ANDREW MOYER

  


Personal Summary

Andrew Moyer is President of Moyer & Associates, Inc., and a founding Partner in The SOLiance Group. He brings an extensive experience in consulting for business, nonprofit management and community development organizations, in training, education and in publishing to the group. The primary focus of Andrew’s consulting practice is on supporting clients who are dealing with the challenges of change and transition, and particularly in the implementation of strategic transformations.

He has a particular interest in the effects of different authority structures on organizational effectiveness, especially in the areas of nonprofit management and governance. He applies his background in anthropology and systematics (a conceptual tool used to understand organizations through studying their underlying patterns) to organizational effectiveness and design, facilitating team development activities and supporting strategic transformations. Andrew also designs and facilitates leadership and team development workshops and systems-thinking sessions.

He is accomplished in the development and implementation of policy frameworks and the design, implementation and evaluation of programs and projects for nonprofits. Andrew has broad independent consulting experience in Organizational Training and Development in the E. I. DuPont de Nemours Corporation and in other large companies as well as nonprofit Management and Community Development.

 
Andrew was a Principal of Gerber-Moyer Associates, a training and development firm and a Principal and Director of Development for Strategic Learning Systems, Inc. based in Wilmington, DE. He worked for several years as a researcher and planner for the United Way of London and Middlesex, Ontario as well as organized and facilitated a large-scale volunteer community planning project and social audit of the human-care services in London for an alliance of non-profit, foundations and government organizations. He has also taught cultural anthropology at the University of Western Ontario.

Andrew has a B.A. in History, as well as a B.A in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario and a M.A. in Social/Cultural Anthropology from York University. He has served as the Assistant Director of Studies and Chairman of the Board of the Claymont Society for Continuous Education, and is currently a Director of the Center for Self-Organizing Leadership based in Niagara Falls, New York. He has conducted anthropological research in Turkey (1981-83) and Hawaii (1978). Andrew was born in Canada, lived for many years in the United States and is a citizen of both countries. He currently resides in London, Ontario.

Andrew A. Moyer can be contacted at: soliance-am@sympatico.ca