Thirty years as a consultant in: long-term strategic planning, vision development, R&D planning, innovation, technology transfer, technology assessment and business development. She has worked for a very large number of government and commercial organizations in the United States and Europe, designing and conducting workshops for the leadership of each organization. One of the pioneers in the use of scenarios and gaming for corporate planning in the late 1960's and early 1970's, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA) in 1989.

For various Government customers, project managed, co-designed and co-conducted eight vision-based planning projects (including "sustaining the vision projects") for the leadership of five organizations: the US Army Space & Missile Defense Command; Navy Seals; Chief, Naval Education & Training; US Coast Guard; US Marine Corps. In every case, the organizations have achieved (or are achieving) their top level goals, their decision making processes have been improved, and their sense of being part of a "team" has increased. Managed, co-designed and co-conducted two projects to prepare Planning Guidance for the Department of the Navy: SECNAV Planning Guidance for PR 01; 1996 Science & Technology Planning Guidance (STRG). We were told that it was "the best one ever." Managed, designed and conducted six Way*Pointing projects for the Department of the Navy. In each case the project enabled the participants develop direction and innovative ideas for the future. For Commercial customers, designed, managed and conducted many vision-based planning projects for the leadership of such organizations as: Kymmene Corporation (Finland), Trust House Forte, Clerical & Medical Insurance Company, The Burton Group. Designed and conducted projects to identify and capture new business for: Trygg-Hansa (Sweden); Eurotunnel, British Airways, TSB, Unilever, Reckitt & Colman. Conducted Way*Pointing projects for TSB, Unilever, and British Telecom. Designed and conducted a very successful multi-client project on the Home of the Future - the 16 clients included: British Telecom, ICI, British Gas, Unilever, Honeywell, Square D.

Dr. Stephen R. Woodall has over thirty years of executive and operational experience in strategic planning, vision development, long-range resource analysis, strategic forecasting, international operations and management, systems and operations analysis, systems engineering, warfare gaming and analysis, technology planning, and inspirational leadership under demanding (including combat operations in two wars) conditions. He is the founding President and CEO of Strategic Synthesis, Ltd. (LLC). Additionally, he is a Consulting Senior Systems Engineer and Systems Analyst for a number of major defense and consulting firms. Dr. Woodall served as a naval officer from June 1967 until February 1994. His naval service included three commands at sea, including the AEGIS Cruiser USS MOBILE BAY (CG 53), serving as the four-carrier Battle Force ZULU Anti-Air Warfare Commander (AAWC) during the Gulf War in the Northern Arabian Gulf, in addition to command of USS KING (DDG 41) and USS LUISENO (ATF 156).

Experience in strategic planning and vision development includes support of the Army Digitization Office (ADO), the future of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C⁴ISR) for the Vice Chairman of the Joint Staff, and similar work for OSD(C³I), BMDO (MDA), JTAMDO, Navy PEO IT, the DoN Secretariat, CNET, Navy SEALs, Army SMDC, ONR, PEO IWS, and many others. Professionally, Dr. Woodall has supported the analysis and development of such C⁴ISR-related systems and capabilities as Athena (the Navy's revolutionary approach to Theater Command and Decision), the Joint Interface Control Officer (JICO) capability, Y2K testing and analysis, the Area Air Defense Commander (AADC) capability, Land Attack and NSFS, TAMD, JBMC2, Joint Fires, the Navy Distributed Engineering Plant (DEP), Common C&D, and Open Architecture. He has also supported the New Design SSN, CV(X), CNV-76, DD-21, DD(X), the LCS, and the CG(X).

In addition to his consulting work, he is active as a member of the Executive Committee of the Strike, Land Attack, and Air Defense (SLAAD) Division of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), including service as Study Director on a number of influential Industry-Government study efforts, such as "AADC Joint Air Defense Firepower Coordination," "Integration, Control, and Deconfliction of Joint Fires," "Roadmap to the Single Integrated Picture (SIP),” and “FORCEnet, the Naval Component of the GIG --- Enabling the Joint Warfighter through Network Centric Warfare." His most recent new NDIA study for the Navy entitled: "The Future of the Navy in Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense (JIAMD)," was delivered to Sponsors (N8, N7/N7) in the Office of the CNO on 25 March 2005. He also supports the NDIA Systems Engineering, Undersea Warfare, C⁴ISR, Missile Defense, and Expeditionary Warfare Divisions. Dr. Woodall is the author of the book "Strategic Forecasting in Long-Range Military Force Planning," and numerous strategic plans, articles and papers. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, since 1994.

Experienced in the design and facilitation of strategic workshops for Institutional and Government Agencies, using a variety of psychological processes to promote team-building, innovative thinking, and to bring organizational values and vision in alignment with those of the individuals. Her understanding and practice of group dynamics, including conflict resolution, is informed by humanistic psychology. Twenty years previous experience in marketing across UK, Scandinavia and the continent Europe, for organizations in the field of management consultancy, marketing consultancy, research and information, and publishing.

A Registered Professional Engineer (UK equivalent) with twenty years experience in electronics R&D, planning, management and QA: his technological background includes conception, design and application of industrial programmable logic controllers (including software design at all levels), proximity sensors, analog electronic circuits and digital integrated circuits. Since 1988, he has focused his experience on Strategic Planning, where he has contributed to developing the methodologies of scenario development, vision development and interactive workshop structure, dynamics and design.

Six years of experience in the fields of training and development. As a trainer, he has designed, developed, and delivered courses ranging from systems-based technical training to experiential team-building. His work in organization development includes organizational assessments, and group facilitation, and vision development. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology at the Fielding Institute.

Experienced in the design and facilitation of strategically important workshops for Government, Business and Not-for-profit organizations using a range of customized techniques to ensure the achievement of project goals. Through his understanding of conflict resolution and depth psychology, he helps groups to draw upon the groups collective wisdom and experience when they must address sensitive issues, questions, and ideas.

Ross Norsworthy, founder and former president of Ross Engineering Company, has merged the company with L-3 Communications. During his tenure with Ross Engineering, he served on various rulemaking committees in ITU and IEC, and he has been a major contributor to the work of RTCM and to the development of the standards for DSC and AIS. Ross is a graduate of the University of South Florida in Tampa, where he earned a BSEE and completed graduate studies in RF and Microwave Systems Engineering. He started his career in the marine electronics field with Sperry Microwave in 1968, where he helped design the world’s first automatic shipborne RF (10MHz – 18GHz) test equipment with embedded microcontrollers for the U.S. Navy. Since then, he has worked in both the avionics and marine electronics fields for Raytheon/E-Systems, Bendix and King Radio. In 1982, he started King Marine Electronics, and in 1986, he formed Ross Engineering Company, where he served as President for 16 years before the merger with L-3. For a more detailed bio, click here.