Steve Ritter Email & Phone Number

Elmhurst, Il, Us

The Team Clock Institute provides assessment, training and consulting services to teams in business, school, sports and community settings. Anchored in the book, Team Clock: A Guide to Breakthrough Teams, leaders are empowered with methodology to optimize effective team development. Team Clock assessments yield actionable strategies for creating breakthrough results aligned with business objectives. Leading organizations like Kraft Foods, Cadbury, Kellogg's, Northwestern Mutual, Advocate Health Care, the Illinois Hospital Association, KIPP Schools, AthletiCo, the Chicago Fire, the University of Illinois and the Chicago White Sox have embraced the Team Clock methodology to drive their business success.Team Clock transforms teams, impacting company culture and morale. By identifying and addressing the obstacles interfering with performance, teams can spend more time focusing on their work and less time on the politics of their workplace. Team Clock gives teams the tools they need to adapt to change and repair themselves for the lifespan of the entity.

Elmhurst, Il, Us

Serving families in Chicago's west suburbs for the past 40 years, Elmhurst Counseling provides an array of therapy, counseling, assessment, training, coaching and consultation services to individuals, families, groups, and organizations interested in optimizing health and wellness.• Individual, marital, family and group therapy, counseling, assessment & referral services.• Professional development workshops, seminars, retreats, and keynote presentations.• Strategic planning, professional consultation, team building, career coaching, leadership development, and transition management services.• Workplace performance measurement, cultural health assessment, and change readiness evaluation.

Elmhurst, Il, Us

Currently teaches Professional Foundations for Career Development through the Center for Professional Excellence as well as Introduction to Social Work, Social Work with Individuals and Families, and Social Work with Groups and Communities through the Sociology Department. Received President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in May 2000 with subsequent nominations in 2005 and 2010.

Chicago, Il, Us

Inne Heroes Universe is a media company, Inner Heroes Universe, to help kids build crucial mental health skills through fun adventures. Created with licensed therapists and educational experts, My Inner Heroes books use real counseling strategies to help empower kids to make friends and form healthy relationships, keep cool and think clearly, poroblem-solve and embrace a growth mindset, and build self-confidence and personal agency.

Countryside, Illinois, Us

Pillars is a not-for-profit social service organization formed through the 2006 merger of Community Care Options (1928) and Pillars Community Services (1968). Pillars keeps our communities healthy and strong by providing quality, evidence-based services for over 10,000 individuals and families annually who are facing challenge and crisis. Pillars utilizes a community wraparound approach anchored in a wide spectrum of fully-integrated, research-informed services and best-practice methodology.

Oak Brook, Il, Us

Served as the chief culture officer of the organization named the #1 Best Place to Work in Illinois in 2006, Chicago's 101 Best & Brightest in 2008 and 2009 and the APA Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award and Best Practice winner in 2010. Directed recruitment, retention, organizational development, training, compensation & benefits, professional development, employee relations, team building, employee satisfaction and organizational morale. As an independent consultant, Steve partnered in the strategic development of the organization, succession planning and perpetuation of the bank’s workplace culture.

Park Ridge, Illinois, Us

As Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, maintained leadership accountability for a broad portfolio of integrated clinical and support services including neuroscience, outpatient ambulatory care, food and nutrition, volunteer services, guest services, patient transportation, social work, environmental services, inpatient psychiatry, neuropsychology and outpatient behavioral health. Responsible for 520 FTE employees, $11M in revenue and $17M in expenses. Responsible for the business product lines for the Sleep Lab, Pain Clinic, Biofeedback Lab, Outpatient Care Center and Behavioral Health. Assumed interim role of Director, Radiology and Imaging Services from 8/04-12/04 with a focus on physician relations and system integration. Leadership in ALGH MVP Integration Team cultural competency and health literacy initiatives. Led the Smoke-free LGH initiative resulting in Advocate’s first totally smoke-free campus in January 2005. Selected for the Summit Leadership Program recognizing the top 5% of Advocate Health Care associates.

Clinical and administrative leadership in the design and development of a private therapeutic day school for public school special education out-of-district placement blending mastery learning techniques with a strong clinical environment with a spectrum of individual, family, group, and milieu interventions.

Administrative coordination of township funded family service satellite office providing crisis intervention, individual, family and group psychotherapy, and liaison to local area schools and churches. Member of a multidisciplinary team in developing a nationally recognized community based partial hospital program for chronically mentally ill adults.

M.S.W., Clinical Social Work

B.A., Psychology