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Partners
The three partners of The Sunyata Group are Mark R. Jones, Candi S. Foon, and Anne E. Stadler.
The Sunyata Group is dedicated to the work of:
 Mark R. Jones Mr. Jones is a partner of The Sunyata Group, serving concurrently as the Chairman and CEO of the Sunyata For-Profit “C”-Corp organizations (Sunyata Group and Sunyata Agency Inc.) and Non-Profit 501(c)(3) organizations (Sunyata Foundation and Sunyata Association). OBJECTIVE: To live, work, and play in the inquiry: “What becomes possible, or can be done more efficiently and effectively together — than can be accomplished separately?” His gift is that he has trained himself to integrate: social, emotional, cultural, leadership, and process — wisdom, methods, tools, technologies and skillfulness. This merging of organizational development and process optimization disciplines — results in high levels of individual and organizational effectiveness, efficiency, and joy. He is the developer of the "H-S-L Practice of Compassion". He is a spiritual leader and teacher — focused on the cultivation of wisdom, compassion, and skillful means in everyday life. He has been a Buddhist spiritual practitioner since 1966. Mr. Jones was initially baptized Catholic and deeply studied standard Church Doctrine and Christian Scripture — and was introduced to material from the Gnostic Gospels and the “Q” Gospel. In an effort to achieve greater understanding and compassion of people, particularly in terms of what caused them pain and suffering and hope, He has explored Vedic Scriptures, the Torah, the Talmud, The Zohar texts, the Koran, Greek philosophy, Taoism, Confucianism, modern philosophy, and modern psychology. These religious and philosophical studies have helped him to work more effectively across cultural boundaries. He has also lived in intentional communities for a total of twelve years — five years of which were in a 7x24 residential community. EDUCATION:
MANAGEMENT EDUCATION PORTFOLIO:
CORE COMPETENCIES:
ELECTED | APPOINTED | AFFILIATED POSITIONS:
VALUE CONTRIBUTION STATEMENT: Mr. Jones' value contribution is that he is an innovator that offers a breadth of refined lived-in operational and teaching experience in the areas of: leadership; leadership development; business operations; and personal and organizational — development and optimization. He has large-scale experience and small-scale experience. He has “line management” experience and “consulting” experience. He has organizational development experience and operations experience. He has non-management, management, senior management, executive, and Board experience. He has technical, non-technical, and artistic experience. He has experience in the for-profit, non-profit, and government sectors. He has elected, appointed, hourly, salaried, and contract work experience. And He has over forty-two years of personal development training and practice — including over thirty years teaching. Mr. Jones' commitment is to increase: social and economic innovation, effectiveness, and efficiency ("Non-Profits" | Government | Communities); and/or social and economic innovation and profit leveraging {IPO | LBO | M&A | Stakeholder Value, etc.} for "For-Profit" organizations. His efforts increase innovation and productivity; and individual and organizational joy — cultivating integral leadership and education; developing generative and healthy cultures, organizations, and communities; and institutionalizing business, technical, cultural, and political savvy. He works in the intersection of effectiveness (human relationships & information) and efficiency (process & technology). As an educator, he has delivered business management lectures on social-emotional-cultural intelligences and skills, leadership development, and change management to: Antioch University — Seattle, Seika University, Morris-Brown College, and at numerous conferences and workshops. He has delivered technical lectures on data resource management, information resource management, database technology; object-oriented systems, business intelligence, and/or enterprise management & integration to: University of Washington, ACM, ANSI, APEC, DAMA, DRMA, OMG, IEEE, ISO, PDES/STEP, SME, and others. He also taught technical classes and diversity training segments for Boeing. EXPERIENCE: Mr. Jones is currently the Chairman and CEO of The Sunyata Group — a group of For-Profit “C”-Corp and Non-Profit 501(c)(3) organizations. He is the developer and practitioner of an integrated Process Improvement and Personal & Organizational Development (“PI+POD”) approach that implements optimal solutions to critical business and cultural issues. He has supported the following sectors: Defense, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Information Technology, Healthcare, Environmental Sustainability, Education, Community, Retail, and Entertainment — including clients/employers such as ALCOA, Boeing, DoC, DoD, DoE, DoL, NASA, Treasury Dept., Intel, Washington Health Foundation, Seika University, Western WA University, University of WA, Terra Foods Group, COOP-3 Food Cooperative, . . . Mr. Jones has over thirty-five years of experience serving in formal leadership positions — either through election, appointment, employment, or contract. He has over twenty-five years of fulltime professional experience, including five years fulltime experience serving at a senior executive level — CEO / Executive VP / Corporate VP / CIO / CTO / CTA — in organizations with annual budgets of $100M or greater, and in non-profit and elected and/or appointed positions. He has led and performed: organization development and optimization; large-scale systems architecture and integration programs; customer-facing-technology planning, development, and implementation activities; culture change initiatives; and IT product development projects — for multi-national corporations and with the U.S. government. In his last large-scale assignment, Mr. Jones co-managed a labor base of 700 contractors with an annual budget of $140 million per year, identified $90 million dollars in cost savings for his client, and generated $12M of revenue for his operating division. Over the course of his professional career Mr. Jones has achieved over a billion dollars in cost savings, cost avoidance, and/or revenue generation — using compassionate, effective and innovative, leadership practices; and skillfully applying wisdom, and business, technical, cultural, and political savvy. He has over ten years of experience doing international work — including one year of international travel assignments. He was recently in Korea (DEC 2009) supporting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) “Paperless Business Environment” initiative as a presenter and technical expert. Mr. Jones is a Master “Systems Architect”, innovator, and collective leadership expert. He has over thirteen years fulltime employment experience serving in senior enterprise technologist positions — Chief Architect, Chief Enterprise Architect, and Chief Scientist — optimizing the use of