal Canadian Mounted Police National Change Management Team,
Associate Faculty, Royal Roads University School of Leadership

•    Linked:HR (#1 Human Resources Group)
•    Leadership Think Tank
•    International Leadership Association (ILA)
•    Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma, & Lean Group
•    International Change & Improvement Leadership Network
•    Future Trends
•    Change Management Network
•    Continuous Improvement Best Practice Sharing
•    21st Century Network
•    Police Executive Research Forum
•    Lead Change Group
•    Linked:HR - Organization Development & Training
•    Canadian Values Dialogue
•    Duality – Effective Leadership in the New Era

Dr. Eli Sopow’s Honors:

2003, three national RCMP awards for outstanding issues and crisis management;
2000, Howard Chase international award for issues management;
1974-1987, nine awards for outstanding regional journalism

Dr. Eli Sopow’s Contact Settings

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