About
OCEAN
Organizations today are operating in an environment defined by accelerating change, increasing complexity, advanced technological innovation and rising expectations as they transition into and through the Intelligent Industrial Revolution, requiring new ways of thinking and working for every organization, no matter how big or small.
OCEAN Global Management Group was built to help leaders navigate this reality at the leading-edge of today’s best business practices. We bring clarity to complexity, translating new strategies into execution at speed and scale.
A global organization consulting and executive advisory network
Meet Our Leadership Group
Kenneth Murphy is the Founder and Managing Director of OCEAN Global Management Group headquartered in Newport Beach, California. He is an accomplished business leader recognized for building high performing organizations and developing highly effective leaders, having served in executive management and consulting roles with dozens of global high tech, R&D, manufacturing, healthcare, military, government and academic organizations.
His expertise has been developed over several decades working in large, medium and small fast-paced, rapidly-changing organizations, including startups, turnarounds, mergers and acquisitions, multinational corporations, and management consulting ventures. He has consistently been recognized as a strategic and innovative yet highly pragmatic practitioner, creating and implementing best practices to accelerate success and achieve breakthrough results.
Through his leadership at OCEAN, he remains focused on accelerating the development of enterprise-wide capabilities, implementing scalable workforce-of-the-future strategies and systems, and advancing the organization’s leadership capabilities to effectively navigate a turbulent, uncertain and complex future with greater insight, clarity, confidence, resilience and impact.
Ken completed his Ph.D. studies in Global Leadership and Change at Pepperdine University. He earned his Master of Human Resources and Organization Development degree from the University of San Francisco, along with a B.A. in Psychology from Chapman University. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology.
Rhonda Frith-Lyons is Co-Founder and Managing Principal at Vantyx Partners, serving as a strategic operating executive, organizational architect, and trusted C-Suite advisor with 25 years of experience helping founder-led, private-capital-backed, and Fortune 500 companies scale through growth, transformation, M&A, and operating model reinvention.
Rhonda works with founders, CEOs, investors, and executive teams to diagnose structural risk, strengthen leadership alignment, redesign operating systems, and lead execution through critical inflection points. Her career includes more than $1.5B in enterprise value creation, $1B+ in revenue growth, and $250M+ in operational savings across advanced manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, technology, consumer products, energy, and utilities.
Rhonda’s background includes senior leadership and advisory roles with organizations including Micron Technology, Humana, RGP, HSBC, Bank of America, and The Master’s University. She holds an MBA from Queens University of Charlotte, a Master of Education from the University of South Carolina, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech. Her professional development also encompasses leadership expertise in areas such as organizational design, Prosci change management, Hogan assessment, brain-based coaching, psychological safety, Six Sigma, and multiple enterprise transformation frameworks.
Rhonda currently serves on the Steering Committees for the Association for Corporate Growth Idaho Chapter and Middle Market Professionals Idaho Chapter and is an Advisory Board Member for the global Org Design Forum. Her work is grounded in the belief that sustainable growth requires more than capital and strategy – it requires the right structure, leadership system, operating rhythm, and execution discipline to carry the business forward.
Gary Davila is Co-Founder and Managing Principal at Vantyx Partners, serving as an operations transformation executive and organizational architect who builds the systems that enable companies to scale without breaking. He works with leadership teams to align processes, technologies, and data with how a business operates, discovering where execution breaks down – whether through inconsistent workflows, fragmented systems, or gaps in performance visibility – then designs the structures required to correct it.
Based in Meridian, Idaho, Gary leads the evaluation and design of operational systems, technology environments, and performance frameworks, making sure the structures that support execution are integrated, scalable, and aligned with the organization’s strategic objectives. His specialty is integration depth: the discipline of making strategy, workflow, technology, and reporting reinforce one another instead of pulling apart under pressure.
As Founder and CEO of 7i Operations Group, Gary built a practice on helping companies overcome operational friction. For a global corporate real estate operator managing a multibillion-dollar property portfolio across dozens of currencies, he designed and led the build of an integrated reporting architecture that cut capital plan adjustment cycles from three weeks to two days, put project costs in front of decision-makers within 24 hours, and brought final spend to within half a percent of budget. For a property technology company integrating a newly acquired division, he led the transition, mapping every workflow, identifying the people and practices that drove results, and folding vendor, inventory, and financial data into the parent reporting framework inside a year, without disrupting ongoing delivery. Across multifamily real estate portfolios, he built self-service analytics platforms on tools clients already owned, giving leaders timely, decision-grade visibility into performance by geography, property type, and management team.
Earlier in his career, Gary held executive operating and leadership roles in real estate and facilities organizations, including serving as an acting business unit president. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management from Texas A&M University. His work is grounded in the belief that durable growth takes more than capital and strategy – it takes the right structure, systems, operating rhythm, and execution discipline to carry a business forward.
Dr. Rajesh (Raj) Oza is President of the OrganiZationAlignment Consulting Group Inc., based in Palo Alto, California. Raj specializes in helping senior executives (CXOs, VPs, GMs and their functional staff leaders) by designing and aligning strategies, structures and systems in their organizations to achieve high impact results, sustainable viability, peak effectiveness and long-term success.
