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Ascendant Leadership and Change Group is a minority owned firm that provides management consulting and education services to private, public, and non-profit organizations. WE HELP ORGANIZATIONS:• Understand how & whether their culture, structure, competencies, & processes support their mission. • Develop & implement actions, from training to organizational change, which achieve results.WE HELP LEADERS:• Clarify goals, priorities, strengths & challenges, & the roles they play in achieving desired outcomes.• Develop the skills, perspectives, mindset, and pathways to: - Consistently and effectively execute leadership that achieves results; - Weather and learn from storms; - See and take advantage of breakout opportunities; - Grow their personal capability and that of those around them.

2017 CEPL Faculty of Year Award. Have served as a core faculty member in many of the Center’s leadership programs, including, Certified Public Manager programs that target High-Potential municipal managers, as well as Executive Development Programs offered to Federal agencies. Oversees the policy analysis/action-learning team component of several programs. Develops and delivers a variety of course offerings (Leveraging Executive Development, Leading Teams, Managing Conflict, Project Management, Coaching for Executives, etc.).

Principal consulting focus was on organizational assessment/change, leadership development, promoting team effectiveness, conflict management, process improvement, and employee training.Engagement examples include a variety of organizational assessment/change initiatives, teambuilding efforts from senior management to front-line levels in both domestic and international environments, facilitation of strategic plan development, extensive executive and management coaching, process improvement & development of SOPs, support of a municipality-wide Labor-Management Partnership initiative, and provision of a variety of management and employee development courses (executive perspective, leadership, team effectiveness, conflict management, customer service, communication, diversity, etc.).

Managed employee opinion survey efforts, including strategy, administration, results interpretation,presentations to senior management, and follow-up. Facilitated unit discussions of workenvironment/productivity issues. Conducted workshops on Using Survey Results in Organizational Change for HR generalists serving as “on-site survey consultants”. Consulted with management on organizational assessment and change efforts, & other HR/OD issues (e.g. performance management, personnel selection).• Successfully redesigned firmwide survey program. New process generated more buy-in, promotedorganizational change, and was better aligned with company goals.• Managed survey process that produced and distributed over 400 tailored, unit reports in a 3-monthwindow, while simultaneously providing results interpretation and consulting support to management.

Served as an internal consultant on wide range of HR/OD issues. Developed and validated personnel selection and assessment procedures. Managed company-wide employee opinion survey projects. Served as principal representative to the Mayflower Group, a consortium of leading companies that use surveys.• Conducted managerial core competencies studies and used results to develop applicant assessment and performance appraisal tools, as well as an assessment center.• Played a key role in using the survey process to support Prudential's Managing Diversity program and subsequent external consulting efforts related to diversity. Also, facilitated diversity related focus groups of employee, middle manager, and executive staff.• Developed/facilitated workshops for various constituencies (e.g. Use of cognitive ability testing in personnel selection and Use of employee opinion surveys in Managing Diversity Initiatives).

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd And Masters Degrees, Industrial And Organizational Psychology

Minor Areas: Organizational Behavior; Statistics and Psychological Measurement Dissertation: A Team Process and Emergent States Approach.

Bachelor Of Arts Degree: Psychology With Highest Honors

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychology

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