Leadership Strategies, LLC was founded in Minneapolis in 1992 and provides financially focused consultative support to private and public retail, service, manufacturing, technology, media, health care, transportation, distribution, and hospitality businesses in the areas of organizational productivity and return on human asset investment.

There is an undeniable link between organizational design, human capability, revenue growth and financial performance. We help organizations make small and large-scale performance improvements in painless and frequently simple ways by building human productivity, financial performance, shareholder/stakeholder value, and customer satisfaction, all at the same time. The result of our efforts with our clients is directly traceable internal efficiency and performance improvement leading to greater margins and increased market share.

Leadership Strategies, like Oak Consulting, employs an outstanding group of professionals who work closely with us during many client engagements related to organizational sizing and efficiency, financial performance improvement and marketplace success, on a worldwide basis.

Brian F. Gagan

Brian is a Leadership Strategies, LLC partner and holds management and human resources degrees from the University of Maine and Syracuse University. He has lived throughout America and in Europe and his background includes large business unit management experience and more than twenty years in the human resources arena. He maintains an active role with several Board appointments and he has worked with companies in nearly all business sectors, large and small, domestic and international. He has held executive and officer positions with The Maine Medical Center, Burger King Corporation, The Pepsi-Cola Company, and Blockbuster Entertainment Corporation.

Kevin C. Grindle, PHR

Kevin is a Leadership Strategies, LLC partner and holds a Bachelor’s degree from San Diego University and is certified as a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) from The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). His background includes over twenty years of operations management and human resources experience in the automotive aftermarket industry. Some of Kevin’s areas of specialty are organizational design/effectiveness, training and development, total reward systems, human asset analysis, mergers and acquisitions, recruitment, and staff retention.

Patricia M. Hayden

Patricia is the leader of our Global Leadership practice and earned her Master of Arts degree from UCLA in Latin American Studies and International Economics and received her Bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University, where she graduated with honors from the School of Languages and Linguistics. She also studied International Affairs and European Studies at the University of Madrid, Spain. Patricia has twelve years experience providing global management consulting and cross-cultural coaching services to over forty-five companies in thirty countries around the world. She specializes in the languages and cultures of South America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and the Gulf States.

John G. Bruhn, Ph.D.

Dr. Bruhn leads our Organizational Ethics practice and earned both his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Nebraska, and his Ph.D. in Medical Sociology from Yale University. At Yale, Dr. Bruhn was a Commonwealth Fund-Yale Fellow and a U.S. Public Health Service Fellow. After graduation he received a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has also been a John E. Fogarty Health Science Fellow to Poland and a World Health Organization Fellow to Australia and New Zealand.

Dr. Bruhn has served as professor, Dean, Vice President and Provost at several universities including The University of Oklahoma and The University of Texas. He most recently served as Provost and Dean and Professor of Sociology at Penn State University-Harrisburg.

Dr. Bruhn is known for his outstanding contributions in the areas of leadership, and management of complex organizations during periods of growth, downsizing, and reframing. He has well-honed skills in strategic planning, development of partnerships and networks among organizations, and business ethics. Dr. Bruhn is an expert in assisting organizations in the use of trust as a tool to maintain healthy and productive organizations through teamwork, delegation, unified efforts and streamlined decision-making.

Dr. Bruhn is the author of many articles and books and has served as an expert advisor and consultant to many state, national, and international organizations in the areas of medicine, public health and organizational performance and effectiveness. His most recent book, “Trust And The Health Of Organizations” published by Kluwer/Plenum Publishers is an exceptional hardcover resource devoted to the relationship between trust and ethical leadership within organizations. The book is available from the publisher and at major book retailers, or signed copies may be purchased directly from us by calling 480-467-0344.

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