Business Resume
Joel R. DeLuca, Ph.D.
 President of Consulting Firm 1998 - Present
Works with organizations on strategic change, leadership development and executive coaching.
Assignment 1994 - 1998
Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Planning Director for Leadership Program
Contributions:
Bringing a stronger business framework to course design, co-designed the first peer evaluation process at a top tier U.S. MBA program, completed the first competitive benchmarking process with leadership programs at other top MBA universities, designed the experiential sessions required of all 800 MBAs on global leadership, vision, feedback, team formation, and political savvy, helped oversee the formation and operation of 144 MBA project teams annually and associated team consultants. For two consecutive years, as a member of the Leadership Program’s teaching faculty, received the highest student evaluations.
Assignment 1989 - 1993
Coopers & Lybrand
Director of Strategic Human Resource Planning
Build and direct the firm’s first strategic human resource planning function and create the organizational strategies to change the culture of one of the world’s largest professional service firms for more competitive environments.
Contributions:
- Developed firm’s first ever leadership criteria required to become a member of the firm’s top governance body.
- Designed an innovative approach (S.M.A.R.T) to turn the existing strategy development process into the core learning engine for the firm and begin the movement toward a true learning organization.
- Created the firm’s first systematic succession planning process and linked it to strategy formation.
- Designed the firm’s first organizational survey in its history which was the only one of its kind in the industry.
- Built a grass roots system which tripled local work place innovations (publicly cited by the Conference Board and published as a leading edge business practice in Diversity in the Workplace by Guilford Publications.)
- Redesigned the firm’s educational approach and set the foundation for Coopers & Lybrand University.
- Originated the firm’s first 360 degree performance appraisal system.
- Initiated the first business process reengineering approach for the firm’s human resource function.
- Built the first firm-wide approach for fast track development of high potential MBAs.
- Served as executive coach to several members of senior management as well as selected high potential individuals
Assignment 1981 - 1989
Sun Company, Inc.
Director of Organization Planning and Leadership Development
Realign and direct the organization planning and executive development functions of a Fortune top 20 company.
Contributions:
- Designed a unique corporate-wide restructuring approach that realigned staff functions with strategic business directions and reduced corporate overhead costs by 25% (approach was published by O.D. Practitioner and used by General Motors’ BOC division).
- Built the company’s first executive development program for vice presidents and above.
- Originated a new career pathing approach for the company (published by Human Resource Planning Journal and judged by the Journal to be published again in its book of best practices shaping the 1990s).
- Developed the company’s first corporate university based on ‘live’ business tasks, rather than on academic topics.
- Designed, participated, and facilitated executive task forces on cultural change, reward structures, and commitment.
- Created the first self managed conference for the top 50 executives which set the leadership agenda for the decade.
- Served as a permanent member on the company’s internal information technology board.
- Pioneered a flexible productivity improvement approach (published by the industry’s Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design).
- Formulated a simplified corporate-wide performance management system (published by the industry’s Hydrocarbon Processing Magazine and adopted by a division of SmithKline Beecham Inc. and the city of San Diego
Faculty Member 1978 - Present
Graduate business programs in organization design, change, leadership, and human resources at various universities
United States Air Force 1970 - 1976
Attained rank of Captain in research and development position: solar energy, jet fuels, and fluid dynamics. Served as member of executive group responsible for organization effectiveness and innovation programs. Formed and elected as president of laboratory’s first company grade officers’ leadership council.
Professional Education
- Ph.D. Organizational Behavior - Yale University, 1981.
Dissertation on learning organizations.
- MBA General Management - University of Dayton, 1976 (GPA: 4.0).
- M.S. Physics - Ohio State University, 1971 (GPA: 3.9).
- B.S. Physics - Bowling Green State University, 1970 (Magna Cum Laude).
Professional Activities
- Academy of Management: selected for five consecutive years to review the latest research papers in strategic organizational change.
- Served as Chairman on the national academy session on Theories of the Change Process.
- Chosen to represent the United States as part of a delegation that toured the Peoples Republic of China to exchange management practices between the two countries.
- Human Resource Planning Society: presented on top management team learning in 1998 and selected to present ‘Next Generation Systems for the Learning Organization’ at their annual conference in 2000.
- Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) at U.S.C.: served as advisory board member for seven years.
- Conference Board: served on the Work and Family Council 1990 - 1993
- Wharton Executive Education: presented to 25 CEOs on ‘Leadership and the Learning Organization.’
- Publications: various articles and three books on leadership, change and learning respectively.
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Dr. DeLuca has recently received an award from
the Academy of Management for serving as Division Reviewer of the
Entrepreneurship Division . He has also been
selected once again by Congress as a 2005 Businessman of the Year.
Dr. DeLuca was selected as a 2004 Businessman of the Year for his
outstanding service to the community.
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