About The ReAlignment Group

Mission Statement

Principals' Profiles

Tom Brascher

Tom Brascher, Chairman of TRG, is a nationally recognized expert in partnering, intervention partnering, and alternative dispute resolution. He is the creator of Project ReAlignment™ and its related processes, including Risk Tester™ and SlateTRACKER.™ Tom worked for many years with Morrison Knudsen on large civil projects before going to work with the Department of General Administration for the State of Washington. At E&A, he supervised the division of contracts and costs and managed special projects. In the private sector, he applied his substantial knowledge of contract disputes to his work as a consultant for the Effectiveness Institute. When he started his own firm, Team Tech, Inc., in 1995, he refined a change order, pre-dispute resolution process. Tom has successfully re-aligned more than 40 major projects in Alaska, Washington and California.

Marsha Brascher

Marsha Brascher, Vice President, has spent three decades as a human resources manager and trainer, including nearly 20 years for the Bell System. She developed a reputation for working with "teams at risk." At Hughes Aircraft, she worked on and refined their highly touted Leading for Performance program. She joined her husband Tom in founding Team Tech, Inc. in 1995. Marsha facilitates Project ReAlignment™ and Project Alignment™ for large construction projects and continues her work with "difficult people." She and Dick Bayer are currently authoring a book on strategies for understanding difficult people on construction sites, entitled Code Red. She has worked, facilitated, collaborated and instructed on behavioral understanding throughout the country.

Dick Bayer

Dick Bayer is the president of the ReAlignment Group. Dick has practiced construction law in Colorado, California and Idaho for the past 32 years. He has been an AAA arbitrator since the mid-1980's and a credentialed mediator since 1996. He has mediated over 200 construction, business, land-use, environmental and other cases in the last twelve years. He was recently named to the United States Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, becoming only the 7th neutral in Southern California to be on that distinguished roster. He was selected as the "Professional of the Year: Environmental Law," by Strathmore's Who's Who. He is a member of the California Academy of Distinguished Neutrals and several other well-known panels. He has served on the board of the National Conflict Resolution Center (formerly the San Diego Mediation Center), the board of the California Independent Petroleum Association, the board of ADR-San Diego and the board of the California Dispute Resolution Council (CDRC), the non-profit advocate for all ADR providers in California. He was president of CDRC in 2005. From 1992 through 2004, he taught Environmental Law at the University of San Diego graduate careers program. He is an author and frequent lecturer on Construction Law and ADR topics.

Dan Fauchier

Dan Fauchier, Executive VP, is a construction project manager, college teacher, forensics consultant, mediator, arbitrator, partnering/Project Alignment™ facilitator, and construction management expert with 20 years' experience in direct, hands-on management of construction projects ranging from $250,000 to $18 million. He has collaborated on projects as large as $140 million. His forensics consulting encompasses more than a billion dollars in projects nationwide. His experience includes commercial, residential and public construction, on nearly 100 projects. He has variously served as a general contractor, subcontractor, project manager, design team leader, and owner's construction manager. Dan is the professional liaison to the Engineering and General Contractors Association, and is active in the San Diego Chapter of the Construction Management Association of America. He is Director of Construction Services at the La Jolla Center.