Partners
Michel Buffet, PhD
Dan Fisher, PhD
Joanna Rock, PhD
Faculty
- Charles Scherbaum, Ph.D.
- Marcie Elias, M.A., JD
- Richard Cavalli, MBA
- Bill Battle, Ph.D.
- Brittany Boyd, M.S
- James H. Cornehlsen
- Ed McDougal
- Gary Dumais, PsyD
- Madeline Fredrickson Craig, Ed.D.
- Harold Goldstein, Ph.D.
- David Radosevich, Ph.D.
- Alandria Saifer, Ph.D.
- Ruth Schlosser, M.A.
- Karen Steadman, Ph.D.
Partners
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Michel is a managing partner at Fisher Rock Consulting. He advises and works with senior leaders and HR executives on custom talent management solutions, with a special focus on the design and delivery of competency models, leadership assessment, onboarding processes, executive coaching, and organizational design. He also specializes in assisting senior management teams in developing strategy, gaining alignment within the organization. For over 10 years Michel has worked with close to 50 different organizations, many of which are global 1000 organizations, including Bristol-Myers Squibb, British Telecom, Codelco, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly- Clark, The New York Times Company, Siemens Medical Solutions, Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Time Warner and Wyeth. Michel received his PhD in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a DESS in Clinical Psychology from University of Paris VII in France. He is a member of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the French-American Chamber of Commerce in New York. He is bilingual in French and English, fluent in Spanish.
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Dan is a managing partner at Fisher Rock Consulting and a licensed NY State Psychologist. He has extensive experience designing and implementing change processes for clients in many industries. He is recognized most for his work as an assessment specialist, providing senior executives with critical insights and information on their own developmental needs, as well as information to companies on their own organization and the executives they are considering hiring or promoting. Dan also has extensive experience coaching executives and their teams and facilitating leadership development programs and change management offsites. A partial list of the clients he has worked with to date includes Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Silver Lake Partners, MatlinPatterson, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, General Electric, MasterCard, Microsoft, McGraw-Hill, DoubleClick, Johnson & Johnson, Schering Plough, Merck, Cisco, eBay, and Owens Corning. Dan received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and completed his pre and post-doctoral internships at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is an active member of the Society for Consulting Psychology, The Metropolitan New York Association for Applied Psychology, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Dan serves on several boards, both not for profit and for profit.
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Joanna is a managing partner at Fisher Rock Consulting and an Industrial Organizational Psychologist with extensive experience and expertise in Competency Modeling, Organizational and Executive Assessment, and Management and Employee Selection. She has assisted companies such as Novartis, Agilent Technologies, Becton Dickinson, Schering Plough, Nestle Purina, American Express, the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and Charles Schwab in personnel selection and development. Her Corporate experience has included Director, Organization and Management Development, PepsiCo International where she was responsible for the Organization Survey Process, Performance Management, Career Development and Leadership Development. Prior to joining PepsiCo International, Joanna was a Senior Manager at Aon Consulting. At Aon she designed, implemented and validated executive assessment, leadership development, selection, performance management and training programs for a variety of clients in industries such as financial services, travel, technology and computers, medical catalogue sales, and insurance. In addition, she conducted executive assessment, leadership development and training programs both internally, for Aon staff, and externally for clients. Prior to working at Aon, Joanna was an Assistant Vice President at Chase Manhattan Bank. At Chase work areas included the employee survey program, management development programs and rewards and recognition. Joanna has a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from New York University.
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Faculty
Charles is Director of Research with Fisher Rock Consulting. He received his B.S. in psychology from the University of Washington, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from Ohio University. He is currently an associate professor at Baruch College.
His academic research focuses on issues of diversity in the context of employee selection, measuring individual differences, and assessing employee attitudes. His research examines sources of bias and construct irrelevant variance on standardized and cognitive tests, non-cognitive predictors of job performance, detecting lying and dishonest responding, attitudes toward stigmatized employees, alternative validation strategies, attitude measurement, linking employee attitudes to organizational outcomes, and employee selection. His academic and consulting research draws heavily on recent advances in analytical and methodological techniques, and computer technology.
