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Peg Neuhauser  

Management Consultant, Organizational Culture Expert, Author

Peg Neuhauser is a management and organizational consultant, specializing in areas such as conflict management, organizational culture, and avoiding burnout. In 1984, she established her own consulting firm and has since worked with clients across various industries including healthcare, high tech, finance, and publishing.

As a speaker and consultant, Neuhauser offers practical tips to foster innovation and adaptability within organizations. Her focus includes enhancing collaboration in cross-functional teams, improving relationships among work colleagues, and strengthening organizational culture to better achieve its goals. Her engaging presentations are enriched with stories, case examples, and humor, making complex ideas accessible and memorable. Additionally, Neuhauser facilitates meetings and retreats for both board and management groups, leveraging her extensive experience to guide discussions and strategic planning.

Neuhauser's academic background includes an M.A. in psychology from institutions in the United States and England, with undergraduate studies in sociology. Her professional journey began at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, followed by a role as an internal consultant at Hospital Corporation of America, where she developed programs for corporate and hospital clients. Her consultancy extends to designing, training, and managing financial systems conversions, specifically focusing on training and consultation within technical and accounting divisions.

Neuhauser has collaborated with a diverse range of clients, both for-profit and not-for-profit, including notable organizations such as AARP, Oracle, ASAE, Eli Lilly, Notre Dame, Texas Instruments, General Mills, American Heart Association, IBM, Abbott Labs, and Hewlett-Packard. She has authored four books that reflect her expertise and insights: "Tribal Warfare in Organizations," "Corporate Legends & Lore," "Culture.com: Building Corporate Culture in the Connected Workplace," and "I Should Be Burnt Out by Now, So How Come I’m Not?" These publications further solidify her standing as a knowledgeable resource in her field, providing valuable perspectives on managing and enhancing workplace dynamics.

Speech Topics


The New Normal . . .Rethinking the Way You Lead (for managers); Moving On . . .Healing from the Turmoil and Adapting to the New Realities (for employees).

Uncertainty is the word that best captures the thinking of most individuals and organizations these days. People say it's like working in a fog. Is the recession really over? Will things return to normal? If so, when? If not, what will the new normal be, and how do we succeed in that world? What do 90% of top execs rank as the critical organizational skill needed today--agility. Here are some practical definitions of what they mean by organizational agility:

Capacity to identify and capture opportunities more quickly than a rival does
Combining patience and boldness
Being ready to move the moment the fog lifts just enough so the choice is more than a crap shoot, but before things are clear to everyone including competitors

Help your leaders and employees understand the new normal in your organization and adapt as leaders and employees to these new realities.

Rethinking the Way You Lead topics:

Resist the temptation to spread the pain evenly through the organization. Consolidate your resources.
Beware of being too confident of your old leadership habits--challenge your own and each others logic, plans, assumptions, and behaviors.
Rigid calendar-based budgeting or planning processes are not agile.
Consider rewarding adequate performance with a generous severance package.  Adequate performances don't produce agile organizations.
Cross-functional teamwork needs to be fast and fluid.  Turf battles or endless meetings do not produce agility.
Reward people for feeding the collective IQ--sharing knowledge and advice that help other teams succeed.
Get honest about the "total cost of jerks" to your organization.  You can't afford them anymore.
Clone your "speed & agility" successes from one area of the organization to another.
If you're a control freak, get over it.  Control freaks are not agile leaders.  Control wisely, not constantly.

Corporate Legends and Lore . . .The Power of Story as a Management Tool

This presentation examines the power of storytelling in organizations, and its capacity to strengthen or damage the culture and spirit of the work place. The stories people tell can be positive and inspiring or negative and destructive to the future of the organization and the people who work there. In any case, the stories are a driving force that helps to shape the organization's destiny. Storytelling has always been the single most powerful form of human communication. This presentation is based on Peg Neuhauser's book,Corporate Legends and Lore (McGraw Hill), and is designed to give the leadership of your organization an opportunity to examine the stories that are told in your organization. New ways to use stories skillfully to reinforce important values and lead the way to your organization's future are presented and practiced.

Avoiding Burnout in Uncertain Times

Everyone’s work life has been affected by this era of uncertainty. The world we are living in today operates at a much faster pace than a decade ago. In addition to the increased speed, there is great uncertainty triggered by economic and world events. In this presentation, Peg C. Neuhauser, author of Culture.com: Building a Corporate Culture for the Connected Workplace, provides dozens of practical tips for coping with one of the most serious dangers of the high speed, uncertain world of work—burnout. In this interactive and entertaining presentation, Neuhauser will discuss ideas with the audience and help people sort out which tips they can put to use.

Working Successfully in a Downsized Organization

You survived the cut backs and restructuring in your company. Now you have to figure out how to survive in a downsized organization. You still have a job and in some cases you may have even ended up with an unexpected promotion. . You have more work, new responsibilities, and many of the experts who you could have turned to for advice and coaching are gone. In this presentation, Neuhauser focuses on the mind set and skills needed to succeed in a downsized company. In addition to the individual skills needed, she also explains how to rebuild a team rapidly and create a culture that will retain your best employees and keeps everyone focused on three important issues. . . take care of yourselves, take care of each other, and take care of this place.

Coping with Culture Clashes in Your Organization

With all the mergers, partnerships, and restructuring going on in organizations these days, clashes between the cultures are inevitable. People do not give up their old ways or blend two groups with different customs and histories without a struggle. Ordering people to change rarely works. The conflicts do not go away; they just go underground. To change or blend cultures requires negotiation to develop new ground rules and common agreements about how the groups will work together in the future.

This presentation guides participants through their own current cultures and to help them identify specific changes and common agreements that are needed.

Tribal Warfare in Organizations

This presentation is based on Peg Neuhauser's book Tribal Warfare in Organizations. It takes a humorous and entertaining look at turf battles between departmental and professional groups in organizations. Neuhauser offers practical tips on the do’s and don’ts of tribal communication. The goal is to produce more effective collaboration and problem solving that makes life easier for everyone and provides service to customers.

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Corporate Culture for Uncertain Times

We are living in an uncertain world. Every organization is struggling to navigate a course through a fog of uncertainty . . . economic downturn, post dot com era, security issues, influx of younger generations of workers with vastly different views of work, and changing technologies. In addition to the risks, there are also great opportunities for the companies who can find these opportunities and take action.

A strong corporate culture can help you survive in an era of upheaval and uncertainty. Peg Neuhauser looks at how to build and maintain your corporate culture to succeed in today’s world. This presentation is based on continuing research on how companies are coping with the current challenges of economic and world events. This research builds on her previous body of research for her three books, Tribal Warfare in Organizations, Corporate Legends and Lore, and Culture.com.

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Business Mediator and Author Brings Her Experience to the Howell Foundation.
Many have heard the saying “curiosity killed the cat”. But could it be that curiosity is responsible for personal and professional growth? It might well be that it played a crucial role for individuals and corporations when they needed to re-invent themselves. Maybe we should ask Peg Neuhauser, published author, speaker, and Board Member of the Doris A. Howell Foundation.
NIH to host Howell Board Member Peg Neuhauser in Seminar Series focused on Supporting Management Excellence.
Author and Howell Board Member Peg Neuhauser has been invited to address the National Institutes of Health this upcoming April 17th at the Institutes’ Seminar Series “Management and Science: Partnering for Excellence.”

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