Pieter Kark
Mountain View, California
Tel: 650.380.9717 E-mail: pieterk@post.harvard.edu
EXECUTIVE COACHING and ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
An experienced adviser who helps people turn weaknesses into strengths, to influence and inspire others, and to resolve conflicts; and who inspires teams to high performance and success.
CORE COMPETENCIES
· Organizational development
· Cultural diversity
· Executive coaching
· Conflict resolution
· Stress reduction
· Medicine, neurology/psychiatry, end-of-life care
· Teaching tools of consciousness for living deliberately
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Veracord, San Jose, CA 2010
Chief Medical Officer.
· Organized and stimulated development of automated system to validate biotech manufacturing by writing executive summaries and white papers, creating PowerPoint presentations, and drafting business plan.
JTS Strategic Partners’ Enterprise Resiliency Group (ERG), Silicon Valley 2009-2010
Senior Partner.
· Created ERG by bringing 6 experts into cohesive emergency and disaster planning team, and finding non-profit beta-test site;
· Reported prioritized suggestions to non-profit by leading team through successful test in minimal time; writing report;
· Made non-profit resilient by guiding management and staff to implement recommendations.
Abilities United, Palo Alto, CA 2008-2010
Board of Directors.
· Resolved health and safety issues for disabled clients by working with Board and management;
· Assured agency would flourished despite loss of 20% of State funding by getting managers of silos to collaborate on social enterprises;
· Providing business experience for each department by convincing Board to hire Volunteer Coordinator;
· Developing living All-Hazards Disaster Plan by coordinating work by a team representing all silos.
American Red Cross – Silicon Valley Chapter, Santa Clara County CA 2007-2010
Coordinator for Mentoring, DAT Captain, Sheltering Supervisor and Instructor; Health and Safety Instructor.
· Led numerous teams to help clients effectively and compassionately in local and national disasters.
· Inspired key people to collaborate in merged Chapter by resolving conflicts between people from two former chapters during merger.
· Engaged 10-15% more volunteers by starting mentoring program: recognized as major success for new Chapter’s first year.
Toastmasters District 4, SF Peninsula, CA 2005-2010
Club President, Area Governor, Club Coach.
· Kept own club intact by convincing key member that someone else deserved honor he had demanded, and that he remain in club.
· Motivated failing club succeed by inspiring members to align purpose, mission, and activities.
· Led Area to be Distinguished by working with and inspiring officers and members of each club.
· Coached a club that had failed with an earlier coach to achieve Select Distinguished status, the second highest club award.
Life Loan Foundation, Palo Alto, CA 2005-2008
Medical Director.
· Developed medical basis for non-profit to loan funds for improved quality of life to dying people. (Market collapse of 2008 blocked further efforts).
Star’s Edge International, Orlando FL and SF Bay Area, CA 2003-2010
Licensed Avatar® Master.
· Guided several hundred people to learn skills and tools to succeed happily in aspects of life where they had not succeeded and were unhappy;
· Learned and used skills and tools to forge aligned and effective teams.
Program in Education for Physicians in End-of-life Care 1999-2006
Trainer of Trainers.
· Taught 1500 physicians, nurses, social workers, administrators, chaplains and other healthcare workers effective, compassionate ways to care for dying people so as to maximize quality of life, and to be comfortable training others to do the same, by being on 20 faculties for Program.
· Added to success of NY Program by writing module on Stress Reduction for the Practitioner and on Cultural and Spiritual Diversity.
Neurology, medicine and its ethics, end-of-life care, research and teaching, Boston, Bethesda, Los Angeles, Shreveport, Syracuse (retired, 2004)
Associate Professor of Neurology, Founding Chief VA Neurology Service, Owner of Neurological Consultations.
· Increased medical knowledge, quality of practice, and advocacy for patients by mentoring (coaching) college students, medical students, physician extenders, graduate students, guest scientists, and physicians throughout my career.
· Saved VA medical center hundreds of thousands of dollars annually by reducing patient re-admission rates on neurology service from 20 per month to almost none, by organizing effective 10-member team using modern treatments.
· Ensured terminal patients got quality of life and treatment they preferred by resolving issues with families and healthcare staff over dogma, uncertainty and guilt.
· Enabled improvements in State laws for the terminally ill by creating compromises for numerous divisive disputes on Bioethics Committee of the Medical Society of the State of New York and testifying to the Legislature.
· Improved NY driving regulations about health by resolving bitter conflicts on Medical Advisory Board to DMV so as to produce effective, timely reports.
· Treated acute illnesses of performers so they could perform and taught them to continue their profession by showing them how to avoid and to manage stress that would lead to disabling problems.
Education
· MD cum laude in general studies, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
· BA with Second-Class Honours and MA, Oxford University, Oxford.
· Multiple courses from American Red Cross.
· Courses in tools of consciousness to improve social interactions and reduce stress, Star’s Edge International, Altamonte, FL
