Thomas J. Schneider
President, C.E.O. and Founder

Dr. Thomas J. Schneider is the President, CEO and Founder of Restructuring Associates, Inc. in Washington, DC and is the Chairman and CEO of Schneider (Australia) Consulting Pty. Ltd. based in Melbourne, Australia. He is Of-Counsel to the law firm of O’Connor & Hannan in Washington, DC. Dr. Schneider is a member of the Boards of the Venter Institute, the Florey Neuroscience Institutes, the National Underground Railway Freedom Center, and the AMerican Australian Educational Leadership Foundation. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.

Over the past 30 years, Dr. Schneider has acted as a management consultant for many of the largest companies and organizations in the USA, Canada and Australia, across industry, government, not-for-profits, and healthcare. He has published widely and lectured around the world on copr9oate competitiveness, high performance organizations, change management, innovative industrial relations and on biotechnology.

Dr. Schneider was the design and implementation consultant for the first unionized high performance work system in North America, the first joint union-management strategic visioning process, and the largest labor-management partnership in history.

Dr. Schneider received his A.B., magna cum laude with highest honors from Harvard University, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford University in industrial and organizational sociology.

In 1999, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia "for the leadership in the restructuring of industrial relations in the United States of America."