summit speakers — Developing People
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Developing People — SESSION I
Richard McLellan, PhD — Panel Moderator
Senior Vice President Virtual Delivery Services, Lee Hecht Harrison
Richard McLellan, PhD is Senior Vice President of Virtual Delivery Services for Lee Hecht Harrison where he is responsible for Career Transition Services delivered outside of the Firm’s Practice Offices. Prior to his present role, Ric led the Consultant Training and Certification function for LHH.
Dr. McLellan is an Organizational & Industrial Psychologist with expertise in career transition, executive coaching, leadership development, and talent assessment. He has held executive roles in Human Resources, Training & Development, and Operations Management in the healthcare, food service, insurance and career services industries.
Dr. McLellan has a BS in Physiology/Biology and a BA in HR/Business Management from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. His Masters is in Multicultural Education from Eastern University in St. David’s, Pennsylvania. Ric’s Doctorate Degree is in Psychoeducational Processes from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Suzanne Matteson
President and Founder, Matteson Consulting Group
Suzanne Matteson is an organization development consultant and executive coach with over twenty years experience working with senior leaders and teams.
She founded Matteson Consulting Group in 1995, a company dedicated to enhancing an organization’s capability to achieve its milestones by accelerating individual and team performance.
Suzanne has coached hundreds of executives either on a one on one basis or at the team level to increase their effectiveness, and has done so on a global basis. She has been acknowledged for her strong facilitation skills and her ability to bring a diverse group of individuals together and help them to understand each other, communicate effectively and work more collaboratively.
In addition to her consulting work, her experience includes: 12 years at Ciba-Geigy Corporation in various human resource positions; 8 years at two career management firms where she advised and assisted numerous Fortune 500 companies in restructuring and change management efforts; Managing Principal at Right Management Consultants responsible for the P&L of the NJ region as well as leading 15 consultants in three locations; Active member in the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) and United Way of Morris County’s Women’s Leadership Initiative
Matteson Consulting Group clients, for the most part, are in the pharmaceutical, chemical, manufacturing and financial services industries.
Alan Preston
President, Preston Leadership
Alan Preston began his career in Human Resources in 1984 at Manchester Marketing in Richmond, Virginia. His Fortune 100 experience began in 1989 at Sprint, where he was a key member of a successful union avoidance team. He coached managers and supervisors to handle sensitive employee relations issues while directly communicating more formally with employees who were being targeted for union membership. When Sprint introduced its progressive Peer Grievance Review® process, Alan was chosen to be the company’s only management representative at two regional operations centers.
In 1992, as executive vice president for the Phi Kappa Sigma International Foundation, Alan applied his coaching expertise internationally with students at some 70 universities in the U.S. and Canada.
In 1996 he was recruited to establish the human resources function at an early-stage, publicly traded Internet startup called Infonautics Corporation. Through the challenges of the dot com bubble and bust, Alan fostered an innovative company culture and introduced creative retention programs, maintaining an unusually low turnover rate to sustain the value of the business for its investors.
In 2000 Alan became vice president of Human Resources for eBay’s Half.com subsidiary. The company’s highly competitive nature gave him the opportunity to apply unique and effective employee retention strategies in an environment where the stakes were quite high. Alan was called upon to facilitate high profile acquisitions and divestitures such as PayPal, DejaNews.com, and Kruse International. His ability to garner trust, confidence and cooperation from managers and employees alike afforded him countless opportunities to coach leaders at all levels throughout the company.
In 2004 when eBay centralized operations by moving Half.com to San Jose, California, Alan decided to start his own consulting firm in Philadelphia, which has allowed him to help businesses grow through customized leadership development for mid-tier executives.
Thomas Tavantzis, PhD
President, Innovative Management Development
Dr. Tavantzis, a licensed psychologist is President of Innovative Management Development, a leadership and team consulting practice he and his wife founded in 1986. He also is immediate past Director of the Training, Organizational Psychology, and Leadership Graduate Program at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He continues to lead and teach in the Organizational Psychology program. His practical psychological experience of 30 years includes a variety of executive and leadership roles as well as faculty positions at several American and Greek universities, and for the past 15 years a leadership and team development consultant, and an executive coach to leaders of nationwide and global companies.
