William C. Ronco, Ph.D. and Jean S. Ronco, Ed.M., are principals of Gathering Pace Consulting in Bedford, Massachusetts.  They consult on strategic planning, partnering and leadership training for some of the world’s best-run organizations:  Fortune 500 corporations, colleges and universities, professional firms, technology companies, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, construction companies, government and community organizations. 

About William C. Ronco, Ph.D.

President of Gathering Pace Consulting, Dr. William Ronco consults extensively in pharmaceutical companies, research and development, IT and engineering organizations on leadership, strategic planning, team communications, partnering and consulting skills development.  His clients include major pharmaceutical companies, mid-size biotech organizations, R & D start-ups, IT departments, government agencies, universities, hospitals and trade associations.

Typical projects include:

• Improving leadership effectiveness.  Working with scientists, IT and enginering managers in leadership positions to improve leadership and communications skills, update job priorities, build teams, and improve overall leadership performance.
• Improving global project and R & D team performance.  Clarifying roles, responsibilities, hand-offs, information exchanges.  Improving meetings, group problem-solving, decision making and creativity, involving new disciplines and members. 
• Improving pharmaceutical company– CRO Partnering.  Improving global team performance and communications.  Strengthening working relationships and refining processes for information reporting, problem-solving, site enrollment and management. 
• Improving statisticians’ consulting effectiveness.  Working with 220 statisticians in 5 global sites to redefine the statisticians’ roles and responsibilities and enhance proactive communications skills.
• Improving consulting effectiveness for scientists, IT and engineering professionals in auditing or quality roles.  Working with QA departments in pharmaceutical companies to improve job performance and partnering with internal clients.
• Improving government agency partnering.  Working with government agency to improve consulting effectiveness between federal and state agencies.
• Improving IT Department internal partnering.  Working with IT staff in pharmaceutical companies, engineering firms and universities to improve consulting effectiveness with scientists and other internal customers.
• Improving interdepartmental partnering.  Working with multiple departments in pharmaceutical companies that must align more effectively with each other, solve problems and explore mutual opportunities.

Dr. Ronco regularly conducts leadership, partnering and strategic planning seminars for select universities and associations:  Massachusetts Biotech Council, Cambridge Healthtech Conferences, Harvard University, Boston University, etc.  Participant evaluations of his programs are consistently in the top 10% of the organizations’ programs overall.

Dr. Ronco has published The Partnering Solution (Career Press, 2005), the Partnering Manual For Design and Construction (NY:  McGraw Hill, 1996), Food Co-ops (Boston, Beacon Press, 1974), Jobs (Boston, Beacon Press, 1977) and, with Lisa Peattie, Making Work (NY:  Plenum Press, 1980).

A former professor in the MBA program at Northeastern University, Dr. Ronco earned his BA at Rutgers University, his Ed.M. at Harvard University and his Ph.D. in Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.