cultural awareness and technology in supporting R&D and operations, and determining, executing, and measuring the opportunities and effectiveness of innovation and technology on organizational vision, strategy, policy, business models, and performance. He is current in IT and social media trends. He serves as a strategic business integration partner, senior strategic thinking and planning expert, program manager, contract executive, and public speaker. He provides expert, independent services and leadership on an as needed basis to all task assignments, developing state-of-the-art frameworks, methods, processes, practices, and strategies. He typically develops “white papers” and/or reports to document his insights. Examples include: "Balanced Ecosystem-Based Resource Management Proposal" — King County Planning document; “Healthiest State in the Nation (HSIN) Integral Wellness Strategy Implementation Proposal” — Washington Health Foundation CEO and Board; “Work Force 2000 Impact Analysis White Paper” — Seattle Central Area Reconciliation Program Board; and “Green Economy Implementation Strategy” — Sustainable Seattle. FROM 01/2004 to Present — The Sunyata Group Since 2004, his overall approach has been to use an integrated Process Improvement and Personal & Organizational Development (“PI+POD”) approach to address extinction-level and critical cultural issues (“wicked problems”). The seven areas that he has focused his organizations on are:
He has applied knowledge, insights, and practical wisdom regarding:
He currently has five Initiatives where he uses the following inquiries to direct his work:
INTEGRAL WELLNESS INITIATIVE For some thirty-five years Mr. Jones has been exploring, analyzing, experimenting, innovating, and optimizing health and wellness practices, techniques, and processes. These explorations included being wired-up (EKG, EEG, Sphygmomanometer, and Galvanic Skin Test) and monitored in the 1970’s to measure the effect of “conscious-control” practices such as meditation and yoga on physiological states. This was his initial foray into the world of stress management and integral wellness. During his thirty plus years of coaching (i.e., badminton, volleyball, dance, martial arts, . . .), he deliberately used the disciplines of anatomy and physiology, kinesiology, sports medicine, and psychology — as the basis for his training systems, practices, and knowledge transfer. In 2005, Mr. Jones funded the Integral Wellness Group (IWG) initiative that provided consulting to address health and wellness related issues. IWG consulted to Washington Health Foundation (Seattle) — “Healthiest State in the Nation” Initiative, GrowTalent (Delhi, India) — East Bangladesh Healthcare Initiative, Bastyr University (Seattle) — Wellness Center exploration, and GlaxoSmithKline (UK) — Proposal for Comprehensive Corporate Wellness Non-Residential Program. These efforts led to my being invited by Nobel Laureate Dr. Lee Hartwell to participate in the 2007 Pacific Health Summit. More recently, his Director of Integral Wellness has begun to roll-out new Integral Wellness programs that integrate allopathic medicine, complimentary alternative medicine (CAM), and social-emotional intelligences science. They are currently working with Bastyr University (Seattle) to explore co-hosting a conference series on “Convening the Whole-System of Healthcare — All Stakeholders | All Aspirations | All Needs & Greeds”. The purpose of the conference series is to convene representatives of the “whole system” of health and wellness to promote and deliver effective and efficient solutions (including policies & regulations) for health and wellness processes and practices — leading to demonstration projects on how the healthcare system should work! The Integral Wellness efforts are intended to provoke profound shifts in individual and collective health, wellness and lifestyles by working with "Consciousness" as the awareness, assumptions, and beliefs that (knowingly or unknowingly) shape what and how people think, say, and do in relationship to themselves, others, and the world around them. The mission is to promote health and wellness strategies based on individual (personal) and collective (community) awareness and responsibility — using a whole-systems design, whole-person approach, and whole-lifecycle strategy to optimize wellness through prevention and intervention. It is believed that our emphasis on healthy lifestyles and personal and collective health resource optimization will improve health and wellness, decrease recidivism, and decrease the rate of growth of healthcare costs. In terms of “wicked problems”, it is believed that it is possible to quickly have a positive impact on health and wellness measures and metrics by leveraging insights, practices, and processes about comprehensive integral wellness approaches. He is now exploring opportunities with healthcare systems to implement PI+POD-based integral wellness strategies as part of larger healthcare system reform initiatives. NET-PROVIDER PROJECT — GREEN ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY During the past five years Mr. Jones has investigated, invested in, implemented, and/or professionally supported environmental sustainability activities such as — experiments on net-provider renewable energy production through solar, wind turbine, and biomass conversion technologies; surface water reclamation strategies; starting-up a 100% certified organic restaurant that directly used local CSA as its supply-chain; leading a “Green Economy” effort called the “Solidarity Project” — to design and implement “Net-Provider” practices and systems among local community leaders and environmentalists. His intention is to individually and collectively implement values, lifestyles, practices, processes, policies, and technology that transform how people think and live from a — “Consumer” paradigm, to an economic and ecological “Net Provider” of water, food, energy, infrastructure, wellness, information, and compassionate human relationships. Mr. Jones states the being a “Net Provider” is about implementing sustainable whole-person, whole-system lifestyle changes and practices. The purpose of the Net-Provider “Project” is to architect and collaboratively implement sustainable and scalable “Net Provider” demonstration projects. These projects are intended to transform individual and collective “Consciousness”, values, lifestyles, practices, processes, policies, and technology. The goal is to move from a “Consumer” paradigm to an economic “Net Provider” of water, food, energy, infrastructure, wellness, information, human services, and compassionate human relationships. The Intention of the Net-Provider “Project” is to implement sustainable “Net-Provider” practices and systems: that are ecologically-sound and economically viable; which provide for their own needs; do not exploit or pollute; develop the capacity and experience for humans to hear, see, and love themselves, each other, and the Earth; and are therefore sustainable and generative in the long term. The strategy is to work from