Oliver Bell-

Oliver Bell is founder and CEO of Bell, Inc..  Mr. Bell founded this consulting firm with the goal of helping clients recognize the value of direct relationships between employees and employers, the dynamics of change in business and the benefit of aligning employee and management goals for the greater good of all stakeholders.   To this end, Mr. Bell has been involved in over 700 successful client scenarios.

Mr. Bell’s hi-energy work style focuses on consultation, consensus building and timely issue resolution. He facilitates client efforts to sustain productive work environments by maintaining positive employee-management relations. He has worked with employer staffs at all levels to help the workforce and leaders understand how, why and where each adds value to the organization, their importance to the organization and their individual impact on customers, shareholders, the community and the bottom line.

Mr. Bell provides the firm's strategic direction, and manages and coordinates client engagements. He often interfaces with our client's attorneys on key issues. He also manages strategic communication development, coaches senior leaders, and identifies proactive solutions to employee-management issues.
Mr. Bell regularly speaks on labor & employment, entrepreneurship, leadership and diversity issues for clients and professional conferences. He is a member of the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), the Wharton Research Advisory Group, and has served as a labor relations subject matter expert for HR (Human Resources) Executive Magazine.

In April 2008, the Governor of Texas appointed Mr. Bell, Chairman of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. The nine-member board has oversight responsibility for the $6.8 Billion, 40,000-employee Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Mr. Bell joined the board as a member in 2004. He sits on six subcommittees and chairs the Human Resources sub-committee and the Education sub-committee.

Other community and business activities include membership on the Governor’s Business Council and the Advisory Board of the Ronald McDonald House of Central Texas. Mr. Bell is a lifetime member of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment Association, a member of the Association of the United States Army, and a founding member of the US Army Historical Society. He also serves on the 21st Congressional District - U.S. Service Academy Selection Committee. He is on the Board of Directors of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and former President and Board Member of the West Point Society of Central Texas. He is also a member of the Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity (known as the Boulé, an African American men’s fraternal organization) and the Knights of Peter Claver (a church related men’s organization).

Bell is a former Army officer and graduate of the U.S. Military Academy. After graduating from West Point, Mr. Bell successfully completed Parachutist & Army Ranger training prior to assignment to Germany to patrol the East-West German border. Follow on assignments included command of an Armored Cavalry Troop, command of a Tank Company, and a tour as the Officer-In-Charge of the US Army Scout Platoon Leader’s Course. Mr. Bell was selected to attend graduate school and return to West Point to teach, but he declined to pursue a non-military career.

In 1990, Mr. Bell joined Mobil Oil’s Human Resources Group. He left Mobil in 1992 to pursue a career in labor relations consulting. Over the next several years, Mr. Bell rose to Vice President of a privately held consulting firm. He left that organization in 2000 to found two successful consulting companies prior to opening Bell, Inc..

Mr. Bell and his family’s charitable interest include support of the March of Dimes of Central Texas, Texas Children’s Protective Services, and the Town Lake Chapter of the Links Incorporated (an African American Women’s organization) among others.