• Provider of Infinite Wisdom and Unique Perspectives

What Makes Working With CDCI Fun?

• We're a bunch of gifted brainiacs who know both when to be serious and when to laugh at ourselves.

Experience

• Over 30 years of consulting experience working with senior management teams in financial services, insurance, health care, technology, transportation, hospitality, utilities, and manufacturing.
• Prior to Carpe Diem, I was a partner at two of the country's' leading consulting firms.
• I played an active role in the development and deployment of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria and of their derivatives in Minnesota and New York.
• I taught International Relations, Comparative Politics, International Business, and Social Science Methodology (research & statistics) at The University of California at Berkeley, The University of Wisconsin, SUNY-Stonybrook and Columbia, and The University of Miami's Graduate School of Business Administration.
• I  also served as Visiting Professor of International Relations at The University of Vienna’s Institute for Advanced Studies and Scientific Research following Dr. Henry Kissinger in this role.
• I have received numerous awards for original research and teaching excellence from several American and European universities, as well as from the Social Science Research Council, The National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
   

Education

• Cornell University BA, High Honors in Government
• Columbia University PhD, NDEA Fellow in Political Science & International Relations
   

Personal

• I enjoy outdoor active watersports--kayaking, fishing, boating--when I'm not otherwise happily engaged with my family and friends.
• I enjoy reading, music, and the arts.

Community Service

• Member of The Sea Turtle Preservation Society
• Member of the Budget and Finance Committee for Melbourne Village

If I Weren’t Doing This I Would Be… 

• Living in Bora-Bora

Favorite Quote

• "The earth is a fragile place.  This country, this society, this world should have no place for those who do not respect it--especially those who defile it for political and business expediency."  ( A contemporary visionary)