personal (residence, workspace) to collective (commons, neighborhood, workplace, . . .) to implement “Net-Provider” practices and technology around water (i.e., surface water reclamation), food (i.e., gardens and CSA), energy (i.e., renewable and energy reclamation), infrastructure (whole-lifecycle optimization of — technology design | reuse | recycle; life-long education; leadership; facilities; transportation; integrated logistics, local distribution, . . . ), wellness (health resource optimization), information (data, knowledge, wisdom), human services (basic needs), and compassionate human relationships. In terms of “wicked problems”, Mr. Jones would like to explore, research, and implement sustainable and scalable “Net Provider” demonstration projects across various sectors — government, business, community, . . . He is intrigued with what might emerge from collaboration with emerging entrepreneurs in starting businesses that embrace and implement “Net-Provider” strategies for manifesting economic development and resiliency. SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL-CULTURAL INTELLIGENCES & SKILLS INITIATIVE Mr. Jones' intention is to cultivate Social-Emotional intelligences and skills through the “H-S-L Practice of Compassion”: Hearing, Seeing, and unconditionally Loving (H-S-L) ourselves, each other, and our ecosystems in – every encounter and every relationship. In being individually and collectively accountable for H-S-L and the promises and commitments we make – We ask: Is this action helpful (manifests well-being), compassionate (manifests unconditional love) and transparent (manifests trust), or is it simply an inappropriate exercise of power and/or unexamined assumptions?” The “H-S-L Practice of Compassion” is based on an insight from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama that: “All people want and need to be Heard, Seen and Loved (H-S-L) — in that order” . Mr. Jones' further intention is to cultivate Cultural intelligences and skills through awareness and mindfulness training around “R-A-J”:
In terms of “wicked problems”, Mr. Jones is developing insights and teaching “H-S-L” and “R-A-J” for cultivating Social-Emotional-Cultural Intelligences & Skills. Mr. Jones' recent focus has been on what he has observed about values and ideals regarding “cultural impedance mismatches” (culture clashes). Strictly speaking, an ideal is a value committed to and put into practice — such as which we recognize in the extremes – as in “I’ll take the bullet for you”. We don’t inquire into ideals, we mock idealism, and we limit our inquiries about values. There are ideals that are expressed and lived in daily life. Then there are “ideals under-stress” that may be significantly different. This may lead to a sense of disconnect and thwarted values – and the resulting sense of betrayal can be huge and disruptive. In such circumstances it is hard to hold on to idealism, open up to trust, and journey towards something different. Mr. Jones is investigating how H-S-L and R-A-J can help to address the “cultural impedance mismatches” that result from “ideals under-stress” — using a framework of four individual and collective responses that can be characterized as a “Self-Preservation Model”:
INTEGRAL LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE Mr. Jones' intention is to cultivate individual and collective “Multiple Intelligences” — First-Order Intelligences (Primary), Second-Order Intelligences (Integrative), and Third-Order Intelligences (Transcendent) — and the capacity to simultaneously hold Multiple Perspectives and Perceptions. His approach uses a whole-person (physical | emotional | cognitive | spiritual) and whole-system perspective to address our relationships to the systems (human and technological) that we live, work, and lead in. It is rooted in creating a profound individual and organizational desire to move towards, and live in a state of vibrant work community, clarity, productivity, and mutual effectiveness — rather than simply to minimize “normal” individual and organizational friction, dissatisfaction, and discomfort. Further, this approach is sourced from his experience that healthy work lifestyle adoption and sustainability is greatly enhanced by the company of others — “Community” is more powerful than individual effort as an effective antidote to recidivism. Mr. Jones' work with clients involves addressing messy culture and change management issues by providing consulting services:
Mr. Jones has been developing leadership development programs that use models and practices from:
Innovation — (Processes | Technology | Cultures) (1969-Present) Mr. Jones is a longtime entrepreneur and an intrapreneur. He has been formally inventing and innovating since he was a child. He created a profitable retail business in primary school, and IS/IT systems development and consulting entities during high school and college. Also during his college years, he ran a Food Cooperative, Co-Housing program, and a training and development service. Post college, he co-founded an international cultural exchange program; worked on several business start-ups in the IT and investment sectors; and served in multiple intrapreneur capacities in corporate settings. Mr. Jones currently supporting an IT start-up focused on innovation technology and processes. He is also the developer and administrator of the IT and business infrastructures for his non-profit and for-profit business entities. This includes serving as program manager for the initial T-1 line installation; providing web development and CMS maintenance; maintaining IT lab environments for “virtualization”, database management, portal research, and open source systems evaluation. Financial System Reform — FIX Initiative (2009-Present) In 2009, in the financial reform space, Mr. Jones began developing an initiative called the Financial Instruments eXchange (FIX) that addresses the fact that banking industry regulatory reform is inevitable. The “FIX Initiative” proposes a whole-system approach to a process of continuous collaborative improvements where the people, virtual organization, processes, and automated systems enable “vetted” Stakeholders (Regulators, Financial Institutions, Risk Analysts, Market Makers, Investors, and Consumers) to safely develop, discover, analyze, document, certify, valuate, and trade complex financial instruments — particularly “derivatives”. Mr. Jones has developed a detailed implementation proposal. Convener | Host | Facilitator (1983-Present) Since 1983, Mr. Jones has facilitated over 1000 events (meetings, workshops, and conferences) that optimize personal and/or organizational development — using such techniques as: Open Space Technology, Appreciative Inquiry, World Café, “Design Charrettes”, SIL Intercultural Program Development Process, Nonviolent Communication (NVC) processes, Conflict Resolution processes, Arbitration processes, Project Management processes, Participative Democracy processes, and “Net-Provider” (H-S-L) processes for Community Capacity-Building and Leadership Capacity-Building.