He teaches courses in statistics, industrial and organizational psychology, human resource management, statistics, and psychometrics in the United States, Singapore, and Taiwan in undergraduate, masters, executive, and Ph.D. programs.
Marcie is a Senior Consultant with Fisher Rock Consulting. She advises and counsels investors, CEOs and senior executives on the psychological dimensions of leadership and organizational life, and works with executive management teams from a similar vantage point to help them function and lead more effectively. Drawing on her training in individual and organizational psychology and psychoanalysis, Marcie utilizes her knowledge of internal, interpersonal and group dynamics to help organizations achieve optimal performance through their people. Her previous experience as a practicing attorney enables her to bring an analytical and solution-oriented perspective to complex organizational matters.Marcie works with teams and individuals across a diverse spectrum of industries. She has worked extensively with pharmaceutical, financial, manufacturing, fashion and beauty, media and entertainment and technology companies. In her executive assessment and coaching practice, she works with business leaders and senior executives on developing their repertoire of leadership and management competencies, as well as on defining and achieving their professional aspirations. She also works with executive leadership teams that are leading their organizations through periods of significant growth and change.
Marcie holds a Masters degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, a law degree from New York University School of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Emory University. She is presently completing her psychoanalytic training at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Marcie’s areas of expertise include: Executive Assessment and Coaching; Team Assessment and Team Development Consulting; Leadership Development; Investor Advisory Work.
Rick is a Senior Consultant with Fisher Rock Consulting.Rick focuses on resolving complex business challenges by adding depth to leadership teams in times of challenge and opportunity. That means providing interim executive management – whether it’s at the director, CEO, president, COO or CSO level – in order to capitalize on the upside possibilities that periods of transition and transformation presents.
Rick has more than twenty years of know-how in collaborating with C-Level Executives, Boards of Directors, Private Equity, and Venture Capital investors, as an operating executive and a management consultant. His experience includes operational roles as CEO, President, COO, CSO, and a Director of the Board in a wide range of industries that encompasses business and professional services, telecommunications and Internet, scientific and medical devices, manufacturing, engineering and development, and consumer goods. Rick served as the Director/Principal for the leading Boutique Strategy firms of Braxton Associates, GeoPartners Research, ZEFER, and Archstone Consulting where he advised Fortune 1000 company executives of; Corporate Venture and Professional Venture Funds, and middle market companies in strategy and shareholder value creation. Notable collaborations include Accel Partners, Softbank, Intel Ventures, ATT Ventures, British Telecom Ventures, ATT, Qualcomm, Dial, VIAD, Campbell’s Soup/Vlasic, Fluor Daniels, Nashua Corporation, Spencer Trask, and HQ/Regus Executive Suites. Rick was also the Director of Strategy for Lockheed Martin where the company grew from a sub $100M to $1B business in 3 years, as well as the Director of Strategy for Olympus where the company grew its Latin America business by 150% in two years and the Global Digital Business became the market leader worldwide over three years.Rick’s strengths are his abilities to expeditiously and effectively understand a company’s underlying business realities determine the appropriate end game, align organizations to execute strategy and motivate talent to achieve beyond their own expectations
Rick received a BA in History from Columbia University where he was also a two-time, All Ivy Football player. He has an MBA from Boston University Graduate School
Bill is a New York based Industrial Psychologist and management consultant. His focus is delivering customized management systems/processes, with special emphasis in the areas of selection, assessment, leadership development, performance management, and training. He has conducted projects on behalf of several consulting firms (such as The Hay Group, Sirota and Associates, Towers-Perrin, and Aon Consulting) and for a variety of private and governmental organizations. Bill received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from New York University.
Brittany possesses a masters degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Baruch College, CUNY, where she is currently completing her doctoral studies. She has experience working with various organizations providing a broad variety of consulting services including assessment, executive development, competency modeling, performance appraisals, and survey research. Some of the organizations Brittany has worked with include NERA, MatlinPatterson Asset Management, Right Management, Mercer, CIBA, Sandra Hartog & Associates, and Fenestra. She is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, The Metropolitan New York Association for Applied Psychology, and The New York Academy of Sciences.
