Wood DickinsonCurrently Wood Dickinson is the producer and co-founder of the Kansas City based feature film production company, Renegade Pictures, LLC and founder and member of Rolling thunder Systems a software development company.
Prior to taking on this challenge Wood spent 20 years working for then helming Dickinson Theatres, a Midwest based motion picture exhibition company founded by his grandfather in 1920. The first 10 years were spent as IT director for the company then as president and CEO.
When Dickinson took over Dickinson Theatres, the organization faced the same challenge as the rest of the industry…an over-abundance of movie screens, especially in major metro markets such as Kansas City. Part of Dickinson’s reign at Dickinson Theatres included steering the company through a major reorganization in 1998. Dickinson employed the principles from the “7 Habits” to create a new principle-centered organization founded on trust and open communication. The right combination of downsizing in the corporate office and scaling back operations throughout the company put the company back on a growth track. His efforts to reinvent his company were profiled in Living the 7 Habits by Stephen R. Covey, 1999. In September 2000, he sold his interest in Dickinson Theatres to a group of top Dickinson executives
Dickinson graduated from Texas Christian University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communications and a Master of Arts in Film. Wood, his wife Patti, and their eight children enjoy Scouting, tennis, sailing and family togetherness. He is also a published poet and an accomplished photographer.