Musical Conversations Leadership Initiative Mr. Jones' intention is to co-develop compassionate leadership and masterful artistry by cultivating individual and collective “Multiple Intelligences” — First-Order Intelligences (Primary), Second-Order Intelligences (Integrative), and Third-Order Intelligences (Transcendent) — and the capacity to simultaneously hold Multiple Perspectives and Perceptions. The focus of “Musical Conversations” is on the “Transformation Of Consciousness: Mastery Through The Co-Development Of Leadership & Artistry”. The “tagline” is: “Healing Ourselves, Our Relationships, and the World — through Musical Conversations (Masterful Conversations)” The Purpose Statement of “Musical Conversations” is: The capacity to heal ourselves, our relationships, and the world is one of the most profound human qualities. It is through the use of “artistry in conversation” as an application of the practice called “H-S-L” — being able to Hear, See, and unconditionally Love (be fully “Present” to) ourselves, each other, and our ecosystems — that we increase our capacity for compassion, creativity, leadership, and Peace. This is the antidote to rage, despair, irrelevance, and extinction. “Musical Conversations” are a new and powerful way of intentionally cultivating these capacities. “Musical Conversations” are conversations that cultivate multiple intelligences and multiple perspectives to transform consciousness through mastery of leadership (knowledge, collective action, wisdom, compassion and skillful means, and “Presence” as “awareness of awareness”) and artistry (music, spoken word, writing, dance, drawing, painting, sculpting, weaving, crafts, . . .). “Musical Conversations” are dialogic interactions that occur between “conversationalists” in both improvisational (extemporaneous, “in-the-moment”) and compositional (designed and/or rehearsed) expressive and/or performance modalities. They are based on the “conversationalists” engaging in sharing, collaboration, and collective action with each other (including the “audience”) — for creating shared meaning from both spontaneous and planned thoughtful dialogue on a specific “topic”. It is anticipated that the “topic” will mean different things for different people, and that shared meaning will emerge. “Conversationalists” are asked to contemplate, interpret, and share their creative expressions of what the topic means to them, and how they are arriving at personal and shared meaning. “Musical Conversations” always provide a present moment cultivation of individual and collective leadership. And they always provide gracious space for both spontaneous and delayed (after-the-fact) inspiration, incubation, production, and presentation of artistic expression. In these experiential expressive and/or performance conversations, the line between the “audience” and the “artists” is made porous — in that the audience participates as “conversationalists” by sharing their stories (insights) about the topic and their processes with each other and the artists. The stories are weaved into and held in the fabric of the music and art — evoking shared meaning through a seamless synthesis of words, music, symbols, images, movement, textures, and crafts. Some of the “meaning” may not become visible until long after the conversation — as the creative processes for compositional (designed and/or rehearsed) artistic expression may require time for incubation, production, and presentation. FROM 06/2000 to 12/2004 — Science & Engineering Associates (SEA) Mr. Jones initially served as CIO and Executive VP of SEA IS Inc., and as Chief e-Business Officer for the Dept. of the Navy SPAWAR Information Tech Center (SITC). He led the design and implementation of enterprise and e-Business architectures, methodologies, and solutions for the SITC and other Dept. of Defense agencies. Then as CTO, he co-managed a labor base of 700 contractors with an annual budget of $140 million per year. In that capacity, Mr. Jones was the chief architect for the SITC — supporting the Navy Sea Warrior and Manpower & Personnel Legacy Systems Modernization initiatives. He led the development of technical architectures and standards, migration strategies, and implementation strategies that would efficiently and comprehensively integrate COTS ERP, custom applications, and open architecture components. He also conducted performance audits — identifying $90 million dollars in cost savings, and generating $12M of revenue for my operating division. In 2003, Mr. Jones served as CEO of Quest Technology — a subsidiary of SEA — focusing on a DoE HL-7 medical e-Records project, and on applying “Lean” techniques to government and business. Mr. Jones overall corporate assignment was to work with the SEA President and COO to: grow the business from $40 million to $100 million; shift the market valuation category; and increase the share price from $15 to $60 per share. He helped SEA to: land an $850 million GSA BPA contract award; shift the market perspective of SEA from “IT Operations” to “Enterprise Management & Integration” provider; and close a M&A deal in January 2004 at a share price of $68. As a result of my efforts, Mr. Jones received a $5 million (AGI) payout over the next three years. On retainer in 2004 as a Corporate VP and Chief Technical Advisor — Mr. Jones advised the Offices of the CEO, Chairman, and Sector Presidents in determining, implementing, and stewarding strategy, policy, business models, and architecture innovations. My primary assignment was the establishment of Centers of Excellence. FROM 01/1980 to 06/2000 — The Boeing Company Mr. Jones joined Boeing in 1980 as a computer scientist (“Computing Applications Technician”) and held a number of technical and management positions during his Boeing career. He worked on many key data management programs, including: Department of Energy - Hanford Containment Analysis Control System (CONACS), Department of Energy - Hanford Basalt Waste Isolation Program (BWIP), Department of Energy - Chicago Commonwealth Edison Assessment, Department of Commerce - NBS/NIST Token Bus Local Area Network (TOBUS) Program, Department of Commerce - NBS/NIST Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) Program, NASA Payload Ground Operations, ALCOA Computer Integrated Manufacturing Program, Department of Defense – EDS Support Team Sustaining Base Information System (SBIS) proposal, Boeing Corporate Data Management Initiative, Boeing Automated Production Facility, and Boeing 747/757/767 CAD/CAM Database Applications Program. Mr. Jones worked as an operations research analyst, database specialist, systems analyst, and systems architect before his management assignments. Mr. Jones spent 20 ½ years at Boeing, 17 years serving in leadership positions — Chief Scientist / Architect: Advanced Tech / Systems Arch & Integration / Data Resource Mgmt / Info Resource Mgmt / Repository & DB Technology; Senior Manager: Electronic Commerce / Computing & Network