A little about us...

Richard S. Straker, MS, CPT

Experience

As Principal Consultant in The Straker Group, Rick has worked for more than 20 years in many aspects of performance consulting, organization development, change management and training in a range of industries/sectors and organizations.

In addition Rick is familiar with many of the top thinkers and practitioners in performance consulting – and is known by colleagues and clients as an “idea guy” who can come up with answers to human performance challenges.

Education

In addition Rick has:

• earned the Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) designation from the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)
• earned degrees in psychology (BA) and human development (MS), and
• been trained or certified in a wide variety of performance improvement models, methods and tools.

Clients

Some of Rick's clients include:

• Abbot 
• Aegis Mortgage
• BellSouth
• California Federal Bank
• Country Financial
• County of Riverside
• Dell Corporation
• Delphi
• Harris County
• Houston Airport System
• McKesson
• Microsoft
• Owens Corning
• Samsung
• State Farm
• Telxon Corporation

The Straker Group, LLC

HUB certification: The Straker Group, LLC is certified as a “historically underutilized business” (minority or woman-owned) by the State of Texas, and is listed in the HUB Directory.

Methods and partners: The Straker Group can provide:

• core Performance Consulting 2.0 tools
  
• access to a range of specialized methods, and
  
• highly-skilled associates for bigger or more specialized projects.
  

Most of these methods are available for “technology transfer” to our clients, for their professional growth and for ongoing application in their organizations.

Vital Study Skills

The Straker Group also has a practice area that provides best practices consulting for academic retention.

For more information go to our Vital Study Skills website.

 

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