email Ted: ted@praxisCG.com

Edmund (Ted) B. Freeman, Psy.D., is an organizational psychologist and principal with Praxis Consulting Group.  He helps his clients align their leadership practices, strategy, and culture in order to enhance organizational performance and improve work environments for employees.  Working with individuals, groups and entire organizations, Ted effects change while attending to the psychological dynamics and business realities his clients face. 

His clientele comprises a broad range of organizations – from Fortune 500 pharmaceutical, aerospace, and financial services firms, to government agencies, health services agencies, educational systems and other non-profit organizations. 

Examples of his recent work include: 

• An emotional intelligence-based leadership development program that – through classroom training, experiential learning and mentoring – provides employees at a professional services firm with the leadership and management skills they need for the firm to excel.
• Leadership coaching with mid- to senior-level managers and executives to help them understand their interpersonal styles and the impact of their behavior on others and on the performance of their organizations.  Ted’s coaching is grounded in the psychological principles of change in individuals, but is typically integrated with broader interventions targeting systemic change in the organization.
• A culture change project at an urban hospital where Ted is creating collaborative initiatives between executive leadership and nursing staff to introduce new programs to enhance staff satisfaction and patient care while providing staff with new skills to support the programs. 

Before joining Praxis, Ted served as assistant director of the Rutgers Organizational Psychology Consulting Group, a consulting concern he helped create and through which he consulted to corporations and non-profit organizations on Emotional Intelligence, management and leadership, and organizational functioning.

Ted has taught graduate-level courses in organization development and consulting at Rutgers University and undergraduate courses at George Mason University’s School of Management.  He also holds a staff position at the Wharton Business School’s Executive Development Program at the University of Pennsylvania.  

He received his doctorate in Organizational Psychology from Rutgers University, where his training and research focused on organizational leadership, group dynamics, and the psychology of organizational functioning and change.  His research, which emphasized clinical methods in consulting, shed light on how psychological dynamics can create structures and formal procedures that can support or undermine the efforts and intentions of organizations and their members.  Ted received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College.