Our Senior Consultants

James C. Velghe, Sr.

Mr. Velghe is president of Work Dynamics, Inc.  Prior to this he was founder and CEO of Management Science Associates, Inc.  Through both WDI and MSA, he has thirty years of consulting experience in over 900 major healthcare corporations.  He has served on numerous Governing Boards to include healthcare, banking and law enforcement.  In the course of his career he has developed systems and consulting methodologies that have been used in hundreds of consulting assignments.  He invented preventive systems, management training, opinion surveys and communication methodologies used by hundreds of hospital and health system clients to maintain union-free status.  Today, he and WDI senior consultants have developed new and innovative systems to positively improve employee and physician morale and strategies to assist hospitals counter the emerging threat of corporate campaigns that threaten the integrity and mission of the corporation.  Mr. Velghe manages and consults in all of the firm's services.

Jeff K. Bills, MPA, FACHE

Mr. Bills is Senior Vice President of Work Dynamics, Inc.  Prior to this he was President and CEO of Saint Mary's Health Network in Reno, Nevada.  Before this he was Senior Vice President and Administrator of Scripps Memorial Hospital in
La Jolla, California, the flagship hospital in the Scripps system.  Mr. Bills has eighteen years of highly successful CEO experience in hospital and multi hospital systems and an outstanding national reputation for building high levels of trust between senior leadership and both employees and the medical staff.  He received his MPA in Health Care Administration from Brigham Young University.  Mr. Bills manages and consults in the following firm services:  Executive Succession Planning, Executive Performance Management, Executive Coaching and Mentoring, Hospital/Physician Relations Augit, and Corporate Crisis Management.

George Chastain, MD

Dr. Chastain is Senior Vice President of Work Dynamics, Inc.  He is Senior Vice President-Director Medical Affairs Emeritus at Phoebe Putney Health System, Albany, Georgia, and President Emeritus of the Physician Executives Association of Georgia that he helped found in 1990.  Dr. Chastain has extensive experience to include medical practice in anesthesiology, teaching experience at both Emory University and Mercer University Schools of Medicine, and Senior Vice President Medical Affairs.  He has held numerous leadership roles to include:  President of the State Board of Medical Examiners, President of the County Medical Society, President of the Georgia Society of Anesthesiologists and currently Vice Chairman of the Medical Association of Georgia's Continuing Medical Education Committee.  He received his Doctorate of Medicine from Emory University School of Medicine and completed his residency in anesthesiology at Emory University affiliated hospitals.  He was an air rescue flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force and served in Vietnam where he earned a Bronze Star.  Dr. Chastain manages and consults in the following firm services:  Executive Performance Management, Executive Coaching and Mentoring, Hospital/Physician Relations Audits, and Corporate Crisis Management.

Stephen Chenoweth

Mr. Chenoweth is Senior Vice President of Work Dynamics, Inc.  He is retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  While with the FBI, Mr. Chenoweth served in various leadership capacities to include Supervisor in the Phoenix Division.  He is a nationally recognized and accomplished investigator featured in documentary movies involving the FBI.  In the course of his FBI career, he has managed SWAT teams, hostage negotiations and conducted a variety of investigations involving bank robberies, organized crime, fugitives, and complicated white collar crimes. 
Mr. Chenoweth manages and consults in the following firm services:  Preventive Labor Relations, Corporate Crisis Management, and Corporate Investigative Services.

Larry J. McCormick

Mr. McCormick is Senior Vice President of Work Dynamics, Inc.  He is retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  While with the FBI, Mr. McCormick served in various leadership capacities to include:  Chief Inspector of the FBI, Special Agent in Charge of the Kansas City Division, Supervisor in Detroit and FBI headquarters, and Special Agent in various capacities.  In the course of his FBI career, Mr. McCormick was involved in conducting or supervising a variety of investigations to include Medicare fraud, drugs, organized crime, labor unions, fugitives, bank robberies, and various white collar crimes.  Mr. McCormick manages and consults in the following firm services:  Preventive Labor Relations, Corporate Crisis Management, and Corporate Investigative Services.

Rita B. Tripp, RN, BSN, MBA, JD

Rita Tripp is Senior Vice President of Work Dynamics, Inc.  Prior to joining WDI, she was principal of her own firm, Healthcare Management Group.  Prior to this she was Vice President of Management Science Associates, Inc.  She has over twenty-five years hospital and health system consulting experience in employee and labor relations, counter union defense, executive selection and leadership development.  As a WDI Senior Vice President, Rita is a presenter of the WDI Institute of Union-Free Management and a counter union defense strategist in advising hospitals and health systems maintain union-free status.  With extensive operational and consulting experience, she maintains a high level of expertise in employee relations issues and union organizing tactics involving registered professional nurses.  She provides the full scope of WDI services.  She received her education at the University of Kansas.

Michael J. Tull, PhD

Dr. Tull is Senior Vice President of Work Dynamics, Inc.  Prior to this he was Corporate Vice President of Louisiana Pacific Corporation.  Before this he was Corporate Vice President of Sharp Health System, San Diego, California.  In addition he was a Senior Consultant with Management Science Associates, Inc.  He received his Doctorate in Organizational Behavior from the University of Kansas. 
Dr. Tull manages and consults in the following firm services:  Executive Succession Planning, Executive Performance Management, Executive Coaching and Mentoring, Preventive Labor Relations, Employee Opinion Surveys, Hospital/Physician Relations Audits, and Corporate Crisis Management.

Joseph Farrell Waeckerle, MD, FACEP

Dr. Waeckerle is Senior Vice President of Work Dynamics, Inc.  He is a promenade leader in the field of emergency medicine.  Having owned his own emergency medicine firm serving several urban hospitals, he has practiced, taught and published extensively in the field of emergency medicine, sports medicine and emergency preparedness for over thirty years.  He has held numerous leadership positions ranging from department chairmanships to director and president of national and local medical associations, to include the American College of Emergency Physicians.  He is Editor Emeritus of Annals of Emergency Medicine and a reviewer for the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association.  He has served as chief medical officer for various organizations to include universities, law enforcement agencies, Kansas City Chiefs football club and is an FBI credentialed physician and medical director for the Kansas City division and advisor on biological weapons of mass destruction, counter terrorism and emergency preparedness.  He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas and his Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Missouri.  He is board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine, licensed to practice in Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and California, and continues to practice his emergency medicine skills.