Operations / Arch & Standards; and Manager: Systems Arch & Integration / Common Data Services / Computing Graphics Tech. He supported the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, NASA, Alcoa, and Intel. In the advanced products space, Mr. Jones ran a profit-center R&D lab for four years that investigated and/or created commercial products in the areas AI-Expert Systems, robotics control systems, telecommunications protocol converters, directory systems, and database structure translators. His contribution was his ability to provide vision and leadership for developing, implementing, and operating comprehensive and integrated information and process technology programs that support the research, engineering, business, and manufacturing operations of the enterprise. He applied his discernment for: aligning research ideas with the strategic plans and capacities of the organization; and advocating for those ideas that have the greatest potential benefit, while deferring those ideas that may be challenging and exciting — but do not yet enhance organization performance and wellness, contribute to the execution of its mission, or accomplish its vision. In the information technology strategic initiatives space, Mr. Jones supported the Boeing & McDonnell Douglas Merger Transition activity. He served as the focal point and senior management analyst for identifying synergy opportunities and strategies for computing applications, computing systems architectures, and corporate computing initiatives (e.g., electronic commerce, Year 2000, . . .). He was also the e-Business subject matter expert. Additionally, he had an assignment where he served as Senior Manager of Companywide Electronic Commerce. Mr. Jones was responsible for supporting the definition, marketing, and deployment of companywide electronic commerce. He served as the chief systems architect in support of common electronic commerce delivery services. He provided day-to-day cross-functional interface to technical experts and senior executives of business resources organizations to address electronic commerce issues. And he facilitated the development of a companywide computing support strategy for electronic commerce. In this assignment, Mr. Jones coordinated the efforts of cross-functional teams of analysts, engineers, technicians, and managers. He provided support to the organizational re-engineering of core commerce business processes and information systems. As the Evaluation Phase Program Manager for the Companywide Electronic Directory Service, Mr. Jones led a cross-functional team to develop and publish an evaluation report. In 1986, in the financial performance space, Mr. Jones led functions that investigated, designed, and/or implemented processes, practices, and tools in financial analysis and performance management supporting the aerospace, defense, energy, and IT industries. He developed an “Activity-Based Costing” (ABC) model to support process optimization — assigning the discrete costs of each activity resource to all product and service business streams based on the actual consumption by each. Over the years this evolved into a “Lean-based” method of systematically allocating indirect costs (overhead) into direct costs, and precisely estimating the cost of individual products and services for the purposes of identifying and eliminating waste, freeing up capacity, speeding up processes, eliminating errors and defects, providing process clarity, and increasing operational efficiency and effectiveness. Mr. Jones then introduced the concept of “Integrated Balanced Scorecard” (IBS) to transform the performance management and optimization aspects of accounting, control, and measurement processes to include a whole-systems analysis of the information required for: command, control, and communications — decision-making; understanding customer requirements and value; and correctly assessing financial impacts (interdependency of causes and effects). The IBS identified the interdependencies (causes and effects) of four strategic measurement sets: Customer Satisfaction (Defects | Delivery | Cost | Communication | Value — Process Efficiencies); Employee Satisfaction (Development | Reward | Recognition); Financial Performance (Labor In the optimization and innovation space, Mr. Jones led an IT-related manufacturing effort to fix a critical production problem involving missed development and implementation schedules for a $2.6 billion airplane manufacturing reengineering program. The culprit — late delivery of business processes, hardware, software, and software installation — was creating a $3 million per day loss. Mr. Jones mission was to fix the problem ASAP. As a result of his efforts of leading innovation, culture, and change management through the use of “Lean Analysis” and “Theory of Constraints” –based processes and practices, his organizations were able to: transform a 11,520 production hour per year loss into a 23,040 production hour savings — a 34,560 hour improvement valued at $125,000 per hour; book $772,800,000 in projected operations outage savings; and achieve $25,6500,000 net contribution per core team employee. These accomplishments represented an increase in Work Statement of 340%, but required only a 40% increase in actual labor to achieve. The resulting core innovations became standard enterprise-wide processes and tools. In the large-scale systems development and integration space, Mr. Jones spent three years supporting a DoD SRAM-II factory automation program — leading teams to design, develop, and implement automation infrastructure systems; a systems integration operational environment providing all "middleware" services; and common data services. He has worked in great detail with systems and software engineering methodologies and tools such as SEI CMM, SSDM, RUP, Fit-GAP, ERD, OOA, TOC, "SimProcess", DoD 5000, etc. He has served as a Senior Manager designing and overseeing a Boeing Companywide Information Systems Architecture and Standards program responsible for managing 15 companywide technical teams consisting of approximately 150 analysts, engineers, and technicians. In that capacity, Mr. Jones was also the Companywide Architecture & Standards program manager for electronic commerce, and served as the chair of the companywide Electronic Commerce Standards Board. Additionally, Mr. Jones served as a manager of Boeing companywide Data Resource Management for four and a half years. This assignment allowed him to apply his mastery of data / information resource management, repository & data base technology, systems engineering, software engineering, systems architecture and integration, automation technology, knowledge base technology, network and communications technology, and operating systems utilities development. It was during this time that Mr. Jones served as vice chair and manager of internationalization of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) X3H4 Information Resource Dictionary