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Michelle L. Collins, PhD
Melanie J. Gerrity
Sue Annis Hammond
Julie K. Richie
Jan Y. Williams
Michelle
L. Collins, PhD
michelle@hrdsolutions.com
214.629.2599
Michelle provides professional consulting services to improve individual, team, and organizational performance. She is a passionate problem-solver with a keen ability to listen to clients’ concerns, discern their needs, and translate those needs into workable, pragmatic solutions. Her diverse background in corporate settings, consulting, government and academia means that, at some point, she has probably been in her client’s shoes.
Using surveys, focus groups, 360 assessments, personality-based assessments and other tools, Michelle helps her clients gain insight into their effectiveness, as well as find ways to improve performance. Her practice has grown to include group and individual development programs, including leadership development efforts aimed at helping women and women of color in organizations to overcome organizational barriers and advance in their careers.
Before founding HRD Solutions, Michelle served as Director of Executive Development at a large financial services company, where she managed the annual succession planning process and coordinated internal and external development programs for 250 senior executives. She has consulted internally with American Airlines on employee selection and development projects, and has significant experience in corporate coaching and conducting management assessments. While in city government, she designed and validated written tests and assessment center exercises for police, fire, and other municipal positions.
Michelle holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Tulane University and a B.S. in Psychology from Howard University. She is active in the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology’s (SIOP) annual conferences and has presented several papers and workshops both in academic and business settings. Michelle co-authored a publication on police education and training in a human resources journal, Public Personnel Management. She has completed multiple facilitation, assessment, and training certification programs, and is the author of The Thin Book of 360 Feedback: A Manager's Guide. In addition, Michelle is the co-author of a monthly publication, Leadership Her Way, as well as four other monthly leadership development publications.
Melanie
J. Gerrity
melanie@hrdsolutions.com
Melanie partners with organizations to develop and implement solutions that produce business results by impacting workforce performance. She designs and delivers a variety of employee assessments for both development and selection. She also designs and delivers leadership development programs.
Melanie has worked in corporate, public sector, and consulting settings in many areas of Human Resources for nearly ten years. Her main areas of focus have been designing and implementing leadership development and succession planning systems and employee selection. She has also managed and participated in large projects in the areas of recruiting, staffing, competency design, and performance management.
Prior to her affiliation with HRD Solutions, Melanie worked as a Senior Consultant in the leadership development area for a Fortune 15 telecommunications company. Her other experience includes working in the employee selection group for the same company as well as doing employee selection work in the public sector. In addition to this work in the corporate and public sector arenas, Melanie has also consulted to a major beverage manufacturer in the area of competency design and has been on the adjunct faculty of Loyola University’s City College teaching courses in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Human Resources Development.
Melanie earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and Master of Arts degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Louisiana State University and holds a Senior Professional in Human Resources certification.
Sue
Annis Hammond
sue@hrdsolutions.com
214.280.5105
Sue Annis Hammond is a Change Management Consultant with a unique combination of organizational development consulting and successful entrepreneurial experience. She spent ten years as an internal training and development consultant at Meredith Corporation and The Principal Financial Group. She has over twelve years of external consulting experience in a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies, and over six years experience as a successful entrepreneur.
Sue is a nationally recognized expert of Appreciative Inquiry, a process that changes the focus from finding out what is going wrong to discovering and expanding best practices in organizations. Her book, The Thin Book of® Appreciative Inquiry, is a national bestseller, with sales in excess of 100,000 copies. Sue started Thin Book Publishing in response to the book’s success and customer requests for more “thin books.”. The company is devoted to publishing “just in time” cutting-edge knowledge for organizational clients. Thin Book Publishing currently has five books in print, two of which have been honored with industry awards. Her latest book is co-authored with Andrea B. Mayfield and is called, The Thin Book of® Naming Elephants: How to Surface Undiscussables for Greater Organizational Success.
Sue completed a Master’s of Organizational Development at Bowling Green Graduate School of Business, where she was the 1991 Minninger Foundation Fellow. She presented her research at the 1994 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, the Organizational Development Network Annual Meeting and has published in the Journal of Business Ethics and the Inner Edge Newsletter. She also holds a B.A. and M.A. in English and currently lives in Bend, OR.
Julie
K. Richie
julie@hrdsolutions.com
214.415.0348
Julie has 12 years of experience in organization communication roles. She is the co-author, along with Michelle L. Collins, of two monthly leadership development newsletters: Leadership Her Way and Connecting the Generations: Finding Common Ground at Work.
Julie’s experience includes an in-house position as communications director for the American Cancer Society’s Fort Worth office, responsible for recruiting, training and mobilizing 30 communications volunteers to successfully publicize the organization’s messages to the media and other key groups.
She has also provided communications expertise to a variety of corporations and non-profit organizations including writing and editing the internal employee magazine for Lubbock-based United Supermarkets and writing the North Texas Food Bank’s newsletter. She was formerly a political consultant providing opposition research and reports to political candidates and corporate clients for Shipley & Associates, an Austin-based public relations and consulting firm.
As a journalist, Julie’s experience includes three years as an editor of Dallas Family magazine. Her articles have also appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Dallas Family, North Dallas People and FamilyFun magazine.
Julie has a B.A. in political science from Brown University and an M.B.A from Texas Tech University, including coursework in human resource management, organizational behavior and management, leadership skills, and several statistical methods courses. She has also completed graduate work in journalism at the University of Texas.
Jan Y. Williams
jan@hrdsolutions.com
214.540.6541
Jan brings twenty years of professional Client Services experience to HRD Solutions. Her organizational and people skills are focused on enhancing our Project Management function to enable smooth transitions from beginning to end of each project for our clients.
Her career in client relations began with several Dallas-area communications companies. From there she joined a Dallas-based software company where she designed and implemented a complete customer service department from the ground up. An important part of that development plan was to create a proactive communication tool for the betterment of client feedback. Jan was also instrumental in crafting the framework for a 24-hour support desk system.
Jan graduated from Southern Methodist University with a BA in Business Administration. She is a Founding Board Member of Wednesday’s Child Benefit Corporation. She is a thirteen-year member of Dallas Junior League, a former President of the Women of Good Shepherd Church, and has held various Committee heads for the Good Shepherd church and school communities.
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