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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.

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..

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.

• Managed employee opinion survey efforts, including strategy, administration, results interpretation,presentations to senior management, and follow-up. Facilitated unit discussions of workenvironment/productivity.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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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