Leta’s expertise as a Leadership and Organization Development Consultant and Executive Coach and Teambuilder has positioned her as a value-added resource for executives and managers in today’s unpredictable business environment. Her career of 20+ years has been dedicated to posturing people and organizations for success, aligning people strategies with business objectives. She coaches and consults with leaders and leadership teams that are working with how to create profitable, productive, and participative cultures and how to be effective and influential in those environments. Professionalism, an insightful style, a teacher and mentor able to model the behaviors sought, and a natural orientation to understand today’s pressures facing executives has earned her a reputation as a “coach’s coach.”

Leta was the Founder and Managing Partner of PDS, Inc., a multi-million dollar consulting and training firm internationally known for its work in assisting top organizations in managing cultural change and creating high-performance team based environments that understand the “people” side of initiatives such as Lean/Six Sigma.

Her consulting work with Fortune 100/500 Companies has included Cardinal Health, Humana, Inc., Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Mercke, The New York Times, KLM Airlines, Solectron, Miller Brewery, Ford, Harley Davidson, and Honeywell and many others.

Leta has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, a Two-Year Master’s Degree Program in Organization Development, and a Three-Year Post-Graduate Program in Organization and Systems Development.

She is a speaker at national conferences and has published numerous articles on topics such as Managing Change, the Changing Role of Leadership, Handling Conflict, and Teambuilding. She is the creator of numerous highly successful Public Workshops, and she currently serves on the Board of Directors of the prestigious Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.

 

Areas of Expertise Senior Executive Teambuilding Executive Coaching Global Organizational Development Leadership Development Industry & Sector Experience High Technology Medical/Health Care Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Electronics Publishing Airline/Aerospace Government

Functional Experience Senior Management Human Resources Organization Development   Certifications MBTI ECI (Hay/McBer) PDS High Performing Teams Other diagnostics  Education MS Program Pepperdine University BS University of South Florida OSD/BBI Gestalt Institute

Jerry works closely with key leaders to design effective strategies that clearly link individual and team effectiveness to total organizational performance.

For nearly 30 years as Human Resources Executive, Educator, and Psychologist, Dr. Toomer has effectively worked with a wide range of individuals and work groups to achieve their professional and personal goals in complex organizations. This includes substantial experience in leading large Human Resources functional organizations as they worked effectively as strategic business partners and adopted ‘best practice’ technologies.

For over 25 years, Jerry worked at The Dow Chemical Company and Dow AgroSciences, where he held numerous leadership positions in Human Resources, both in the US and Asia (Hong Kong). As a trusted advisor & coach to executive leadership, Jerry demonstrated an innate understanding of key business, marketing, and shareholder value drivers and positioned the Human Resources function as a key strategic partner in total organization performance. Prior to joining Dow, Jerry served as Senior Psychologist and Assistant Professor at The American University, Washington, D.C.

Most notably, he was a key member of Dow executive management teams that have successfully completed several corporate mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and global diversification initiatives. His effective blend of teaching experience, consulting skills and highly successful corporate work experience has provided sound, fundamental change in a number of business units.

His expertise has more recently been leveraged with a diverse cross-section of organizations, including Edy’s Ice Cream, Harley – Davidson, Trustee Leadership Development, Gowan Companies, SYM Financial, and the College of Business at Butler University where he serves as an Executive Partner and Adjunct Professor.



Education

Bachelors Degree in Psychology, Wartburg College
Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, University of Iowa
Named a “Diplomate in Counseling Psychology”,
     the field’s highest professional certification, by the American
     Board of Professional Psychology in 1982.