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Vic Desotelle – Resumé / Bio

Vic is a masterful group facilitator, a strong technical designer, and a knowledgeable officer in sustainability and leadership development. He helps groups and organizations accelerate their planning processes by developing collaborative teamwork using empowerment techniques known as Leadership Ecology. Vic is also a specialist in sustainability and collaborative design known as Sustainable Innovation. He provides coaching and direction for executives and core teams who recognize their need to make new choices and decisions for organizational viability and planetary well-being.

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Vic’s Principle Service Statement

Vic is a strong technical designer, a masterful group facilitator, and a knowledgeable expert in sustainability (becoming known as a sustainability officer). He helps groups and organizations accelerate their planning process toward sustainable technical innovation and business development by creating unique forms collaborative design processes and team work through shared leadership. Vic provides consulting, coaching, and direction for executives and core teams who recognize their need to make new decisions and new choices which are based on sustainable design principles – both for their organization and the planet’s viability.

I emphasize the need for evolved thinking and compassion within enterprise to understand how individuals and organizations can both serve and profit within an emerging global marketplace and society. I have committed my future to shaping helping align organizations with greater global awareness and global cultural values so that healthy, more whole communities can be created and sustained. Thus, I seek to work with individuals and enterprises having similar values and a motivation to create change that establishes harmony on the planet, and well-being within an emerging globally-conscious society.

Capabilities from which you will benefit

• Organizational Learning and Innovation: Facilitate the discovery and implementation of advanced technical and business solutions by incorporating collaborative learning spaces at company sites for realizing accelerated and unique forms of innovation.
• Product Engineering and Design Enhancement: Incorporate sustainable design principles that improve product performance through the creation of closed loop systems.
• Sustainability Officer Positioning and Value Creation: Optimize company value-chain ecology by strengthening relationships between company, solution providers, and clients while developing the company’s green, triple-bottom-line initiatives and processes.

Offerings and Skills

• Sustainable Organizational Design and Technical Innovation
• Define & Develop New Company Position of Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
• Group Facilitation of Organizational Innovation and Collaborative Design
• Executive Coaching With an Emphasis on Green, Sustainable Business
• Strategic Green Business Planning Sustainability Reporting Processes
• Company Communications and Triple Bottom Line Management

Overview

Vic is Founder and Principal of DiscoveryFuel.com, which specializes in group facilitation services for strategic planning, vision and mission development, product and service design and improvement, organizational assessment, conflict resolution, mediation, change management, cultural development.

Vic knows how to effectively align management teams and company sectors to generate collaborative systemic solutions. He has over fifteen years experience in results-focused facilitation, consulting, training, and executive coaching for a variety of industries including information technology and health care. He has a unique ability to quickly establish rapport with audiences and clients that allow him to effectively lead strategic planning and project improvement, and team effectiveness sessions to get them to the next level.

Vic’s education and experiences include design engineering, strategic business planning, company startup design, organizational development, culture change, and sustainable innovation. He has both systems thinking and behavioral management skills, which provide for a holistic understanding of individuals and their roles within company innovation and change processes.

Client facilitation experiences include large and small for-profit companies, non-profits, and educational institutions, such as Motorola (new product design), Cisco (world team development), The Away Station (company design and business planning), UCSC (business ethics for managers), Marina Technology Cluster (teacher and coach of business startups), MIIS (college campus redesign process), Ecological Landscaping Association (creation of a new 501c3), and PCCF (board of directors development). Here is a list of client affidavits.

Areas of expertise

• Leading Change and Process Facilitation
• Engineering and Technology
• Enterprise Process Design and Development
• Collaborative Communications, Team Effectiveness
• Group Facilitation; Conflict Resolution
• System Complexities, Change Management
• Sustainable Business Development
• Coached and supported entrepreneurs in personal and organizational change.
• Implemented ‘triple bottom line’ sustainable business practices
• Specialist in ‘organizational learning’ architecture
• Directed both for-profit and non-profit organizational programs
• Created industry partnering and negotiated vendor contractual relationships
• Developed and managed triple bottom line business plans
• Defined staff; hired and managed teams using values-based assessment frameworks
• Developed financial cost modeling analysis tools
• Designed company services process flows
• Created marketing plans with a ‘Cultural Creatives-LOHAS Market’ perspective
• Developed strategies for overseas outsource engineering
• Designed digital electronic communications interfaces

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Selected Experiences

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PRIVATE CONSULTING – DiscoveryFuel.com

