Thomas Renault
Facilitator
For over 20 years Thomas has been at the forefront of change in the field of mediation and organizational development. His ability to create immediate rapport with clients and training groups helped launch him from a local service to an international consultant. His style is informal, warm, humorous and his commitment to each individual is without compromise. His methodology is considered “transformative.”
From 1994 to 1996, Thomas worked pro bono for the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico in their Metro Court system as a mediator. The daily wide array of cases gave him a deep exposure to a variety of conflicts, cultures, and cases and opened the way to working directly with the various lobby groups and legislators for the state of New Mexico.
Thomas expanded his practice to include consulting to national and international corporations where the need for change was a strategic objective as well as a desired competitive advantage. These clients have ranged in size from 20 employees with revenue of $2 million to companies with 850,000 employees and $61 billion in revenue. His previous work with the United Nations as a translator has proven useful with international companies and bilingual Canada.
In 1999, as a general manager, Thomas took a wholesale business geared towards the surfboard/skateboarder teen market to handle growth from $3 to $6 million through re-engineering, staff changes and business practice training and development. The sales growth figure was achieved within three years.
From 2001 to the present, Thomas has worked with a diverse mixture of clients: semiconductor, software, net sites, hospitals, federal agencies in Canada and the United States, and a twenty-eight nation scientific polar project to move United Nations funds to strategic sites world-wide.
He received his Masters in Organizational Management in 1996. The degree was dependant on creating a business that showed profitability within the first year.
Originally from Montreal, Canada, he now lives in San Francisco. When relaxing (a rare event), he enjoys studying Persian and Zen literature as well as riding his mountain bike across the normally exciting terrain of San Francisco.