About NorthShore Group
mission
Our mission is to help clients align people, processes and behaviors with business strategy in order to achieve exceptional, sustainable results.
Our Approach
We focus on your organizational purpose and results, not simply problems and culture. We work with concrete business issues that are important to you. Every business issue combines technical and human aspects. We use integrated methods that strengthen personal leadership to facilitate formal strategy execution and business process improvements.
Using a Learning Practice of Leadership (LPL) for developing the human dimensions of business helps clients to work better together, motivates them to become more engaged and committed to contributing to your organizational purpose. Most importantly LPL propels people toward ongoing professional growth that adds value to your organization, its stakeholders and employees.
principle consultant
Lucy Garrick has proven track record of improving performance by bringing people together across functions to align on choices that lead to exceptional results. Drawing on more than 15 years of corporate management experience and 10 years in consulting, Ms. Garrick has assisted high-growth organizations in a variety of industry sectors including technology, healthcare, retail, banking and financial services, manufacturing, services, non-profit and public service.
Ms. Garrick co-authored books on the emerging impact of new technologies on traditional media in the 1980s, has written articles for trade publications, spoken at industry and professional conferences, taught at university graduate level, and designed and delivered workshops. Prior to founding NorthShore Group, Ms. Garrick worked for strategy consulting firms, The Ascent Group and Fact Point Group. Her consulting experience includes projects for Hewlett-Packard, Adobe Systems, Lotus/IBM, HiFn, Ernst and Young. Synopsis, The Nature Conservancy, ING Direct/Sharebuilder, Girl Scouts, Multnomah County Library, Astoria, and the Kingston County Advisory Council.
Ms. Garrick is board co-chair of the Organization Systems Renewal (OSR) Alumni Association at Seattle University, past board president of the Pacific Northwest Organization Development Network, board member of the Satir Institute of the Pacific. She has holds a BS in Information Systems Management and an MA in Whole Systems Design/Organizational Systems Renewal and Leadership
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Selected papers and speaking engagements
- Holding Partnership Conversations, Published in the Integral Leadership Review volumne VIII, No. 3
- Leading the Shift from Domination to a Partnership Culture August 2008, Published in The Systems Thinker, vol. 19, number 6, Pegasus Communications
- Rethinking Strategic Planning
- Whole Person Leadership: A Learning Practice, Global Conference of the International Leadership Association Conference, Chicago, IL
- Creating the Conditions for Leadership to Emerge at All Levels of an Organization, Global Conference of the International Leadership Association Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Global Transformation: The effects of globalization and change on organizations, Antioch University Seattle
- Intervention Process: Theory base and concepts for organizational interventions, Antioch University Seattle
- 500 Years of Leadership Theory: The Challenge of Learning to Lead , August 2004.
- Marketing Segmentation for Entrepreneurs, University of Washington, School of Business, 2003
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