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We are a leading-edge, one-of-a-kind leadership consulting firm founded by CEO Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D., "The Practical Ph.D.", corporate leadership futurist with powerful, unusual background, training and experience in eight fields of knowledge.

We have a Passion for the Practical!

We provide leaders with road-tested, proven, easy to use:

  1. High-speed systems and tools for surviving and thriving in the unprecedented Power Shift, the greatest shift for leaders since the Industrial Age.
  2. Powerful practical FAST, easily learnable, road-tested integrated systems for all aspects of positive appreciative strengths-based transformational leadership and change.
  3. Master Intuition System, started in the 1980s, for all aspects of leadership, business strategy, product development, R&D, culture development, and more.

“Without full knowledge of your best, you have only half the truth – the worst half.” Dr. Linne’s Positive Power Quote

Dr Linne Bourget
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.,
"The Practical Ph.D."


Who We Are

Dr. Linne Bourget is the lead consultant and brings in colleagues as needed.

BIOGRAPHY LINNE BOURGET, M.B.A., Ph.D.

Dr. Bourget is a national pioneer in positive leadership and change strategies and has over twenty years of experience in leadership and organization transformation, coaching and consulting with leaders in businesses, government, and health care. Her firm, The Institute for Transformation Leaders and Consultants, specializes in practical, positive, easier, high-speed approaches to:

  • Communicating for new economy change.
  • Leadership commes, styles, transitions, and personal development.
  • Communication strategy for change.
  • Clarifying roles and expectations for positive results.
  • Major change and quality improvement strategy.
  • Vision-based strategic and implementation planning.
  • Synergistic teamwork and dynamics.
  • Change in organizational cultures.
  • Bridging differences for business success.
  • Creative problem-solving.
  • Cross-functional, customer and partner relationships.

Dr. Bourget combines rigorous analytical and strategic thinking with a dynamic positive supportive approach to the "people aspects" of business and financial success. All of her techniques are based on clients' successful changes.

Clients have included Digital Equipment Corporation, DuPont, The American Red Cross, The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Franciscan Health System, BioTechnology General Corp., Wyeth-Ayerst Research (AHP), The National Institutes of Health, and the U. S. Defense Communications Agency. view more clients

Dr. Bourget has taught at Boston University, Boston College, The Radcliffe Institute, Marymount University and The Federal Executive Institute.

She holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Change (including studies at Harvard and MIT) and an M.A. in Psychology from Boston University. Her M. B. A and B. A. in Economics are from the University of Chicago. She has twenty years of experience in public speaking, has achieved her ATM Gold, has appeared on television and radio, and has spoken at many professional conferences in the USA and Europe. Her firm was a FAST Fast 50 nominee.

Dr. Bourget belongs to the Organization Development Network, and the U. S. and International Organization Transformation Networks. She is the author of many articles, several book chapters and books, and is currently writing a book on communicating for new economy change. She is listed in Who's Who Among Human Services Professionals. She grew up in a life of constant change as the daughter of a military officer, has traveled extensively, has lived in many places, and has consulted in 26 of the 50 states in the USA. Special interests include thinking, dancing, singing, wellness and the potential of the human mind.

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