Us Partners is an Organizational Development and Transformation consultancy-serving clients in a variety of industries. To us, your organization is unique and whole system in an ever-evolving process. We focus on your capacity to keep pace with your evolutionary goals. Using our Unifying Systems methodologies we can enhance your skills for working together smarter and more collaboratively. We understand that every person, every work group is also unique, and seek to encourage individual talents, potential, capabilities, and passion as contributors to the whole. HINA BRANAH PENDLE, PH.D., PARTNER Hina is a founding principal of Us Partners. She has been an organizational consultant for over 25 years. She developed "Unifying Systems", technologies for designing organizations that are Working Smarter Naturally. Her focus is aligning an organization's culture with their business strategies, expanding capacity for proficiency through collaborative working relationships at all levels. She brings a broad range of experience with her. Hina began her business career in the "Garment Center" in New York in 1964. She has since earned a Doctorate in Organizational Development and Transformation. Today, she working with manufacturing, high technology and service organizations designing and implementing strategies for organizational evolution. Clients Have Said... "Thanks for your help in a difficult situation, I think you've been masterful in your response. Your council model, which I have been exposed to in some depth, is very solid. I am excited about it's potential to continue helping us build a flexible, boundary-less organization." Thanks, S.A., Director of Organizational Development, Technology Company "Thanks for the amazing results that we've achieved together. I am prompted to write by the frequent instances where our staff members who have participated in group training have stepped up in very significant ways, exhibiting maturity and leadership skills under enormous pressure. Our team members often employ the communication skills and problem-solving techniques that we work on together. I feel both proud of my people and grateful to you for the continuing influence of our work together. Thank you for helping me to help our entire team." M.F., CEO, Breakaway Printing and Publishing Company "Your experience in business and sensitivity to people give you a unique ability to be creative and form fit training to the real needs of the people. Our program was very challenging in it's multi-cultural aspects and diverse levels of development. You and your team exhibited great patience and wisdom as well as flexibility when points of transitions came up for the organization. Your project administration, direct problem solving sessions, facilitation and systems design has been invaluable." S.S., President, Food Manufacturing Company I wanted to send a quick note of thanks for the work that we have done together over the past three years. The organizational framework that you introduced into the Santa Cruz Y2K Community Task Force allowed us to create a collaborative infrastructure that withstood the chaos inherent in such an effort. In addition to my appreciation for your help on that effort, I am also thankful for the work we did together in facilitating the recent Ecology Action workshop and discussing ways in which we could collaborate with the Chaordic Alliance. Finally, it was a pleasure to have had the chance to develop the article entitled "Organizational Metamorphosis". This article established a strong foundation for the work that I have been developing in the area of reinventing Information Technology organizations to support new e-business paradigms. William Ulrich President, Tactical Strategy Group, Inc. Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium Co-founder, Santa Cruz Y2K Community Task Force We have known each other for more than a decade, and we have worked successfully together on many projects. Thank you for being so instrumental in the formation and operation of the Sustainable Quality Awards, we founded in 1995. Your help in designing and implementing the program, providing guidance as an advisory board member and in 1997-1999, as Chair of the Selection Committee contributed to the success of the program. Your deep background in quality management and expertise as a facilitator and trainer brought tremendous value to the SQA. I highly recommend you for any role involving organizational development, facilitation, and strategy. You are an excellent communicator as well as change facilitator, able to combine a unique softness with people with tremendous courage and passion for obtaining results. Daniel N. Robin, Daniel Robin & Associates Thank you for the services you have provided to us at Syntax. Both as a colleague and a client, I appreciate your systematic approach and practicality, supported by a whole-organization view. As a result of our sessions together, my team was able to identify and address blocks to effectiveness, and to get a new perspective on their personal responsibility for making things work. Our past conversations about the direction of the business have always been helpful as well. I know that it takes a forward-looking organization to take advantage of what you have to offer. Lucy Freedman, President, Syntax Communications Modeling Corporation Questions? Please contact Hina Pendle at hina@uspartners.com