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Alain Paul Martin
 Management Faculty Chair

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About Alain Martin's book “Harnessing the Power of Intelligence”
“This is an extraordinarily thoughtful and well written book on a topic of great contemporary importance. Its advice is detailed, practical and completely on target.”

Professor Warren McFarlan, Harvard Business School

 “I have used the framework described in this remarkable book successfully for several years, first, to orchestrate the turnaround of North America's fastest growing casualty-insurance company, and subsequently, to craft a vision and strategic direction of a $75 billion financial institution.”

John Harbour, Former President and CEO, Desjardins Casualty Insurance Group,
and President & COO, Desjardins Confederation
Currently President & CEO, SAAQ


External Links Author Experience
  • President: The Professional Development Institute PDI Inc. (PDI Worldwide), 1985 to Present
  • Graduate Faculty Member: M.Sc. and M.G.P. Project Management, University of Quebec, 1997-99, 2006-2007
  • Chief Architect: Harvard University Global System™ (planning and decision-making tools and road maps for issue analysis, strategy, risk mitigation, project management and strategic procurement)
  • Featured Speaker USA, Canada, Europe, Japan and China: Led advanced workshops and facilitated corporate and executive retreats at Harvard Faculty Club, Bell President Club; Procter & Gamble in New York and Chicago, IEEE, ORSA and AFIPS national conferences, financial institutions, Lyreco Europe, Health Protection, Depts. of Treasury and Finance, National Capital Commission, United Way and RDEE
  • Advanced Risk-Management Workshop Leader: Trained nuclear-power executives, senior managers and project leaders of Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL), Babcock & Wilcox (B&W), Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and Bruce Nuclear, 2003-2008
  • Strategy Advisor: Creation of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (with Dr. Brian Morrissey)
  • Executive Member: Non-partisan Committee Advising the Prime Minister of Canada on Government Reform, Strategic Risk and Labor Issues, 1994-97
  • Consultant: Team Leadership, Strategy, Risk, Principled Negotiation, Project Management, 1979 to present
       –  North America: Boeing, GE, Textron’s Bell Helicopter, Procter & Gamble, OPG, Alcan, Bio-pharmaceuticals, governments
       –  Europe & Japan: Bertelsmann, Cap-Gemini, Skanska, Swedish Employers’ Federation, ENA and APO (Japan), UNESCO
  • M&A Integration-Risk Advisor: Executive Task Force merging five agencies mandated to protect investors, maintain the integrity of securities markets, and regulate financial institutions
  • Strategy & Risk Advisor: e-Business and Government on Line, Export Development Corporation, 2001-2003
  • Evaluator, Office of Knowledge Management: Director General, Therapeutic Products Directorate, Health Canada, 2001
  • Corporate-Strategy Consultant: The President of Desjardins Confederation, 1994-97
  • Competitive-Strategy Consultant: The President Desjardins Casualty Insurance Group of companies, 1985-93
  • Risk & Safety Engineering Investigator: C5A, F111, CL250, NB50 (GD-Nuclear Boat): Canadair (Bombardier)
  • Project Manager & Risk Analyst: Systems & Operations Research, Du Pont
  • Manager, Systems Development: Domtar Construction Materials & Domtar Inc.
  • Manager, Risk Prediction & Monitoring of Election Issues: CBC News Bureau
  • Project Manager, Detailed Engineering: A 2,400-KM microwave link (CIDA) and 660-KM expressway (World Bank)
  • Patent Holder: U.S.A., Canada and Japan
  • Co-op Student: Sender Freies Berlin (Germany), Peugeot (France), Herzmansky of Vienna in Austria
  • Summer Jobs: Faculty of Engineering - Carleton University; the Dept. of Nuclear Physics - U. of Ottawa

Education & Executive Development
  • Concordia University, Montreal, QC: B. Com. Quantitative Methods & Operations Research, 1968-1973
  • Harvard Business School, Boston, MA: OPM (27th Alumni Class), 1997-1999
  • Harvard Business School, Boston, MA: Strategy (Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage)
  • Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA: Teaching Negotiation in the Organization
  • Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA: Negotiation for Senior Executives
  • Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA: Advanced Negotiation for Sr. Executives with Bill Ury
  • Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA: Negotiation for Lawyers with Emeritus Prof. Roger Fisher
  • Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA: Advanced Negotiation for Lawyers with Prof. Bruce Patton
  • Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA: Mediation with Prof. Robert Mnookin
  • MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA: Managing Complex Product Development Projects
  • MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA: Management of Change
  • MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA: Evaluation of Government Programs
  • MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA: Developing an Internet Business Strategy
  • Gestalt Institute, Cleveland, Ohio: Gestalt Psychology & Intimate Systems
  • Cognitive Behavior Modification Conference, B.F. Skinner & D. Meichenbaum, Los Angeles, CA
  • Harvard Business School Alumni Conferences: Berlin, Cleveland, Shanghai and Washington
  • Risk Management, Options and Real Options with Dr. Michael Rees (Oxford, UK), New York, NY
  • Risk and Decision Assessment using @Risk and the Decision Tools Suite, Palisade, Ithaca, NY
  • Advanced Project Management: Arthur D. Little, Boston, MA
  • Electronic Commerce: Dr. John Sviokla, Diamond Cluster, Chicago, IL
Mentors and Coaches
  • Professor Herbert Shepard, President of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland
  • Professor Richard Beckhard, Psychology and Organizational Behaviour, MIT
Founding Sponsor: Roger Fisher House for promoting peace and eliminating racial tension and youth violence worldwide

Memberships
  • Member: Harvard Faculty Club, Cambridge, MA
  • President: Harvard University Club of Ottawa
  • Past President: Harvard Business School Club, Canada's Capital Region (2005-2009)
  • Membership Held: Harvard Business Club (New York), American Management Association (AMA), Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS), Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), French-American Chamber of Commerce, Society of Mathematics of France, Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce, Japan-Canada Trade Council, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Project Management Institute (PMI), Jeunesses Musicales de France (JMF)
Interests
  • Ecology (Sierra Club, Ducks Unlimited), Amnesty International, social justice and poverty relief, ecology, education and economic governance
  • Favorite Speech: A More Perfect Union by Barack Obama, Philadelphia (PA), March 18, 2008 | Text | You Tube Video
Hobbies
  • Windsurfing, long-distance running (several marathons including Boston's) and mountain hiking
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