Don is an experienced management consultant in strategy, organization and staffing. His specialties: corporate purpose, strategic clarity, company-wide alignment with direction, teamwork and organizational culture.
Current Interests
Unique experiences that provide the foundation for his work in the RO field
Unusual among RO-based practitioners, Don is an experienced general management consultant holding the certification as Fellow Certified Management Consultant.
He was Managing Director of Hickling-Johnson,
in strategy, organization and staffing. He's held managing partner positions in several major management consulting firms,
He is a long-term member of Young Presidents and then World Presidents. In addition he facilitated these groups and later was a trainer of others to be group facilitators.
Reads broadly
Contributions to the field of Requisite Organization
NMN Newsltetter
Don produced a series of Voice America radio broadcasts
- Herb Koplowitz on Accountability
- Herb Koplowitz on Strategy-Driven Innovation - Accountability not Culture
- Ken Shepard on the Global Organization Design Society
- Don Fowke on Talent Management
2017 Book - The Smart Creative: Finding, Developing, and Keeping Leaders for the Digital Age
2019 Interview - The Smart Creative - by Joshua Fowke
Contributions to the Global Organization Design Society
Don convened and hosted the Toronto memorial service for Elliott Jaques.
He was an active member of the Toronto Legacy Group that planned how to preserve RO concepts and practice
He was a founding member of the Global Organization Design Society
He championed the development of the GO Society's name.
He championed the design of the GO Society's logo
He served on the GO Society's board from 2007 to 2016 and served as its Chair from 2009 to 2016
Presentations - he brought PREZI and animation to presentations
2005 Conference: Global Talent Management - video
2007 Conference: RO Compensation in Entrepreneurial Companies
2012 Conference Presentation: Talent Pool Management - Focusing on the Development of the Person
2013 How felt-fair pay is key to conscious capitalism - a document
2014 Conference: The Talent Up-Shift - both video and Prezi and article
2014 Conference Steps in Investor Due Diligence - Sustainable Capital - animation
2014 Conference - Designed and produced a one-day workshop on Entrepreneurship
Book Chapter
2007 Implementing a Web-based Requisite Talent Management System - book chapter..
Don is a mechanical engineer with an S.M. from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management. He was visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Fowke was a Chairman and CEO of Hickling-Johnston and a Managing Director of William M. Mercer. He is a Professional Engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Ontario and a member of the YPO Gold. He is a certified Enneagram teacher and past Chairman of the Global Organization Design Society.
Don is managing director of the New Management Network. a distinctive peer group of independent management consultants who share common professional ideas, understand creative innovation and are dedicated to releasing the human spirit in organizations.
Members of the network serve clients on issues of corporate purpose, strategic clarity, company-wide alignment with direction, teamwork and organizational culture. They support executives to act quickly, directly and profitably, on what needs to be done for success.
Contact info
Email: Don Fowke <don@fowke.ca>
Phone +1 (416) 520-2516
Webpage: https://www.new-management-network.com/
Linkedin url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-fowke-3432501/