Unique, comprehensive "systems" approaches to attaining organizational efficiency including providing audit and assessment services, as well as redesign and implementation of process changes. Our work includes developing an organization's ability and skills, designing tools, implementing technology and optimizing business processes. We help your organization learn how to apply solutions in unique ways to successfully address your business needs.

Our approach to consulting includes at least two primary principles in every consulting engagement. First, our job is to cause organizational learning, by working directly with those who do the work -- the "subject matter experts" -- in problem identification and problem solving, as well as planning and implementing improvements; and second, to transfer knowledge and skills from our staff to the client staff throughout our consulting engagements.

We don't just lecture and leave.  We roll up our sleeves to help you craft the best solutions.

Organizations consist of people, and like all human endeavors, they are systems-bound by interrelated actions. Demarche Consulting Group helps organizations craft superior solutions because they understand that solving symptoms doesn't solve problems. Demarche consultants are highly skilled in seeing the pattern of the whole, to elevate an organization's conception of itself to the whole, and -- perhaps most importantly -- help create solutions for "silo" problems while identifying root causes and system-wide effects of change-related issues.

Demarche Consulting Group has over twenty years of professional management consulting experience working with a diverse array of organizations. We have earned a very positive reputation for assisting our clients achieve dramatic improvements in their organizations.

In a climate where organizations must change, Demarche Consulting Group leads the way in helping embrace challenges and evolve through thoughtful and energetic management of change.

We are a certified woman-owned business.

 

 

Linda L. Paralez MBA, Ph.D. 
President, CEO
206.505.5800
paralez@demarcheconsulting.com

Dr. Paralez has spent over 25 years leading highly technical teams in solving complicated engineering and process challenges across a broad spectrum of industries. From civil and geologic engineering to solid rocket booster design, from land use and permitting to information technology and workplace culture and diversity awareness, Paralez uses her unique combination of education and experience to save clients time, money and valuable human resources. Known for her compassionate approach to change, Dr. Paralez helps companies to succeed by engaging, enlisting, and enabling their people.

For the past 18 years, Paralez has run the highly successful firm of Demarche Consulting Group, bringing her own experience, as well as the expertise of hand-picked consultants, to bear on some of the thorniest issues facing American industry and the public sector. For entities from Microsoft to NASA, the City of Seattle to the State of Utah, from major municipalities to public utilities, waste management to disaster engineering, Paralez and her team provide consultation, project management, research, human resource training, deep engineering, and much more.

Paralez has degrees in engineering, an MBA with a minor in economics, and a PhD in business with an emphasis in technology management. That combination of academic accomplishment with a wide variety of industry experience, uniquely positions Paralez to help almost any organization succeed in even the toughest times. Paralez has worked to develop environmental compliance programs for energy companies, she has re-located endangered species, engaged in bio-remediation projects, conducted environmental impact studies, and streamlined permitting and applications processes. After the NASA Challenger accident, she worked on the solid rocket booster redesign that has been sending shuttles into space ever since.

Paralez is undaunted, even under immense scrutiny, enormous political pressure, or limited resources. She has created solutions for companies and government agencies undergoing complex mergers, has helped them navigate the politically choppy permitting processes for complicated land use projects. And she has excelled in helping companies measure their success by developing one-of-a-kind benchmarking designs and analyses.

Linda is a current and active volunteer serving on the Kitsap County Planning Commission, providing her knowledge, experience and expertise in land use and building permitting issues in that service. She is also a member of the Kitsap Kingston Ferry Advisory Committee, focusing on bringing the voice of the community to the very challenging process of business, financial and operations planning/implementation within the Washington State Ferry system.