Specialties

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities — that’s training or instruction— but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
— Thomas More (1477-1535), English Humanist, Statesman and Chancellor of England

Personal Qualities

• Exceptional interpersonal (i.e., sensitivity, respect, active listening),  written and verbal communication skills
• Insight (i.e., apprehending the inner nature of things, seeing intuitively in a situation)
• Introspective, self-aware, continual learning (i.e., assess and recognize own strengths and weaknesses; pursue self-development)
• Ability to remain calm and make decisions under pressure
• Critical thinking skills (i.e., integrative thinking—ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at once and reach a synthesis that contains elements of both but improves on each)
• Proven ability to handle confidential information and situations with complete confidentiality and discretion
• Ability to work in multidisciplinary environments and interact frequently with all levels of management
• Social perceptiveness (i.e., aware of others’ reactions and understanding why they react as they do)
• Open-mindedness (i.e., tolerant of all kinds of people and situations, open to new ways of thinking that challenge personal ideals)
• Ability to work independently within fast-paced, dynamic oriented environments (i.e, adopt to changing circumstances, needs and demands)

Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs)

• Leading Change (e.g., creativity and innovation, external awareness, flexibility, resilience, strategic thinking and vision)
• Leading People (e.g., conflict management, leveraging diversity, developing others and team building)
• Results Driven (e.g., accountability, decisiveness, entrepreneurship, problem solving and technical credibility
• Building Coalitions (e.g., partnering, political savvy, influencing and negotiating)

Forensic Psychology Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

• Major mental illness: Special focus on criminal psychopathy, violence risk and threat assessment, severe antisocial behaviors and disorders, psychotic disorders and substance abuse
• Bio-Psycho-Social aspects of criminal behavior
• Criminal investigative analysis (i.e., offenders and their behaviors and motivations)
• Techniques for observing and assessing behavior
• Conducting psychodiagnostic examinations (e.g., to obtain insight into the behavior of individuals accused of criminal conduct) and providing treatment to mentally ill and dangerous individuals
• Psychometric techniques, psychological assessment and standardized testing of social, emotional and behavioral issues of individuals accused of criminal conduct
• Interpret in lay terms complex psychological conditions and resultant behavioral traits; adjust presentation to different formats, consumers and purposes

Clinical Psychology KSAs

• Principles and procedures of basic and applied clinical psychology, including psychodiagnostic, therapeutic and research methodologies
• Life span development (i.e., theories and principles of normal and abnormal human development)
• Psychopathology and comprehensive differential diagnosis by presenting problems from a number of different perspectives
• Administering, scoring, and interpreting standardized tests of intelligence, achievement, aptitude, and personality behaviors
• Preparing written reports which contain formal diagnoses and recommendations for treatment
• Clinical and management consultation
• Performing crisis intervention, group, individual and family therapy
• Ability to provide training in assessment, psychotherapy and treatment planning techniques

Business KSAs

• Organizational consulting, organizational diagnosis and strategic change management
• Influence of leader’s cognitive and personality orientations, emotional intelligence on strategy, culture, performance and productivity
• Human Performance Technology (i.e., performance analysis, cause analysis and intervention selection)
• Exceptional experience with adult learning and technical trading of information across multiple projects or technical domains
• Exceptional experience with the systems approach to training and instructional systems design (SAT/ISD)
• Rebooting The Mind Through Mental Athletics
• Increasing the speed of learning or improving retention

Technical KSAs

• Proficient in Mac and PC; Microsoft Office Suite and Pages, Keynote and Numbers; CS4 Photoshop, Illustrator and In-Design; Acrobat 9 Pro; FileMaker Pro; Social Networking from a business standpoint (i.e., designing/developing online communities to share and explore common interests and activities)
• Intermediate proficiency in HTML, CSS and FTP; website and blog design and development