Meet the Board of Directors Development Group

Principals of the Board of Directors Development Group have served Boards both as outside consultants and as senior corporate staff executives

• Our Principals have served as advisors to numerous not-for-profit and public and private for profit Boards

Our focus is on improving the Board’s use of efficient processes in making lasting decisions that support organization goal

Our Principals

Bill Heck, Managing Principal - Bill is an expert specializing in developing and designing performance and compensation plans for board of directors and executive leadership teams. He works with publicly and closely held companies in a variety of industries in aligning performance with compensation for increased productivity.

As a senior consultant with both Arthur Andersen and the Hay Group, he helped organizations retain top talent while improving business processes. Bill has served as Chief People Officer of two major national health care systems as well as developing consulting practices with BKD, CPA, one of the 10 largest public accounting firms in the U.S., and Clark Consulting, an international human capital consulting firm.

Bill's graduate degree from the University of Colorado is in business and human resource administration. He is an independent director on the board of a private manufacturing firm and serves as lead director for an investment advisory firm. He serves on the advisory board of the Denver chapter of the National Association for Corporate Directors and on the board of directors of the Association of Corporate Growth in Denver. Bill is a founding member of the Rocky Mountain Human Resource Planning Society and has served on the board of a local chapter of the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals.

Ted Willey, Ed.D. Principal – Ted Willey is an internationally recognized business consultant whose mission is to provide organizational assessment and leadership development services to organizations and their members. Dr. Willey specializes in assisting organizations to build their organizational and leadership capability through professional development processes and consulting services. His vast corporate experience includes directing successful business organizations in the development of their people practices and assisting companies to improve their overall performance.

Dr. Willey is an experienced practitioner in the fields of Strategic Planning, Collaborative Ideation, Organizational Transformation, Leadership and Organizational Diagnosis, Change Implementation, Valuing Generational Differences, Building an Accountability-Based Culture, Leadership Competency Analysis, Development Planning and Executive Coaching. He has extensive business consulting experience in the areas of Health Care, Hospitality,                  Banking/Finance, Public Utilities, Aerospace Defense Systems, Environmental Services, Airline/Transportation, Pharmaceutical, Insurance, Informational Technology, Manufacturing, Federal and State Government and Oil and Natural Gas.

Ted is an accomplished facilitator, professional speaker, and the award-winning author of The Power of Choice: A Guide to

Personal and Professional Self-Management. As a corporate executive, knowledge leader, creative thinker, and leading edge

business entrepreneur he shares experiences that are instructive and enlightening.

 

Ted Willey holds a Doctorate Degree in Education from The George Washington University with a specialty in Executive Leadership and Human Resource Development. He is a member of The Human Resources Planning Society, a founding member of the Rocky Mountain Human Resource Planning Society, National Association for Corporate Directors, the Association of Corporate Growth in Denver and the National Speakers Association. Dr. Willey also has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate School of Professional Studies at Regis University and is a resource advisor to The Daniels College of Business at The University of Denver.