GERARD JOSEPH DONNELLAN WOODS COLLEGE Office: 781-863-5354 Email: [email protected] website: www.big-leap.com
EDUCATION
2000 Summer Study Foreign Language Institute, Cuernavaca, Mexico 1977 Ph.D. California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco, CA. APA Approved program in Clinical Psychology. 1971 M.A. New School for Social Research, General Experimental Psychology. 1967 Summer study. University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, D.F. Spanish. 1967 B.A., Cum Laude. Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Major: Spanish.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2014 Present Adjunct Professor, Boston College, Woods College for Advancing Studies,
2011- 2014 Adjunct Professor, Brandeis University International Business School; Lecturer, The Heller School, Brandeis. Courses Taught: Leadership and Organizational Behavior; The Family Enterprise; Organizational Behavior.
2002- 2006 Founding Director and faculty, Institute for Organizational Consulting Psychology, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP), Boston.
2007-Present Personnel Decisions International (PDI). External Consultant. Family Firm Institute. Certificate Program Faculty.
1998-Present Founding Partner, Big Leap Performance Solutions. Executive coaching, Assessment for executive selection and development. Team and leadership development.
1994-1998 Partner, Applied Behavioral Science. Consultation to companies on selection and organization development.
RELATED ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Founding Director, William James College (MSPP) of Institute providing continuing education and certificate programs to business and psychology professionals. • Directed 2 non-profit professional organizations • Director and principal investigator of federally funded research project.
EXPERTISE WITH CORPORATE ASSESSMENT TOOLS:
16PF, 360o Feedback, Team Assessment, Behavioral Interviewing, Organizational Surveys. BarOn-EQ, Hogan Personality Inventory, LH Step (Individual), Watson-Glaser Employee Aptitude Survey, the Devine Inventory, Behavioral Event Interview (BEI). Certified: The Group Development Questionnaire (GDQ), PDI 360º tools AFFILIATIONS
Current: Member: American Psychological Association (APA) (Life Member) Division 13 (Consulting Psychology) APA New England Society for Applied Psychology (NESAP) Family Firm Institute (Member, Fellow and Faculty) Licensed Psychologist, Massachusetts. Boston Philanthropic Advisors Roundtable Psychosocial Dynamics of Family Business (PDFB) (Think Tank)
2000-2002 President, Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (MAPP), regional affiliate of Division 39 APA.
1999-2001 President, New England Society of Applied Psychology (NESAP)
1990- 1996 Harvard Medical School, Clinical Teaching Faculty: Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston. Supervisor of child psychology fellows and interns.
1979-82 Harvard Medical School. Clinical Instructor: Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital. Clinical teaching, supervision of trainees.
1988-2002 Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP), Board of Directors, faculty and supervising analyst.
PRESENTATIONS
2003-04 Series of Workshops and Presentations on Organizational Consulting Psychology, MSPP 2004 MSPP, April. Workshop: “Organizational Consulting Psychology: Basics, Trends and Opportunities”
Family Firm Institute International Conference. Boston, October 6-9. Workshop Moderator and Presenter. “A Multi-disciplinary Case Study”
“Executive Coaching: From the Inside and Out.” Conference sponsored by MSPP and the Executive Coaching Forum. Boston, October 15. Presenter and panelist: “Psychological Knowledge and Executive Coaching.”
2005 “Assessment in Organizations: The State of the Art” May Conference, MSPP and RHR International. Conference chair and presenter.
“The Behavioral Event Interview: An Innovative Tool” September. MSPP workshop.
Family Firm Institute International Conference, Chicago. “Executive Assessment in Succession Planning: Getting Objective” Workshop, October 2005
2006 Northeastern University Center for Family Business, Moderator and Presenter, The Precista Case, April 2006.
2 Family Firm Institute International Conference, San Francisco, October, Presentation “Executive Coaching in the Family Firm: Advances in Practice and Research.
2007 Sorbonne Graduate School of Business (Paris) Seminar co-sponsored with the Family Firm Institute on “Executive Coaching in Family Businesses”.
