Vita name: Warner P. Woodworth email

National Industrial Mission--Design and development of an approach to combat economic depression and reduce labor/management conflict with the broad objective of generating economic and social change in Muskegon, Michigan (1972-73).
Rensis Likert Associates, Inc.--Consultant in management firm working with a variety of clients, having primary responsibility for research design, survey feedback, and ongoing organizational development work with General Motors Division of Fisher Body, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1973-74).
Arthur D. Little, Inc.--Consulting and interview methodology in researching the viability of corporate decentralization for Microlite, S.A. headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Also engaged in managerial problems at different plant sites in Guarulhos and Recife, Brazil to institute systems of performance evaluation, career development, and succession planning (1975-79).
VSI Corporation-- Consultant to CEO and top management operating committee in Pasadena, California, on problems of strategic planning, management development, career planning, and administrative restructuring corporate-wide (1976-79).
DME Co.--Consulting activity dealing with organizational structure and participative management approaches at plants in New Jersey, California, and Illinois (1977-85).
Clark Equipment Co.--Organizational research and consultant to labor/management quality of work project in Michigan of the International Truck Division with company management and the Allied Industrial Workers of America, Local No. 939 (1978-80).
Rath Packing Co.--Assisting top executives, the board of directors, and the 1800-member Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, Local 46, in their efforts to buy the company, organize cells of workers' councils, and establish a workers' board of directors. Rath was an important and unusual case because the union, in order to save the firm and their members' jobs, negotiated the creation of both employee ownership and control through the 3000 employee purchase of 60% of the firm's stock and the placement of this stock in an unusual Employee Stock Ownership Trust (ESOT) which operated on the cooperative principle of "one-person-one-vote." The trustees were elected by the employees, and they, in turn, were responsible for appointing ten of the company's sixteen directors. The action research effort flowed from a joint union-management committee which operated under the board. A wide variety of innovative problem solving activities were created which set a precedent for subsequent "democratic buyouts" in North America. These innovations included a joint labor-management corporate planning team and numerous departmental and ad hoc problem solving teams (1979-83).
State of Colorado--Providing technical assistance to the Governor's Office in a venture to create a new worker-owned enterprise in Pueblo jointly with 600 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 565 (1981).
Regional Industrial Democracy Development--Linking various efforts around the U.S. in moving toward more worker participation and labor-managed projects including the Jamestown, New York Labor/Management Committee; the Industrial Cooperative Association in Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Association for Self-Management in Washington, DC; and the Program on New Systems of Work and Participation, New York State School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Cornell University (1980-81).

