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Tim McNichol Associate

Tim McNichol is an associate of WMFDP, LLC‚. He brings over a decade of experience as a consultant and coach, helping organizations and leaders improve their effectiveness. Tim has found the complex and often emotional issues related to diversity to be an ideal crucible for developing the leadership skills needed to succeed in today's evolving business environment. He loves the challenges and rewards inherent in the work of helping others develop their inter-cultural competence.

Tim is also a founding partner of FourOaks Consulting, an organization development firm based in Portland, Oregon. He is known for his ability to design and facilitate improvement initiatives that produce results that are aligned with strategic goals. His systems approach helps clients not only change behavior, but the underlying thinking patterns and organizational structures that drive the behavior as well.

Tim received his masters in Whole Systems Design/Organization Development from Antioch University with an emphasis on collaborative learning and systems thinking. He is an adjunct faculty in the Master of Business Administration Program at Portland State University.

Tim can be reached at 503-249-7917 or mcnichol@wmfdp.com.

Personal/Professional Philosophy:

• For change to be sustainable, improvements at the individual, group and system level have to be integrated.
• The wisdom and energy needed to make the improvements already exists within the individuals and groups that make up the system.
• I can add value by partnering with people in the system to design and facilitate ways to bring out and apply that energy and wisdom.

A Favorite Book: Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech

A Favorite Quote: "Movement is what creates life. Stillness is what creates love. Be still ... and still moving. That is everything."
  — Do Hyon Choe

Lessons Learned: In A Sentence: This is difficult, needed and incredibly rewarding work.

At a more detailed level, as a white, heterosexual male, I am continuing to learn:
1) The current system gives me great privilege . . . and it is destroying me.
2) The current system oppresses others who are not like me . . . and it is killing them.
3) The current system, and my place in it, makes it difficult for me to see 1 and 2.
4) Knowing this gives me the motivation and responsibilities to not only understand these dynamics, but to work to change them.
5) The insights and growth I have seen in myself and others give me the hope and energy I need to continue this work.

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