Rick Karash
Rick has been a consultant, coach, and trainer since 1995. Before his association with MMi, he was a senior staff member at Innovation Associates, Inc. (later Arthur D. Little) from 1991 through 1995. He received Arthur D. Little's "Star Case" awards twice for outstanding customer satisfaction.
Rick's particular specialty is making the tools of Systems Thinking and System Dynamics accessible to all managers and executives. He is a contributor to The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization, a widely respected text in the organizational development field. He has been a regular presenter at the annual Systems Thinking in Action conference and a contributor to The Systems Thinker. He was a founding Trustee of the Society for Organizational Learning where he worked closely with Peter Senge. He is Chairman of the Board of the Sustainability Institute.
Prior to joining Innovation Associates, Rick spent nearly twenty years as an executive in technology-based companies. In 1970, he co-founded a computer software firm, Management Decision Systems, Inc., which pioneered decision support applications (now "OLAP") in finance and marketing. From 1983 through 1986, he was chief operating officer of a firm developing artificial intelligence applications software for the financial services industry and later was VP - Marketing as part of the turn-around team at Symbolics, Inc., a computer workstation vendor. In the 1980's, he spent several years as a consultant working on business strategy and strategic planning for software and other high-tech firms.
Rick received Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics and in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Master of Science from MIT's Sloan School of Management, with concentrations in Marketing and Operations Research. He holds an active DOD security clearance.