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David Gerard, Ph.D. is a change management specialist
who works with firms in the areas of organizational, team building and
executive/employee development, managing diversity and performance management.
He has developed a unique approach to executive assessment and coaching.
His clients have ranged from Fortune 100 firms to start-ups, from large public
sector organizations to small community agencies.
Prior to founding his own consulting firm, Dr. Gerard was Vice President of Human Technology at a Silicon Valley consulting group where he served a wide range of clients. Previously, from 1984 to 1989 he was the top regional human resources executive for a major health care chain where he managed all human resources programs for a 65-site, 8,000-employee, six-state region. Dr. Gerard received his Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Psychology from The Wright Institute, Berkeley, and received the Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies in Psychology and Education from the Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France, the equivalent of admission to Ph.D. candidacy. He is a High Honors graduate of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, where he received his Bachelor of Arts from the College of Social Studies, an inter-disciplinary program combining economics, political science, sociology, psychology and history. With a lifetime interest in other cultures, Dr. Gerard has lived in Taiwan, Mexico and France. He is a graduate of the East-West Center's program on Developing Expertise in Cultural Diversity at the University of Hawaii, studied Multicultural Team Building at the National Multicultural Institute and completed the Intercultural Communication Institute's program on Global Organization Development. He developed the concept of "Executive Community" as a means of promoting integrity, change management and superior business results for his clients. Dr. Gerard has taught graduate courses on Health Care Organization and Financing at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. The Gerard & Associates team includes a number of experienced consultants in industrial development, corporate marketing, risk management, training, inter-cultural communication, strategic planning, human resources management and clinical psychology. Back to Home Page Our Approach to Executive Coaching Team Building Management Book Reviews Executive Assessment Services Projects Case Studies Management Research Executive Community Concept |
