Ms. Briant, President and founder of CultureWorks, Inc., is also a partner in Briant-Williams, LLC, a company that provides personalized Executive and Small Group Coaching for Executives and Middle Managers.
Prior to creating CultureWorks, she worked in the nuclear generation field for GPU Corporation and in the R&D sector of the nuclear industry at the United States Department of Energy. She has held management and internal consulting positions in culture change, total quality, strategic planning, nuclear safety, executive coaching, training, human resources and leadership development at both the plant and corporate levels.
Ms. Briant
majored in the biological sciences at the University of Washington in
Seattle and holds masters degrees in both Management and Organizational
Psychology. She has also studied “total quality” as taught by
W. Edwards Deming and “the learning organization” as taught
by Peter Senge.
She is a co-editor of a book on managing risk in high-tech industries (Risk Management: Expanding Horizons, Hemisphere Publishing, 1992) and has been a guest lecturer at both École Supèrieure in Orsay, France and Fordham University Graduate School of Business in New York.
An active member of several professional societies (IEEE, ANS, HRPS, CNS), Ms. Briant has contributed non-traditional approaches to the analysis of human and organizational factors in plant incident investigations and safety culture assessment. She is the author of several conference and journal articles and has also served on an international panel of safety experts sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency for the creation of guidance documents on Safety Culture in nuclear installations worldwide.
ROBERT
A. WILLIAMS
Mr. Williams, Executive Vice President and Director of Marketing of CultureWorks, Inc., is a partner in Briant-Williams, LLC.
As Manager, Business Services with GPU Nuclear Corporation, Williams directed Contracts, Procurement, Asset/Investment Recovery, Transportation, Facilities Management, Security, Corporate Procedures, and Forms Management. He also worked as a full-time Team Leader facilitator and Team Coach on four of GPU’s major Process Redesign (re-engineering) projects and led an Internal Management Consulting group that recommended and implemented changes resulting in improved efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Williams holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from St. Francis College, Loretta, Pa., and a masters degree in Information Technology from George Washington University. A graduate of the GPU/Wharton School Executive Development Program, he has also taken more than two dozen courses in Information Technology, Management, Teambuilding, and Re-engineering Methodology.
