Key Staff

Swinney currently serves as co-chair of the New Chicago School for Community Economic Development, and is on the Board of the New York Industrial Retention Network, the steering committee of the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social/Solidarity Economy (RIPESS), and on the Board of Directors of the international Work and Labour Network (RLDWL). He is a member of the Cooperative Charitable Trust Forum. He has written articles appearing in Social Policy, Business Ethics, New Labor Forum, Working USA, the South Africa Labour Bulletin, Yes! and other publications. He is a regular guest lecturer at the Harvard University Trade Union Program.

Xiaochang (Mike) Jin
Research Director and Chief Financial Officer for CLCR and a Certified Public Accountant, Jin has a Master's Degree in Sociology from the New School for Social Research in New York City and has completed all the requirements for his Ph. D., except his thesis. Prior to coming to the United States, Jin was a lecturer at the East China Normal University in Shanghai, China.

Matt Hancock
Matt Hancock is Project Director at the Center for Labor and Community Research. Before coming on board with CLCR, Matt worked as a Researcher at the Institute for Labor, in Bologna, Italy. Matt has a Masters in Cooperative Economics from the University of Bologna where he studied with Professor Stefano Zamagni. While in Bologna he conducted extensive field research on the cooperative movement in Emilia-Romagna as well as broader issues related to the "Emilian Model" of development.

Primary Consultants

Carl Davidson
Davidson is a computer consultant specializing in the information technology needs of labor unions, small businesses, and public interest groups. He also directs Networking for Democracy, a Chicago-based non-profit working for universal access to the Internet by recycling used computers.

HTL, Inc.
Harvey Lyon, principal of HTL, Inc., has worked as a consultant to CLCR on various projects for more than 10 years. He co-founded several businesses including Chicago Focus, Inc. in 1988, and he has a long history in the area of developing corporate strategy, mergers, and acquisitions. Lyon has a Ph. D. in English Literature from Harvard University. He currently serves on CLCR's Board of Directors.

Thornton-Pfleger, Inc.
Established in 1976, TPI, Inc. is a general management firm whose experience and technical expertise in human resources, management development and organization design are outgrowths of the firm's experience solving general management problems. Much of its practice has been centered on facilitating turnarounds in a variety of businesses.

David Pfleger, the TPI partner who works most closely with CLCR, did graduate work at the University of Chicago. He has held a variety of executive positions with the multi-national Mark Controls Corporation, and was CEO of TPI's broadcast property. Pfleger has served on a number of community boards concerned with health care delivery, economic development, and education.

Locker Associates, Inc.
Locker Associates is a New York-based economic consulting firm that specializes in corporate restructuring, buyouts, feasibility studies, developing business, and performing due diligence.

Michael Locker is founder and President of Locker Associated, Inc. He received a Masters degree in Sociology from University of Michigan in 1966.

Shay Kimple Consulting Group, Inc.
Based in New Jersey, Shay Kimple provides a range of consulting services to improve organizational and company performance through education, work system design, organizational assessment and design, executive coaching, and joint union-management strategic planning.

John Truty
John Truty acts as a consultant for CLCR in the areas of workforce development. He has nearly 30 years experience at M&M Mars (MasterFoods USA), with particular expertise in the areas of Quality Engineering and Workforce Training. Truty also has substantial experience in product development, sensory testing, operations line management, and maintenance/reliability management.

He is currently completing a Ed.D in Adult Education/ Human Resource Development.

 

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