Jim is an Executive Coach based out of New York who has been coaching for twenty years. He brings 20 years of line experience working at General Electric, McGraw-Hill, and CBS. He has more than ten years of professional experience working overseas with residence in Mexico, Spain, and Canada with strong awareness of cross-cultural sensitivities. Increasingly, he has found that coaching for improved results and team building are critical when an executive enters a new environment. The challenge for real leadership is increased when breadth is needed to improve personal credibility and presence as required for market leadership. He focuses on the critical issues of leadership style, managing by influence, and team motivation and engagement. He has worked with new leaders and succession candidates on the concerns related to "executive presence". Currently, he works only with Presidents or business unit heads. Jim received a B.A. in English from Dartmouth College. He is a member of the American Management Association HR Council. He has served on the Board of the Software Information Industry Association, the Magazine Publisher's Association, and the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters (IACPR). He is a frequent speaker on building for success in growth companies, and changing CEO leadership needs. He has been profiled in The Career Makers (Harper & Row) as one of America's top recruiters.
Ed has a diverse management and business background. A trained commercial lender, he held significant line management and human resource positions at several major banks, including Bankers Trust Company (Vice President,), National Westminster Bank (now part of BankAmerica) (Executive Vice President/Member of the Management Committee,) and Lehman Brothers (Chief Administrative Officer, Trading Services). Through these roles he gained significant experience in quality improvement, customer service, re-engineering, organizational design and organizational development. For the past several years, Ed has been working as a consultant in the areas of management development and executive coaching, especially at the senior officer level. Ed has advised senior executives at companies including McGraw-Hill, Time Warner Cable, Bristol Meyers, Morgan Stanley, Swiss Re, Banc Julius Baer, Agfa, Pitney Bowes and Xerox. It is Ed’s philosophy that the only gauge of coaching success is sustained changes in behavior. Training to change behavior usually fails. The only way to change behavior on a sustained basis is to change motivation and attitude. Ed is very “rubber-on-the-road” orientated - believing that development must occur in the context of the work that needs to get done. Ed received his BA from Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception and attended the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management at Dartmouth College.
Gary is an accomplished organizational psychologist with expertise in Fortune 500 talent assessment, executive coaching, leadership development, and human resource management. In addition to his work as a Consultant for distinguished human capital consulting firms such as Personnel Decisions International (PDI), Gary is also possesses first-hand leadership experience and a broad knowledge of the human resources field as he has held responsibility for managing the HR function of a financial services company. Moreover, he has also gained valuable industry-specific experience working with companies in the medical technology, health, hospitality, retail, and energy markets. Perhaps most notably, Gary has a proven ability to collaborate with senior management to support corporate initiatives and achieve business goals, and he has successfully designed and implemented strategic programs for talent acquisition, selection, retention, development, and succession planning. Gary earned his Doctorate in Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, and he received his Bachelor degrees in Psychology and Health and Human Services from the State University of New York at Buffalo. In addition, he has gained certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).
Madeline is a seasoned human resources professional with over 15 years experience in the financial services industry. She has extensive experience in the training and development of employees at all levels from clerical to senior management, including design, facilitation and evaluation of programs. In addition, she has worked in numerous aspects of the human resources arena, serving as human resource generalist, college recruiter, training manager, evaluation specialist and organizational development consultant. Madeline was a Vice President at JP Morgan Chase, and is currently an adjunct professor at Adelphi University in Garden City. Madeline holds an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University in Adult Education and a M.A. from New York University in Industrial/ Organization Psychology.
