Deborah is co-founder and president of the Knowledge Institute. Through the optimization of people, process, and technology, she has served the business community at the strategic level for twenty years in business planning, organizational development, business systems design, finance, and marketing. Her contributions as both a corporate management professional and business consultant have facilitated the success of many ventures in the high-tech, manufacturing, service, and retail industries. She has also actively served on the board of two multi-national corporations based in New England. Her accomplishments have been earned in both start-up and high growth operational environments.
While co-owner and executive vice president for an international high-tech manufacturer, she established profitable operations through the development and implementation of a strategic business plan, which included organizational development, business systems design, policy formulation, and business development strategies. As financial manager at Signal Companies, formerly Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc., she developed a relational database management system (RDBMS) model for investment portfolio transactions averaging $175 million, which led to increased security and ROI. In her capacity as business consultant, she has developed strategic marketing plans encompassing competitive research and analysis; marketing, advertising, brand identity and public relations campaigns; website development; and corporate identity packages, collateral's and newsletters. She has also developed foundation business systems for start-up ventures in the service, publishing, and direct marketing industries. Her contributions reflect her passion and commitment for turning entrepreneurial visions into efficient and profitable operational realities.
Dr. William R. Osgood
William is co-founder, vice president and treasurer of the Knowledge Institute. He has served the business community as consultant, entrepreneur, professor, speaker and author, and has been acknowledged by the US Small Business Administration (SBA) as an internationally recognized expert in small business development.
As consultant, Dr. Osgood developed and published a unique model for venture creation and worked with a wide range of profit and not-for-profit firms in the areas of organizational development and reengineering, marketing, finance, and general management. While manager of urban affairs at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, he authored the Business Planning Guide, the Business Resource Directory, and developed BIC-NET, a program providing subsidized business planning and management support to fledgling as well as growing small business ventures. He has also written numerous books published in several languages on topics dealing with managing and financing a business. His newest work includes the Common Sense Strategic Management Learning System, adopted by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) as their first learning series, and a work assessment profiling system undergoing implementation by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). He is an expert in the development of business management models and methodologies including the EKS™ and Strategic Knowledge Management System™. In an entrepreneurial capacity, he grew his own high-tech manufacturing company to industry preeminence on an international scale over a ten-year period. Dr. Osgood has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in entrepreneurship at Northeastern University, The University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire College, and Boston University, as well as lectured at Babson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Harvard University.
Education: Boston University, Doctorate in Organizational Behavior, summa cum laude; Northeastern University, MBA, summa cum laude; New Hampshire College, B.S. Business Management, summa cum laude; Dartmouth College; and University of New Hampshire.
Contact Dr. Osgood at
WRO@Knowledgement.net
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