Leadership Montgomery County - Program Director & Advisors
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LMC Program Director: Ray Wells, PhD Ray Wells is the president of Wellbeing Systems, Inc. (WSI), of Abington, and the Program Director for the Eastern Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Montgomery County. WSI is a training and consulting firm that uses a strengths-based approach for coaching and in designing leadership, team and organization development programs for its clients. This approach, which focuses on accentuating and building on "who we are when we are at our best," has helped the firm capture the energy and professional passion of the people it serves. Over the past 21 years, WSI has served nearly 100 non-profit, business, and education clients in organizations ranging from just a dozen people to the Fortune 500, from the smallest private schools to the Ivy League, from single-office non-profit agencies to the largest corporate health systems. Regionally, WSI has served Abington Memorial Hospital, Air Products and Chemicals, Briar Bush Nature Center, Byers’ Choice, Capital Health System, Delaware County Community College, Doylestown Hospital, Drexel University, FMC Corporation, Grenald Waldron Associates, Inroads, Johnson and Johnson, Manor College, McCollister’s Transportation, the Naval Sea Logistics Center, North Penn United Way, Penn State Abington, Penn State University, Princeton University, St. Lawrence Cement, St. Mary Medical Center, Streamliners, Inc. and Time Warner Cable Systems. In addition to his work with EMCCC’s Leadership Montgomery County, Ray’s other primary leadership education and development responsibility is through his ongoing work serving on both the residential and international faculty for the Foundation for the Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER). FAIMER Institutes serve medical school faculty from developing countries in South America, Africa and Asia who have the potential to play a key role in improving medical education in their schools. Ray is also a co-owner of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Consulting, LLC which offers a collaborative, strengths-based approach to strategic change and transformation. A principle-driven organization that values integrity, learning, generosity, and the common good, its consultants seek to enhance the core strengths of an organization while growing the organization’s economic vitality and internal health. AI Consulting has the greatest single concentration of AI expertise with consultants spanning the globe. Ray earned his Master of Arts from Bowling Green State University (OH) in adult development and his Ph.D. in applied social-psychology from Temple University. He has been an Abington resident for 12 years with his wife Sally Frazee and three children - Claudia, Max and Sam. He can be reached at 215-884-4887 or by email at raywells@wellbeing-systems.com |
2007-2008 Program Advisors
Joanne Kline, Montgomery County Aging and Adult Services
Gail Madison, The Madison School of Etiquette and Protocol
Dave Peterson, Bryner Chevrolet
Dan Reavy, Verizon
Courtney Gawthrop, The Oaks
Steve Greenbaum, Manor College
Wendy Klinghoffer, EMCCC
Thomas B. Carpenter, Attorney-At-Law
Michael Castagno, The Fritz Insurance Agency
Deborah Simon, Deborah Simon Law Offices
Lance R. Kraemer, Lance R. Kraemer Associates
Congresswoman Allyson Y. Schwartz and Julie Slavet
Representative Josh Shapiro and Matthew Vahey
Dr. Amy Sichel, Abington School District
Dr. Ann Bacon, Abington School District
Robert White and Suzanne Nickelson, Abington Bank
Betsy Wilson, Montgomery Newspapers
Virginia Coombs and Denise Frattara, Visiting Nurses Association
Marge Jacoby, Dresher Estates
Teri Yago Ryan, Saratoga Woods Consulting
David Marcolla, AT&T
Beth Ann Neill, Abington Memorial Hospital
Richard Nourie, Abington Friends School
Dr. Jane Owens, Penn State Abington
David G. Kraynik, Cheltenham Township
James Marshall, Fulton Bank
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