Ford Business Consulting
Company Overview
Founded in 1991 by Dr. Linda Ford, Ford Business Consulting is a business consulting firm that helps organizations achieve superior execution and performance by tuning the human system to support the business strategy.
With extensive real-world experience and human systems knowledge, Dr. Ford's expertise is working with executive teams to create stakeholder-based strategies, systems and processes designed to increase innovation, optimize performance and, ultimately, move your organization forward rapidly in achieving its goals.
During its 15 year history, Ford Business Consulting has established an outstanding reputation for providing collaborative, client-driven services to a diverse spectrum of organizations -- including global corporations, venture backed startups and non-profits. Using her broad network of experts, Dr. Ford builds and manages virtual teams, as needed, to meet the specific requirements of her clients.
About Dr. Linda Ford
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Dr. Ford's unique abilities in helping companies create and implement execution-focused strategies comes from 30 years experience as a corporate manager and successful business owner. During her 15 years in management, sales, software development, and training in global technology companies, Dr. Ford learned first hand how to identify and overcome the obstacles that prevent organizations and leaders from achieving their goals. Since 1991, she has been helping organizations and their leaders achieve new levels of performance and extraordinary business results.
Dr. Ford received her PhD in Human and Organization Systems from the Fielding Graduate University and recently further expanded her knowledge base as assistant professor of management in St. Edward's University's Graduate School of Management.
Dr. Ford currently serves on the advisory board for TexChange Austin and the environment committee for Impact Austin, and she is a member of the American Management Association.
Interview with Dr. Ford
What do you love most about your work with executives?
They're smart people with their eye on results. I love the learning and mental stimulation of working with other bright business people. And, they appreciate finding a smart person who can show them how to remove the obstacles to getting the results they want.
What influenced your choice of profession?
In a way, my career is simply the product of my parents' two professions. My father was a management professor and business owner, educated in management when Frederick Taylor's theory of efficiency based on time and motion studies was popular. I learned to be efficient before I learned to read! My mother is a psychologist, trained during the height of the human potential movement when Abe Maslow's theory of self-actualization was popular.
And if you cross those two, you get what?
Someone who loves to create a smoothly running organization and believes deeply in the positive potential of human beings. So, when I talk about creating organizations that work, it encompasses the idea that the organization is achieving results efficiently and that the people in the organization are growing and learning.
You're a bundle of contradictions! Another contradiction in your work is your pragmatic business orientation combined with your "think tank" intellect.
Yes. I'm ultimately a pragmatist and a business person. And, I love the intellectual elegance and rigor of sophisticated analytical tools. Building a useful model of a complex organizational problem is truly pleasure for me. Then, those "think tank" tools must be made to serve the business. We have to keep applying those complex tools to the complex problem until we arrive at a simple solution with enough leverage to solve the problem.
Why does that matter?
Success. It's all about success. People like to be successful in their work. My work makes that possible. So, it matters economically and pragmatically as well as in human terms.
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