Laney College - Anthropology
Teaching mission-inspired leaders how to create a collaborative culture for big impact
Management Consulting
Dr. Deborah
Pruitt
San Francisco Bay Area
Deborah Pruitt, Ph.D. is an award winning author and nationally recognized expert in culture change and collaboration in the workplace and beyond. She has an unparalleled vision for seeing the untapped potential in groups and applying cutting-edge strategies for bringing forth their gold!
Deborah delivers high-impact, accessible and immediately actionable presentations and programs that transform mission centered groups from common to extra-ordinary, creating stellar results and big impact in the world.
Her Formula for Group Alchemy, described in her book, "Group Alchemy: The Six Elements of Highly Successful Collaboration," is a systematic, intentional and reliable method of leadership that transcends limiting, last-century, command-and-control management and "charismatic" leadership models by connecting people in a collaborative culture based on shared ownership of vision and results.
Specialties: Culture change and integration, collaboration, game-changing leadership
Adjunct Faculty
Supervise Ph.D. candidates in research and dissertation writing. Present seminars in theories of social change and research methodology.
CEO and Founder
Group Alchemy Consulting is an education and consulting firm that specializes in helping people create a truly collaborative culture for leading their organizations to extra-ordinary effectiveness and impact. Through applying our Formula for Group Alchemy, our clients are able to combine their diverse talents and perspectives with much greater ease as well as completely sidestep the kind of breakdowns and barriers that commonly hinder individual performance and group effectiveness.
We offer a series of programs to help you to create the special chemistry in your group that unlocks the full potential and results in extraordinary successes and big impact.
We can help with:
• Culture transformation, integration and development
• Optimizing collaboration - within and between organizations
• Leadership development
• Strategic meeting training and facilitation
Professor
Tenured instructor of anthropology. Department chair.
B.A.
Anthropology
PhD, MA
Anthropology
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