Vic Ortiz, M.A. Senior Consultant

Victor Ortiz has worked in the field of organization development consulting and training since 1978. The main focus of his work has been the design and management of large-scale organizational and work system change efforts. Vic’s primary interest is in the development of organizations and work systems that optimize high quality and productivity while enhancing people’s ability to bring the best of themselves to work.

With a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology, Vic has worked with clients in both the private and public sectors. From 1978 through 1981, Vic worked as a lead consultant for the California Department of Alcohol and Substance Abuse, providing technical assistance to community agencies. In 1982, he joined Serafini Associates, doing organization development in high-tech, rapid growth industries. From 1983 to 1988, Vic was a Managing Partner at Interaction Associates, a San Francisco-based firm specializing in meeting facilitation and team leadership skills training, conflict resolution, and the management of collaborative problem solving processes. From 1988 to 1996, he continued to work in both private practice and as an independent partner with a variety of consulting and training firms in client-specific consulting project teams.

Vic brought his broad range of consulting experience to Gelinas James, Inc. in 1996. He has led strategic planning efforts in organizations as diverse as an institutional stock brokerage firm and a Catholic Diocese. He has developed training packages to support Total Quality Management efforts in manufacturing, high-tech and service organizations. He has supported organizational redesign efforts in government agencies, the automotive and health care industries. Typical engagements have also involved leadership development and coaching, and the design and facilitation of complex, multi-party events, including recent work in the fields of construction industry partnering, and the formation of strategic alliances with suppliers. All of these experiences contribute to the depth Vic brings to the Collaborative Change methodology developed and used at Gelinas James, Inc. Vic is also a lead trainer of the Gelinas James workshop, "Consulting Skills: Bringing Our Authentic Selves Forward."

Recent engagements have included the implementation of a major Collaborative Change project in a world-wide transportation refrigeration business, implementation of an organization alignment process in a major pharmaceutical company, strategic planning and initiation of performance improvement efforts with a top-10 university and an engineering staffing company.

Janet Schatzman