Dr. Tavantzis' style in creating change is typically described as creative, insightful, growth producing, challenging and supportive. Dr. Tavantzis is a gifted presenter and workshop leader. During the course of his career he has published professional articles, book chapters, self help articles, e-learning course and training videos, as well as appearing on television and radio talk shows. Dr. Tavantzis recently co-edited the best selling book Don't Waste Your Talent which is in its 2nd edition. It's a book that describes his strength based methodology to personal and career development. Recently, an extensive interview with him appears in the book,“Roadmaps to Success”, (2008) along with fellow leaders Blanchard and Covey. Currently Dr. Tavantzis is completing a new book based on his work in a strength-based model in developing new leaders.
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Developing People — SESSION II
Jackie A. Vice-Black, PhD
President, Windsor Consulting Group and Coaching Partners
Jackie Vice-Black. PhD has nearly thirty years of experience working in and consulting with major global organizations in human resource management, leadership development, executive coaching, and change management. Since launching her consulting firm in 1998, she has demonstrated unique skills in improving the performance of their leaders, teams, and high potential individuals. She combines her own senior leadership experience in fortune 100 companies, business and political savvy, story-telling skills, sense of humor with a psychologist's sensitivity to produce results with her executive coaching and consulting clients. She obtained her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, has a business certificate from Wharton, and held leadership roles in SmithKline and ARCO.
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Developing People — SESSION III
Sheila D. Ireland, SPHR
Human Resources Director, Andorra Woods Health Care
Sheila Ireland is the Human Resources Director for Andorra Woods Health Care Center a subsidiary of Encore Healthcare LLC. She is responsible for creating and institutionalizing a human resources management and development function at Andorra Woods for the parent company.
Prior to joining Encore Healthcare LLC, Ms. Ireland was an Organizational Development Consultant with Intergen International. In this capacity she was responsible for the diagnosis, design and delivery of strategic performance improvement solutions for internal and external clients.
Ms. Ireland was also the Training and Organizational Development Director at Philadelphia Water from 1999 through 2007. While there he/she led the growth and development of a $1.4 million comprehensive training and organizational development department with accountability for 9 direct reports across 3 remote locations. She established the strategic vision and developed the operational infrastructure of the department... Her duties included managing needs assessment, curricula design and development, evaluation/ measurement of effectiveness, technology integration, budget and contracts administration and employee relations.
She has experience in the following industries: Utilities, Engineering, Healthcare and Government. Her specialization is in facilitating organizational change through the implementation of innovative training and human resource development systems, utilizing her expertise in aligning system outcomes with organizational objectives. She has experience in understanding a wide variety of human resource systems and analyzing and designing internal control systems to improve performance.
Ms. Ireland graduated from Temple University in 1993 with a degree in Business Administration with a major in Human Resources. She is a M.A. candidate at Saint Joseph’s University majoring in Organizational Dynamics and Leadership. She is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources and a member of the American Society of Training and Development, and the Project Management Institute.
Dr. Helen Richardson
President, Career Consciousness, Inc.
Dr. Helen Richardson is a skilled human resources development consultant with over 25 years of experience in coaching, leadership development, training, teambuilding, talent and performance management, and competency development. Helen is adept at coaching leaders and facilitating groups at all levels. She provides support, and strategies to successfully negotiate organizational issues and maximize learning. An additional specialty is helping diverse leaders identify and work through issues of racism and sexism that act as barriers to work satisfaction, productivity and career advancement. Acknowledging strengths and using an appreciative approach is an integral part of all of Helen’s work.
Helen has extensive consulting experience in manufacturing, insurance, education, city and state government, workforce development, as well as, entrepreneurial companies. Examples of Helen’s work include: large scale initiatives, including an organizational career development program for a government agency and a statewide credentialing program for career professionals; a highly effective leadership development program including competency models for a large non-profit agency; and a human resources process reengineering project for a large city.
Prior to starting her own consulting practice, Helen held senior level human resource positions in both corporate and non-profit organizations.
Helen holds a Masters in Human Services from Lincoln University and a doctorate in Organizational Development and Training from Temple University. She is certified in a wide variety of assessment instruments and 360 processes. Helen is a certified International Coach through the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. She is also a certified Career Development Facilitator Instructor and MBTI Certified Professional through the National Career Development Association (NCDA).
Dr. Richardson is currently president of the Association of Career Professionals International, (ACP) Philadelphia branch.
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