Doug Bamford Professional Expertise Doug has thirty-five years of experience as a client and consultant. Throughout his business career, Doug has focused on working with teams to create successful growth strategies in a wide range of industries, including technology, biotech, hospitality, retail, medical, entertainment, insurance, advertising, healthcare, real estate, and nonprofits. Experience During his tenure as the chief marketing officer for two regional restaurant chains, Doug was recognized as a marketing innovator at the Marriott Corporation, owner of one of the chains. His marketing programs resulted in double-digit real sales increases during the recession in the early ’80s, winning the organizations the American Marketing Association Company of the Year and the National Promotion of the Year from the National Restaurant Association. His role as CMO included product development, retail design, pricing, advertising, and market research. In the ’90s, Doug was a growth consultant for international brands like Coca-Cola, Kodak, Holland America, Chateau Ste. Michelle, WordPerfect, AAA, and The Space Needle. His role included facilitating cross-functional groups to create new solutions to old problems and to lead the planning to take advantage of new markets. Doug and his partner, Dr. Kathryn Bamford, an expert at adult learning and experiential learning, founded Recharge in 1999. Recharge became an innovator around new ways for leadership teams to think creatively about key issues and then involve employees with interactive experiences to align knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors with the new business direction. The approach starts with client information and research but the heart of breakthrough leadership thinking and employee energy and commitment is tapping into client experience, intuition, and the feelings that drive change. MBA, Portland State University
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Greg Bamford Professional Expertise Greg Bamford has thirteen years of experience designing experiences to help people develop new ideas, directions, and plans for improvement. Experience As chair of an academic department at a top-tier independent school, he designed day-long and week-long workshops to lead teachers to a joint strategic direction. As a program director, he managed an off-campus experiential learning program for over 500 students and developed new community service programs to get young people off campus and in their growth zone. He was on the team that launched the school’s Teaching Laboratory, an action learning process for teachers to improve performance by reflecting on their current work. Greg holds an M.Ed. from the Organizational Leadership school at Columbia University’s Teachers College. As an organizational leader, Greg has been involved in his organization’s strategic planning process, marketing communications, and the successful launch of new products. Greg joined Recharge in 2010 and designs the learning process for each Recharge experience. Drawing from both research and practice, he ensures that Recharge tools help teams think better and execute faster. M.Ed., Columbia University
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Kathryn Bamford, Ph.D
Professional Expertise Kathryn Bamford brings extensive professional experience to her role as VP and Creative Director. A co-founder of Recharge, she created the Recharge toolkit from the worlds of experiential learning and educational psychology. She holds a Master’s and Ph.D. in Human Development & Cognition from the University of Washington, providing training she has applied with corporate teams for over fifteen years. Experience Kathryn brings a rich, research-based perspective into how teams function, how people learn and what kinds of experiences lead organizations to change. Kathryn is fascinated by how people learn and especially how adults leverage their experience into the creation of new work products. Prior to her work at Recharge, Kathryn has published several journal articles, taught at the University of Washington, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in child psychiatry. As a founding member of the Recharge team, Kathryn developed a wide variety of experience-based tools to move leadership teams smartly through the creative process. As a result of her work, Recharge offers a wide range of tools that can be reconfigured for work with our clients. Her maxim drives the design of each Recharge experience: “active trumps passive.” As the lead designer of Recharge experiences for the past decade, Kathryn has worked with clients –from Safeco to Microsoft to United Way – to implement the Recharge toolkit with real teams facing real-world challenges. She draws from this depth of experience to create rational and emotional buy-in for new business strategies throughout the organization, moving team members to clearly targeted action. Ph.D., University of Washington
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