Performance Design Lab

Geary A. Rummler
Dr. Geary A. Rummler is the founding Partner of the Performance Design Lab. Prior to founding the Performance Design Lab, Geary was the founding partner of The Rummler-Brache Group; President of the Kepner-Tregoe Strategy Group, specialists in strategic decision making; co-founder (with Thomas F. Gilbert) and president of Praxis Corporation, an innovator in the analysis and improvement of human performance; co-founder (with George S. Odiorne) and director of the University of Michigan's Center for Programmed Learning for Business.

Dr. Rummler was a pioneer in the application of instructional and performance technologies to organizations and brings this experience to the issue of organization effectiveness. His clients in the private sector have included the sales, service and manufacturing functions of the aircraft, automobile, steel, food, rubber, office equipment, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, chemical and petroleum industries; as well as the retail banking, and airline industries. He has also worked with such federal agencies as IRS, SSA, HUD, GAO and DOT. Dr. Rummler's research and consulting have taken him to Europe, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, China and Mexico.
Dr. Rummler has published a variety of books ranging from labor relations to the development of instructional systems and his articles have appeared in numerous professional and management journals and handbooks. In 1988, he co-authored Training and Development: A Guide for Professionals, with George S. Odiorne. In 1990, he co-authored Improving Performance, How to Manage the White Space on the Organization Chart with Alan P. Brache. Geary received his MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has served as:

The national president of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI);
A member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD)
A member of the Editorial Board of Training Magazine.

Dr. Rummler's professional accomplishments include:

Induction into the Human Resource Development Hall of Fame in 1986
The Distinguished Professional Achievement Award from ISPI in 1992
The Enterprise Reengineering Excellence Award from Enterprise Reengineering Magazine in 1996
The Distinguished Contribution Award for Workplace Learning and Performance from ASTD in 1999
The Life Time Achievement Award from the Organization Behavior Management Network in 1999

He can be reached at grummler@thepdlab.com.