Executive coaching, education & leadership
Learning and development for global organizations
The Executive Development Group, LLC is a partnership of consulting psychologists providing executive education, leadership development, and coaching to businesses, NGOs, and business schools worldwide. We provide executive coaching, curriculum, workshops, and feedback to individuals and groups. We are also on the faculties of select business colleges.
A Competitive Edge
Through classroom experiences, assessments, feedback, and coaching, we help individuals hone new skills, identify areas for improvement, and discover their greatest strengths. We help organizations better utilize individual talent for teams that understand strategic goals.
A Positive Change
Navigate the changes in restructuring, new product lines or just corporate culture.
Our Ambiguity Architect® is proven to assess individual and organizational capacity to confront the uncertainty of change. Learn more here.
A Better Workplace
Discover the bottom-line benefits of diversity, fulfillment and teamwork.
More than compliance with diversity standards, we offer forward-thinking action to assure your organization is a competitive and dynamic environment.
Our Organization
Executive Development Group is 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.
Randall P. White, PhD, Founding Partner
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Randy has also taught at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. He spent his early career at the Center for Creative Leadership.
Randy works regularly with C-suite executives, senior teams, and the boards of large global organizations. He continues to serve as an adjunct faculty member at the Fuqua School and is active in the Duke Global Education Network (Durham, London, Johannesburg, and Ahmedabad).
The author of three books and more than 100 articles and book chapters, Randy’s writing illuminates leadership, talent management, and executive coaching. He is a quoted source on leadership in the consumer and trade press.
In 1987, Randy co-authored the best-selling business book, Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach the Top of America’s Largest Corporations? It was re-released in 1992. He co-authored The Future of Leadership: Riding the Corporate Rapids into the 21st Century in 1996. He also co-authored Four Essential Ways That Coaching Can Help Executives in 1998, a much-quoted source in coaching literature. Most of Randy’s books appear in multiple Western languages and Chinese.
In 2009, Randy contributed the capstone chapter to The Perils of Accentuating the Positive, challenging the strengths-based leadership movement. In the past several years, he has written a variety of pieces for Chief Learning Officer and the Journal of Consulting Psychology, as well as Duke Fuqua Insights.
Randy earned an AB from Georgetown University, an MS from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.
Randy is a past president of the Society of Consulting Psychology (Division 13 of the American Psychological Association) and a Fellow of APA Divisions 1, 13, and 14. He is also a Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychological Society and a Salzburg Fellow on Women’s Issues. His leadership roles include service on the boards of the American Psychological Association and the American Society for Training and Development, as well as chairing the APA Council Leadership Team.
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