Peter Finkelstein, M.D.
Peter Finkelstein has coached and advised some of the most talented and successful scientists and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and Stanford University. He is particularly interested in the way individuals and groups achieve the high level of coordinated effort necessary for entrepreneurial success. In his work with both start-up and established companies, Peter helps executives effectively transition their organizations through the many stages of a company's lifespan, aids in shaping the working environments of executive teams, and assists CEOs and other top executives in setting-and meeting-their high performance goals.

In addition to leading groups on team-building and interpersonal process, Peter has performed original research on the social psychology of medical work settings. With Brant Wenegrat, UpStart Logic co-founder and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford, Peter authored an influential paper on large-group awareness training. He is a co-founder of CriticalPoint Software, whose groundbreaking technology uses the principals of cognitive psychology to build intuitive solutions that help people interface with computers. His book on the psychology and sociology of medical training, "The Clinical Clerkship" was published in 2000 by Sage Publications.

Kathryn Ford, M.D.
Kathryn brings to corporate clients the ability to quickly understand what changes will allow a business or organization to achieve maximum effectiveness while optimizing the creative functioning and satisfaction of the individuals involved. Since 1988-when she first began organizational consultation using the Tavistock model-she has incorporated several systems approaches into her work. Kathryn is exceptionally skillful in assessing complex systems for their strengths and challenges, and fostering highly productive collaborations. She can also assist CEOs and other key players in utilizing their key strengths to produce bottom line results, helping top management and teams to understand and shape corporate culture to achieve maximum results with enhanced personal satisfaction.

Kathryn received her BA from the University of Texas, her M.D. from Brown University School of Medicine and completed her residency at Stanford University School of Medicine. Prior to her organizational consultation, she was a psychiatrist in the Menlo Park area with a specialty in consultation to groups and couples. Her training and experience as a clinician give her special understanding of the factors that enhance-or hinder-motivation, creativity and collaboration. She now shares these abilities with her corporate clients.

Charla Hayden, M.A.
Currently the Manager of Training and Development at Oregon Health and Sciences University, Charla also maintains an active freelance practice in strategic planning, leadership and organizational development. Her clients have included for-profit companies as well as large public organizations. She has 26 years of experience teaching group theory, leadership and management at institutions such as the University of Southern California School of Public Administration and California State University at Los Angeles. As a member of the faculty of the Wright Institute, Los Angeles, a freestanding graduate school which offers a doctorate in social-clinical psychology, Charla led the Center for Organizational Studies and Consultation, a program designed to provide psychologists with the skills necessary to improving organizational and corporate life.

Charla uses the "Tavistock" or "group relations" approach, and has co-authored "A Tavistock Primer," a revision of which is now in press for Group Relations Reader III. She is an author and presenter of many other articles related to leadership and organizational culture.

Steve Tublin, Ph.D.
Steven Tublin is a clinical supervisor and faculty member at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. He has been in private practice in New York since 1993, in recent years specializing in the resolution of interpersonal issues arising in the workplace. Steve has coached executives in the banking, securities, and software industries, employing a model that views workplace productivity and satisfaction within the context of the relationships, ambitions, and values that constitute a full life.

He is the author of a number of scholarly articles, most recently on the topic of the implicit values in the practice of psychotherapy.

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