Harold is an Industrial Organizational psychologist and a nationally recognized expert on the development of legally valid selection systems. In addition to his work on personnel staffing and equal opportunity issues, he brings to his clients considerable expertise in leadership development and organizational culture issues. He is an associate professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Baruch College, The City University of New York, where he currently serves as director of both the MS Program in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and the Industrial/Organizational Psychology MBA Subprogram. He received his doctoral degree in I/O psychology from the University of Maryland at College Park. Harold has published articles on his research in journals such as Personnel Psychology , Journal of Applied Psychology , and Human Performance, and has presented his work at numerous conferences and invited talks. In addition, Harold serves as an expert for the United States Department of Justice on the application of legal issues in personnel selection processes. He has provided consulting services to such distinguished companies as Merck, Inc. AT&T, and Williams Sonoma.
David is an Industrial Organizational psychologist and assistant professor at Montclair State University with a joint appointment in the Department of Management and Information Systems as well as the Department of Psychology. Prior to coming to Montclair State University he was an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Ohio State University. He serves as a consultant to organizations interested in maximizing the fit between people and jobs. His consulting work has been in the area of selection, training, needs assessment, and performance management. He has provided consulting services to such distinguished companies and organizations as Wal-Mart, Inc., New Jersey State Police, and the New York State Teachers' Retirement System. He received his B.A. in psychology from Western Maryland College in 1994 and his Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York in 1999.
Alandria is an organization and individual development specialist with expertise in the areas of management and executive coaching, organizational effectiveness and change, team learning and individual assessment and feedback. During her fifteen years as a management consultant, she has worked with individual clients ranging from hourly employees to CEOs and Presidents of corporations as well as corporate clients ranging from Fortune 500 organizations in multinational settings to government organizations including the San Diego District Attorney's office, the San Diego Airport and the Navy Personnel Research and Development Center (NPRDC). She has worked with clients throughout Asia and Europe as well as across the United States, most often in the areas of hi-tech, financial, pharmaceutical, and fashion, working with companies including Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, SAIC, MP3, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Goodrich, Sprint, Verizon, American Express, UBS, Merrill Lynch, Toyota Financial Services, Goal Financial, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Agouron, Pfizer, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Invitrogen, American Red Cross National Testing Laboratories, Nestle-Purina, Kellogg's, Aon Consulting, Right Management Consultants, Wenzel Coaching, Family Home Video, DSW and Anne Klein Companies.
Alandria's style provides support, recognition and growth for her clients. She specializes in executive coaching and development with expertise in the areas of organizational change, leadership development, talent retention and coaching individuals to discover and comfortably express "power". As part of the services she delivers, Alandria provides behavioral feedback and development planning tools to assist in the coaching process. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego and completed her undergraduate work at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
Ruth is an Organizational Development Consultant and Executive Coach. She is recognized as an innovative and resourceful problem solver who proactively manages projects from initial concept, to final implementation. Her consulting approach is to serve as a ‘change catalyst’ by working collaboratively with individuals and organizations to help them create positive change and achieve greater effectiveness. She has designed and executed successful OD consulting engagements for Fortune 500 and global organizations including Pfizer Inc., E&J Gallo Winery, Heineken USA, Cadbury-Schweppes, American Red Cross, and Avon Products. An experienced Executive Coach, Ruth has provided coaching services for a variety of firms including E.& J. Gallo, Heineken, American Red Cross, DBM, and Right Management. A former ‘bench’ scientist, Ruth has a unique understanding and appreciation for applied science and data-driven methodology that she brings from her prior R&D career and into her Organizational Development consulting practice. Ruth holds an MA in Organizational Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and completed her undergraduate work at Rutgers University.
Karen is a licensed psychologist who advises talented organizations on how to work smarter in the right directions instead of continuing to work harder in the wrong directions. Through assessment and coaching she translates strategic needs into an aligned plan to obtain increased effectiveness tied to the business drivers. She specializes in performing due diligence assessments and optimizing leadership performance for specialty talent who are difficult to acquire and retain (i.e., investment banking and financial services, high tech R&D, GenX high potentials and senior women leaders). She has designed, staffed and delivered programs in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Africa and throughout Europe and Asia. She graduated Summa Cum Laude in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and completed her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Georgia. She is a committee member for the doctoral program in applied psychology at Alliant International University, as well as a member of both the World Association of Business Coaches and the Center for International Studies. She has been a member of the Consulting Psychology Division of APA since 1997.
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