Testimonials

"Budd steadily won the trust of people at all levels of our organization through his expertise and enthusiasm and made major contributions to the continuous improvement of key corporate processes." John Catlin, EVP, Weyerhaeuser Co.

"I have been very impressed with his ability to help individuals and teams to understand work processes and problems in ways that allow for real performance improvement." Michael Sheahan, Director, Purdue University

"Budd has done an impossible job in guiding a major university task force to assess, redesign and successfully implement a critically important cross-functional process by educating and facilitating task force members (from five administrative areas and including line workers to senior directors)." Beverly Wyatt, Ohio University

"His understanding of organizational development, process improvement and training has enabled him to successfully guide our move to implement quality management and improvement programs that have dramatically produced decreases in wastes/costs and improved performance and ROI throughout our company." John Adams, Warner Lambert Canada

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Budd Babb, Ph.D.

Dr. Budd Babb is a senior Organizational Development Consultant, Coach and Educator with Paradigm Associates and has over 25 years of successful experience guiding a wide-variety of organizations in the United States, Canada, the Arctic, Great Britain, Brazil and Japan to achieve dramatic improvements in quality, productivity, customer loyalty and financial success.

He has worked closely with and helped CEOs, executive management teams, work teams, cross-functional improvement teams, middle managers and operational staff to successfully develop reliable strategic plans and implement needed process improvements.

Budd's expertise includes: organizational design and restructuring, change management, quality management, process improvement, cycle-time reduction, leadership development and executive coaching for Fortune 100 manufacturing companies, government services, hospitals, universities and other organizations that are committed to continuously improving quality service, productivity and bottom-line success. Among other achievements he guided a Canadian power company to save $2MM by redesigning a startup plan for a new power facility. He also led improvement teams for 8 west coast manufacturing facilities to cut unnecessary costs and increase ROI $10MM within 18 months.

He is a natural communicator and relationship builder as he works with individuals and teams focused on continuous improvement. He has strong motivational, coaching and presentation skills that quickly earn him needed credibility with managers and employees at all organizational levels.

After earning his undergraduate degree, he served as a Naval Flight Officer-Navigator (LCDR) with U.S. Navy Long-Range Patrol Squadros with more than 3400 flight hours keeping track of East Block aircraft and shipping transiting the North Atlantic. His consulting and coaching reflects his Naval experience by helping people in organizations "navigate" their way to stay on course and on target to provide their customers with outstanding services and products. He is a "Navigator" that helps people in organizations to bring their "Heads and Hearts" to work so that their organizations can be at their best every day!

He has 10 years experience as an internal Organizational Development Consultant, Coach and Educator for the Weyerhaeuser Company and Carrier Corporation where he was instrumental in developing Quality Management models that were successfully implement in both organizations. He has been A Director of Organizational Development at Purdue University where he developed over 50 departmental process improvement facilitators that led 110 improvement teams throughout the university: cutting wastes, costs, cycle times and improving key administrative processes. He personally facilitated an improvement team that reduced the time for processing student admissions applications from 6 weeks to 6 days.

Budd is a graduate of Drew University (BA), Lehigh University (MA) and earned his doctorate at the University of Oregon in Organizational Behavior and Change management. He has also completed post-graduate work in Organizational Design and Restructuring at the UCLA Graduate School of Management. He holds certifications in Organizational Development Consulting and MBTI Administration from the National Training Laboratories for Applied Behavioral Science, and is an expert in Total Quality Management. He has also led study missions of American senior manager groups over five years to visit and learn quality management principles and practices from more than 50 world-class companies in Japan.

