Robert Cenek is a senior Organization Development and HR professional with extensive experience in organization transformation. Throughout his career, he has led and participated in numerous successful transformation efforts across a broad variety of businesses and has often spoken to diverse professional organizations on the optimum ways to increase the chances for a successful transformation by identifying the appropriate levers to use in effectuating the transformation process. In addition, Robert has developed a best practices approach to change management that has served him and his employers well over the years.

Since 2006, Robert has been employed with Minerals Technologies, Inc., a global producer of specialty minerals, where he serves as Director, Corporate Initiatives. He presently is assisting the senior management team in the firm’s lean transformation. He also publishes a critically acclaimed blog named the Cenek Report – www.cenekreport.com. Previously, he founded the Cenek Company (his consultancy specializing in leadership and organization assessment and development), led the HR function for Montana Power Company (a $1.4B utility and diversified energy firm with 2,800 employees that was preparing itself for industry deregulation and increased competition), and worked for Fortune 500 greats, General Mills and Bristol-Myers.

Robert holds an M.A. in industrial relations from the University of Cincinnati, where he was awarded a teaching assistantship in labor economics. Robert was previously certified by the Organization Development Institute as a Registered Organization Development Professional (RODP), is a graduate of the Levinson Institute's On Leadership Program, USC's Center for Effective Organization's HR Executive Seminar, Philip Crosby's Quality College, and has attended a program on advanced organization development techniques taught by Irving Borwick and Luigi Boscolo of the Milan School of Family Systems Therapy and Ed Schein of MIT. He has been certified by Dr. Allen Drexler (a long standing member of the faculty at NTL) to use the highly acclaimed Team Performance Model.

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