About Herb Marlowe

Analytica's founder and firm principal, Herb Marlowe is a specialist in organizational and evaluation studies who also brings strong project management and process facilitation skills to projects.

Herb has conducted studies and analyses on a wide range of public policy, administration and service delivery topics His work with private sector, public sector and third sector clients at local, state and national levels on a wide range of topics enables him to bring a diverse set of perspectives to any issue. His skills in active listening and idea synthesis assist clients to frame challenges and opportunities in new and solvable ways.

His skills in conflict resolution and consensus building help groups work through challenges in constructive and synergistic ways that build better solutions in the end. His ability to translate ideas into practical steps facilitates the development of workable actions plans that lead to real progress. His use of technology and user-friendly visual language techniques clarifies complex issues, facilitates diagnosis of key issues, fosters creative thinking and consensus building, and serves to illustrate pathways to desired ends. With over thirty years of consulting experience, Herb has worked on a broad range of issues in a wide number of fields including: agriculture, health, mental health, human services, transportation, community redevelopment, economic development, downtown redevelopment, criminal justice, organizational re-structuring, human resource issues, recreation and culture, public utilities, tourism, race and cultural relations, science and engineering, marketing and development, and environmental. In each of these areas he has applied his particular skills to assist groups to analyze the issue, develop alternatives, and prioritize an action plan to move forward toward some shared goal.

Within this broad experience, Herb has conducted a number of community assessments and organizational and management studies. The community assessments have addressed health and human service needs and system issues, health care issues, housing, and criminal justice. The management studies have analyzed current operations and provided solutions such as new organizational structures, revisions in staffing patterns or levels, revised processes, management approaches, technology needs and policy guidance alternatives. From a fire/ems perspective he has completed cost-reimbursement studies; strategic plans, long term financial plans and compensation studies.

Author of numerous books and articles, Herb received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida, where he specialized in process facilitation and strategy in the areas of organizational change and effectiveness. He founded Analytica after an academic career that was preceded by military service in Vietnam. He lives on his family farm in Newberry, Florida along with his wife, two children, five grandchildren and more cattle than one really needs in life.