Joe Goodman Joe Goodman is an organizational consultant, facilitator, coach, and instructional designer who assists organizations, teams, and managers to become more effective and productive through greater understanding of key concepts of management and management communications and by developing greater skills as leaders of high performance work groups.
For the past fifteen years, Joe has partnered with hundreds of clients nationwide and overseas, specializing in individual and team effectiveness, meeting planning and leadership, management effectiveness, interpersonal communications, facilitation, collaborative problem-solving, quality improvement, strategic planning, and change management.
Joe has advised and assisted chief executives, managers, board members, and professionals in a broad range of not-for-profit and for profit organizations, including health care, higher education, technology, financial services, government, and manufacturing. A highly experienced facilitator, he has been called upon numerous times to design and conduct high stakes meetings focused on strategy development, operational alignment, and organizational development.
He currently serves a very diverse group of clients, ranging from Fidelity Investments and Merrill Lunch to the Berklee College of Music and the Vantage Travel Group. His experience includes serving such clients as AOL Time Warner, Bell South, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Boston Stock Exchange, Comcast Cable Communications, Cox Communications, Cisco, Duke University Medical Center, Evanston Hospital, Fannie Mae, Gillette, Inova Health System, Lincoln Financial, Massachusetts Medical Society, Merck, Orlando Regional Health Center, Peabody Essex Museum, Pfizer, Progressive Insurance, Siemens, Toyota. US Air Force, and the US Environmental Protection Agency.
He has led hundreds of workshops and management training sessions over the past decade, many of which he designed and authored himself. In 2003, he began serving clients as The Meeting Doctor, focusing much of his work on transforming business meetings and conversations into high performance dialogues that produce creative and collaborative interaction. He continues to provide training and coaching in a broad range of management development areas, including high performance leadership, leadership communications, team leadership, and change management.
After a successful career as an organizational communications executive, Joe’s consulting career began almost 20 years ago at Organizational Dynamics, Inc., (ODI) recognized world-wide as a leading firm in the development of quality improvement and management development programs. He served as Director of Healthcare Consulting, and managed staffing, budget, major account management, new business acquisition, and product development in the health care sector for six years.
Subsequently Joe also served as Vice President for Organizational Development for MedStar Health, a Baltimore-based regional health system with more than 20,000 employees before launching his own independent consulting practice.
He has also held executive-level positions in organizational communications and public affairs. He created and directed the public outreach, member relations, and media relations program for the Nobel-Prize winning organization, International Physician for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and subsequently served for eight years as Vice President of Public Affairs and Development at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital.
Joe holds an MBA degree with high honors from Boston University Graduate School of Management. In addition, he holds master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University (and Tufts University and a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University. He has completed professional education courses, programs, and workshops in organizational development from such institutions as Harvard University, University of Connecticut Graduate School, Rutgers Graduate School of Education, National Training Laboratories, and University Associates. He has spoken frequently at a wide variety of professional association meetings on organizational development, organizational communications, leadership, and team performance.
An avid sailor, lifelong jazz fan and jazz musician, he is a published author of short fiction, poetry, and book reviews in such publications as the New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, Transatlantic Review, and Fiction. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Alan Cohen Ph.D. The Edward A. Madden Distinguished Professor of Global Leadership and Director of Corporate Entrepreneurship at Babson College, Cohen recently completed seven years as Chief Academic Officer, leading major curriculum and organizational changes, and has returned to the faculty to teach leadership, change and negotiations. He is a noted author, speaker and consultant.
Dr. Cohen is the co-author of the best seller, Managing for Excellence, (recently re-issued by Wiley as a Management Classic), and Influence Without Authority. His latest book with David Bradford, Power Up; Transforming Organizations through Shared Leadership, was published in March, 1998, and selected as one of the best leadership books of 1998 by the Management General website. Among his many publications is a co-authored textbook, Effective Behavior in Organizations (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 7 editions, latest 2000), which has been adopted by more than 300 colleges, and has had a major impact on the teaching of organizational behavior. He also co-authored the award-winning Alternative Work Schedules: Integrating Individual and Organizational Needs. Dr. Cohen edited The Portable MBA in Management (Wiley, 2nd ed. 2002).
