Alice Cahill

Alice Cahill, PhD

Director, Organizational Leadership Practice

Current Role

Alice Cahill is Director of our Organizational Leadership practice, where she applies her extensive facilitation and consulting experience to the design and delivery of leadership development programs that focus on both individual and organizational learning and performance. She provides custom designs and delivers programs that put leadership principles into practice.

Experience

Prior to joining us, Alice provided leadership training, facilitation, and organizational consultation services for clients within military, government, and non-profit settings. Specializing in strategic planning, leadership team development, work team dynamics, creativity, change management, and organizational culture, she has designed and facilitated learning programs and group meetings that encourage participation and generate energy and commitment to action.

Alice has successfully coached leaders and leadership teams at all levels, particularly within government, healthcare, and human service organizations. A retired US Navy Captain, Alice provides leadership coaching to military leaders in senior roles within the military healthcare system and previously served as the Director of Leadership Education for the US Navy Medical Department. She created and served as Executive Director of the US Navy’s highly regarded Center for Organization Development.

Alice has also served as Adjunct Faculty in the Division of Engineering at the Penn State University School of Graduate Professional Studies, teaching graduate-level courses in leadership and problem-solving.

She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals in both the healthcare and psychology disciplines. She is an active member in the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), the American Psychological Society (APS), the Academy of Management (AOM), and is a contributing Fellow of the Occupational Research Centre, UK.

Education

Alice holds a PhD in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. She also holds an MS in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Baltimore, both an MS in Nursing and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University, and an MA in Adult Education from the University of Rhode Island.

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