American Psychological Association Annual Conference, San Francisco. Chair and Presenter, “Executive Coaching in a Family Business Context”
Northeastern University Center for Family Business, Presenter, “Negotiation and Conflict in the Family Business”. November 2007
2008 Northeastern University Center for Family Business, Presenter, “Leadership Development in the Family Business” March 2008.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND OTHER BUSINESS-RELATED ACTIVITIES
Career Fair World: Hospitality, Restaurant, and Gaming Convention. June 1996, Cincinnati, OH. Topic: HR Issues of Peer Review
Restaurant, Hotel and Gaming Conference. November, 1996. Las Vegas, NV. Topic: Employee Selection and Development
National Association of Professional Employer Organizations (NAPEO) Conference. March 1997. Newport, RI. Topic: Developing Customer Loyalty.
May, 1998. NESAP Showcase Presentation: What we can Learn from Athletic Coaches – The Results of a Study.
Antioch New England College, Presentation, What Fun it is to be a Coach. March, 1999.
Workshop, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, April 1999. Executive Coaching: Roles, Responsibilities and Rewards of Coaching in the Corporate World.
Massachusetts Psychological Association (MPA). Invited presentation, Fall 2000: “Alternative Career Paths in Consulting Psychology.”
Book Review, The Soul at Work, (Lewin & Regine, 2000) NESAP News, 2000.
Annual meeting of the National Human Resource Association (NHRA). Invited Keynote Presentation, July, 2001. Boston.
President’s Columns, NESAP News, 1999-2001.
Invited Panel: The Transition from Clinical to Consulting Practice. New England Society for Applied Psychology, September, 2001.
Invited Presentation, International Conference on Action-Enabled Learning: The Power of Narrative. New York, April 2002.
3 OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1980-Present Independent clinical practice: children, adolescents and adults. Consultation and supervision. Lexington, MA.
1980-81 Cambridge Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard medical School. Director and Co-Principal Investigator, NIMH research project.
1978-80 Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Hospital. Senior clinical interviewer on National Institute of Drug Abuse research project. 1979 Mass. Department of Mental Health. Consultant, MCI Walpole (prison).
OTHER INTERESTS
1997-2009 Acting experience with local theater company.
Book, GET NOTICED, GET IN: What you need to know about athletic scholarships and college recruiting. Big Leap Press, 1998.
RELATED TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
1991 Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP). Graduate in adult psychoanalysis.
1972-74 National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP).
1976-77 Kaiser-Permanente Hospital, San Francisco, CA. Psychology intern in outpatient clinic. Children's Hospital, San Francisco. Extern in child treatment training program.
1975-76 Naval Regional Medical Center, Oakland, CA. Internship in adult and child assessment, treatment and consultation. Assessment screening for naval personnel.
1975 Ohlone College, Fremont, CA. Part-time instructor in child psychology.
1974-75 Jewish Family Service, San Francisco, CA. Intern, child and adult treatment and assessment.
1971-74 Rockland Community College, Suffern, NY. Full-time instructor in psychology.
1971-72 Lehman College, City University of New York. Adjunct Lecturer in psychology.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Symbolization, fantasy and adaptive regression as developmental tasks of the latency period. Doctoral dissertation, California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco, 1977.
“Single-subject research and psychoanalytic theory.” Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 1978, (42) 4, 352-357.
4 “The transitional object and the imaginary companion.” Cathexis. 1979, (4) 1, 28-33.
Book Review, Ego psychology and mental disorder. D. Ausubel and D. Kirk, Journal of personality assessment, 1979, (43) 2, 185-186.
“Single-subject research methods applied to child treatment.” Presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, New York, August, 1979.
“Conceptual models and symbol-formation during the latency period.” Psychoanalytic Review, 1980, (67) 3,291-312.
Book review, Out in inner space: A psychoanalyst explores the newer therapies. S. Appelbaum. Journal of Personality Assessment. 1980, (44) 3, 320-321.
