Northeastern Consulting Team

To read the bio’s of the Northeastern Consulting team members is like reading a Who’s Who in organizational effectiveness and development consulting. The Northeastern Consulting Team members have years of training and experience in organizational consulting and leadership development. They all have advanced degrees in applied social sciences and several of them either currently teach or have taught at the undergraduate and/or graduate level in several universities and institutions around the country.

The Northeastern Consulting Team cares about you and your business. Many of them have been part of the management in the organizations they support and therefore understand the direction and business challenges their clients face. They consciously entered the field of organizational development to provide a level of support that is both personal and professional and leads to their clients’ success. They have the experience and expertise to offer excellent advice and assistance and to be able to work successfully with a variety of businesses and industries. They are committed to sound consulting guidance, great service and a positive impact on their clients’ operational effectiveness.
 
All Northeastern Consulting team members are officers of the company and as such are part of the decision making process with respect to clients and business operations.

Dave Fleck, President and Principal Consultant

Dave founded the company 10 years ago and specializes in consulting to world leaders in Health Care, Financial Services, Telecommunications, E-commerce and Manufacturing. Prior to beginning Northeastern, Dave was a Director of Organizational Effectiveness with Johnson and Johnson's pharmaceutical business and the Team Leader for the Organization Development (OD) consulting practice in AT&T's consumer business. Earlier in his career, Dave was a member of the management team at AT&T Bell Laboratories (now a part of Lucent Technologies) and has held management positions with Raytheon Company as well as the United States Government. For several years Dave was an Adjunct professor in the graduate program at Polytechnic University in New York. He holds a Masters degree in Organizational Consulting from Seattle's City University - Leadership Institute of Seattle and a Bachelors degree in Sociology (Summa Cum Laude) from the State University of New York. Dave is certified in Wilson Learning Social Styles, Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Drexler-Sibbet High Performing Team Model and Coaching/Consulting in Whole Systems IQ.

Lois Campbell, Vice President and Senior Consultant

Lois specializes in facilitating leadership and group effectiveness. She assists organizations to effectively manage change and growth through stronger work relationships, increased communication skills, viable organizational plans, and enhanced leadership capacity. Lois teaches in Carlow College’s Masters in Professional Leadership Program. She holds a Masters Degree in Applied Behavioral Science from Seattle’s City University and is a certified mediator with the Pittsburgh Mediation Center.

Mary Beth Larkin, Vice President and Senior Consultant

Mary Beth specializes in executive development and coaching and assisting organizations and teams to successfully manage growth and high performance through large-scale change implementation, process improvement, and mergers and acquisitions cultural integration. Prior to joining Northeastern, Mary Beth held various Organizational Development and Human Resources generalist and specialist positions across her 22-year career within the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies supporting global efforts across the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Consumer businesses. Mary Beth holds a Masters of Science in Human Resource Development from Rutgers University and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Monmouth University. She is certified in various individual, team, and executive team development assessments, organizational survey development and analysis, She also served as internal faculty for multiple training workshops focused on ethical decision-making, conflict resolution, legal awareness and change leadership.

Dona-Maria Vages, VP, Sr. Consultant & Certified Emotional Intelligence Expert

Dona-Maria is an intercultural consultant specializing in assisting organizations to successfully manage and effectively use their human resources as a competitive advantage. Her focus is on the effective management of organizational transitions, building inclusive work environments, and developing associate capability throughout the US and Europe. Dona holds a Masters of Science in Human Resource Development from Suffolk University and a Bachelor of Science Degree (cum laude) in Business Administration from Northeastern University. She is an adjunct instructor at the graduate level at universities in Massachusetts and in Florida. Previous corporate experience at AT&T and Lucent Technologies in Human Resource and Organization Development were dedicated to management development, work redesign and leading global virtual teams.

N. Dini Checko, Senior Consultant

Dini offers an appreciative and intuitive approach to coaching, training and development, and organizational effectiveness. She uses her diverse background, education, and experience to help understand the perspective and needs of other people and to aid them in being more effective as individuals within an organization. Dini holds an M.A. degree from Columbia University in Organizational Psychology and a B.S. degree from the School of Business at Rutgers University. She is certified as a Coach/Consultant in Whole System IQ from The Leading Clinic. Dini is a member of the NJ Organizational Development Network.

