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Brief Biographical Sketches
Our founders and the current operators of our firm
Our founders are the current operators of our firm. They bring a rare combination of expertise and experience to help clients optimize the performance of their most important assets: Their people. Carene is a social psychologist. Hal is an engineer with marketing and executive management experience. Working together, they have successfully applied the fundamental elements of the psychology of human behavior in groups to the boost business success.
Carene Davis-Stitt is a founding partner in DeltaNet Management Consultants. Dr. Davis-Stitt helps client companies build high-performance cross-functional and cross-cultural teams. She develops and delivers training programs designed to specifically address each client's needs. She provides consulting, coaching, facilitating, conflict resolution, training and coaching services to continually raise team skill and performance levels.
Her research work in Social Psychology has focused on how the powerful forces generated by our group affiliations affect our individual behavior. DeltaNet is her vehicle to apply those principles in the business world to break down the walls between departments, operating divisions, management and the managed, and perhaps most important, between businesses and their customers.
Hal Stitt is a founding partner in DeltaNet Management Consultants. He draws on his long, successful, multi cultural experience in high-tech engineering, marketing and business management roles to help business managers and executives to create new businesses to allow their companies to grow and thrive far beyond the life cycles of their current businesses. Working together, Hal and Carene select and apply applicable aspects of the extensive body of research on human behavior created by the psychologists and sociologists people to help clients continuously create winning businesses.
Hal also keeps up to date with the new learnings that have led to the ongoing development of a new business model, the Behavioral Economic Model. This model represents a school of recent learnings based on experiments with real people. The Behavioral Model debunks the centuries-old Rational Economic Model, which was based on Adam Smith's premise that economic systems cannot be explored experimentally. See for example the Social Science Research Network web site.
The new learnings leading to the Behavioral Model were launched emphatically in the 1970s by Dr. Peter Drucker, a sociologist in the Claremont Business School. Among Dr. Drucker's early, fundamental findings is this conclusion: "Businesses are social groups that differ from other social groups in only one way: Businesses must have customers". That conclusion opens the door for firms like DeltaNet to directly apply the knowledge developed by the social psychologists and the sociologists to businesses.
