Ron Luyet is an international consultant and co-founder of The Green Zone Culture Group. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies, focusing in the areas of building trust, engagement and collaboration at work.  An expert in human behavior, Ron specializes in executive development, improving collaboration on work teams, and managing and resolving conflict.  Ron has authored two books: The best-selling Radical Collaboration: Five Essential Skills to Overcome Defensiveness and Build Successful Relationships which has been translated into five languages, and Where Freedom Begins: The Process of Personal Change. He brings these skills and his passion for making work a better place to The Green Zone Culture Group.

For more than 30 years, Ron has consulted with many premier companies and organizations seeking to understand the personal and interpersonal dynamics that drive success including: Boeing, The National Cancer Institute, Shell Oil, NASA, Eli Lilly, The US Army, Proctor and Gamble, Seagram’s Wine & Spirits, California School Districts, United Nations, Department of Defense, Chubb Insurance and Idaho Power.

Internationally, he has presented training programs in Japan, Sweden, Demark, England, Canada, and Singapore. He also directs the international advanced training program for internal and external consultants seeking to be certified in The Human Element program.

In collaboration with Judge James Tamm, Ron has combined Dr. Schutz’s FIRO Theory of group development with an interest-based negotiations approach to produce Radical Collaboration^®, a training program for conflict resolution and partnership building in the workplace.

He is a master group facilitator and coach whose classic instruction came from such group dynamics pioneers as Carl Rogers and Will Schutz. Ron worked closely with Dr. Schutz for more than 30 years, and helped in the design of The Human Element, an integrated approach for building trust and collaboration in the workplace.

Ron co-founded The Institute for Personal Change in San Francisco, which provides a structured, intensive therapeutic program for personal growth.  Ron’s work is described in his book Where Freedom Begins, co-authored by Marion Pastor, Ph.D.  His popular lecture series exploring the effects of childhood on adult behavior and self-esteem are in demand and regularly take him throughout the country. This lecture series also served as the inspiration for the off-off-Broadway play “I Do, I Do.”