John Morrell Co.--Technical assistance to the Estherville, Iowa, operation for management and Local 79, UFCW as they engaged in a cooperative process for improving production, quality of working life, and socio-technical changes (1981).
Countering Plant Shutdowns--Consulting with various groups attempting to make the transition to employee ownership. Clients include United Independent Taxi Drivers, a 200 member cooperative in Los Angeles; GMW Trucking, an ESOP firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota; U.S. Steel workers in Youngstown, Ohio; The New York Daily News; Continental Airlines in Los Angeles, California; Firestone Rubber Workers in Dayton, Ohio (1981-82).
State Government Assistance in Economic Development--Helping various regions around the country combat the problems of economic recession and dislocation. Service was rendered to the state legislature of Pennsylvania, Job Service of Utah, Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Department of Economic and Business Planning of the State of California (1981‑83).
Hyatt Clark Industries--Consulting with management and UAW Local 736 leaders in the process of purchasing a bearing plant from General Motors, creating improved productivity and a democratic approach to decision-making from the shopfloor to the boardroom. This strategy saved over a thousand autoworker jobs and stabilized the Clark, New Jersey area's economy, becoming a prototype for other successful worker takeovers such as Weirton Steel in West Virginia (1981-85).
Coping with Utah Economic Erosion--Mounting a campaign to preserve jobs and assist communities in Central Utah, including NRP, the rubber workers' union, and the City of Nephi; management and the ironworkers at McNally Steel; and the Save Geneva Coalition, local governments, steelworkers, and business groups in Utah Valley (1984-85); action research with groups of managers attempting to combat major plant closings, including Signetics Corp. (Orem), Hiller Book Binding (Salt Lake City), National Semi Conductor (West Jordan) and Unysis Corp. (Salt Lake City), (1991-93).
Utah Small Business Development Center, Brigham Young University Office--Responsible for establishing and directing the development and delivery of training and consulting services to small companies and to individuals interested in starting businesses within the region. These services were provided to strengthen and stimulate economic development through small business. The Center was funded by the Small Business Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Utah State Government and Brigham Young University. Staff included an assistant director, a secretary and a part-time graduate assistant staff consultant. A number of graduate students and some undergraduates also assisted the center by consulting on a variety of projects (1985-86).
NGO DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS/PROGRAMS
Workers' Self-Management in Mexico--Engaged in assisting several small, cooperatively managed communities and businesses being created in Mexico. One is an urban setting in which workers are establishing light manufacturing cooperatives to revitalize the regional economy and ensure their own future through self-determination. The other is a participatory approach to organization-building on a rural ejido in which a group of families is seeking grass-roots empowerment through the creation of a kibbutz-like collective system (1982-85).
Enterprise Mentors: International Enterprise Development Foundation--Economic development research and consulting on the informal economy of the Third World, starting in the Philippines; raising $400,000 and organizing a board of directors, setting up a staff to do training and technical assistance in Manila. By the mid 1990s expansions include two other centers in the Philippines, plus start ups in Brazil and Mexico which have led to skill building for the poor, vocational training and mentoring, culminating the creation of credit unions, worker cooperatives, and hundreds of families enjoying new jobs and a higher living standard. By 2001 there were five offices in the Philippines, two in Guatemala, three in Mexico, and one each in Brazil, and El Salvador. Over 10,000 jobs were created or expanded in one year alone, benefiting over 50,000 family members. Some 36,000 microentrepreneurs received management training on EMI’s annual budget of $1.3 million (1988-2001).