Dr. Cohen's consulting clients for a variety of change projects have included IBM, General Electric (Work Out), Rohm And Haas, The Hartford, Polaroid, Home Depot, Reebok, Decision Resources, General Scanning, General Mills, Chubb Life, SmithKline Beecham, Digital Equipment Corporation, DSM, and Sulzer Infra. A member of the Social Venture Network, he is on the Sohodojo Advisory Board ("Home of the nanocorp and small business revolutionaries") and served on the Sulzer Infra Academy Advisory Board.
A popular speaker, he has given speeches and seminars to such organizations as CSC, the Digital Equipment Corporate Leaders Forum, Rockport, Nypro, New Balance, Mellon Private Bank, American Productivity Management Association, Chase Bank, Westcott Communications, Lafarge, and AT&T on:
- Leadership: Creating Extraordinary Performance
- Influence Without Authority; Getting Things Done
- Implementing Strategic Change
- Managing for Excellence
Formerly the J. R. Carter Professor of Management at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire, Cohen was director of the Whittemore School's M.B.A. program from 1974-1979, where he was voted outstanding faculty member.
Dr. Cohen helped create the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. He has also been a visiting professor at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, a consultant in London and Austria, and a guest seminar leader at IMEDE (now IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School and a guest lecturer at Stanford Business School. Recently he completed a two year term as chair of the Business Accreditation Committee of the AACSB.
Dr. Cohen earned an A.B. from Amherst College and M.B.A. and D.B.A. degrees from Harvard Business School.
Sydel Sokuvitz, Ph.D. Dr. Sokuvitz received her B.A. degree from the University of Florida and both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University.
Dr. Sokuvitz is Associate Professor of Management Communication at Babson College, where she has directed the MBA Communication Programs and is active at the School of Executive Education. Dr. Sokuvitz has been honored as Professor of the Year at Babson College and as a Babson "Woman Who Makes a Difference." She has also guest-lectured at The Olin School of Engineering and has been a member of the faculty at the Radcliffe Seminars Management Program. Her research has appeared in such journals as The Business Communication Quarterly and Human Communication Research. A Glavin "Global Center Fellow," Dr. Sokuvitz' current work focuses on:
- cross-cultural and gendered issues in communication
- presentation skills for members of the academic and not-for-profit communities
- managing diversity in the workplace.
Dr. Sokuvitz is a communication specialist who conducts training programs in areas that include writing and presentation skills, global business communication, diversity and communication in academic settings, and high-tech communication competencies. She has extensive experience in consulting and training at such organizations as Access Technologies, Atlantic Data Services, Brooklyn Union Utilities, Decision Architects (a Monitor Company), Evergreen, EMC, The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston, The Harvard School of Public Health, Instrumentation Labs, John Hancock Funds, Millipore, Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), and Wellesley College.
Kristen Baumann Kristen Baumann, a Senior Consultant with E. Wallace Coyle Associates of Marshfield MA, is the Supervisor of Admission Operations in the Graduate School of Management at Boston College, where she is responsible for managing admissions, oversight of inquiry process, visitation systems, application and enrollment process; and for the selection, development, and supervision of two direct reports and a large student staff.
During her tenure at the University, Ms. Baumann has served as an admissions associate office manager, and coordinator. Through these positions, she has recruited; conducted informational seminars; and coordinated a variety of recruiting events including organizing an off campus presentations for Boston College at recruitment fairs. Prior to her current assignment, Kristen served as Administrative Manager and later Recruitment and Training Manager at Physician’s Homecare where she oriented new employees on office policies and procedures, created training programs to cover all aspects of the new employees' responsibilities, and trained all professional staff and support staff members in communication and supervisory skills programs.
Kristen is a graduate of Stonehill College where she majored in Psychology with a minor in Health Care Administration. She is currently completing her Master’s in Business Administration degree from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Ms. Baumann has presented a variety of workshops on topics ranging from managing time effectively to effective team building and effective file management for support staff.
