Virginia J. Vanderslice, Ph.D., is President and a founding Principal of Praxis, as well as a faculty member of the graduate program in Organization Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania. She consults with individual executives and executive teams on change management, leadership development, strategic planning, organizational structure and organizational culture transitions including culture integration issues in mergers and acquisitions and gender equity initiatives. She also consults with companies interested in making employee ownership a significant factor in driving company performance. Ginny has more than twenty-five years of experience as an organizational development consultant. Her clients have included large corporations such as United Airlines and Comcast as well as a variety of small and medium sized businesses including manufacturing companies, architecture and design firms, law firms, professional services firms and educational institutions. She also consults to local and national non-profits and has designed and facilitated multi-stakeholder planning and problem-solving meetings with public sector organizations. Ginny has experience designing and facilitating systems change strategies that include organizational diagnoses, planning, team building, and both leadership and employee communication and development programs. She is skilled at using a variety of methodologies including large-scale change methods, team building, appreciative inquiry and group process consultation. Ginny has taught in various executive development programs including the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Care Professionals and Wharton’s Aresty Institute, both at the University of Pennsylvania. She has also served as faculty for an Executive Development Program run by the London Business School. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in the social psychology of groups and organizations from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has published articles related to leadership and organizational change in both trade and academic journals |
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