ROBERT J. KOENIGS

co-founder and President of SYMLOG Consulting Group (SCG), has designed and implemented organization development projects since the early 1970's in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Central America. He has worked closely with a broad range of organizations in the public, private, governmental, and religious sectors. Dr. Koenigs, a Board Certified and Licensed Psychologist, earned a Ph.D. in psychology from St. Louis University in 1973 and continued his post-doctoral studies as a Research Fellow at Harvard. He has been a member of the faculties of Harvard University, Boston College and UCLA, and has extensive teaching experience in psychology, group dynamics, and organizational behavior.

MARGARET A. COWEN

is co-founder and Vice-president of SCG. She has a B.A. in sociology from Northwestern University, holds professional credentials in secondary education, has an M.B.A. from Boston University in 1980, and received a Ph.D. from United States International University in 1998. Dr. Cowen began her organizational career managing marketing services of the supply division of a large hotel chain. She has been active in the formation of several volunteer organizations and has worked both as an internal and external consultant to firms in the public and private sectors. Dr. Cowen has trained numerous management development programs on six continents and concentrates her consulting efforts on value-based intervention strategies. Her research work focuses on the relationship between an individual’s behavior and the values they are perceived to show in behavior.

SCG

worked closely with ROBERT F. BALES, Professor Emeritus of Harvard University, the author and inventor of the SYMLOG system, until his death in 2004. Dr. Bales published extensively, and in 1983 and 1984 he received distinguished national awards from the American Psychological Foundation and the American Sociological Association for his 40 years of comprehensive and systematic research on individual and small group behavior.