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Chetna consultants and project managers are motivated to find the link within your organization that translates into empowered, engaged employees and inspired company leadership. That special quality of Chetna personnel sets us apart. Only your imagination and commitment limit the extent of possibility within your organization. We can help you along your path.
Mr. Paul Dugsin
President, Chetna Consulting
Mr. Dugsin has been consulting to knowledge intensive organizations since 1997. Sought by the senior leadership of Canada’s leading research-driven entities, Mr. Dugsin has crafted a unique approach to development within and across disciplines and sectors – and has assisted his clients in securing hundreds of millions of dollars over the past five years. Mr. Dugsin is currently spearheading the development of a novel approach to knowledge channels and transfer which is scalable to any scope – whether at the level of the single project, division, organization, municipality, region, or beyond. This dynamic methodology is very timely in the latest era of accountability for investment from public or private sources.
Dr. Romola Porchuk
Director, Organizational Dynamics, Chetna Consulting
A co-founder of Chetna Consulting, Dr. Romola Porchuk is the international leader on integrated business models and the new economy business paradigm. Dr. Porchuk’s seminal work has already had great impact on organizations that have chosen to examine the very basis upon which they are organized.
Dr. Porchuk has completed her own study of transformative change and value systems within some of the best run organizations across North America. Holding a doctorate in both Clinical and Organizational Psychology, Dr. Porchuk has developed an innovative methodology for change management and optimization of organizational structures and strategies. Through Dr. Porchuk’s work, unparalleled sustainable results are realized across multiple bottom lines including leadership, productivity, efficiency, innovation and profit.
As a result of Dr. Porchuk’s research, Chetna combines industry’s very best practices with a keen sense of the characteristics or situations that support or hinder an individual in moving from traditional business values to adopting new economy values.
For over 12 years, she has helped clients overcome barriers, address challenges and inspire success which translate into hard business results including lower turnover, less absenteeism, increased productivity and rising profits.
Mr. Peter Khan, MBA, P.Eng, B.A.Sc, B.Sc (Phys.)
Associate Consultant, Strategic Management and Commercialization, Chetna Consulting
Mr. Peter Khan is an accomplished professional with over 20 years of senior management and engineering experience. Mr. Khan has developed a strong expertise in financial management and restructuring. Mr. Khan has demonstrated strength in strategic planning and development, operations management, and turn-around interventions. Mr. Khan understands the often intangible task of valuating technology and the multiple factors involved in its transfer to market. Mr. Khan consults within Chetna’s strategic and commercialization streams.
Ben Porchuk
Director, Natural Capital & Environmental Systems, Chetna Consulting
Ben Porchuk heads a diverse division. Ranging from strategists to engineers, Ben's team of experts position our clients' consideration of the environment as a strategic asset that defines truthful sustainability.
Our experts in energy, water, architecture and landscape and air, help Ben spearhead initiatives to aid organizations integrate organizational strategy and the environment to create sound growth. Ultimately, Ben's team holds that business is a vehicle for responsible enterprise and appropriate progress. Businesses that reflect and embody responsibilities beyond the walls of the office and factory will be tomorrow's leaders.
With a Master’s of Science in ecology, Ben devoted ten years to understanding capital and environmental integration on a smaller scale. He was a pioneer in creating his home and an outdoor conservation and education centre completely off the grid with solar and wind power, and native landscape.He helped the community understand that full cost analysis examines more than just the financial bottom line for the good of current and future generations.
Ben finds ways that economic growth can be positive for the environment by tracking truthful ways to generate money, minimizing impacts and to make up for the destructive short sightedness of past generations. With his team, he has created insightful, and creative processes to help organizations learn about environmental thinking, generate environmental strategy, and incorporate legislation and innovative business models to create solutions to current business and environmental challenges.
Gary Kay
Senior Consultant, Chetna Consulting
Gary Kay has gained over 30 years of environmental experience in the public and private sectors in the field of environmental consulting, education and training.
Gary is a partner in Trio Environmental Services a diversified environmental consultancy specialized in the fields of ISO 9000, 14000 implementation, environmental compliance and regulatory approvals waste management, sustainable energy technologies, biomass energy, environmental education and training.
Gary was retained as program consultant by the University of Guelph to develop the Environmental Management Diploma Program. A part-time senior lecturer at the Ridgetown Campus, University of Guelph. Gary also has over 15 years experience teaching at the college level in environmental management.
In 2000, Gary completed a 26-year career at the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. For the last 15 years, Gary held the title of Special Projects Coordinator, Southwestern Region, responsible for the delivery of a variety of programs dealing with waste management, pollution prevention and sustainability, policy development and implementation Outreach and training activities included the public, private and not-for-profit sectors in a variety of training and outreach formats. Gary has been involved in the development of a variety of NGO's including the London Chamber of Commerce Environment Committee, Environmental Awareness Service for Educators, The Natural Step program and the Terry Fox Committee, London branch.
Gary has a Masters of Engineering (Environmental) M. Eng. degree from the University of Western Ontario and is a registered professional planner, MCIP, RPP.
Mary Read DesignStudio
Mary Read DesignStudio and Chetna Consulting have had a strategic partnership for several years. Chetna consultants distill key messages from their collaborations with your entity. Mary Read, Principal in turn, works closely with Chetna consultants to produce award-winning visual presentations which capture the essence of the idea. Excellent presentation, judicious use of colour, and an unparalleled sense of form provide an important added dimension to Chetna’s subtle transformations within your organization and for your organization to communicate with its target audiences.