Eastern Europe/Ex-USSR Transition--Action research, data collection and technical assistance provided to government policy makers, company managers, and labor leaders involved in attempting to shift from state-owned, centrally planned bureaucracies to market economies, entrepreneurial cultures in which organizations install new technology, improve production and quality, and develop democratic decision-making. Efforts so far have focused on the telecommunications and steel industries of Poland, small manufacturers of Lithuania, and large firms of Belarussia--bearing producers, truck assembly, lingerie plant, and watch factory (1991-97).
Ouelessebougou-Utah Alliance: Launched economic development effort among seventy-two indigenous villages of 35,000 people in southern Mali, West Africa. Working with a U.S. board, Mali field staff, and graduate students from BYU, U. of U., and Harvard, a development program was designed to create rural, worker-owned cooperatives for women. A village banking system was established to provide access to credit for poor, would-be microentrepreneurs. Training programs in basic business, financial skills, and management were prepared, tested, and refined for use in creating hundreds of new jobs, higher incomes, and dozens of rural cooperatives (1994-2001).
Global Job Creation: Collaborated with students in action research teams to design and implement economic development strategies for the poor in Third World areas of Indonesia, Nigeria, Kenya, Jamaica, as well as in Bulgaria, Russia, the United States (Wyoming, Florida, and Utah Valley), the Navajo Nation, and the Goshute Tribe. New NGOs were created including Chasqui Humanitarian Foundation of the Andes (for Peru), Humanitarian Link (for Kenya), the Liahona Foundation (for Nigeria), the Russian Enterprise Development Foundation, Inc, and H.E.L.P. Honduras economic development in Central America. This was expanded to H.E.L.P. International and change agents were sent to not only Honduras, but El Salvador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Uganda, and lastly, to Fiji in the South Pacific, as well (1998-2009).
Unitus: In 1999, business colleagues and I formed this new NGO as a microfinance accelerator. I was the first chairman of the board of trustees and so far we’ve raised and committed many millions of dollars to our partners: Pro Mujer in Mexico and SKS India in Andra Pradesh. This innovative strategy for scaling up microcredit to hundreds of thousands of poor families is building a global reputation and we now have 9 partners in India, plus others in Kenya, Tanzania, Argentina, Indonesia, and the Philippines (2000-2009).
Economic Development of Western China: A new strategy was designed to respond to requests for technical assistance from various regions in China – Guangxi, Yunnan, and especially Sichuan provinces. A team from the Marriott School mounted a major participatory action research project to do economic development among poor ethnic communities (2000-2002).
MicroBusiness Mentors: Local nonprofit social enterprise established to fight poverty and build family sustainability among poor Latinos in Utah Valley. M&Ms provides microbusiness training, loans to start new microenterprises, and pro bono mentoring/consulting (2002-2009).
Empowering Nations: Student NGO focused on education, literacy and strengthening the poor in southern Brazil and Somaliland, East Africa in partnership with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), as well as in Thailand, Ghana, Panama, Paraguay, Kenya, etc. (2002-2009).
Global Change Agents, Inc.: President of a nonprofit capacity-building technical assistance firm providing training assessment and consulting to NGOs around the world (2003-2006).
Center for Economic Self-Reliance: Culminating 15 years of work to put BYU on the global map, CESR was officially established in late 2002 with $3 million in outside funding. With several colleagues, the Marriott School has become a leading light for microcredit research and social entrepreneurship strategy. CESR grew out of the faculty Committee for Alleviating Poverty; a five-year institutional plan for BYU was created at the Microcredit Summit; the annual BYU Microenterprise Conference was launched (11 years); the Journal of Microfinance was established; two dozen NGOs doing village banking around the world were created out of BYU courses; and new courses on social entrepreneurship, NGO management, and microcredit have been taught. Over 1,000 students from BYU, Harvard, U of U, USU, BYU-Idaho, Colorado State, Virginia Tech, Stanford, Portland State, Berkeley, etc. have become volunteer social entrepreneurs doing Third World action research and service. Over two hundred presentations and papers at various conferences have been given. More than 80 articles on microcredit and social entrepreneurship have been published, along with over some 60 students who received mentoring on their theses from 1989-2009.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Adjunct Professor--Institute of Management and Administration, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1975.
Managing Editor--Exchange Magazine, 1976-79.
Member--National Coordinating Council, Association for Self-Management, Washington, D.C., 1979-83.
Adjunct Faculty--New School for Democratic Management, San Francisco, California, 1981.
Visiting Faculty--Labor Studies Center, University of Michigan, Summer 1981.
Research Projects Evaluator, National Science Foundation, 1981.
Board Member--Action Resources, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, 1981-85.
Board of Directors--National Center for Employee Ownership, Arlington, Virginia, 1984-87.
Consultant--Participation Associates, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1984-85.
Research Associate--Women's Research Institute, Brigham Young University, 1985-86.
U.S. Steel/Geneva Works--Community Advisory Board, Utah County, 1986.
Board of Directors--Hyatt Clark Industries, New Jersey, 1981-86.
Executive Director--Small Business Development Center, Provo, Utah, 1985-86.
Advisory Committee--Governor's Office of Planning and Economic Development, State of Hawaii, 1986-87.
Founder, Board Member, Secretary/Treasurer and Vice President—Enterprise Mentors: International Enterprise Development Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri, 1989-2001.
International Advisory Board--OD Center, Warsaw, Poland, 1991-95.
Visiting Professor-- Vilnius University, Lithuania, 1992.
Technoserve--USAID Joint Project on International Development, Connecticut and Washington, D.C., 1992-1994.
Board of Directors--Ouelessebougou Alliance, Mali, West Africa, 1994-2001. Served as vice chair of the board in 1998, and was elected board chair for 1999-2000.
Chasqui Humanitarian Foundation of the Andes – Co-founder and board of directors, the Sacred Valley of the Inca, Peru, 1998-2001.
International Development Network, Founder & Chair, coalition of some 30 LDS-related charitable organizations, 1998-2004.
Board of Trustees – Salt Lake Community Services Council, Salt Lake City, 1999-2000.
Humanitarian Link – Nonprofit NGO board member, 1998-2000.
H.E.L.P International (Help ELiminate Poverty) – Nonprofit founder and board chair, 1999-2009.
Unitus – Global NGO created to empower the Third World poor. Co-founder, original chairman of the