System (IRDS) Committee; international editor and author of the International Standards Organization (ISO) IRDS Framework Standard; and head of the American delegation for integration of national and international program planning initiatives concerning repository and database technology. In the delivery systems space, Mr. Jones spent seven years managing delivery systems and data center operations. In his last assignment at Boeing he served as a Senior Manager of the Computing Network & Operations Airplane Operations / Components organization, leading a global labor base (120 direct and 65 indirect employees), and managing a direct asset base of approximately $20 million annually, a total asset base of $128 million per year, and a customer base of 55,000 end users worldwide. As the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect (Enterprise) to the Airplane Components / Operations CIO, he had the mission to use information technology to reduce the unit costs of airplane products, and increase the capacity and throughput of the business and manufacturing processes. Prior to that, Mr. Jones led the organizations that managed dedicated server farms and labs. In his early career Mr. Jones served as a Site Engineer and performed systems administration at a site data center, instructed users in use of CAD/CAM systems, and served as Level 1, 2, and 3 customer support engineer across five product offerings. FROM 01/1969 to 06/2000 — The EXCELL Group This alliance served as Mr. Jones' primary entrepreneurial vehicle starting in 1969. It was started at Lakeside School in Seattle, where he created and staffed it as a consulting group to perform for-profit and pro bono multi-national and multi-disciplinary work. This organization was later absorbed into The Sunyata Group in 2004. In the educational space, his projects have included developing class-scheduling software for public schoolteachers; managing a multi-year cross-cultural educational exchange program with Seika University (Kyoto Japan); tutoring Veterans at the university-level in mathematics, computer science, music, and martial arts; developing computer assisted instruction (CAI) applications and courses; and spending four years managing an on-campus residential cooperative and its related business ventures (food coop, music program, software services). In the business development space, his projects have included developing the concept design that resulted in “CompuLab”; providing patent and business evaluations for now defunct M&A company “UPI”; advising start-up companies and/or serving on the boards of small retail companies (personal care, restaurants, construction). In the IT entrepreneurial space, his projects have included developing operating system patches for IBM mainframe partners; providing systems architecture and database design support to various software projects; developing concept architectures and requirements for social networking projects (Radiant Networking / Celebrating Solutions / BigMind / GaiaSpace); and advising IT start-up companies. Starting in 1989, in the financial optimization space, Mr. Jones served as an analyst and advisor supporting the real estate, construction, and banking industries. In the late 1980s, he received his real estate license and served as an analyst in a “business brokerage” start-up company that focused on the “match-making” opportunities made available by the passage of the Financial Institutions Reform Recovery and Enforcement Act (FIRREA) and the 1989 establishment of the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC). His job was to: become functionally familiar with the FIRREA; and review RTC general and “Multiple Investor Fund” (MIF) portfolios, Disbarred Individuals & Businesses lists, and potential equity investment source databases — in order to match “money-to-projects”. In that function, he reviewed information and interviewed applicants. This included analyzing credit reports of individuals and businesses — in order to determine the credit worthiness of the applicants; analyzing financial statements and financial portfolios of individuals and businesses — in order to determine the investment worthiness of the applicants; and analyzing project financial statements, development schedules, and project portfolios — in order to determine the risk management profiles of the projects and proposals. As a result of Mr. Jones' financial systems optimization activities — he is very experienced in working with the offices of, and departments under the CEO, CFO, COO, CTO, and Human Resources. Mr. Jones began his career in computing at a very young age in 1969 as a programmer/analyst and consultant, and has the dubious distinction of having read the 160 plus IBM-360 technical manuals, and having implemented in code every single function — including cross-compilation of PL/1, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Assembler. MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE PORTFOLIO: Mr. Jones became CEO of the Sunyata Group in 2004. He became an Executive Vice President, CIO, and CTO for Science & Engineering Associates in 2000, co-managing a labor base of 700 contractors with an annual budget of $140 million per year. He became an Acting Manager at Boeing in 1983, and a Manager in 1985. In 1996 he was selected by Boeing as ready to serve as a major programs Program Manager and CIO. Other Boeing leadership positions included: Senior Manager Delivery Systems & Infrastructure (120 direct and 65 indirect employees), Manager DCAC/MRM IS Factory (22 direct reports, plus 240 subcontractors), Manager DCAC/MRM Application Installation (16 direct reports), Senior Manager Electronic Commerce (10 indirect reports), Senior Manager Companywide IS Architecture & Standards (2 direct reports, plus 150 indirect reports), Manager of Data Resource Management (IC), Manager of Repository & Database Technology (IC), Manager of Information Resource Management Technology (IC), Chief Scientist of Systems Architecture & Integration (10 direct reports), Manager of Systems Architecture & Integration (8 direct reports), Manager of Computer Graphics (15 direct reports), and Manager of Common Data Services (22 direct reports, plus 10 indirect reports). SELECTED WRITINGS: Mr. Jones has authored more than seventy-five articles, reports, and technical documents. He has been published in Database Programming and Design magazine, and been named in “Who's Who of International Professionals”. He is an educator and leadership/management and organizational development consultant, and has presented at professional societies, community programs, and universities on technical and leadership topics. He is the past vice chair and manager of internationalization (“harmonization”) of American National Standards Institute (ANSI) X3H4 Information Resource Dictionary System (IRDS) Committee; past international editor and author of the International Standards Organization (ISO) IRDS Framework Standard; and former head of the American delegation and lead negotiator for integration of national and international program planning initiatives concerning repository and database technology. He also writes articles for public benefit. TECHNICAL WRITINGS