“Fatherliness: clinical and developmental considerations.” Presented at the annual meeting of Seminars for the development of infants and parents (SDIP). Boston, November, 1980.
Progress report, “Prevention service programs for infants of mentally-ill mothers.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, August, 1981.
“Family Support Project: Clinical research in the real world.” Presented at the annual meeting of SDIP, November 1981.
Book Review, Borderline phenomena and the Rorschach test. J. Kwawer, et al. Eds. Journal of Personality Assessment, 1982.
Book Chapter, “Symbolization, fantasy and adaptive regression as developmental tasks of the latency period.” In, Bellak, L. The broad scope of ego function assessment. New York, Wiley, 1984.
“Symbolic transformation in analytic child psychotherapy.” Presented at the scientific meeting of the Massachusetts association for psychoanalytic psychology (MAPP). February, 1987.
“Borderline children and the dilemma of therapeutic efficacy.” Contemporary psychoanalysis, 1989 (25) 3, 393-411.
“Illness and sorrow in the life of the analyst.“ Presented at the scientific meeting of the MAPP, September, 1990.
“Worm to boy to eagle: the treatment of narcissistically-vulnerable children.“ Unpublished manuscript.
Book Review, “The Soul at Work”. Reviewed in MAPP News, 2001. ______
GERARD J. DONNELLAN Recent Publications and Presentations
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Publications
Book: Who Will Drive the Bus? Guidance for Developing Leaders in the Family Enterprise. CreateSpace, 2011.
Book (Contributor) Sink of Swim: How Lessons from the Titanic Can Save Your Family Business. Priscilla Cale & David Tate. Preaeger, 2011.
Presentations (2010 – 2012)
• American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) (Jan 2012) Two Presentations: o Get to the Point: Winning Strategies for Powerful Client Relationships. o Nipping at our heels: Dealing with difficult Client Situations. • Family Firm Institute (January 2012) (New England Chapter) Have a Good Breakfast and Carry a Shield! Surviving and Thriving in Our Work with Big Egos in the Family Business. • New Hampshire Estate Planning Council: Minding the Store and Minding the Family: Helping Clients Succeed in the Business and in the Family. March 2012. • Worcester Business and Estate Planning Council: Minding the Store and Minding the Family: Doing Great Work with Family Enterprise Clients • Columbia University Business School. Presentation: NexGen Leaders in the Family Business. • University of New Haven Family Business Center: October 2011. Who Will Drive the Bus? Presentation to member family businesses. • Prince Lobel Law Firm (Boston) (October, 2011) Operating your family business in challenging times with multiple shareholders. (Panel) • New England Cable News: On Air News Commentary. “Why Narcissistic Individuals Implode in the Public Spotlight.” (June 2011) • Boston Estate Planning Council, September 2010 (Boston) • Family Firm Institute (FFI), October 2010 (Chicago); and 2011 Boston. • American Psychological Association, Division of Consulting Psychology, January, 2011 (Las Vegas)” Executive Coaching with Big Egos in Family Businesses.” • Family Firm Institute, Certificate Course for Advisors, April, 2010 (Chicago)
• Psychosocial Dynamics of Family Business (PDFB) Group, April, 2010 (Chicago) • Boston Philanthropic Advisors Roundtable (BPART), June 2010 (Boston)
6 • Boston law firms and wealth advisory firms (Boston) 2010 Other Presentations • Northeastern University Center for Family Business (Boston) (2006-2010) • University of Paris, The Sorbonne: FFI Course: Executive Coaching in Family Businesses. (2007) • American Psychological Association, San Francisco: Executive Coaching in a Global Context.
Presentation Topics (For Professional Advisors) • Keys to Growing Client Relationships. • Become a Client Magnet. • Developing Trust with Clients. • Working with Big Egos: How Not to Get Hit by a Mack Truck. • Difficult Conversations and Getting Unstuck. • Executive Coaching in a Global Context. • Trusts and Trust in the Family Business. • Case Presentation/Discussion: For CPAs, Lawyers, Wealth Advisors. • Ghost and Secrets in the Family Business
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