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Observation On Demand (O2D), L.L.C.

As  Partner, and Director R & D, Dr. Rogers is tasked with designing and developing safety and security communities of practice networks of investigators, advisers, and trainers in “Rebooting the Mind Through Mental Athletics,” who leverage blending technical-craft with street-craft innovations and customer driven solutions to ‎solve the variance between novice and expert human-centric, learner-centric, and performance-centric skill sets required to maintain initiative in security management, law enforcement, tactical operations, homeland security and defense, and force readiness in overlay security systems within different “Worlds of Risk and Threats.”

Dr. Rogers is helping O2D build its value proposition and competitive edge through applied psychology subdisciplines (e.g., clinical psychology, forensic psychology, social psychology, and neuropsychology) to provide operational support to law enforcement, military, and national security operations (e.g., intelligence community, national defense structure, armed forces for contingency and combat operations).

As Director of R & D, Dr. Rogers is developing innovative solutions that prepare executive management and first responders in security management, law enforcement, tactical operations, homeland security and defense, and force readiness in the skill sets to become trained rapid observers with a high level of situation assessment and awareness (SA) ‎in our different “Worlds of Risk and Threats.”

Utilizing both electronic and human performance technologies, (O2D) develops safety and security virtual reality workouts that can improve trained observer’s visual acuity, reaction ‎time, pattern recognition, mind mapping, mental models and rapid dynamic decision making.

One month after the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, Dr. Rogers was invited by the National Intelligence Civil-Military Institute (NICI), San Luis Obispo, California to attend their 5-day briefing of the attacks and respective training on preparing for and managing the consequences of terrorism. This experience in conjunction with subject matter experts in law enforcement, the military and intelligence community, are helping him to develop applied psychology human-centric, learner-centric, and performance-centric skill sets critical to maintaining initiative in overlay security systems within different “Worlds of Risk and Threats.” Principally, they are:

• How O2D’s expertise in Rebooting or Upgrading the Mind Through Mental Athletics become one of the bridges that human assets use in time and space, such as asymmetric and/or unconventional warfare, or red teaming to maintain initiative in security management.

• How applied psychology subdisciplines provide operational support to the intelligence function (e.g., intelligence analysis, violence risk and threat assessment, on domestic/international anti-terrorism/force protection and homeland security issues.

• How applied psychology subdisciplines provide operational support in counterinsurgency analysis and constructing behavioral profiles of terrorist networks, terrorist groups intent on attacks, terrorist targeting methodology, and terrorist attack methods and measures.

• How applied psychology subdisciplines are a value proposition and competitive edge in the preparation of written intelligence assessments providing support in the analysis of asymmetric and/or unconventional warfare in light of general systems theory (GST), understanding complex adaptive systems and chaos theory, organizational behavior, group dynamics, motivation, organizational culture, leadership development, and rapid dynamic mind maps and mental models.

• How applied psychology subdisciplines operationally support innovations and customer driven solutions within safety and security communities of practice networks reflection on psychological warfare against the mind (e.g., terrorism, ethnopolitical conflict/warfare, and group identity and intergroup conflict).

• The Illinois Alliance of Parents and Children (IAPC)

As Co-Founder and Board member, Dr. Rogers helps administrate a unique nonpartisan organization dedicated to strengthening the position of Illinois’ parents and children. His work includes assisting Michael Burns, Co-Founder, with research and advocacy initiatives that are designed to create a viable public policy toward parents as an important group of stakeholders where no such policy has ever existed before. Dr. Rogers and Mr. Burns work to attract like-minded community groups to participate in communities of practice networks to promote and show key stakeholders in a multiplicity of settings that there is a broad base of community support for such reforms.

Adjunct Faculty ─ Psy.D., Clinical Psychology Program and Forensic Psychology Specialization

Dr. Rogers teaches at two graduate school’s dedicated exclusively to the advancement of professional psychology education that consolidate a practitioner/scholar model of training with an emphasis on innovation, community, diversity, and multicultural awareness that provide a dynamic, hands-on alternative to the research-focused Ph.D. degree.

Dr. Rogers helps students to develop essential diagnostic, ‎therapeutic, and consultative skills, a broad knowledge of scientific and theoretical principles in Clinical and Forensic Psychology, and the practical skill sets that they need to apply this knowledge to specific clinical and forensic situations that they will encounter in their professional practices.

