John Pickering

JOHN PICKERING, PH.D., is Founder and President of the Commonwealth Center for High-Performance Organizations, Inc. Pickering is the primary author of the HPO Diagnostic/Change Model, the Building High-Performance Organizations (HPO) seminar, and the implementation-focused HPO Organizational Improvement Process. Pickering was Deputy Director, Dean of the Faculty, and a Senior Faculty Member at the Federal Executive Institute (FEI). He has been an adjunct in the University of Virginia’s Senior Executive Institute. He has worked in the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and has held teaching positions at the University of Memphis, Florida State University, Lamar University (Texas), and the University of Southern Mississippi. He was Associate Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies and Research (a Master of Public Administration degree Program) at the University of Memphis.