John Dupre, M.B.A.

Educational History
M.B.A., University of California at Los Angeles

B.A., Beloit College

Biography
John Dupre is the Director of Organization Development at Mattel, Inc. This internal consulting position in Leadership Development, is a part of Human Resources at Mattel, and was created in 2001. Mattel, Inc., with $5.5 billion in annual revenues, is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of family products.

With headquarters in El Segundo, California, Mattel has offices and facilities in 36 countries and sells its products in more than 150 nations throughout the world.

Mr. Dupre’s primary focus is on designing innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces.

Prior to Mattel, Mr. Dupre had been an outside consultant for the 20 years. He had his own consulting firm, Dupre and Associates, for 5 years and before that, was President of Block Petrella Weisbord, Inc., one of the leading organization development consulting firms in the United States.

John previously spent 6 years with Hewlett Packard in Palo Alto, where he was a Manufacturing Manager and Training and Development Manager. 

Teaching and Research Interests

• Organizational development: assessment and intervention
• Workforce morale and productivity
• Human relations in the workplace