Richard E. Thomas is a culture change and organizational effectiveness expert with extensive experience as an executive in consumer package goods and cable television industry companies, and with over 25 years of organizational and executive development consulting work with Fortune 500 companies. In addition to serving as a Founder and Partner in Battlefield Leadership, Thomas was recently the partner in charge of governance, leadership and management for an innovative outpatient surgery center development and management company with properties in several states, and was CEO of the Outpatient Surgery Center of Hilton Head in South Carolina. From 1992 until 2001, Rich was President and CEO of the Millennium Consulting Group, Inc, a New Jersey-based firm whose executive and team development work concentrated on leadership behavior as a primary leverage point for managing strategic change. Millennium’s clients included such leading global companies as: American Express, AT&T, Colgate-Palmolive, Disney, Du Pont, Eli Lilly, HBO, Johnson & Johnson, Lehman Brothers, Lever Brothers, Merrill Lynch, MetLife, Pfizer, PSEG, SmithKline-Beecham, Time Warner, UBS, Warner-Lambert and Weyerhauser. Earlier, Mr. Thomas was a partner in the Maryland-based Renaissance Leadership, Inc, and has held executive positions with QVC Network, Comcast Cable Communications, Home Box Office (HBO), Canada Dry International, and PepsiCo. Rich holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Asian Studies with special concentration in Cultural Anthropology from Princeton University, and he completed graduate field work in primitive tribal culture with Thammasat University (Thailand). A Vietnam veteran and former Army Intelligence specialist in Special Operations, he speaks the Mandarin dialect of Chinese and Thai. As a lifelong learner and longtime military history buff, Thomas is an accomplished historian and Civil War and WW II scholar in his own right.