Organizational Practice

Consulting

The Dark Lady Players are a small applied theater and organizational change practice that helps teams become more creative, more open to inquiry, better able to generate new ideas, and to re-invent old narratives.

Projects have included; helping to create new corporate strategies and organizational culture for a Global 500 corporation; collaboratively generating the vision and mission of various business units; developing a national media campaign for Europe’s largest company; creating alignment between different corporations in pre-merger planning; team building for new ventures; and building a new model for the Shakespeare industry.

Our work draws on leading edge narrative techniques and knowledge tools. We work with universities, colleges, and knowledge management groups such as organizational development, strategic HR and knowledge management functions. For the inter-relationship between our practice areas read: Managing Complexity; From Plays to Performance.

John Hudson, the director of the Organizational Practice , has over 25 years experience in organizational development, business development, strategy and innovation roles for large communications and internet companies in Europe and the States. He has worked on the re-invention of corporate narratives while navigating through several turbulent technology paradigm shifts. He was for two years a visiting researcher at the MIT Sloan School Organizational Learning Center and a member of a UK government think tank. He has the following training:
* M.Sc. Human Resource Management/organizational development, the London School of Economics.
* M.A. Theater and Shakespeare, University of Birmingham.
* B.A. (summa cum laude), Sociology, University of Exeter.
* Certificate in organizational dynamics, William Alanson White Institute.
* Certificate in organization development, Columbia/Michigan Universities.