John Mirocha
John Mirocha & Associates, Inc. helps businesses explore the long term forces of change that will shape their future, create clear, shared strategic direction, and design and implement changes that will last. A special emphasis of their work is increasing the capability of the business and individuals to become more adaptive to change.
Dr. John Mirocha is also an Adjunct Professor of Management at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis where he teaches courses in strategic thinking, international management and organizational behavior and change.
Dr. Mirocha received his Ph.D. in Anthropology and Education in 1979 from the University of Minnesota. Prior to developing his consulting practice, John managed World Wide Learning–education and training, performance management, executive and high potential leadership development and organizational effectiveness for Cargill, Inc. Cargill is the western world’s largest privately held company with $56 billion in sales, a diversified agriculture and food ingredient processor, steel manufacturer and commodities and financial markets trader, with 80,000 employees, doing business in more than 60 countries (1997).
John has written several articles on corporate culture and change, organizational development, evaluation research and was the Senior Editor of a series of books on systems thinking and human systems, Systems I and Systems II, (1980). He authored Perspective: Learning to See the Business World Through the Eyes of a Cultural Anthropologist, 2001, and Lost Luggage: Reflections on Business, Life and Society, 2002. He is the creator of the Survey of Successful Change Leadership Practices (CAS) that is available in English, German and Hungarian (Futuresystemsconsult.com).
He has traveled widely and has worked extensively in Europe, Asia /Pacific and Latin America as well as in North America. John Mirocha & Associates, Inc. partners include Future Systems Consulting, St. Paul, MN & Hamburg, Germany, The Centre for Applied Leadership, Stillwater, MN, Votem, Wiesbaden, Germany and The Flo Group, Budapest, Hungary.