CORE STAFF

David S. Kessler is President of Dublin Management Group. He has 25 years of human resource and personnel experience serving as a professional labor relations consultant for fifteen years, a director of human resources for one of the largest county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities for three years, and six years with the Blaugrund, Herbert & Martin law firm/Dublin Management Group Limited providing service to the public and private sector clients of the law firm.

In particular, Mr. Kessler has conducted dozens of wage and benefit surveys for cities, villages, counties and individual county agencies, as well as private sector clients. He has developed compensation plans for counties and county agencies, and has provided county agencies with new organizational development plans to better serve the taxpayers of the county. Additionally, Mr. Kessler has negotiated in excess of one hundred labor contracts and represents management in labor relations.

Richard R. Bourgault is currently Vice President / Senior Consultant of DMG. Mr. Bourgault brings over 30 years of successful leadership and experiences in both the private and public sector arenas. He has served in many roles on both sides of the labor table, from labor representative to executive management, having overseen the operations of several organizations of diverse sizes and missions. Rich serves as an instructor for Ohio's Certified Public Management Program and has also trained employees and boards in both public and private sector. He is available to work with you in the areas of leadership development, organizational development/alignment, project management (from formulating the scope of work through final product review), personnel, human resources, labor relations/negotiations, pension plan rollout (401K), NLRA, SERB, RLA (airline industry), dispute resolution, compensation development/analysis, facility/construction project management and training strategies.

Within various capacities, Rich successfully coordinated several projects including the roll-out multiple 401-K pension plans, the development /implementation of a 225 seat, 25 point statewide computer WAN with imbedded LAN's, a successful executive employment search and has positively impacted several public sector levy campaigns. Engaging this wealth of practical experience, as these examples illustrate, can increase your organization's capabilities. Through DMG, Rich is available to assist you in organizational capacity building and analysis, resource alignment, problem solving, personnel issues, project management, system development, employee mentoring and crisis intervention as you move forward through the challenges you face and the futures you are embracing.