Phillip Blackerby, Principal with Blackerby Associates, helps organizations transform into high-performance enterprises. He coaches executives to set "big picture" goals and take action to achieve them. He helps CEOs see a more successful future, and develop strategies to accomplish it. He helps the organization plan its transformation, and then organizes resources to make it happen.

Phillip Blackerby

Mr. Blackerby was Lead Project Manager for the Arizona Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), helping small manufacturers improve their productivity. He managed the Lean Enterprise and Professional Business Advisor product lines at MEP headquarters at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where his team won the coveted Uriano Award for writing manufacturing enterprise transformation standards. He also developed the FastTrac Manufacturing business planning training program, published four volumes of manufacturing transformation and improvement case studies, and evaluated enterprise assessment systems and advanced technology grant applications.

Mr. Blackerby co-owned a management consultancy specializing in assessment and strategic planning. He trained hundreds of managers in strategic planning and related topics, facilitated dozens of strategic planning processes and published several articles. His wide-ranging experiences include negotiating banking relationships, managing an e-business, legislative lobbying, analyzing financial markets, improving cost-accounting and managing a $96 million budget.

Mr. Blackerby served as Associate Deputy Treasurer of Texas, budget director for the Texas Comptroller, and management auditor for the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). He is a certified executive coach and trainer (CCUI) and FastTrac business planning instructor. Mr. Blackerby earned a Master’s degree from the LBJ School, The University of Texas at Austin, and a bachelor’s degree (honors) from Brown University, Providence. He is married, has four daughters and dotes on his two grandchildren. He dislikes snow and likes Shakespeare.