Chauncey Bell

Who is Chauncey Bell?

Chauncey Frederick Bell III is a U.S.-based business management consultant, designer, author, and inventor. Bell has been a leader in the invention and application of a new theoretical framework for improving organizational performance and designing the way services are delivered in many economic sectors, based on language action perspective; speech act theory and the work of J. L. Austin and John Searle; cognitive science, especially the work of Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana; and continental philosophy, particularly the work of Martin Heidegger. The framework and practices that he and his colleagues developed are best known commercially for their contribution to the development of Cemex from a regional Mexican cement company to one of the most admired companies in the world. In the course of a long collaboration with Fernando Flores, Bell led the development of several well-known commercial innovations. He currently works out of his own firm, Chauncey Bell & Associates, in Seattle, Washington.