board, trustee, and Advisor (2000-2009).

Action Against Poverty – Co-founder and board member of AAP, a nonprofit foundation, 2001-2004.
Empowering Nations – Co-founder and board chair, 2003-2009.
Wave of Hope, Thailand -- Founder, 2005.
MicroBusiness Mentors – CEO, Co-founder, 2002-2009.
Eagle Condor Humanitarian, Peru -- Advisory Board, 2004-2006.
Rescue-A-Million, New York City -- Advisory Board, 2005-2008.
Ascend International, Global -- Advisory Board, 2005-2008.
Utah Valley Interfaith Network -- Executive Board, 2006-2009.
Sustainable Schools/Teach-A-Man-To-Fish, UK -- Steering Committee 2007-2009.
Centro Hispano, Provo – Board Member, 2008-2009.
University Network for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford University, Global – Pedagogy Committee, 2008-2009.
Council of Global Social Entrepreneurs, Committee Member, University of the Pacific – 2008-2009.
Grameen New York – Leadership Council, 2008-2009.
International Academy for Management and Business – Advisory Board, 2009.

PAST &/OR CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Academy of Management

University Network for Social Entrepreneurship

United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE)

International Academy for Management and Business (IAMB)

Association for Third World Studies

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Psychological Association

American Sociological Association

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

American Association of University Professors

Industrial Relations Research Association

Union of Concerned Scientists

Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)

Association for Workplace Democracy

Mormons for Economic and Social Justice

International Industrial Relations Association

The Inter-American Society of Psychology

Industrial Cooperative Association

Delaware Valley Federation for Economic Democracy

International Association for the Economics of Self-Management

International Sociological Association

Latin American Council on Self-Management

International Communal Studies Association

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

International Association of Business and Society

Microcredit Summit

Credit with Learning Exchange
EDITORIAL SERVICE
Manuscript reviewer for the following:
Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship

Journal of Management Education

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Utopian Studies

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought

Journal of International and Area Studies

Cornell University Press

Prentice Hall Publishing Co.

Addison Wesley Co.

Sage Pub.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Co-editor and Founder, Journal of Microfinance

Board of Editors SAM Advanced Management Journal

Co-editor of a special issue of Policy Studies Journal
UNIVERSITY TEACHING
Courses:
Graduate level courses—Organizational Development and Change, MBA Organizational Behavior, Third World Development, Consulting Processes, MBA Ethics, Business and Society, Industrial Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship, Civil Society.
Undergraduate level courses—Introductory Organizational Behavior, Public Management Ethics, Democratic Management, Honors, Leadership, and Global Change Agentry.
Educational Vision/Mission:

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  To build a sustainable student movement for alleviating global poverty through a type of Mormon Peace Corps.
  
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  To help students achieve congruence between good organizational theory and gospel principles and values.
  
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  To inspire students with a greater vision of how they can not only “canonize” what is known, but learn to analyze it and to explore what is not known, thereby solving some of humanity’s most serious problems.
  
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  To empower students so that collectively we can change the world.
  