PUBLIC BENEFIT WRITINGS
Recommendations: “Mark is an invaluable IWG colleague strategic thinking partner for the following reasons: He has a vast mind, a deep well of knowledge and a curiosity that seeks meaning through lived-in experiences that engage all of his multiple intelligences. He is both an extraordinary visionary and detail-oriented — his thinking is expansive, innovative, creative and imaginative. He is interested in putting unchallenged assumptions, ideas, concepts, and models to the test to create evidence-based data. He is exceptionally talented in identifying, improving, streamlining, assimilating, and integrating complex processes into coherent forms of application. He is an engaging, charismatic leader with an upbeat disposition. His great sense of humor makes him highly personable and approachable. His ability to hold multiple perspectives and use multiple intelligences, make him sought after as social connector and opinion leader. He has phenomenal personal integrity and professional maturity. He is able to build trust, bridge gaps and build optimal relationships between individuals and collectives in a safe and generative environment. He brings a high degree of consciousness, sensitivity, awareness and a depth of perception that make him a compassionate presence, a remarkable listener and an effective communicator. Mark has a huge heart, is deeply caring and exceptionally generous with his time, energy and resources. He is conscientious in living his highest aspirations for the greater good.” March 2, 2008 Candi S. Foon, Chief Operating Officer, The Integral Wellness Group (Worked directly with -- Mark R. Jones) “Mark is a mission-based and creative thinker and was an invaluable contributor to the development of several out of the box ideas regarding our healthiest state in the nation campaign. His personal style also made this a very enjoyable experience. Top qualities: Personable, Expert, Creative” September 22, 2007 Greg Vigdor, President, Washington Health Foundation (Hired -- Mark R. Jones as a Business Consultant in 2004) “Mark is an outstanding leader who has made a significant positive impact on me - personally and professionally. I consider him a coach and a mentor - two additional roles at which he excels. Working with Mark under very difficult circumstances, I watched him repeatedly bring groups and people together behind a solution and enable them to hold to a common purpose. Many times these were stakeholders with open animosity toward one another or seemingly incompatable objectives. Mark is able to drive remarkable change through an organization in a fashion that offsets the natural resistance and garners solid support from all levels. I would love to work with Mark again in the future and recommend him for the most complex business challenges.” January 30, 2008 Tim Green, Senior Vice President -SEA (Worked indirectly for -- Mark R. Jones at Science & Engineering Associates) “Mark served as the Chief e-business Archtiect and CIO for both the Navy Information Technology Center and Science & Engineering Associates during the time that I served as CEO. He is a visionary leader and technologist. Mark quickly gained the respect and support of our clients and employees during an exciting but challenging period of triple-digit corporate growth.” September 19, 2007 Bobby Savoie, CEO, Science & Engineering Associates (Managed -- Mark R. Jones at Science & Engineering Associates) “Mark generates results by thinking outside the box, combining his big-picture management skills with his ability to get his mind around a challenge of any size. His excellent people skills attract the best resources.” August 10, 2007 David Wolf, Project Manager, Boeing (Reported to -- Mark R. Jones at Boeing) “Mark provided a much needed vision and strategy for addressing some of the high level information integration problems Boeing faced with the advent of the Internet. He was well-respected by colleagues across the company, and was able to bring important issues to the surface for discussion and deliberation, while finding ways to drive solutions forward across many disparate groups.” August 10, 2007 Mike Crandall (currently Program Chair — Univ. of WA MSIM Program), Intranet Librarian, Boeing (Worked with -- Mark R. Jones at Boeing)  Candi S. Foon Ms. Foon is a partner of The Sunyata Group, is also the Founding Consultant of Integral Wellness Services (IWS). OBJECTIVE: To live, work, and play in the inquiry: “What becomes possible, or can be done more efficiently and effectively together — than can be accomplished separately to manifest optimal health, wellness and productivity in individuals, organizations, and communities?” SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS: Ms. Foon is a long time practitioner of the integration of “whole-systems optimization” and “health optimization”. She hosts, convenes, and/or facilitates events, meetings, and conferences; designs, develops, and delivers programs, workshops and classes; and provides health and wellness coaching and consulting. Ms. Foon offers a breadth of lived-in and refined experience in the areas of: leadership and community capacity building, business, fitness, health and wellness. She has large-scale organizational experience and small-scale entrepreneurial experience. She has “frontline management” experience and “consulting” experience. She has program development experience as well as operations experience. She has non-management, management, and board experience. She has for-profit and non-profit experience. She has hourly, salaried, and contract work experience. And she has over thirty years of personal development training and practice. Ms. Foon is experienced:
EDUCATION & TRAINING:
LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT ATTRIBUTES:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE WHOLE-SYSTEMS OPTIMIZATION Discern optimal connections to develop and maintain well-functioning webs of relationships that cross-pollinate people, ideas, and resources that enhance the development of highly effective teams, organizations and collectives. Facilitate transition, change, transformation, and conflict resolution. Perform interventions without arousing hostility between competing interests; raise people’s emotional safety level; and increase the capacity to hold multiple perspectives through the cultivation of social-emotional-cultural intelligences, and the “H-S-L” (Hearing, Seeing, Loving) practice of compassion. Leadership & Community Capacity-Building Experience Partner (2005-Present) — Sunyata Group | Sunyata Association | Integral Wellness Team | Integral Wellness Group (USA) — Partnerships focused on implementing:
Convener | Host | Facilitator (1983-Present)
