Laurence J. Stybel, Ed.D

Education

Experience

In 1979 Larry Stybel and his partner co-founded Stybel Peabody, a company that helps business leaders manage complex leadership change. Core services revolve around retained search, leadership development of high potentials and career management.

Today the company is part of Arbora Global----250 professionals in 25 U.S. cities and 24 countries.

Stybel Peabody clients range from messy family businesses with succession issues to 21 percent of the one hundred companies listed by Forbes Magazine as "best employers" in the United States.

Larry is a frequent contributor to MIT Sloan Management Review in the areas of leadership, career management and corporate governance. He is frequently interviewed on these subjects by the Wall Street Journal. Larry writes a monthly column on leadership for Psychology Today Magazine.

Larry himself is a licensed psychologist with a doctorate from Harvard University. He is one of only 220 people in the world to be granted the title Career Management Fellow by the world's only nonprofit dedicated to the certification of excellence in the field.

In addition to his corporate roles, Larry is Executive in Residence in the Department of Management & Entrepreneurship at Suffolk University's Sawyer Business School in Boston. For Suffolk University he produces a national media show called "Inside Leadership." Sponsored by Eastern Bank, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and Tufts Health Plan, the show "inspires tomorrow's leaders today."

Maryanne Peabody

Education

Further Education

Experience

Maryanne Peabody is co-founder of Stybel Peabody & Associates a consulting firm in leadership change which is now part of Arbora Global. An organization development consultant and coach, she has assisted corporations, executives and professionals in the areas of executive retained search, leadership effectiveness, Executive Coaching and career coaching since 1981. One of Maryanne’s areas of expertise is developing leadership and management skills in individuals in the professions such as law, medicine, accounting, science, engineering and consulting. Her prior experience includes leadership positions in health care corporations and organizations.

She is a contributing author to the book, Harvard Business Review on Managing Your Career. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, The Boston Globe.

Warren Radtke

Education

Further Education

Experience

Warren Radtke is an internationally recognized Executive Coach and Career Management Consultant. He has assisted individuals manage the senior executive assignment cycle for more than twenty-five years. As an entrepreneur he was a founding principal of an international Human Resources Consulting Firm with offices throughout the world. He became EVP and a member of the Executive Management team when the firm became publicly owned overseeing revenue development and operations for the eastern one third of the United States. He has been with Stybel Peabody for 15 years.

Warren’s coaching practice focuses on CEOs and those who report to them especially those who interface with the Board of Directors. Working with individual managers he is especially skilled at helping them become more effective in the management of colleagues and subordinates.

Prior to establishing himself as a consultant and coach, Mr. Radtke served as parish clergy for seventeen years after beginning his career in financial services with General Electric.

Dr. Curtis L. Odom

Education

Further Education

Experience

Curtis L. Odom has over 15 years of international experience in talent management, performance consulting, training, and instructional design as a practitioner, researcher, author, and speaker. He has been a consultant and an employee with Fortune 100 companies in the industries of aerospace and defense, software engineering, insurance and financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare. His 10 years of military service in the United States Navy serve as a solid foundation of his expertise in strategic planning and tactical application of organizational development, change management, blended learning frameworks and integrated talent management to maximize organizational investments in human capital. He is an expert change leader with extensive experience leading and implementing large-scale change. Curtis has experience in change implementation, organization development, strategy and leadership, leadership/executive development and coaching, culture change, training and development, and group facilitation. He is a certified master training specialist whose facilitation experience includes: strategic planning, conflict resolution, and team building.

Michael Allosso

Education

Further Education

Experience

Michael Allosso has worked for over 18 years with Stybel, Peabody as a presentation and communications coach. He brings his “You on Your Best Day” program to executives, corporations, and organizations. Michael’s background as an award winning professional director/choreographer of countless plays, films, videos and live events has given him the tools to augment his talent of instantly pinpointing an individual’s communication/leadership skills and shortcomings and to help implement concrete methods of improvement.

