“Informative,
efficient, understanding and most of all clarifying. Knows how
to ask questions, allowing me to gain perspective on organizational
issues.” |
She is dedicated to helping organizations engage their workforce in such a way that allows for every employee including management to love the work that they do. ©
Clients
| Canusa | Innova |
| City of Keene, NH | Keene Chamber of Commerce |
| Convergent Communications Inc. | Ellicott City Ballet Guild |
| Information Experts | Knauf Fiberglass |
| Menasha Printing Corporation | Panurgy |
| SEVCA | Social Security Administration |
| VetInsite | Connexx |
Experience
1984 to 1992 — Management Consultant, Rath & Strong, Inc.
Total Quality implementation was the major thrust of Rath & Strong, Inc., Management Consultants. As a consultant, Annamarie participated in multidisciplinary teams, providing organization development expertise and collaborating closely with technical specialists. Client companies included Kraft Foods, Stolle, Alcoa Building Products, Shure, Johnson & Johnson, and Menasha. In each case, she demonstrated the ability to respond to individual client needs. At Kraft, she developed a two-day facilitator-training program using video as a major tool for feedback. At Stolle, she led three teams to analyze workflow and quality problems in the manufacture of RV refrigerators, resulting in a 70% improvement in quality and a 40% reduction in time. For Alcoa, she coached middle managers in personnel issues. For Shure, she conducted team meetings in Spanish and coached a high-performing work team of a dual-culture-management group. She also developed a user guide for Total Quality implementation that became the benchmark document for other Rath & Strong projects. For Johnson & Johnson, she met with work-improvement teams on night shifts. For these clients and others, she has trained more than 200 cross-functional teams, led Total Quality simulations, and coached high-level steering committees to achieve their work improvement goals.
1992 to 1994 — Pluhar Associates
Consulted for Menasha Paper, Innova, Knauf Fiberglass and Canusa Corporation in Total Quality implementation, team development and problem-solving.
1994 to present — The Television Project
Founded and developed the non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization. This membership organization is dedicated to helping parents understand how television use affects families. (www.tvp.org)
From 1998 to 2005 — Instructional Design
Annamarie worked for a variety of instructional design firms in the Washington DC area during with time she experienced organizations with good and bad managers and owners. She worked on large scale instructional design projects in both leader-led and multi-media formats. She has been team lead, independent contributor and project manager. In 2005, she left Washington, D.C., to move to Vermont and found her own firm, Pluhar Consulting.
Education
1982 — Masters in Divinity from the Episcopal Divinity School in
Cambridge, MA
1976 — A. B. from Vassar College, where she majored in Psychology and earned elementary teacher certification.