 

Gil Crosby, MSW, Senior Consultant

Gil began his Organizational and Leadership Development career in 1984, following enthusiastically in his father's (Robert Crosby) footsteps. Gil has held Organizational Development and Change Management positions with Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station and EDS. Gil recently published his first book, Fight, Flight, Freeze: Taming Your Reptilian Brain and Other practical Approaches to Self-Improvement, Eloquent Press, New York, New York, 2008. He has also published numerous articles, and has served as adjunct faculty to Martin University (Indianapolis, IN) and The Leadership Institute of Seattle. He spends about 50% of his time working internationally, and is widely respected for his impactful interventions, whether coaching with individuals or working on large scale systems change.

Amy Flynn, Senior Consultant

Amy has worked in the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device and Diagnostic industries for over 18 years across a variety of functional areas including operations, marketing and business development.  Amy has led major change initiatives from both the client and consulting side that include mergers, acquisitions and partnerships as well as internally driven change.  She combines a strong process orientation with an interest in internally driven motivation to effectively shift organizational thinking and action toward a long term vision.  Amy holds an M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology from Temple University, an MBA from Rutgers Graduate School of Management, and a BS in Engineering from Rutgers College of Engineering.

Paul Forti, PhD, Senior HR Business Consultant and Psychologist

Dr. Forti provides executive coaching and management consulting services. He brings his value-added skills and human resources expertise to organizations in the area of career management, assessments, employee motivation, team facilitation and organizational development. A key strength of Dr. Forti is his ability to provide effective leadership and collaborative problem solving skills, which form the essential foundation necessary to implement all strategic change initiatives.

Pam Madison, Senior Consultant

Pam specializes in the development of emotionally intelligent leadership through individual coaching and experiential workshops. She has a wealth of experience facilitating large-scale, work team, and individual change. Her clients have consistently achieved bottom-line results, hitting cost reduction, productivity, throughput, and other targeted goals. She is an expert on survey-feedback and related processes. Pam has applied these skills facilitating leadership and communication skill development in corporate, manufacturing, governmental, non-profit and educational environments as a consultant, employee and manager. Pam holds a MA degree in Applied Behavioral Science through Whitworth College, with a strong mix of international and domestic experience. She is a Coach/Counselor Licensed in WA State, and is a former Adjunct Faculty and Systems Consultant/Coach/Counselor for the Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS) Masters in Organizational and Corporate Leadership Program.

Marsha Montgomery, Senior Consultant

Marsha has over 20 years of management and consulting experience for Fortune 100 and mid-size clients in multiple industries. Areas of expertise include strategy implementation, organizational transformation, business process improvement, change management, and operations and supply chain effectiveness. Marsha has successfully led projects in R & D, Facilities and Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality, Sales and Marketing as well as Finance and Accounting. Marsha has an extensive background working with Life Sciences companies of all sizes. Marsha has an accounting degree from William & Mary & an MBA from UVA’s Darden Graduate School of Business. She have worked for Price Waterhouse, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Corning in functions ranging from manufacturing management to account & customer service management.

Dean Robb, PhD, Senior Consultant

Dean's primary area of expertise is organizational and business renewal and innovation. He also has strong capabilities in several fields which support that primary goal, including: strategy development and implementation; business, operational and functional performance improvement; change management; leadership and team development; and executive coaching. Dean has personally worked with clients such as GE Capital, Fidelity Investments, Nationwide Insurance, Prudential Insurance, Hewlett-Packard, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals, CR Bard, Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Saudi Aramco, CITGO, Verizon, AT&T, and Telebahia. Over the past 15 years, Dean’s writing has appeared in The Handbook of Business Strategy, Executive Insights, The CEO Refresher, CEO Factor, CEO Online Expert Talk, Leadership Excellence, Brand Republic, BrandChannel.com, M-World, IHRIM.link, and IndUS Business Journal. Besides a doctorate in Human and Organization Systems (The Fielding Graduate University), he holds an M.A. in Human Development, an M.S. in Statistics and a B.S. in Mathematics. Dean is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Management at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Fordham University, and Colorado Technical University.