Andreas Phelps is principal and founder of The Collective Potential, a San Francisco-based practice that serves as a catalyst for change in the construction industry. The Collective Potential drives change by enabling: project-based learning, development of high potentials into master integrators, and strategic transformation of organizations focused on Lean delivery and continuous improvement.
He is the author of The Collective Potential: A Holistic Approach to Managing Information Flow in Collaborative Design and Construction Environments. Andreas’ background in construction over the last 19 years is wide and varied. He started his career working with building science, design, construction administration, and failures investigation for exterior cladding systems. This gave him a unique and holistic perspective of how complex systems are designed, constructed, and performed.
This type of integrated systems thinking also served as a basis for his graduate studies, which tied together organizational behavior, management science, and information technology to understand optimized information flow in complex teams. This research served as the foundation for his more recent work with understanding and proactively managing the social, technical, and technological aspects of project teams and organizations to enable greater productivity and innovation.