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Maryland Prince George's County: Andrews Air Force Base 20762 Aquasco 20608 Beltsville 20704 Beltsville 20705 Bladensburg 20710 Bowie 20715 Bowie 20716 Bowie 20717 Bowie 20718 Bowie 20719 Bowie 20720 Bowie 20721 Brandywine 20613 Brentwood 20722 Capitol Heights 20731 Capitol Heights 20743 Capitol Heights 20790 Capitol Heights 20791 Capitol Heights 20799 Cheltenham 20623 Clinton 20735 College Park 20740 College Park 20741 College Park 20742 District Heights 20747 District Heights 20753 Fort Washington 20744 Fort Washington 20749 Glenn Dale 20769 Greenbelt 20768 Greenbelt 20770 Greenbelt 20771 Hyattsville 20781 Hyattsville 20782 Hyattsville 20783 Hyattsville 20784 Hyattsville 20785 Hyattsville 20787 Hyattsville 20788 Lanham 20703 Lanham 20706 Laurel 20707 Laurel 20708 Laurel 20709 Laurel 20725 Laurel 20726 Mount Rainier 20712 Oxon Hill 20745 Oxon Hill 20750 Riverdale 20737 Riverdale 20738 Southern Md Facility 20697 Southern Md Facility 20797 Suitland 20746 Suitland 20752 Temple Hills 20748 Temple Hills 20757 Upper Marlboro 20772 Upper Marlboro 20773 Upper Marlboro 20774 Upper Marlboro 20775 Upper Marlboro 20792
Baltimore County: Baldwin 21013 Baltimore 21250 Baltimore 21252 Baltimore 21282 Baltimore 21284 Baltimore 21285 Boring 21020 Brooklandville 21022 Butler 21023 Catonsville 21228 Chase 21027 Cockeysville 21030 Dundalk 21222 Essex 21221 Fork 21051 Fort Howard 21052 Freeland 21053 Glen Arm 21057 Glyndon 21071 Gwynn Oak 21207 Halethorpe 21227 Hunt Valley 21031 Hunt Valley 21065 Hydes 21082 Kingsville 21087 Long Green 21092 Lutherville Timonium 21093 Lutherville Timonium 21094 Maryland Line 21105 Middle River 21220 Monkton 21111 Nottingham 21236 Owings Mills 21117 Parkton 21120 Parkville 21234 Perry Hall 21128 Phoenix 21131 Pikesville 21208 Randallstown 21133 Reisterstown 21136 Riderwood 21139 Rosedale 21237 Sparks Glencoe 21152 Sparrows Point 21219 Stevenson 21153 Towson 21204 Towson 21286 Upper Falls 21156 Upperco 21155 White Marsh 21162 Windsor Mill 21244
Howard County: Annapolis Junction 20701 Clarksville 21029 Columbia 21044 Columbia 21045 Columbia 21046 Cooksville 21723 Dayton 21036 Elkridge 21075 Ellicott City 21041 Ellicott City 21042 Ellicott City 21043 Fulton 20759 Glenelg 21737 Glenwood 21738 Highland 20777 Jessup 20794 Laurel 20723 Lisbon 21765 Savage 20763 Simpsonville 21150 West Friendship 21794 Woodbine 21797 Woodstock 21163
Anne Arundel County: Annapolis 21401 Annapolis 21402 Annapolis 21403 Annapolis 21404 Annapolis 21405 Annapolis 21409 Annapolis 21411 Annapolis 21412 Arnold 21012 Baltimore 21240 Churchton 20733 Crofton 21114 Crownsville 21032 Curtis Bay 21226 Davidsonville 21035 Deale 20751 Edgewater 21037 Fort George G Meade 20755 Friendship 20758 Galesville 20765 Gambrills 21054 Gibson Island 21056 Glen Burnie 21060 Glen Burnie 21061 Glen Burnie 21062 Hanover 21076 Hanover 21098 Harmans 21077 Harwood 20776 Laurel 20724 Linthicum Heights 21090 Lothian 20711 Mayo 21106 Millersville 21108 Odenton 21113 Pasadena 21122 Pasadena 21123 Riva 21140 Severn 21144 Severna Park 21146 Shady Side 20764 Tracys Landing 20779 West River 20778
Maryland (Eastern Shore) Caroline County: Bethlehem 21609 Denton 21629 Federalsburg 21632 Goldsboro 21636 Greensboro 21639 Henderson 21640 Hillsboro 21641 Marydel 21649 Preston 21655 Ridgely 21660 Ridgely 21681 Ridgely 21682 Ridgely 21683 Ridgely 21684 Ridgely 21685 Ridgely 21686 Ridgely 21687 Ridgely 21688 Templeville 21670
Dorchester County: Cambridge 21613 Church Creek 21622 Crapo 21626 Crocheron 21627 East New Market 21631 Fishing Creek 21634 Hurlock 21643 Linkwood 21835 Madison 21648 Rhodesdale 21659 Secretary 21664 Taylors Island 21669 Toddville 21672 Vienna 21869 Wingate 21675 Woolford 21677
Kent County: Betterton 21610 Chestertown 21620 Galena 21635 Kennedyville 21645 Massey 21650 Millington 21651 Rock Hall 21661 Still Pond 21667 Worton 21678
Queen Anne's County: Barclay 21607 Centreville 21617 Chester 21619 Chestertown 21690 Church Hill 21623 Crumpton 21628 Grasonville 21638 Ingleside 21644 Price 21656 Queen Anne 21657 Queenstown 21658 Stevensville 21666 Sudlersville 21668
Talbot County: Bozman 21612 Claiborne 21624 Cordova 21625 Easton 21601 Easton 21606 Mcdaniel 21647 Neavitt 21652 Newcomb 21653 Oxford 21654 Royal Oak 21662 Saint Michaels 21663 Sherwood 21665 Tilghman 21671 Trappe 21673 Wittman 21676 Wye Mills 21679
Wicomico County: Allen 21810 Bivalve 21814 Delmar 21875 Fruitland 21826 Hebron 21830 Mardela Springs 21837 Nanticoke 21840 Parsonsburg 21849 Pittsville 21850 Powellville 21852 Quantico 21856 Salisbury 21801 Salisbury 21802 Salisbury 21803 Salisbury 21804 Sharptown 21861 Tyaskin 21865 Willards 21874
Worcester County: Berlin 21811 Bishopville 21813 Eden 21822 Girdletree 21829 Newark 21841 Ocean City 21842 Ocean City 21843 Pocomoke City 21851 Showell 21862 Snow Hill 21863 Stockton 21864 Whaleyville 21872