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George Johnstone

George Johnstone provides consulting, executive coaching, and facilitation services to organizations engaged in leadership and management development efforts. He has successfully facilitated diverse audiences from cross-functional teams to internationally mixed teams with varying educational backgrounds. He has worked with clients in North America, Mexico, Brazil, Western Europe, Egypt, Nigeria, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, and Australia.

During the 1960s and early 1970s, Mr. Johnstone served as a teacher and as a consultant for administrators and educators. He taught at Oakland University and Michigan State University, and at public and private schools in Michigan and Thessalonica, Greece. In the 1970’s and 1980’s, he was in private practice as a psychotherapist and trained and supervised others at the Huron Valley Institute in Ann Arbor.

He has studied quality and systems thinking from Dr. W. Edwards Deming, and Organizational Development consulting from Dr. Larry Lippitt. His additional and on-going training have included scenario thinking, Dialogue methodology, Neuro Linquistic Programming, HeartMath certification, Myers-Briggs, and the the Enneagram.

Mr. Johnstone has conducted leadership and management development seminars with such clients as Caterpillar, Citibank, First National Bank of Chicago, DuPont, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Toyota, Merck, United Technologies Corporation, General Foods, PepsiCo, Irving Oil of Canada, Mobil Oil (now ExxonMobil), Shell, and John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company

Mr. Johnstone earned a B.A. in Divisional Social Sciences and a M.A. in English and Education from Michigan State University. He has completed extensive doctoral work in clinical psychology at the Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara. He lives with his wife, Joan, in Ann Arbor. He has two married daughters, two sons in college, and four grandchildren. Joan and George enjoy a life long pursuit of physical exercise, sports, the arts, and reading.

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