Pieter Kark
Mountain View, California
Tel: 650.380.9717 E-mail: pieterk@post.harvard.edu
CONSULTING FOR ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATION and EXECUTIVE COACHING
An experienced consultant who inspires teams to align and succeed rapidly and who dissolves conflicts; and coaches executives to turn weaknesses into strengths so they can influence and inspire others.
CORE COMPETENCIES
· Organizational development
· Communication in teams
· Conflict resolution
· Executive coaching
· tools of consciousness
· Stress reduction
CERTIFICATION
Certified, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology; Licensed by Star’s Edge International as an Avatar® Master (technology of working in consciousness).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Neurology, medicine end-of-life care, research and teaching, Boston, Bethesda, Los Angeles, Shreveport, Syracuse, San Francisco Peninsula more than 20 years
Associate Professor of Neurology at UCLA and LSU; Founding Chief of Neurology Service at VAMC Shreveport, Lecturer in Medical Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Owner of Neurological Consultations.
· Increased medical knowledge, quality of practice, and advocacy for patients by forming, inspiring, and keeping aligned more than 30 teams whose members included college students, medical students, physician extenders, graduate students, guest scientists, and physicians, teams doing clinical and research activities, and especially writing clearly and effectively 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.
· Enabled improvements in State laws for the terminally ill by resolving divisive conflicts on Bioethics Committee of the Medical Society of the State of New York so as to create compromises that permitted me to present a unanimous opinion of the Committee to the Legislature and Governor’s office.
· Ensured terminal patients got quality of life and treatment they preferred by resolving conflicts with families and healthcare staff over dogma, uncertainty and guilt and writing clear reports and recommendations.
· Produced scientifically-based, humane, modern NY driving regulations about health by resolving conflicts on the DMV Medical Advisory Board so that I could prepare effective, timely, unanimous written reports.
· Inspired effective quality in more than 20 teams of physicians to treat acute illnesses of artists so they could perform; and to teach performers to continue their profession by avoiding and reducing stresses that lead to disabling problems.
Program in Education for Physicians in End-of-life Care Trainer of Trainers 1999-2006
· Aligned and inspired 20 faculties for EPEC Program to train 1500 physicians, nurses, social workers, administrators, chaplains and other healthcare workers in effective, compassionate ways to care for dying people so as to maximize quality of life, and to be comfortable training their colleagues to do the same.
· Added to success of NY Program by writing modules on Stress Reduction for the Practitioner and on Cultural and Spiritual Diversity.
Star’s Edge International, Orlando FL and SF Bay Area, CA Licensed Avatar® Master. 2003-2010
· Learned and used skills and tools to forge aligned and effective teams.
· Working as a member of, and aligning, numerous groups and teams, guided several hundred people to learn skills and tools to succeed happily in aspects of life where they had not succeeded and were unhappy.
Life Loan Foundation, Palo Alto, CA Medical Director 2005-2008
· Inspired team, resolved conflicts, wrote much of business plan and led team to create non-profit to loan funds for improved quality of life to dying people. (Market collapse of 2008 blocked further efforts).
JTS Strategic Partners’ Enterprise Resiliency Group (ERG), Silicon Valley Senior Partner. 2009-2010
· 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; resolving conflicts so reports I wrote were unanimous;
· Made non-profit resilient by guiding management and staff to implement recommendations.
VOLUNTEER WORK IN SILICON VALLEY
Work in all volunteer areas has involved people in high tech from staff level to CEO and Board level.
Abilities United, Palo Alto, CA Board of Directors 2008-2010
· Resolved health and safety issues for disabled clients by investigating nature and degree of problems, clarifying priorities, and working with Board and managers to create effective solutions.
· Assured agency would flourished despite loss of 20% of State funding by inspiring managers of silos align, to explore viewpoints and methods outside their comfort zone, and to collaborate on social enterprises;
· Improving financial accountability and receipts by providing business expertise to each department through convincing Board to hire a Volunteer Coordinator;
· Developing living All-Hazards Disaster Plan by inspiring, teaching, and coordinating work of 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.
· Aided clients effectively and compassionately in local and national disasters by leading more than 15 focused teams.
· Inspired key people to collaborate in new Chapter by resolving conflicts between people from two disparate former chapters during merger.
· Engaged 10-15% more volunteers for Chapter by organizing and leading program of team of mentors: recognized as major success for new Chapter’s first year.
Toastmasters District 4, SF Peninsula, CA 2005-2010
Club President, Area Governor, Club Coach.
· Motivated failing club to succeed by inspiring members to align purpose, mission, and activities.
· Inspired officers and members of individual clubs so as to lead Area to be Distinguished.
· Used skills as a consultant for dysfunctional teams to coach a club that had failed with an earlier coach to achieve in five months Select Distinguished status, the second highest club award.
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 that improve interactions, reduce stress, support creativity in others, and inspire groups to improve, Star’s Edge International, Altamonte, FL
Establishing aligned teams, coaching, mentoring and teaching basic science, laboratory research, basic clinical matters, specialized clinical materials, patient care, and medical research for more than 20 years at four medical schools. Mentoring open, clear, honest communications to improve end-of-life care for more than 10 years in 20 EPEC programs.