His work focuses on strategic planning, change management, organizational design, culture building, leadership development, executive coaching, double-loop communication, high performance teaming, knowledge management, scenario analysis, stakeholder transitions, roadmap development and implementation, and merger/acquisition and joint venture integration.
Raj Oza’s success in developing strong client relationships over the last several decades spans the globe, having delivered breakthrough results with industry-leading organizations across North America, Europe and Asia following a stellar twelve-year career at Hewlett-Packard, where he managed technical and operational teams in software processes and systems, as well as global process reengineering initiatives, manufacturing engineering, and structural and cultural transformation of professional services into HP Consulting.
Raj’s contributions to client viability are based on a whole system philosophy that balances people, processes, and technology. His work has demonstrated a belief in developing balanced leaders who are able to effectively navigate change associated with organizational obligations, customer commitments, and employee aspirations in a global and localized context. He has partnered with world-class leaders in organizations such as Accenture, Agilent, Cisco, Daimler-Chrysler, Ford, HP, JDSU, Merck, Microsoft, Quantum, Stanford University, Sutter Health, Symantec, World Vision, Veritas, Xilinx, and many others.
In addition to his doctorate degree in Organization Change from Pepperdine University, Raj earned his Masters degree in Manufacturing Management from Northwestern University, and an undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering (computer science focus) and Asian Studies from Northwestern. He also served as President of Northwestern University’s Industrial Engineering Advisory Board and has facilitated the development of MBA students in Interpersonal Dynamics at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
Eva Condron-Wells leads Condron Wells Consulting, and is an accomplished strategist, facilitator, and systems thinker recognized for strengthening human connection, building resilient cultures, and developing emotionally intelligent leaders across numerous complex work environments.
For more than two decades, Eva has served in leadership, advisory, and consulting roles spanning global technology organizations, healthcare systems, academic institutions, and mission-driven nonprofits. Her extensive expertise has been developed working within fast-paced, high-demand environments – from startups and scaling organizations to enterprise systems and cross-sector collaborations. She brings a unique ability to navigate complexity, having contributed to organizational transformation efforts, leadership development initiatives, and human-centered systems design project across a diverse range of industries.
Eva is well known and highly respected for her ability to translate insight into practical application – bridging emotional intelligence, communication, and operational effectiveness to drive meaningful individual performance improvements and sustainable organizational results. She has consistently been recognized as a grounded, innovative practitioner, integrating disciplines such as resilience science, behavioral insight, and communication frameworks to help individuals and organizations move through conflict, overwhelm, and change with clarity and intention.
She is also the creator of Word Healing and Learning Architect for Resiliency & Happiness. Her work emphasizes the power of language, perception, and relational dynamics in shaping outcomes – foundational to her emerging body of work, Word Healing. Through her work, Eva supports the development of resilient leadership, aligned teams, and cultures rooted in trust, accountability, and authentic connection.
Eva holds a Bachelors of Arts in Communication Studies with honors, in addition to her advanced studies and certifications in leadership development, human performance, and systems thinking, complemented by ongoing work in applied psychology, communication, and resilience practices. She continues to contribute as a facilitator, advisor, and thought partner across initiatives focused on well-being, leadership, and human-centered transformation.
A legacy of Excellence
Our principals and partners have worked with many of the world’s industry-leading corporations and institutions spanning the last thirty years navigating through complex, rapidly-changing market conditions, competitive pressure, technological shifts, economic uncertainty, and social and geo-political volatility.
Along the way, we have accumulated an immense knowledge base, grown our professional capabilities, developed strong new partnerships, and gained practical know-how based on real world experience developing best-in-class solutions at scale to meet the most critical business demands under the most challenging conditions. A partial list of satisfied clients includes:
Xilinx Inc.
Altera Corporation
Cisco Systems
Blue Shield of California
Commerce One
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research Lab
Ralston Purina
Hewlett Packard
Sun Microsystems
Avaya
Oracle
JDS Uniphase (JDSU)
Micron
Pepperdine University
Visa
California Military Department
Rockwell International
Charles Schwab
Foodmaker Inc.
Blockbuster Entertainment
University of Michigan
Pacific Bell
Fujitsu Network Switching
Semiconductor Research Corporation
Northern Telecom
Taco Cabana Restaurants
Ryder Transportation/Aviall Corporation
Bell Northern Research
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
Ford Motor Company
Ohio Aerospace Institute
General Cable Corporation
Cornell National Supercomputing Center
Microelectronics Center of North Carolina
University of Illinois
Burger King Corporation
North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Alternate Realities Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation
Microsoft
Daimler-Chrysler
Agilent
Accenture
Symantec
Sutter Health
Merck
Stanford University
Veritas
Vizient
University of Alaska
Acterna
Quantum
Moving Forward with Clarity
Connect with OCEAN to explore how we can help your organization achieve and sustain peak performance as you navigate your way into the future with clarity, coherence and confidence.