Dr. Wright is a strategic communication and change management expert with a passion and talent for improving organizational communication so that leaders can more effectively engage employees, manage change, and attain strategic goals. He is expert at: guiding employees through a change in strategy, leadership, culture, or technology; partnering with leaders to improve communications up, down, and across the organization; and increasing employee alignment and engagement with company vision, mission, values, goals, roles, and culture. 

As a consultant for Accenture, Ernst & Young, Willis Towers Watson, Mercer, and others, he has delivered more than 50 successful change management, communications improvement, culture transformation, leadership development, organizational effectiveness, and IT implementation projects for Fortune 500 clients in almost every industry. Alan has a Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from Michigan State University, an M.A. in Public Relations from Pepperdine University, and a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Oregon. He has also taught communication and leadership courses at Chapman University and Michigan State University.

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Dr. Dean Kazoleas has extensive consulting experience with organizations in the public and private sectors. Dean specializes in strategic communications, public relations, and issue/crisis management. From a research perspective Dean has completed a wide variety of organizational assessment projects such as: communication audits, image assessments, leadership skill assessments, as well as culture, customer, and employee satisfaction surveys. Additionally, Dean has also assessed and developed crisis management plans and conducted crisis management simulations.

Dean holds Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Communication from Arizona State University, a Ph.D. in Communications from Michigan State University and has published articles on public relations, corporate communication, crisis management, and organizational image. He currently holds the rank of Full Professor of Communications at California State University, Fullerton. Having extensive international experience he was the founding Director of the Maxwell Center for International Communications. and has helped to develop programs and taught in countries such as Argentina, Austria, China, Cuba, Mexico, Norway, and South Korea. Finally, Dean has also served the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) as a chapter president, District Chair, and chair of PRSA’s Educators Academy.

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