
Research Consulting
I provide a comprehensive overview of the full scope of my research consulting services here.
Management Consulting
With more than 30 years of professional experience and three related graduate degrees, I am highly skilled and wise at consulting a variety of organizations businesses, and individuals in key aspects of building and sustaining a successful work culture and a positive employment relations climate.
I emphasize these areas:
- Knowledge grounded in the fields of psychology (APA membership and specialization) and human resource management (Society for Human Resource Management SHRM)
- Employer/employee relations: Building positive relations between and among employers and employees
- Human resource strategy: Elevating and prioritizing human resources as a top organizational goal
- Strategic planning: Emphasizing strategic planning as a critical business practice for positioning an organization for success, aligning leaders to a common plan
- Project development and management: Creating and sustaining a project management planning process and utilizing Gantt charts for continuous progress tracking
- Data analytics and improved data utilization: Utilizing a robust program of data-driven planning and evaluation of all business activities and employee performance
- Diversity & Inclusion: Creating a comprehensive organizational plan for embracing and sustaining diversity, equity and inclusion as a priority for success
- Professional development and training: Guiding individual employees in successful strategies for long-term professional development and organizational loyalty
- Organizational effectiveness assessment: Setting and accomplishing the right objectives with the right resources in the right way
- Recruitment and retention of top staff: Focusing on high employee job satisfaction and professional growth opportunities for high-performing employees
- Strengthening employee mental health and reducing stress and trauma: Recognizing the critical association between poor employee mental health and lost productivity in the organization
- Understanding toxic workplace environments and responding to workplace bullying: Diagnosing the causes of toxic stress in the organization and responding to incidents of workplace bullying
- Reducing employee burnout and post-traumatic stress disorder: Assessing sources of chronic workplace stress that may be directly associated with high employee burnout and staff turnover
- Surveying staff morale and overall employee work climate: Utilizing staff morale surveys for reviewing the attitudes that employees hold toward the organization and as a gauge of overall staff satisfaction
- Understanding collective bargaining and union grievance administration: Utilizing labor relations specialists to enable the building of strategies for managing and improving union-management relations