SickChicken was founded by:

Erik Fretheim, Ph.D.

The SickChicken website is the outgrowth of a course in Managing the Dysfunctional Organization taught by Dr. Erik Fretheim in the MBA program at Northwest University.

Dr. Fretheim has specialized in ordering chaos in dysfunctional organizations, and start-ups. He is an enthusiastic pursuer and student of the dysfunctional organization and enjoys nothing more than wading in hip deep. He is available for short-term and continuing consulting services in assisting companies avoiding SickChicken status.

He is the Founder of Post Your RFP, LLC. The company provides a location for companies to post and search Request For Proposals. In addition to the core site, the information is available through a Facebook® Widget, and as an embedded application on other websites, such as here on SickChicken.

Erik has been the CTO/CIO for I5Digital, Peek Traffic, Dealplanner, Looking Glass, Pandango, Grange Insurance Group, and Brigadoon.com. He has also been a senior executive at Siemens Business Services and MCI. Dr. Fretheim was the founder of Xpartners, a business acceleration company in England which later merged with HICL to form Xspandus. In all of these positions Dr. Fretheim has brought a high degree of focus and enthusiasm for the pursuit of effectiveness.

Erik's efforts have been best captured, perhaps, by the comments of one CEO who remarked "You've done more in 6 months than we expected you to accomplish in 5 years." and another who observed "Erik is the best I have known for finding novel solutions to complex, multidimensional problems. Razor-sharp at getting to the heart of difficult matters, his judgement is always on the money. He consistently gets things done where others have bogged down."

In addition to teaching in the MBA Program at Northwest University, Kirkland, WA and the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, Dr. Fretheim is a founder of Baseline Evaluations Corp and is an advisor and consultant for a number of companies, including serving as a Director on the board of the Institute for Effective Instruction, a non-profit which seeks to improve education through standardized training, evaluation, and certification of effective instruction.

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