Student Mentoring
Over the years I have spent a great deal of time and energy closely collaborating with students. I urge them to call me by my first name because I want them to feel I am truly a co-learner with them, a colleague rather than a professor possessing all knowledge and behaving toward them in condescending fashion. Thus, we have collaborated together as scholars in reviewing the research literature, developed new conceptual frameworks, designed and conducted organizational studies in large corporate enterprises around the globe, as well as conducted village level research within indigenous communities of the Third World. These have led to dozens of co-presented conference papers, co-authored publications, and other results of university scholarship.

I have chaired theses committees for approximately 220 students at BYU and elsewhere, a number of which were later published. A result of all this time and energy has been the sponsorship of many of these students to go on to masters level and/or Ph.D. programs at top universities: Harvard, Michigan, Cornell, UNC, Stanford, UCLA, Washington, MIT, Wharton, Yale, Johns Hopkins, GWU, Columbia, London School of Economics, Oxford, Sussex, Reading, etc. I have helped some of them obtain Fulbright Awards and U.N. grants, as well as university-specific scholarships.

The action research type of academic work I do fosters innovation among many of my students. This often grows out of service learning projects that have always been required in my courses. What is unique to me about this kind of learning process is that so many of these projects have continued to go forward months and even years after the semester ended. Some of them eventually became for-profit entrepreneurial firms and/or consulting partnerships in the private sector. But most of them have continued as non-profit programs, foundations, or NGOs that now total over forty such entities. A number of these have enjoyed critical acclaim. For example, Brooks Dame served as a HELP International country director in El Salvador in 2002, and continued to return to that country with groups of students to provide humanitarian service during semester breaks or vacation times, taking humanitarian supplies and trying to lift those who struggle.

Some students, like Shad Morris, received Fulbright Awards to study in Eastern Europe. About 40 of my students have received BYU ORCA grants for Third World studies. I have advised numerous teams of students in social enterprise competitions at BYU, Wharton, Washington, and Berkeley, where they received prize monies that enabled them to legally incorporate their non-profit organizations. Recent examples include MicroBusiness Mentors, serving the Utah Latino community; Marketplace Africa, bringing crafts from Ghanaian villages to sell through Worldstock.com; Centers for Complementary Education for Youth in Brazil; the Tsunami Pearl Jewelry Women’s Co-op of Khao Lak, Thailand; Chari-state NGO, a legal resources firm, etc.

A number of my students have enjoyed considerable recognition: BYU scholarships, research assistantships, and individual awards. For example, Valerie Chen, who did her honors thesis on the economic impacts of microfinance, using my five years of FINCA data, was selected as the BYU graduating class valedictorian in Spring 2005. In 2004 two of my students and I were recognized for our efforts to build socially responsible MBA programs, and were invited to present our work at the national Net Impact Conference in New York City. Shon Hiatt, a former MPA student I mentored, co-authored with me a microcredit study that received the Best Paper Award at the Utah Academy for Arts, Letters, and Sciences. An undergraduate student of mine, Kelvin Goh, earned first place and a $500 prize for winning the first ever Dyer Institute for Organizational Change case competition in Fall 2005. Some of the MBA teams I mentored won top honors in Ethics, Social Entrepreneurship, and other competitions across the U. S.
Current and Recent Projects:

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  Helped design and establish the Academy for Creating Enterprise (ACE), training program to empower returned native missionaries in Cebu, the Philippines, with business skills and microcredit loans to help them create a better future.
  

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  Launched an NGO, H.E.L.P. International, to assist victims of 1998’s Hurricane Mitch, helping to raise $116,000 and creating 47 new village banks for some 800 poor women benefiting 4,000 people. It was then restructured as H.E.L.P. International and has since sponsored programs not only in Honduras, but in El Salvador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Guatemala, Brazil, Uganda, and Fiji (raising over two million dollars).
  

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  Assisted with board development, banquet/auctions of the Ouelessebougou-Utah Alliance in Salt Lake City and Provo, raising some $300,000 annually for development projects in Mali, West Africa.
  

