Donald B. Summers

Adjunct

President
The Meridian Consulting Group, Inc.
777 - 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1420
Bellevue, WA 98004

Phone: 425.462.1271
Office:206.296.5711

Office: Pigott 508

Email: summer@seattleu.edu or don@themcg.com

Department: Management

Web Address: www.themcg.com 

Teaching Areas: Management/leadership, Change Management, Strategic HR

Syllabus for:

MBA 516 Management of People

MGMT 581 Human Resource Management

MGMT 585 Managing Change

In the News:

Don Summers has had an article published in Puget Sound Business Journal (June 9, 2006) entitled "Embracing values other than the bottom line.

He has also had an article published in Executive Coach (Spring 2004) entitled The Contribution of Coaching.

Professional History:

Donald B. Summers has over 30 years of experience at the highest levels of management in both Human Resources and strategic planning. Throughout his career he has helped senior management understand the critical link between business strategy and the use of corporate resources, especially people. He specializes his consulting on strategic and transition planning, direction setting, change management, people systems, coaching, and leadership.

Prior to forming The Meridian Consulting Group, Inc., he was Senior Vice President and Manager of Human Resources and Social Policy at Security Pacific Bank Washington in Seattle, Washington (formerly Rainier Bank.

At the company, which was listed in the “The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America,” he brought a business orientation to a wide range of issues. They included merging Rainier Bank into Security Pacific Corporation, increasing diversity among employees and management, after-school care, and a pay-for-performance strategy.

Before joining Rainier Bank, he was Vice President of Human Resources for Delmed, Inc., a high-tech medical products and services firm. Previous to that he was Vice President of Personnel Services at Bank of Boston.

He wrote the book "Personnel Management in Banking" (McGraw-Hill) – and has published numerous articles on HR, leadership, coaching and organizational development. He currently teaches in the MBA programs at Seattle University and Seattle Pacific University. He was a fellow at the Center for Integrity in Business at Seattle Pacific University (2003/2005).

He served as project manager for the Grace Commission in Washington, D.C. His team examined the U.S. Department of Education and recommended more than 60 changes saving $3 billion.

He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his master’s and doctorate from Boston University. In 1999 he was awarded a certificate of recognition by NASA.

Recently he was presented the “Adjunct Teacher of the Year (2005/2006)” award by Seattle Pacific University. He is currently serving as a Visiting Faculty in Management at the University of Washington, Tacoma, for 2006/2007.

Albers Faculty since Summer 2001