Michael has been the Artistic Director and Manager of numerous theaters in the Boston area and has created and managed his own improvisational comedy troupe. He has taught in numerous colleges and schools and has been chief administrator of the Boston University Theatre Institute and National Dance Institute/N.E. under Jacques D’Amboise.

Ron B. Goodspeed

Education

Experience

Ronald B. Goodspeed, MD, MPH, FACP, FACPE, teaches leadership to physicians at Harvard University. From 1996 to 2008, Dr. Goodspeed served as President & CEO of Southcoast Hospitals Group and prior to that was President of Charlton Memorial Hospital. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer/Executive Vice President of Charlton. He joined Charlton in January 1990 as Vice President of Medical Affairs.

Dr. Goodspeed also served as Assistant Vice President and Medical Director at CIGNA Corporation and served full-time as Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Additionally, he had been in a private group practice in internal medicine.

Dr. Goodspeed has published more than 45 articles, abstracts and book chapters in the health care field. He serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, and has served as a reviewer for the ACPE Cost Management and Quality Improvement awards for the past two years.

In 2006 he was named President of the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors.

Ron is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of Medical Management and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Bruce Schwoegler

Education

Experience

Steve Jobs was “insanely great” in his ability to describe new technology in ways that inspired investors and stakeholders who were not technology-savvy. Bruce Schwoegler assists technology/science leaders who also wish to cultivate this ability.

Bruce is a Meteorologist, Oceanographer, Technology Entrepreneur, and former Chief Technology Officer of MySky Communications, Inc.

He was the top rated Chief Meteorologist and science reporter for NBC and CBS Television and is the longest tenured TV anchor in Boston broadcasting history. He won New England’s first Emmy Award for Outstanding Meteorologist.

He was the winner of The Ohio State Award for his prime time special on the Greenhouse Effect.

He has also served on the American Meteorological Society’s Board of School and Popular Meteorological and Oceanographic Education.

Reference Projects

• He served for six years on the Boston’s Museum of Science Board of Overseers and is on the Board of the Charles River Conservancy.
• As a business leader, he was founder and Chief Technology Officer for MySky Communications and participated in its successful sale. Schwoegler has been a consultant to the National Geographic Society, Weather Service Corporation, Thermo Electron Corp., and Weather Services International.

Francis (Jay) Haines, Jr.

Experience

Jay Haines brings 23 years of financial management experience. He has held such positions as President, First Deposit National Bank of Tilton, New Hampshire; Senior Vice President, BayBank; Senior Vice President and Commercial Banking Manager, BankEast, Manchester, New Hampshire; International Vice President and Strategic Planning Officer, Girard Bank, Philadelphia, PA; member of the Board for the New Hampshire Banking Institute.

Jay received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and Masters degree from the Wharton Graduate Management Program.

He was the subject of an "American Banker" article on how senior financial executives can develop career transitions to other fields.

Ken White

Experience

Ken began his career as an engineer and then moved into management. He was CEO of two companies and then acquired a career management firm. He successfully sold the firm to a global player in the industry. Ken divides his time between Stybel Peabody and MIT, where he provides career counsel to Sloan School of Management Alumni. He received his B.S. from Yale and his M.S. in Management from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Chef German Lam

Experience

German Lam’s credentials include chef at the Boston and Cleveland Ritz-Carlton Hotels, Harvard Club of Boston and Chatham Bars Inn. Additionally, he was executive chef at Mirabelle Restaurant located on Boston’s Newbury Street.

German’s awards include:

• Ritz-Carlton Hotel Employee of the year
• Boston Food Show Gold Medal
• Epicurean Club of Boston Junior Culinary Team Coach – Bronze Medal

Chief Lam works with Stybel Peabody/Board Options to prepare delicious team building experiences whose lessons can be enjoyed for years after the event.

Chef Lam will have your team/board prepare a meal under his direction. In preparing this meal, we will cook up some dilemma that parallels a complex issue faced by the team in the “real world.” The team will have to stick with “tried and true” or leverage its resources to “think outside the box” to complete the task.

As the finished product is consumed by the team, Stybel Peabody/Board Options consultants will lead a discussion about what participants learned from their kitchen experiences that could be applied at work.

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