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Ralph Picard is a senior consultant with Strategic Source who applies both experience and academic knowledge to define complex organizational issues and advise clients on practical solutions. He performs a variety of services at SSI such as teambuilding, strategic planning, meeting facilitation and leadership, management coaching and training and project management. Ralph specializes in conducting motivational assessments, leading career development, overseeing employee selection, facilitating the SSI partnering process, designing and administering an organizational cultural assessment process and facilitating various leadership management assessments.

Ralph combines fourteen years as CEO of two corporations with a doctoral degree in Psychology to guide clients in meeting the challenge of creating effective leadership in the workplace. He has worked with hundreds of leaders, managers and direct reports in assessing core motivators using the System for Identifying Motivated Abilities (SIMA^®) process and guided those individuals to create career development plans and improve their effectiveness in their leading and managing skills.

Ralph conducts organizational needs assessments for small companies to Fortune 500 companies employing focus group processes, interviews and surveys. He guides his clients in evaluating needs assessment research and assists them in developing strategies to address the issues.

In addition, Ralph has expertise in a unique team building application known as Partnering, used in the construction industry to assist in aligning the efforts of many companies and individuals toward working together to successfully conduct major building projects. Facilitating partnering sessions with various clients including the New York State Organization of General Services (OGS), he has assisted various contractors to bring their projects in on time and within budget. His professional paper: Project Partnering Process: A Unique Combination of Strategy and Teamwork addresses this application. Copies are available by request via our web site "Contact Us".

Ralph conducts corporate cultural analysis through use of the Denison Cultural Survey Process. Using the Denison tool, he has worked with hospitals, schools, financial institutions and merging companies. Ralph has led these companies to identify effective and ineffective cultural traits and helped them design plans to address the needs identified in the process.

Using various change management processes and management/leadership assessment tools such as SIMA^®, Acumen and Praxis, Ralph teaches managers how to become leaders and teams how to become more effective work groups. An expert on managerial development, he provides both managers and teams with the understanding and ability to "do more with less." In his consulting work with individuals and corporations, he draws from his fourteen years of practical experience as CEO for a multi-million dollar construction firm.

Ralph graduated from Lehigh University with a BS in Industrial Engineering. After many years of engineering and managing experience, he completed his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1990 at Union Institute.

Ralph's special consulting interest are in translating motivational assessment and organizational cultural assessments into action plans for more effective managers, leaders, teams and organizations. He has recently performed these services with both large and medium sized organizations including Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Merck and Company, GlaxoSmithKline, New York State OGS, Enhance Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Overbrook School for the Blind and others.