Rex Lai

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About Rex Lai

Rex Lai, MSOD, is an organization/community development consultant. He helps clients unleash their potential and optimize performance. Rex is adept at creating conditions for high performing teams and continuous process improvement in high stress, outcome-driven environments. Rex spent 19 years in managing, training, and consulting with labor unions and advocacy organizations. Rex’s strong grasp of organization development theories, models, and methodologies combined with his strong technical and engineering background enhances his work in data collection, organizational diagnosis, and systems analysis. In a former life, Rex was a Civil/Environmental Engineer, Union Organizer, and Political Consultant. Rex's specialties include: Talent Management, Design Thinking, Group Facilitation, Strategic Planning, Execution Alignment, Asset-Based Mapping, Organizational Equity/Inclusion/Social Justice, Project Management Techniques (PMBOK), Data Collection & Visualization, Gifts-focused Capacity Building, Leadership Competencies Discovery/Development, Polarity Thinking Analysis, Team Performance and Learning, Citizen/Member Engagement Rex is the author of "Journeys of Discovery: a play guide for connecting, creativity, community" This is an artistic, engaging book of 78 different games/exercises for community building. This e-book is based on the philosophy and practices of the asset based community development movement (ABCD).