John Shorb is a Principal and co-founder of The DELPHI Group, Inc.. His extensive experience with both private and public sector organizations incorporates collaborative and participative processes to diagnose needs, build skills, and facilitate results-oriented strategic change.

John's clients include Fortune 50 international businesses, mid-sized manufacturing operations, public utilities, TV and newspaper media, federal government agencies, academic institutions and non-profit service providers. Specific projects have included: planning and implementing strategic and cultural change, building team-based organizational structures, helping Boards create strategic visions, building collaborative practices across internal and external boundaries, and coaching executives and managers in facilitative leadership skills.

John's effectiveness in working with teams and groups is grounded in many years as a line and staff manager in Procter & Gamble's high performing systems, team-based operations. Clients note John's strengths include his ability to work with a wide range of organizational levels and disciplines; his systemic view of how different parts of organizations are connected and their need for mutual alignment; and his ability to bring theory to practice through the application of performance management principles.

John is a faculty member of The NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, a leading organization in the field of behavioral science research and education, and for the American University/NTL Masters in Organization Development program. He is certified in the testing and application of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. John has presented at national conferences of the Organization Development Network and the Ecology of Work and has published several articles on leadership, strategic change, and high-performing work systems.

John earned an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University, an MS in Operations Research from the U. of Pennsylvania, and pursued doctoral studies in Organizational Systems at The Fielding Institute.

Following many years as an organization development consultant, in 1998 John and Dr. Dana Morris-Jones formed The DELPHI Group, Inc.. As a curious person with broad interests and experiences, John is also an accomplished musician, a published photographer, an Advanced Class FCC licensed 'ham' radio operator, and an avid outdoors person. John and Dana are based in Maine