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  Founded and organized the International Development Network (IDN) leading to symposia held at BYU since 1999 (with some 30 charity groups) and others since.
  

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  Helped LDS leaders in Zimbabwe design a charitable program to prevent and/or alleviate the devastating African tragedy of HIV-AIDS, providing consulting, student interns, and evaluation of this organization, known as “Raising the Generation.”
  

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  Assisted a group of LDS executives create the Native American Mentoring Enterprise, (NAME), arranging for a group of my graduate students to help the founders prepare an organizational structure and training materials to teach young Navajos leadership and life skills.
  

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  Supervised an in-depth assessment of an LDS-related NGO, Liahona Economic Development Foundation (LEDF) in Nigeria carried out by a team of 3 students, after which we began to raise funds in Utah for microlending in West Africa.
  

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  Mentored BYU students to do a project aiding the Goshute Tribe near the Nevada-Utah border, performing a feasibility study for setting up a microcredit program through the Utah Microenterprise Loan Fund.
  

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  Oversaw two dozen students in the Fiji Distance Learning Program, operated by graduate students and undergraduates serving in the South Pacific. This was done in cooperation with the Church’s CES administration, offering courses to young Fijian adults and returned missionaries so that with OB, management and computer skills, they will qualify for better careers and a positive future.
  

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  Helped to create a partnership between former Mexican mission presidents and my BYU students who traveled to Mexico to help create Cumorah University, consisting of several educational institutions to train returned native missionaries so they may enjoy a higher quality of life. This effort has now expanded to include the creation of the Hispanic University for Latinos in Utah.
  

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  In contrast to the above long-term sustainable programs, I also sponsored numerous other short-term student service projects including assisting the First Hope Orphanage in Nepal, collecting eye-wear for rural Mexicans, Utah Valley March of Dimes, Starlight UK, the Utah Valley Food and Care Coalition, the Rose Foundation Schools in Guatemala, helping an orphanage in Cabo Verde, Mexico, aiding the Alma Success Academy in Guatemala, establishing a school in Northern Honduras, an orphanage in Guatemala, another in El Salvador, and so forth.
  

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  Some two dozen BYU students, faculty and staff launched a microenterprise assessment, training and development program, SOAR China, in South and Western Regions of the People’s Republic of China.
  

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  My students and I have created 12 documentary videos on our projects in Latin America, as well as eleven web sites, eight newsletters, and numerous power point presentations on programs in Mali, Nigeria, Honduras, Peru, El Salvador, Venezuela, Cumorah University in Mexico, Thailand, China, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Uganda, Nicaragua, and Western Samoa.
  

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  Three colleagues and I formed a new nonprofit foundation, Action Against Poverty, to facilitate the start-up and growth of dozens of NGOs doing Third World relief, education, healthcare, and economic development. We also assisted in building the Timpanogos Community Network and the Provo Economic Coalition with local activist groups working to foster community social change through companies, government agencies, banks, and service agencies.
  

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  In response to the horrific 12/26/04 Asian tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands of people and left four million homeless, my students and I spent four months in early 2005 designing a rebuilding strategy, training over one hundred social entrepreneurs, who each spent at least a month on the coast of Khao Lak, Thailand. Known as Wave of Hope, we helped build one hundred and twenty new houses, made furniture for village homes, helped to build dozens of long-tailed fishing boats, reopened and taught in schools, cleaned up mounds of debris, and helped survivors in refugee camps. We launched several worker-owned cooperatives to ensure long-lasting, sustainable livelihoods for various groups of villagers.
  

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  Building on Wave of Hope’s impacts, we leveraged that work into Empowering Nations, and began mobilizing college-age social entrepreneurs to volunteer in more countries, as well as working toward long-term social enterprises in Thailand. Other projects consist of recruiting and training volunteers for education in Ghana, family self-reliance in Mozambique, microenterprise expansion in Peru, and microfinance start-ups in Latin America and Africa.
  

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