Founding Principal, Facilitator & Consultant, Santa Cruz, CA, 1997- present

• Business Planning Consultant to business-technology incubator; trained and coached startup micro-enterprise company owners
• Facilitated a year long advanced leadership course for men, through the Four Cornerstones organization
• Taught ethics courses through UC extension and LAMP to Silicon Valley middle management
• Facilitator of collaboration workshops for profit and non-profit organizations requiring vision and strategic planning. [Sample organizations include: Development of the City of Santa Cruz’s Charter Preamble Project; Designed retreat for starting the Ecological Landscaping Association (ELA); Facilitated strategic planning for ‘The Away Station’ – an ecological green mall start up; Ran the MIIS college campus sustainability transformation process in Monterey, CA
• Worked internal to small businesses (examples are: Terra Nova, Solar Technologies, Blueline Power) to advance their triple bottom line value and business viability.
• Consultant to TSA The Sustainability Academy providing educational coursework and business and organizational planning in with a focus on sustainability
• Coached and supported entrepreneurs engaging in personal and organizational change.
• Designed and implemented organizational models for accelerating change toward sustainability and collaborative learning.
• Affiliate and collaborative facilitator with Innovation Labs, an organizational learning and strategy planning company.
• Co-initiated technology ventures company used to bridge start ups of Clean Technologies with financial capital through In3, Inc.
• Developed a network of organizational development specialists that incorporate new forms of learning and sustainable technological innovations within community, government, business, and educational enterprise.

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BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

BUSINESS TRAINER, EXECUTIVE COACH, MARINA TECHNOLOGY CLUSTER, MARINA, CA 2005

• Business plan developer, trainer, and coach for entrepreneurs of start ups.

SALES MANAGER AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, BLUELINE POWER, MARINA, CA 2005

• Supported the evolution of a startup renewable energy solutions company with an emphasis on solar.

SALES MANAGER AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES, SANTA CRUZ, CA 2004

• Supported the evolution of a small solar energy solutions company with emphasis on sales activities.

DIRECTOR OF COMPANY OPERATIONS, TERRA NOVA ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPING, SANTA CRUZ, CA, 2002-2004

• Designed and directed company operations based on a ‘triple-bottom-line’ framework

• Developed and incorporated a unique 5-point architecture for operational, financial, sales, and field applications

SYSTEMS DIRECTOR, DESIGN SANTA CRUZ, SOQUEL, CA, 2002

• Initiated sustainable systems methods to product design company’s management processes

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPER, ROLLTRONICS CORPORATION, MENLO PARK, CA, 2001-02

• Developed organizational-function frameworks for startup electronics technology firm

PROGRAM DIRECTOR, ACCLAIM TECHNOLOGY, SAN JOSE, CA 1996-97

• Developed program providing electronic tools (EDA) for ASIC design and verification, hired 12 staff

PROGRAM MANAGER, SMART SOLUTIONS, FREMONT, CA 1995-96

• Developed and implemented a business plan providing electronic design automation (EDA) tools for technology firms in Silicon Valley.

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NON-PROFIT MANAGEMENT

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEMBER CORNERSTONES SANTA CRUZ, CA 2008

• Helped to define organizational structure; Lead men through leadership programs

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ, CA 2001-02

• Restructured a 20-year-old organization board and membership. Transformed its mission from one of environmental advocacy to sustainability & cultural creativity; established info-structure

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SUSTAINABLE QUALITY ALLIANCE SANTA CRUZ, CA 1998-00

• Implemented awards program, designed sustainable business models, Resiliency workshops, business alliances.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEMBER ACTERRA (PREVIOUSLY PCCF) MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 1996-99

• Chaired Business Environmental Network (BEN), Initiated sustainability programs for San Francisco Bay Area.

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TECHNICAL DESIGN AND ENGINEERING

TECHNOLOGY PANELIST, CRUZIO INTERNET SERVICES, SANTA CRUZ, CA 2003

• Invited as a panelist to discuss choices that save money, time, resources, and be sustainable.

SOFTWARE EDA APPLICATIONS ENGINEER ELCOR SUNNYVALE, CA 1990-92

• Supported sales staff, vendors, and customers with application expertise relating to electronic design application tools and processes.

HARDWARE DESIGN ENGINEER ARGO SYSTEMS (BOEING) SUNNYVALE, CA 1985-90

• Designed high-speed digital communications & DSP front-ends utilizing data from multiplexed passive RF antenna arrays.

PUBLISHED AUTHOR ISD MAGAZINE PALO ALTO, CA 1996

• Industry article: “Electronic Design from an Ecological Perspective’

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SALES AND MARKETING

REGIONAL SALES MANAGER MGA (PHARSIGHT) BOSTON, MA 1995-98

• Introduced an advanced simulation tool for simulation of physical phenomena including design efficacy of pharmaceuticals.

SALES ENGINEER AVCOM SYSTEMS SUNNYVALE, CA 1992-95

• Managed selling process of EDA tools to companies including LSI, Sun, HP, Intel, and other electronic design firms.

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EDUCATION

Electrical Engineering University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 1985

• Student of the BSEE program at the Institute of Technology with emphasis on small signal digital design

Corporate Communications Pegasus San Francisco, CA 1998

• Organizational learning & values training for companies to generate resiliency & stability

Industrial Ecology Global Futures, The Natural Step San Francisco, CA 98-2000

• Strategic management concepts for the new ecological economy

Systems Thinking Elmwood Institute Berkeley, CA 1991

• Dr. Capra and other modeling for communication processes for whole-systems organization

Power of Myth Joseph Campbell Series Los Gatos, CA 1996-97

• How archetypes and mythologies impact individual and global development

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References Available Upon Request

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