Doug Kirkpatrick founded The Celestia Group, LLC in 2002, to provide quality executive coaching and human resources consulting services to organizations desiring positive change.

Doug holds a B.A. in Economics from Pacific Lutheran University and a J.D. from Willamette University College of Law. He has spent most of his twenty-year business career in the manufacturing sector, principally with The Morning Star Company of Sacramento, California, a world leader in the food industry, as a financial controller and human resources executive.

In June 2002, Doug became a full-time executive coach and human resources consultant as a principal of The Celestia Group, LLC, and affiliated with the leading-edge organizational consulting firm Rohan & Associates (www.rohanandassociates.com). Doug's passion is for coaching and mentoring, as well as for developing high performance teams, networked alliances, creative leadership and sustaining culture. In the area of human resources, Doug has rich experience with legal compliance, compensation systems, employee benefits, performance metrics, and 360-degree feedback systems.

Doug is a certified executive coach, and is a member of the Manufacturer's Council of the Central Valley, the Society for Human Resource Management, the American Society for Training and Development, the Northern California Human Resources Association, the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association, and the Business Process Management Group. In addition, Doug is a certified NetTPS® Solutions Provider, with expertise in using powerful on-line tools to understand and access human potential.

Doug's presentation to the Global Business Process Forum in London in May 2003, entitled "Running an Organization Without Management", was voted the most interesting and insightful case study (Click here to read (.pdf 579 KB)