G. Stevens Bernard

G. Stevens Bernard is Senior Vice President of The PAR Group, specializing in both executive search and management consulting assignments. He has over 35 years of experience in government, the private sector, and as a teacher in the United States and internationally.

Mr. Bernard has extensive experience in leadership positions, having directed and managed organizations ranging in size from less than 100 employees to over 7000. While City Manager of Grand Rapids, Michigan, he successfully reorganized the city government, providing a reduction in force from 2,100 employees to 1,700 employees, streamlining operations and improving delivery of services. As Executive Director of the Grand Rapids Area Transit Authority, he developed and implemented a comprehensive reorganization that resulted in more cost effective delivery of services. And, while Director of International Administration of Amway Corporation, he implemented a comprehensive restructuring of the management for Amway Europe and Amway Western Pacific, including the 30 country operations within those divisions.

Mr. Bernard’s consulting activities have been extremely diverse. He has consulted with businesses and with city, county, and state governments throughout the United States on projects that include executive search, organizational development, organizational diagnosis, labor-management relations, organizational futuring, leadership development, strategic planning, stress management, conflict resolution, internal communications and team building, as well as general administration and management.

His international consulting activities include organizational analysis, strategic planning, restructuring and training in local government, global long-range strategic planning for business, international market research, design and delivery of management development and training programs in Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Thailand, and most European countries. In Poland he assisted local governments in the transition to a market economy and modernization of administration. He helped the city government of Skopie, the capital of Macedonia, in their reorganization and modernization efforts. In Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan he provided technical assistance, strategic planning, policy advice and training to the national and local governments. And in Taiwan he designed and delivered a training program for elected officials on policy formulation techniques at the local, state, and national levels.