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Edmond M.
Bazerghi, Psy.D.
Edmond is the
founder of the Center For Executive Assessment. He is an executive
coach and organizational consultant. He is also a psychologist in private practice, and is
licensed in the State of Texas as a Health Service Provider. He was
born in Cairo, Egypt, in
1932, and educated in France and the United
States giving him the ability to
work in English, French, or Arabic and in different cultural
environments. Dr. Bazerghi
holds a Doctorate from the University of Paris
in France, a Master's degree in Educational Psychology
from the University of Texas at
Austin, and three other degrees in Philosophy, Letters, and
Theology from universities in
France. Dr. Bazerghi specializes in
assessment-based executive
coaching, and
developmental planning.
In the past few years, he has worked to develop 360-degree
feedback instruments tailored to the specific needs of certain
organizations, to develop team building in organizations, and to
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In addition to
his consulting practice, since
1989, he has been the
Chief Assessor and Senior Feedback Specialist for
international training organizations in
Texas for English programs, and
in Canada for French programs.. In this capacity he has trained
other psychologists in
assessment and feedback skills, in the US. as well as
in Canada and Europe. As a
professional mediator, he has practiced and taught conflict
resolution and mediation skills. Edmond has worked with a variety of
organizations including physician groups, real estate management and
development, pharmaceutical, biotechnology,
high-tech, and publishing firms, as well as
university and church groups. In 1985, he founded and co-managed with his
wife Trianon, Inc., a wholesale and retail enterprise in
Austin, TX. This organization was sold in 2004. He is also the founder of the Mediation Center in
Austin.
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Linda
Galindo, Ph.D.
Dr. Galindo designs and implements customized projects to
facilitate
effective
communication, conflict management,
executive coaching and high-performance team building in
organizations undergoing significant transitions.
Applying these skills to
bilingual and bicultural
environments is Linda's
area of experience and expertise.
She has been active in clinical and consulting psychology since 1976, as
a therapist, clinical director, supervisor, trainer,
teacher and management consultant. Her
doctorate is from Mexico
City's Jesuit University; she also has post-graduate work in
family systems and mediation, and an organization
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Dr. Galindo is currently a change
management consultant to a
variety of corporate groups,
both private and public, and also
maintains an active private practice. Linda has worked with crisis
interventions, disaster mental
health and critical incident debriefings at various levels,
from individual to community and
from local to international. Linda is also
active in community development
and serves in a leadership
position on several local boards in the Dallas metroplex.
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Donald E. Hardy-Holley, M.A .
Don
is an executive coach and organizational consultant. Since 1986, he
has served as a specialist in assessment-based executive coaching
and developmental planning in the United States. During this time,
he has assisted family owned businesses to reorganize and use their
potential so the companies can continue successfully within their
families. He also has been involved with several non-profit
organizations to help train their personnel. Don has extensive
experience leading small and large groups. He is also a marriage and
family therapist and professional counselor in private practice. He
has a Masters Degree in Educational Psychology from the University
of Texas at San Antonio. Don is certified in many behavioral and
personality assessments, including, including Myers Briggs, CPI 260, FIRO-B, Executive Dimensions, Benchmarks, Prospector, 360 By Design,
California Psychological Inventory, Strong Interest Inventory.Don is
co-owner with his wife, Anne, of Hardy-Holley Team, Inc., an
educational and counseling corporation. Previously, he directed a
crisis intervention center, a family services organization, and
successfully procured grant money for other non-profits. He has
consulted and trained people in a variety of organizations,
including oil companies, dental offices, real estate, and grocery
chains. Because of his work with families, he sometimes serves as an
expert witness for the courts. His work as a public speaker and
trainer has taken him to Canada and Australia as well as many places
in the United States.
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Jerrilou
Johnson, M.A.
Jerrilou is a psychotherapist,
educator, group facilitator,
mediator
and program designer. Bilingual in English and
Spanish, she has ten years
experience working with a Latin American leadership program as
a trainer, facilitator, and trainer of trainers. In
addition to her work in
corporate education,
Ms. Johnson has designed and implemented programs on female
leadership,
communication in the workplace and Building Bridges
Across Cultures. She is
currently finishing her doctoral
research at the National
University of Mexico entitled The Profile of Female Leadership
in Mexico. The author of five books and various articles,
Jerrilou's work is
based on seventeen years experience implementing
workshops throughout Latin
America. Presently, she is
head of the psychology
department at United States
International University
- Mexico and heads
her own clinical
practice as a psychotherapist in Mexico City.
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Lou Lasher, Ph.D.
Dr. Lou Lasher is a coach, consultant and mediator
specializing in conflict management in organizational
settings. She is a leader in the development of dispute
resolution alternatives in Texas, and was a founding Fellow
of The University of Texas School of Law Center for
Public Policy Dispute Resolution. Lou has provided
negotiation and conflict management training throughout the
U.S., Mexico and Southeast Asia.
In
addition to her conflict work, Lou coaches individuals and
groups who are negotiating professional transitions,
managing difficult communications, and leading through rapid
change. She brings an analytical perspective to her work,
and is published in the areas of conflict management and
program planning. Lou’ s consulting approach is also quite
practical, grounded in twenty years experience in line and
staff roles. Since establishing her consulting practice in
1990, Lou has advised over fifty clients in business,
medicine, law and government. Her client roster includes
the
Asian Development Bank (Manila), Universidad de Anahuac Law
School (Mexico City), IBM, Dell Computer, MD Anderson Cancer
Center, Equity Residential Real Estate, Advanced Micro
Devices (AMD), HEB Grocery, Texas Attorney General’s Office,
Texas Center for the Judiciary, and the Lower Colorado River
Authority.