CLINICAL AND FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICE EXPERIENCE PROFILE

Dr. Rogers is well prepared professionally as a practitioner-scholar with a broad knowledge of the scientific and theoretical principles in the clinical and forensic practice of psychology. He has acquired solid clinical, correctional, and forensic experiences across diverse settings and often difficult-to-treat patient populations presenting with a broad continuum of psychopathology.

His clinical expertise includes developmental and adult psychopathology, substance abuse and dependency, violence risk and threat assessment, understanding offender profiling and criminal behaviors, the psycholegal issues in adjudicating disputes and mitigating harm to spouses and children in the domestic relations and family law area, and the application of models of treatment and treatment planning pertaining to psychopathology.

His work formerly with Honisa Behavioral Treatment Centers, a multidisciplinary group private practice, included clinical and forensic diagnostic and therapeutic services, and consultative psycholegal services to attorneys and their respective clients. Forensic expertise included assessment and treatment services related to a broad range of psycholegal issues that helped lawyers, multicultural families, and judges adjudicate disputes and mitigate harm to spouses and children caused by the process of the legal dissolution of marriage.

In his work formerly with PhobiCare, Dr. Rogers worked as a member of a multidisciplinary clinical staff providing diagnostic and treatment services to multicultural clients presenting with phobias, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety.

Dr. Rogers has expertise in how culture and diversity affect understanding of mental illness and treatment, and the impact multicultural, community and diversity issues have on differential diagnosis and treatment planning relating to psychopathology and psycholegal issues. During his tenure at The Association House of Chicago, appointments included clinical consultant in psychodiagnostic evaluation and as a senior clinical therapist. This privately-funded, not-for-profit social service agency now serves nearly 20,000 individuals and families each year in the Hispanic communities of Chicago neighborhoods. He provided psychological assessment and individual, group and family psychotherapeutic treatment services to children, adolescents and adults with serious mental illness (SMI) or dually diagnosed (mental illness and substance abuse) who’s emotional, cognitive and behavioral functioning was so impaired as to interfere with their capacity to remain in the community without supportive treatment to improve their interpersonal and community adaptive functioning.

Dr. Rogers also is a mediator who assists pre-decree and post-decree couples to resolve family legal issues such as settling disputes regarding custody (parenting plans), child support, spousal support, and division of assets and debts. He continued his post-graduate studies in divorce mediation and advanced family mediation training at the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law.

Dr. Rogers received his Pre-Doctoral Clinical Psychology Internship training at Cermak Health Services, Cook County Department of Corrections, Chicago, Illinois, an American Psychological Association accredited internship. The Cook County Department of Corrections is the largest (96 acres) single-site pre-trial facility in the United States, which includes Cermak Health Services (the largest freestanding correctional healthcare service in the country). Mood disorders, schizophrenia, adjustment disorders and personality disorders were prevailing diagnostic groups. Criminal charges included homicide, sexual assault, arson and stalking. Detainees often presented with co morbidity Axis I and Axis II DSM psychiatric disorders while a large population had a history of substance abuse. Organic and cognitive problems related to substance abuse and head injury were frequently included in the detainee population. Background screenings often revealed family dysfunction, mixed medical conditions and long term substance abuse. Female detainees’ psychiatric problems were often complicated by issues of parenting, pregnancy, and childhood experiences of incest and sexual abuse.

Dr. Rogers received his Therapeutic and Diagnostic Practica training at Madden Mental Health Center, Hines, Illinois, a State of Illinois psychiatric facility for adults presenting with severe mental illness who required publicly-funded inpatient treatment. The psychiatric population correspondingly to Cermak Health Services presented with co-morbidity Axis I and Axis II psychiatric disorders, long term substance abuse, head injury, mixed medical conditions and family dysfunction.

Dr. Rogers’ graduate clinical training was a practitioner-scholar focused alternative to the research-oriented Ph.D. in Psychology. His Psy.D. and M.A. Clinical Psychology programs at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, Rolling Meadows, Illinois integrated theory, research and practice, which prepared him for both contemporary and emerging roles in clinical psychology.

Dr. Rogers also attended the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, where he was awarded a Graduate Teaching Fellowship (gtf), and completed his M.S. in the Graduate School of Education (u-of-o-grad-school-of-educ). His concentration was in Curriculum and Instruction (curriculum-and-instruction) and focused on behavioral, cognitive and instructional psychology, the systematic design of instruction and learning systems, organizational leadership and change and measurement of learning.

He obtained his Bachelor of Education at the University of Toledo, where he completed his major in comparative literature and his minor in instructional systems design and technology.

