Richard Thayer

Dr. Richard Thayer is managing director at Syngineering Solutions, a small management consultancy headquartered in Baltimore, MD. He and his partners have written Syngineering: Building Agility into Any Organization through John Hunt Publishing, coming out this spring. This step-by-step guide helps practitioners at all experience levels introduce agility and responsiveness into their organization, very useful in todays' volatile and uncertain times.

As an organization design practitioner, author, teacher, and advisor, Rich’s work focuses on agility and collaboration. He and his partners have a seamless consulting style that extends into a sizeable working network which includes many of the leading lights in organization design consulting today, including Dr. Naomi Stanford. Selected clients include Shell Projects & Technology, Sakhalin Energy, Shell Gulf of Mexico Shelf Division, North Caspian Operating Company, Shell Faculty Science Symposia, Cairn Energy, Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, Nature Conservancy Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The partnership currently has projects building agility in US Bank and Chevron.

Rich teaches public and internal programs on agile organization design and operating models in conjunction with LBL Strategies and George Washington University’s Center for Excellence in Public Leadership (CEPL.) as well as Caliber Consulting.