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Management
psychology is a specialized field of practice within
professional psychology. It focuses on the behavioral
variables that most affect the dynamics of motivation,
performance and development of managers and the people
they lead. Consultations begin with an in-depth
assessment of the situation and challenges facing
management, as well as the human dynamics – individual,
group and organizational – that may help or hinder one’s
efforts to effectively and appropriately address
these challenges.
While effectiveness
pertains most directly to the achievement of strategic
business outcomes, appropriateness bears most on
how our conduct in achieving such outcomes comports with
the values and norms to which we aspire. It is our
philosophy that both the strategic and normative aspects
of business leadership are critical to organizational
health, performance, and sustainability. This is a more
holistic approach to development, which the tough-minded
pragmatist might initially question, but which decades
of research and experience demonstrate separates the
great from the good.
The founder
Prior to
founding Generativity, Bill enjoyed an
eleven-year career with one of the world’s
finest management psychology consulting firms,
RHR International Company, where he served as a
managing director and senior consultant in their
Boston office. He is a licensed psychologist
with extensive experience as a consultant to
senior executives and their organizations. Bill
engages clients holistically, helping them
explore their strengths, discover their blind
spots, overcome their self-limiting tendencies,
and thereby, enhance their capacity to lead and
make a difference in the lives of others.
Bill’s
engagements often focus on one or more of the
following areas: (1) assessment and integration
of key executive hires, (2) coaching executives
at critical points in their career, (3) helping
leadership teams achieve healthier more
effective dynamics of interaction, (4) designing
talent management systems in which line
executives play a key role in developing the
company’s talent pool to meet growth and
succession needs, and (5) designing
action-oriented strategies for shaping culture
to support a changing organization structure or
business model.
As a
consultant, Bill has worked with executives on
three continents from most sectors of the
economy including health care, life sciences,
higher education, professional services, energy,
high-tech, and retail. Prior to his career as a
management psychologist, he gained over 10 years
of first-hand experience on the front lines in
business, working his way up to senior
leadership roles in the sales and marketing
function of companies like IBM and Scientific
Atlanta/Cisco.
Bill has a
Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Indiana
State University. He also earned an M.S. in
Marriage and Family Therapy and an MBA. He is a
member of the American College of Health Care
Executives. Bill pursues an active role in
community service. He served as a Trustee at the
New England Aquarium and on the board of the
Efficacy Institute, a not-for-profit educational
reform organization. He has a long-standing
interest in organizational ethics, and he was
recently a visiting scholar at the Hastings
Center for Bioethical Research. |
