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Bill Hannon

Bill is the Principal of Compass Consulting, an organizational strategy and change practice he established in Minneapolis in the mid-1980s, following two decades of experience in sales, marketing and general management in the paper and chemical industries.

He employs his proprietary Integrative Strategic Planning model in his work, with balanced operational, organizational and change components; within this framework he specializes in marketing and sales planning. Bill's clients are manufacturers, distributors and service companies, in industrial, commercial, medical and professional service fields. He also is an experienced business instructor, previously in Marketing and Sales Management courses at Metropolitan State University, and in more recent years in Mini MBA® programs (and one he created, The "Micro MBA") offered by the University of St. Thomas Center for Business Excellence.

Bill earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Carleton College, Northfield, MN; a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN; and a Masters Degree in Organization Development from Pepperdine University, Culver City, CA.

Tom Buchner

Tom is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) with 25 years of experience with a wide variety of organizations – from small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies as well as many not-for-profit organizations. His professional focus is organizational performance with emphasis on helping managers meet the challenges of continuous improvement. He has extensive experience leading measurement, quality improvement, and process reengineering projects.

He is a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota where he teaches at the MBA and undergraduate levels. Tom also teaches operations management and is a Six Sigma instructor for the University of St. Thomas Center for Business Excellence. For 15 years he was a partner with Human Resource Consultants, Inc., a professional service firm specializing in executive assessment and managerial competence model development.

Tom received his Bachelor of Business Administration and Masters in Business Administration degrees from the University of Minnesota. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Human Resource and Organization Development in the U of M's College of Education.