BUSINESS PRACTICE EXPERIENCE PROFILE

Dr. Rogers started his professional career in instructional systems design (ISD), human performance technologies (HPT), executive leadership development, and organizational transformation and change in management information systems (MIS), financial services and high-technology manufacturing business environments. His specific expertise includes instructional systems design, human performance technologies, and organizational transformation and change to support enterprise-wide initiatives to resolve dynamic operational constraints adversely affecting organizations and human assets’ productivity and profitability.

Dr. Rogers formerly served as Director, Program Development to The Institute of Financial Education, U.S. League of Savings Institutions, and as Co-Director, Graduate School of Savings Institution Management. He was responsible for supporting and marketing over thirty schools and workshops in general and specialized management, financial management and lending.

Dr. Rogers also served as Coordinator of Training Administration Services at Associates Commercial Corporation where he had administrative responsibilities of managing the continuing education archival system for 5 major business divisions, 80 branch offices and more than 1,500 employees.

As a former Training Project Supervisor at Motorola Training and Education Center, Dr. Rogers designed human performance technology process improvement efforts and respectively project managed the development of training curricula and instructional design and layout of instructional materials supporting the Total Quality Improvement (TQI) enterprise-wide initiatives through quality improvement training strategies and training program development.

While serving as Program Supervisor, Instructional Design, at the Customer Training Center, G.T.E. Automatic Electric, Inc., Dr. Rogers project managed the instructional systems design and training program development of instructional resources for a nine-week technical training program on the GTD-5 electronic telephone digital switching system.

During his employment at Arthur Andersen as a senior instructional designer, Dr. Rogers worked on a variety of management information systems (MIS) development projects across all of Andersen’s divisions. In his appointment in the Professional Education Division, he was accountable for instructional design of training materials supporting Andersen’s systems analysts by training them on the skill sets necessary for the installation of database management systems (DBMS).

ACADEMIC PRACTICE EXPERIENCE PROFILE

Since 2000 Dr. Rogers has been an adjunct faculty member or visiting lecturer teaching courses in clinical and forensic psychology, introduction to conflict resolution skill sets, and philosophies and methods in conflict resolution.

In 2002, Dr. Rogers received the Adjunct Faculty of the Year Award from the Student Association at one of the two graduate schools of professional psychology that he teaches at in the Chicago metropolitan area. This recognition originates from his teaching focus on clinical and forensic psychology critical thinking skills that need to be taught to students from an applied practitioner-scholar approach. He integrates practice and didactic clinical and forensic content in a competency-based training philosophy predicated on a case-based approach to mentor a diverse student body. He uses technology and varied education approaches, and views research-training in professional psychology as an essential component for developing and enhancing critical clinical and forensic thinking skill sets in students. His classes engage the challenge of the human condition directly: starting with the emphasis on the role individual differences and culture play on the formation and maintenance of psychopathology, the best available theoretical conceptions and state-of-the-art research, along with individual professional experience to bear on studying and improving the functional condition of patients.

Dr. Rogers remains current on research and practice in the areas of clinical, forensic, social and neuropsychology through on-going post-graduate professional education, conducting independent studies on in-depth investigations of social science current research foci and practice areas, and attendance at professional conferences and presentations.

As adjunct faculty in the Psy.D. Clinical Psychology Program course streams, Dr. Rogers teaches courses in Psychopathology, Clinical and Diagnostic Interviewing, Personality Assessment, Advanced Assessment, Professional Issues and Ethics, and Basic Interventions in Humanistic and Existential Psychotherapy.

As a former adjunct in M.A. Forensic Psychology Program courses streams and presently Doctoral Psy.D. Programs with Forensic Psychology specializations, Dr. Rogers has taught courses in Clinical and Diagnostic Interviewing, Professional Issues and Ethics, Family Law, Forensic Documentation, Report Writing and Testifying, Hostage Negotiations, Psychopathology, Socio-Cultural Issues, Trauma and Crisis Intervention, Violence and Risk Assessment and Forensic Psychology in Correctional Settings.

As a visiting lecturer in conflict resolution skill sets, philosophies and methods in conflict resolution, Dr. Rogers has taught courses that use varied critical thinking approaches to understand and analyze issues and develop the skill sets to practice as a mediator. He also has taught a graduate level course that focuses on theories and methods of conflict resolution from a variety of perspectives that focus on a number of settings including international and peace keeping, cross-cultural and interpersonal. Special attention is given to developing facilitative communication and negotiation skills that help students to understand the dynamics and difficulties of communication in situations involving professional, ethical, and vocational aspects of conflict resolution in international, peace keeping and cross-cultural engagements.