Lou holds a Ph.D. in Administration and
an M.A. in Psychology from the University of Northern
Colorado. She is certified in twenty-one instruments which
profile individuals or groups in organizational contexts.
Professional activities include service as co-chair of the
State Bar of Texas Alternative Dispute Resolution Section
and membership on the Texas Supreme Court Advisory
Committee on Court Annexed Mediation.
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Bob Boyle, Ph.D.
 Dr.
Bob Boyle is a professional psychologist, trainer, and
personal/business coach. He holds a doctorate in clinical
psychology from Rosemead School of Psychology.
Dr. Boyle is a
partner at the Center For Practical Solutions in Redding, CA – where
he performs psychological evaluations and also does individual,
couples, and family therapy. He is an adjunct instructor at Simpson
University (undergraduate) and National University (graduate).
He consults and speaks with businesses about the issues that concern
them. He has co-authored two books: A Hitchhiker’s Road Map
To Leadership and The Communication Path.
Dr. Boyle is also a
partner in the newly formed training company – The Human Connection.
He has trained various groups throughout the United States and
Canada, including managers, sales people, and members of high school
athletic teams (basketball, football, and volleyball). He has many
years of coaching experience, and is trained in coaching instruments
(e.g. Myers-Briggs and FIRO-B) as well as traditional psychological
instruments.
Dr. Boyle has been
happily married to his wife Mary Jo since 1988. He has four
children - Jacob (18), Kara (16), Caleb (13) and Bekah (10).
Dede Osborn,
MA, CEC
Dede
is a leadership specialist working in organizations struggling
with change and multi-cultural complexity and the principal of
Salamana Associates. She has served as adjunct senior faculty
and executive coach for the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)
for the last 25 years. Dede was the Program Director for CCL's
Leadership Development Program in San Antonio, TX from l985-1995
and the Project Manager for the International Leadership at the
Peak program for European senior executives in Barcelona, Spain
in the year 2000.
During the 15
years she lived in Mexico, she co-founded Tecnología
Administratíva Moderna (TEAM, SC), a training and consulting
organization which provides leadership training and assessment
for development, in Spanish, for Latin American executives. This
experience provided the opportunity to work in México, Panamá,
Venezuela, Perú, Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Puerto Rico,
Dominican Republic, and Colombia and it provided the database
for numerous research articles on Latin American leadership
styles.
Most recently
she has been a core faculty member and coach
for the Hawai’i Leadership Center,
contributing to program design and delivery of a new program
that views leadership through three cultural lenses -- Asian,
Polynesian and Western --
and the senior consultant to the Pauahi Leadership Institute in
Honolulu, HI. The mission of the Institute was to apply ancient
wisdom and indigenous values to modern leadership practices in
Hawaiian organizations undergoing change. She is also on the
leadership faculty of the School of Public Policy, University of
Maryland.
Dede has
worked with international organizations such as: Colgate
Palmolive, Whirlpool, Black and Decker, Prudential, Goodyear Oxo,
Avon Asia, Hawai’i Air National Guard, US Army, Inter-american
Development Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. She has
also served as a consultant and coach in a wide variety of
industries from international banking to manufacturing,
non-profits, health care, federal government, educational
foundations, military, dot-coms, and entrepreneurial start-ups.
Dede was born and raised in the Midwest and is currently married
and residing in Rhode Island. She
has a Master's degree in Psychology and Professional
Certification in Organization Development from Georgetown
University and is a Certified Executive Coach with the National
Association of Business Coaches. She has devoted her
professional life to creating happier and more productive
workplaces.
Dixie Cody Van Eynde, Ed.D.
Dixie Van Eynde
is licensed in Texas as a Counseling Psychologist. She has
a
Masters degree in Speech Communication and Human Relations from
the University of Kansas and a Masters degree and an Ed.D. in
Counseling Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia
University.
Dixie is
currently practicing in the areas of leadership development,
executive coaching, career development
and career transition.
She has worked for ten years as a feedback specialist/coach for
TEAM, Inc., a San Antonio affiliate of the Center for Creative
Leadership in Greensboro, NC. She did similar work in leadership
development for United Services Automobile Association for three
years. She is seeing executive coaching clients in two major
organizations in San Antonio. She and a partner are also
offering team building and planning consultation to
organizations of various kinds both non-profit and profit
making.
Dixie worked for
many years in university counseling centers doing therapy,
presentations and as much career and leadership development with
students as other duties permitted. This included working
cooperatively with Career Services for conducting workshops,
classes and career assessments and designing and implementing a
successful career exploration workshop for law school students.
She is currently working in Career Services at Trinity
University part-time and completing a project with Greene and
Associates which has provided career transition services to over
500 employees of a semiconductor plant that recently closed in
San Antonio.
Dixie has been
active in the local psychological association having served on
the executive board for seven years from 1986 - 1993 including a
year as President.
From 1984 – 88
Dixie co-edited with her husband the OD Practitioner for
the national Organization Development Network and served on the
Board of Trustees during those years as well. They co-edited a
book called Organization Development Classics, published
in 1997.
Charlie Price,
M.S.
Charlie
Price specializes in facilitating teamwork processes and
coaching. Individually or with associates, he collaborates with
public agencies and private companies on issues of
communication, morale, and conflict resolution. He is a
leadership educator, and public speaker.
Management
Trainer and Consulting Therapist for Hill Country Community
Clinic.
Thirty-five
years experience in education and health organizations as
instructor, therapist, clinical supervisor, manager, and
administrator. Past Instructor in Shasta College Management
Certificate Program
Executive Coach
for Equity Residential Properties LEAD Program
Publisher writer.
B.A. Stanford
University in the History of Ideas; M.S. San Francisco State
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