Executive Development Group--Coaching, Team Development, Leadership Education

Leadership education, coaching and organizational development will never be commodities easily replicated from client to client. There is a level of intimacy required for success.

Executive Development Group principals are respected in the psychological community for their ground-breaking work and writing. We earn the respect of forward-thinking businesses with our relationships that allow us to work closely with top-level management and integrate with business strategy.

Each of us has decades of experience in executive development, working with individuals and organizations throughout the United States, Canada, Brazil, United Kingdom, Western Europe, Saudi Arabia, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Sandra L. Shullman, PhD, served as Director of Managerial Effectiveness Programs for the Center for Creative Leadership and worked with numerous research projects and leadership development programs. She is the co-author of Performance Appraisal on the Line and has written articles and book chapters on organizational performance issues. Sandy was formerly Principal and Senior Partner of Organizational Horizons, focusing on executive assessment and development. She is an adjunct faculty member for the Cleveland State University Diversity Institute and lectures in executive education at the John Glenn School of Public Policy and the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University. She received her master's degree from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Ohio State University. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and chairs the APA Workgroup on Executive Coaching.

Sandra L. Shullman

George Sweazey, MBA,spent twelve years at the Center for Creative Leadership, and was responsible for various aspects of executive development, including needs assessment, program design, leadership training and individual coaching. He was also the manager of the Creating Team Innovation program, which focused on designing and conducting customized programs for executive teams. Before joining the Center, he was the Program Director for North Carolina Outward Bound and has designed and conducted experiential educational programs for executives. He has taught at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. George has an MBA in financial management from George Washington University.

George Sweazey

Randall P. White, PhD, has written a number of both popular and academic books and articles, including the recent release of his book with Phil Hodgson, Relax, It's Only Uncertainty (2001, Financial Times Pearson Education). He is an adjunct professor at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, has an adjunct association with Duke Corporate Education, and teaches at the Johnson Graduate School, Cornell University. Randy was formerly the Director of Specialized Client Applications at the Center for Creative Leadership where he was responsible for all custom programs. He is president of the Society of Consulting Psychologists, Division 13, a fellow in Divisions 1 and 13 of the American Psychological Association and a former board member of the American Society for Training and Development. Randy holds an AB from Georgetown University, an MS from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a PhD from Cornell.

Randall White

Clinical and management expertise by extension.

We maintain an affiliation with a small cadre of very experienced psychologists, management consultants, and human resource professionals we can call upon to work with us on specific programs and projects as needed, and we have an international network of experienced coaches and feedback givers.

Art Gechman, PhD, spent eight years as Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and a member of the senior management team for a subsidiary of Veba AG, a Fortune World 50 company. His responsibilities included legal, risk management, human resources, purchasing, systems and administrative services. He has also been a senior consultant with Towers Perrin, Personnel Decisions International, and Rohrer, Hibler and Replogle, all international consulting firms, specializing in people and organizational effectiveness. Art earned a Ph.D. under the direction of Frederick Herzberg at Case Western Reserve University, specializing in organizational and clinical psychology. He was awarded a fellowship at the Center for Creative Leadership and an NIOSH fellowship at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

Nur Gryskiewicz, PhD, was most recently an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Administration in the Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro where she taught in the school's management development, undergraduate, and MBA programs. She has been adjunct faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership as a feedback coach since 1983. Her industry experience includes working within a corporate setting where she managed marketing research projects by working with product development, advertising agencies, and research suppliers. As a consultant, she has designed and administered attitude surveys, 360-degree assessment instruments, conducted career management programs, and provided executive coaching, feedback, and training in leadership development programs. Nur holds a Ph.D. from the University of London in Organizational Psychology.