Richard Petronio

Lecturer

About

Transformational, inspirational, enthusiastic, innovative, and visionary leader with extensive experience overseeing development, change, and effectiveness of organizations throughout the world. Successful at building and leading multi-functional, leading-edge teams to drive performance and achieve aggressive goals. Able to define and align organizational strategies, cultures, missions, and talent to maximize productivity and cost savings in rapidly changing work environments. Effective at leveraging strategic relationships, innovative solutions, and leadership methodologies to develop, engage and retain high performance personnel and teams. Expert organizational research/diagnostic and needs assessment skills with track record managing complex global programs, multi-million dollar budgets, and organizational improvements to transform organizational cultures. 

Education

PhD from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (1979)