Inclusive by Design: Practical Leadership for Local Governments in Changing Times
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About Joanie Connell
Joanie B. Connell, PhD, president of Flexible Work Solutions, is an organizational consultant, author, speaker, and leadership coach who is passionate about helping people maximize their leadership and personal potential. Joanie works especially well with both technical leaders and other leaders who need to interface with them to develop people strategies and to better manage teams and build stronger relationships across functions. She is the author of two books: Consulting to Technical Leaders, Teams, and Organizations: Building Leadership in STEM Environments (2022) and Flying without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life (2015). She also publishes and presents on ethics and human-centered technology, including her recent article called "Unethical and harmful effects of AI on human interactions and well-being: What organizational consultants can do" in the Consulting Psychology Journal. Joanie has a wealth of consulting experience. Her clients are from Fortune 500 companies, not-for-profit, and government agencies and high tech, biotech, healthcare, finance, legal and other industries. She has taught business and psychology students at the Rady School of Management at the University of California San Diego and the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University. She developed and ran the Center for Executive Assessment (executive assessment center) at the Rady School of Management for 10 years. Joanie earned a PhD in Psychology from the University of California Berkeley and a B. in Engineering from Harvard College. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a member of SIOP's Committee for the Advancement of Professional Ethics (CAPE) and President-Elect of the Society of Consulting Psychology (Div. 13 of APA). She is a Gallup Strengths Certified Coach and uses several assessment instruments including the Hogan suite, MSCEIT, EQ-i, CliftonStrengths, Positive Intelligence, 360-degree feedback instruments, and others.
Website: http://flexibleworksolutions.com/
Posts by JoanieC:
How Conflict Stunts Company Innovation
I was in a meeting earlier this week where there was an invited speaker discussing a controversial topic. Several of the meeting participants disagreed with his point of view. Not a problem. In fact, dissent is shown to increase divergent thinking and creative...
Turning Boredom into Innovation
It’s that time of year when we tend to get the winter blahs. The holidays are over, we’ve lost steam on our New Year’s resolutions, and spring is not yet on the horizon. Blah, blah, blah. How do we turn our dissatisfaction with the doldrums into creative new ideas?...
Teaching Millennials to Take Risks
Imagine if the Paparazzi followed you around everywhere you went making public everything you did. That’s what it’s like to be a Millennial. Their lives have been documented and made public since before they were born. Parents can be the most devoted publicists. My...