Colleen Adler Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Research director in Gartner's Human Resources practice. Areas of focus include leader and manager effectiveness, high potential employees, succession management, leadership development, and the changing nature of work.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Strategic analyst supporting global campaigns in the government and public sector domains.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Senior contributor to the research and business divisions of research firm focused on state and Federal healthcare policy.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Senior member of the AARP Research Center’s Tracking Division with responsibility for the management and production of the organization’s continually fielded opinion survey.

Mclean, Virginia

Member of Booz Allen’s SocioCultural Development Center conducting quantitative and qualitative social science research, including open source, literature reviews, primary sources, third-party datasets, content analysis, and sensitive but unclassified information exploitation. Regularly called upon to present research findings and recommendations to government senior leaders. Recognized by colleagues for consistent high-quality performance through numerous internal award citations.

Arlington, Va

Action Officer in the Pentagon’s Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and America’s Security Affairs within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Policy.

Norfolk, Va

Supported the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command’s Human Dimension Division as the sole SME in the social and cognitive domains. Provided client with assessments of existing and proposed programs targeted toward combat soldier health and resilience. Promoted the establishment and value of the Human Dimension Division at conferences across the United States while building a network of supporters and potential contributors.

Highly selective fellowship that provided an opportunity to conduct real world research on dissertation topic(s) of interest while working with experienced government researchers.Projects included:• Examining the top level and strategic orientation of American defense and leadership thinking in regards to warfare issues and policy.• Providing research and quantitative methodological expertise to Dr. Joseph Psotka on questions of intelligence, leadership, and political beliefs.• Co-authoring research result on emerging measures of cognitive ability and self-appraisal that were presented at the 2009 International Society for Intelligence Research and awarded a US patent.

Methodologist tasked with collaborating with audit teams to develop researchable methodology for GAO reports to the Congress on issues of international trade and affairs, defense capabilities management, and national security.Accomplishments included:• Developing framework for data collection instruments and content analyses.• Analyzing qualitative and quantitative data from multiple collection methodologies.• Authoring web-based surveys for federal officials and the private sector.• Contributing to the development of GAO course curriculum on conducting focus groups.

Courses:Introduction to American PoliticsThe Political Psychology of Elite Decision MakingThe Israeli/Palestinian SituationUS Department of Education FLAS (Foreign Language Area Studies, Arabic) fellow, 2005 - 2006

Conducted archival, field, primary, and secondary research on the 2003 so-called Fischler reforms to the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy. Findings of research were accepted to and presented at Rice University's Department of Political Science's 2004 Undergraduate Research Conference. Paper available upon request.Provided support to the LIEIS project examining elite attitudes on the 2003 Treaty for Establishing a Constitution for Europe.

B.A., Political Science

Carleton in Maastricht (University of Maastricht) European Political Economy Seminar, Carleton in Washington American Politics Seminar.

M.A., International Relations

Activities and Societies: Majors: International Relations, American Politics Minor: Political Psychology Language: Modern Standard Arabic