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Business Consulting

In addition to his scholarly and analytical work, Dr. Robert Aziz has worked as a professional within the business sector for twenty years.

During his first eight years of work within the business sector, Dr. Aziz served as a senior therapist with a Canada-wide provider of EAP (Employee Assistance Plan) services. In this capacity, he acquired extensive experience providing assistance to individuals working at all levels of company and corporate employment within a wide variety of business environments, including retail, manufacturing, financial, banking and educational. Of special concern to him were the operative factors and dynamics he came to identify in cases of medical stress leave. Through his observations and therapeutic work with individuals who in fact were medically absent from work due to ‘burn out’ the beginnings of his future work on the dynamics of meaning came into being.

Since 1992 Dr. Aziz has worked as an executive consultant and mentor, providing professional direction to executives and executive teams leading an array of businesses throughout Canada and the United States. Underpinning his approach to business consultancy — either as an executive mentor or as a facilitator of executive team dynamics — is Dr. Aziz’s long-held belief in the critical linkage between productivity and the dynamics of meaning. Organizational productivity is dependent on meaning; meaning is dependent on the conscious and functional processing of information and human experience—a formula and indeed organizational challenge which demands as much of those individuals at the center of business units in leadership roles, as it does of the functionality of a business unit in its entirety. With this leadership demand in mind, it is the case, accordingly, that all consultancy work listed below necessarily begins with and proceeds by way of executive coaching and leadership development.

Business sector professional areas:

• Executive coaching and leadership development
• Executive team dynamics
• 360º feedback analysis
• Consultation on Performance Reviews
• Candidate interviews and selection