Name Dušan Ondrušek, PhD.

Born 7.4. 1957

Current Position executive director

Partners for Democratic Change – Slovakia

ARK, s.r.o. (consulting company, co-founder and co-owner )

Qualifications

1980 MA in clinical psychology, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia

1989 PhD. in social psychology, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia

1997 - semestral postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University (Institute of Policy Studies) with the study topic – non-profit management

Additional education (trainings)

1983-1986 : Long-term community training in group therapy as a part of SUR system of postgraduate education (app. 500 hrs.)

April 1991: Negotiation and conflict management (training 50 hod., led by W. Lincoln, NICPAN USA, Budapest)

November 1988: Person Centred Approach (30 h., The Person Centred Approach Institute International)

August 1991 : Debating techniques (120 hr., The Bronx Debate Association)

1992-5: Facilitation skills and Facilitative Leadership (total 120 hr., Interaction Associates), Schlaining Austria, San Diego and San Francisco

Short-term trainings (approximately 30 events of 3-4 days lasting trainings) in the area of human and citizen rights, social psychology trainings, systemic approach, NGO management, (Roma, Vienna, Praha, Warsaw etc)

Employment History

1994 - present: executive director of the Centre for conflict prevention and resolution PDCS
Coordinates and leads the trainings and long-term consultations for various participants (private companies representatives and managers, public sector representatives- like mayors, judges etc.). Worked as trainer/facilitator and consultant in more international trainings and workshops in 35 countries outside Slovakia mostly in Central and Eastern Europe for diverse clients (like World bank, East-West Management Institute, Unilever, VW, Microsoft, OSCE, World Learning, etc. )

1984- 1994 lecturer and adviser at Comenius University, Bratislava

1998- part- time consultant at the Slovak Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family in the area of decentralisation of the institutionalised social services

Priority areas of expertise

Conflict management and Mediation

Cross-cultural communication
Development & organizational change

Effectiveness of the trainings;

CONSULTING AND TRAINING EXPERIENCE:
Since 1991 works as trainer, facilitator and consultant conducting about 50 training/consulting/facilitating days per year in Slovakia and other 35 coutries (Visegrad countires, Ukraine, USA, Austria, Central Asia, Balkan countires, etc...) The examples of few types of training/consulting workshops and cases follow to illustrate the previous experience in last years:

International consulting/training experience, selected examples e.g.:
  • Series of trainings for top and middle level managers of Volkswagen company in Bratislava in topics like : leadership strategies, effective communication, teambuilding, moderation stress management, cross-cultural differences in management (1992-1995)
  • T4T for the local trainers of OIC in negotiation, Poland1993
  • Inter-ethnic dialogues for teachers and school psychologists Yonina Foundation (Israel 1997)
  • Co-facilitation in International Association for Public Participation Practitioners IAP 3 (the UN governmental conference on water and sanitation issues), Holland, 1994
  • Rockefeller Brothers Fund – facilitating the cross-cultural dialogue for the 8 countries representatives (Thailand, 1994)
  • Stress management for top representatives of the ČSOB - Czechoslovak Trade Bank. Luhačovice 1995
  • Training for parties leaders in community organising for Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (Germany 1999)
  • Training in PR strategies for top representatives of Unilever company, regional branch for CEE. Bratislava, 2004
  • Training in PR strategies for top representatives of SPP (Slovak Gas Industries) Bratislava, 2004
  • Lots of short term trainings for very diverse middle level Slovak companies, like:
  • Artfórum (bookstore chain) , Baťa Junior Achievement and Integra (consulting companies), CKM 2000 Travel (travel agency) , Jacobs Suchard Figaro (goods production) . Pohotovosť and Prvá stavebná sporiteľňa (financial institutions) and Maya, Slovak TV (media companies)

Language proficiency

English – actively written and spoken

Russian – actively written and spoken

Polish- spoken

Slovak (and Czech) – maternal language

Recent selected publications

Reader for the advanced non-profit organisations (main author and the leader of the authors team, 305 pp. (In English , Slovak and Russian), Bratislava 2001

Mergers Management (60pp) . Baltimore ICS, 1997

Trends in training of consultants in Czech and Slovak republic. In: Proceedings from conference, in Brno. Bratislava, 2001.

Conflict, concilliation and concilliation commitees. (87pp., in Slovak) Bratislava, 2004

External Committees and Membership in Professional Organisations

  • Slovak Psychological Association
  • Association of the trainers and consultants in Slovakia (president)

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