About Dalar International Consultancy

Under the leadership of thought leaders Birgitt Williams and Ward Williams, Dalar International Consultancy, Inc. has developed a way of working that assists leaders and their organizations achieve extraordinary outcomes. In the business of assisting extraordinary leaders and their organizations for over thirty years, Birgitt and Ward made a study of what does not work in organizational development. They agree with leading researchers who have cited that 90% of organizational change efforts fail and between 70 and 90% of strategic plans never get implemented. Birgitt and Ward conducted research of the organizations that successfully achieved organizational change and successfully implemented strategic plans. They were looking for an approach to success that would benefit their clients. Their quest has been to study what works, the human psychology behind what works, the upgrading of organizational operating systems, and the beliefs that leaders have about their organizations and the people in them. When they could not find a blended approach that worked, they created one. They then tested it in a number of smaller (less than 100 person) organizations to find out if it was truly simple and duplicable while giving sufficient freedom and choice to the uniqueness of every organization they worked with.

The Genuine Contact™ Program

When they were delighted with the outcomes, they set out to discover if their way and methods could be taught to others so that leaders, managers, and consultants could empower themselves to successfully work in this way. Behind the scenes, Rachel Assuncao assisted Birgitt and Ward to pull the resulting program together. In 1999, the Genuine Contact program was birthed. Eleven components made up the program, including five core beliefs, a few foundational givens, and nine workshop modules with accompanying workshops.

Since that time, over 1600 people have taken different Genuine Contact workshops, predominantly in Germany, Sweden, and Canada.

In 2001 we experienced the graduation of the first group of authorized trainers of the Genuine Contact program, with representatives in the group from nine countries.  As a result of the graduation of the authorized trainers, an intentional community of practice of Genuine Contact professionals was formed. Birgitt and Ward of Dalar set in motion a consulting business model in which teams are pulled together on an as needed basis in accordance with an assignment’s needs and its geographic location. Dalar did not want to expand as a company, but wanted for itself and the professionals involved in this work the opportunity to have the benefits of a large number of trained consultants and coaches that could easily work together due to common training and beliefs.

In 2006 the Genuine Contact Co-owners Group was established, with over 40 of the authorized Genuine Contact trainers joining founders Birgitt Williams and Ward Williams in ownership of the Genuine Contact program. As a result of such an overwhelmingly wonderful response to Co-ownership, a Leadership Management Team of the Genuine Contact Co-owners Group was formed to lead this organization as a Genuine Contact Organization. All who are involved add to their ongoing professional development by ‘walking the talk’ through our shared experience as a global organization.

The Genuine Contact Way

In 2010 Birgitt Williams wrote and released The Genuine Contact Way eBook. She assembled a team to develop the mutli-media Genuine Contact Way Project to support learning accompanying the book. The multi-sensory learning experience includes:

The development work of the project, vastly expanded from the original vision, continues and is being brought on line as rapidly as possible.

Working with Extraordinary Leaders

Many organizations have benefited from working with us. We are very selective about who we work with, knowing that the work we do flourishes under the leadership of extraordinary leaders. Thousands of individuals around the world have received training with us and in turn benefited their organizations and their clients. We consider the standard of our success to be when someone we work with is highly successful and experiencing extraordinary outcomes.