CONSULTING PSYCHOLOGIST

Deborah Olson, PhD

Professor of Leadership and Management in the College of Business and Public Management at the University of La Verne, California, Dr. Olson specializes in the areas of strengths-based leadership development and mid/late career growth. She has received awards from the university for excellence in both teaching and scholarship, and has over 30 years of experience working in organizational development. In the 1980s, she worked at Chrysler Corporation in the Learning and Development department. She then worked as a consultant, and in 1995 became a partner at Hay Management Consultants, an international leadership development and human resource consulting firm. In 2001, she started her own consulting practice, which focuses on designing and implementing leadership development processes and strengths-based human capital management systems.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Deborah Olson:

It is with deep gratitude that I acknowledge my husband and colleague, Dr. Kenneth Shultz, who through our three decades together has given me a clear understanding of what success means and how the concepts discussed in this eBook are demonstrated through the choices we make each day.

The publisher would like to thank:

Nicola Erdpresser for design assistance; Bob Saxton and Alice Horne for editorial assistance; Georgina Palffy for proofreading; Margaret McCormack for the index; and US editor Lori Hand, for her help and expertise.