Robert A. Beezat, Of Counsel

Robert Beezat is the past President of The PAR Group and is currently Of-Counsel to the firm, participating in the full-range of The PAR Group's consulting services. He has over thirty-seven years of private and public sector management, consulting, training, and teaching experience. For twenty of those years, he has been a member of The PAR Group. During that time, he has provided a variety of management consulting services to over 200 municipalities and public agencies nationwide, with public jurisdictions ranging in size from 3,000 to 3,000,000 in population.

As part of The PAR Group consulting team, Mr. Beezat has participated in over 200 executive search assignments and has successfully completed over 125 consulting assignments in the areas of human resource management – including classification and compensation systems, total cost employee compensation analysis, employee personnel manuals, performance evaluation systems, and employee/labor relations improvement programs. In particular, he served as the principal staff to several regional consortiums addressing the rapid increases in municipal employee salaries and benefits. These consortiums involved over 70 municipalities in the Chicago area, downstate Illinois, and Minnesota.

Mr. Beezat has also conducted a number of management studies reviewing the organizational structure and management operations of municipalities. These studies have ranged from individual departments such as Fire, Police, and Public Works, to the operations of entire municipal organizations. He is very proud that one of the cities he worked with implemented many of the recommendations in his report and eventually won the prestigious "All American City" award.

He has designed and implemented a number of management and supervisory training programs for municipalities. He has also conducted a number of long-range strategic planning, and goal-setting processes for municipalities and not-for-profit organizations, involving over 125 "live" participants as well as close to a thousand citizens through the innovative use of cable television.

Beside his consulting experience, Mr. Beezat has fourteen years of management experience, in the positions of City Manager, Village Manager, and Town Administrator. He has worked in suburban and independent cities, covering the full range of municipal services including a hospital and an electric utility. He also has extensive experience in the field of economic development and has earned recognition from local businesses for innovative, cooperative approaches to addressing economic development issues.

Finally, Mr. Beezat has been very active in working with and developing programs that benefit lower socio-economic segments of the population. He has been successful in putting together municipal, educational and business resources to address the diverse needs of a low-income, immigrant population, and he has organized a number of community-based groups to resolve neighborhood problems and issues.