Board & Committee Experience (1987-Present):
Retail Management, Sales, and Administration | Entrepreneurial Experience:
HEALTH OPTIMIZATION — FITNESS | HEALTH | WELLNESS Assist in the alignment of human relationships and business processes to optimize effectiveness, efficiency, productivity, leadership capacity, and wellbeing. Support the implementation of wellness and compassion based approaches at the individual, group, and enterprise (strategic planning and operational) level. Use an inter-disciplinary approach drawing from a variety of fitness, health, and wellness practices to enhance health and wellbeing from a whole-person (physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual) whole-system view. Teaching and Program Development Experience (1983-Present)
Workshop Presentations | Public Benefit Activities (1978-Present)
REFERENCES: (Feel free to contact) “Candi is a highly proficient colleague who has the ability to see the larger operational picture and translate it into a detailed and implementable set of plans. She is an excellent observer of human behavior and has the ability to read the dynamics at play in a room and thus help facilitate groups to, accomplish their work in a more effective and engaged manner.” February 28, 2008 Michael Lindfield, Senior OD Consultant, The Integral Wellness Group (Worked directly with Candi S. Foon at The Integral Wellness Group) "I brought Candi in to work with my team while we were pushing toward a very significant deadline. She was able to help my team maintain the balance necessary to accomplish our project! She really helped us avoid losing valuable time to stress related issues. Top qualities: Personable, Expert, High Integrity." March 5, 2008 Tracy Robinson, Executive Director, Seattle Foundation (Hired Candi S. Foon in 2002) "Candi is a wonderful person, which is in my opinion a requirement for anyone who is going to guide Yoga students. I was a student of hers before she founded this business and followed her to her new digs as soon as she opened. At her Karuna Yoga Studio she did a wonderful job of designing and maintaining a sacred space for her classes and hosted several engaging events focused on Yoga and other wellness practices. As a teacher, Candi was very attentive to individual students needs and limitations and made us feel comfortable when our limits were reached. Her classes were fun, cooperative, and something I and many other students tried to schedule our lives around attending. While I no longer study Yoga, I continue to use skills she taught in my daily exercise routine. If Candi were resume teaching Yoga in my area, I'd sign up immediately. Top qualities: Personable, Expert, High Integrity." March 25, 2008 Harvey Bowen, Program Manager, Microsoft (Hired Candi S. in 2002, and hired her more than once) "Candi is a woman with a great heart for community development. I have enjoyed her deep awareness in facilitating diverse people into common community planning. Her ability to listen to the fabric and texture of speakers and articulately reflect back what is said is a great skill. I have seen her in many international settings and recommend her highly for her resources and intuition with convening, facilitating and stewarding the group process." Scott Wyrtz, Founder, BowenWorks  Anne M. Stadler Since 1990, Anne Stadler has worked with people and groups that seek to open space for the emergence of spirited leadership and appropriate forms for their collective activity. She has over twelve years’ experience guiding the formation of emergent communities: as a founder and principal organizer of Spirited Work, an Open Space learning community of practice, and currently as a Founding Board member of the Compassionate Action Network, an outgrowth of Seeds of Compassion. She is a pioneer of Open Space Technology and Appreciative Inquiry as well as other organic formats that open space for practical co-creative activity. She is attentive to areas of disturbance, edges of the known forms—those places in common life where possibility shows up. Her work is especially suited for transforming crisis into opportunity, stepping into and designing evolving systems of governance, common life, and relationship that include maximum diversity. She has worked globally with many partners including corporations, cooperatives, educational institutions, arts organizations, foundations, non-profits and community groups. She is an Associate of the Sunyata Group. She has seventeen years’ experience as a multi-award-winning television producer, generating documentaries and special programs that illuminated community issues and were produced in collaboration with community leaders. Her work was the centerpiece of KING Broadcasting’s partnership with People Power, a broadly based coalition of groups that effectively helped to change Seattle’s community narrative. One high point of that work was City Fair, conducted in 1980 and ‘81. City Fair focused on living a high quality sustainable life in an urban setting. It brought together best practices from all over the country for a two week fair at the Seattle Center that opened during the national Mayors’ conference. KING-TV produced two documentaries, as well as many news stories, and public affairs announcements. City Fair’s practical impacts included: a community-wide recycling system, bike trails, Pea Patches for urban food growing; changes in energy policy and wide spread adoption of conservation methods; peer counseling in high schools. Anne’s work also focused on international security. She developed and produced an award-winning series of prime-time programs that aired throughout the whole region. These were coupled with community discussion groups sponsored by People Power’s organizations. Anne was the American producer for KING-TV’s partnership with Gosteleradio (Soviet television), co-producing twelve programs that aired in the US and the Soviet Union, 1986—90 at the beginning of glastnost and perestroika. She has participated in founding many organizations that advance self-organized healthy relationships among very diverse populations. She worked from 1960—1971 as a founder and director of a broadly based coalition to end war. She is a co-founder of Friends of Third Place Commons, Peacetrees Vietnam, the Open Space Institute of the United States, and active with the Center for Ethical Leadership in educating and supporting co-creative self-organizing community leadership. She has been awarded a number of community service and professional awards. Among them, the B’nai B’rith Community Service Award, the Ralph Bunche World Peace Through World Law Service Award, the Center For Ethical Leadership’s Leadership Legacy Award. She is an advisor to Festival in the Workplace, an organizational transformation effort based in the Bahamas. She enjoys every minute of life with her family, friends, strangers and the natural world!
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