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Academic Positions Held
Wharton: Adjunct Professor of Management
Profile
Monica
McGrath is an experienced human resource consultant in the area
of leadership development and executive coaching.
She provides services to senior executives and their
teams and uses her expertise and experience to help
organizations meet business objectives through the leveraging of
leadership talent. In collaboration with organizational leaders,
she designs meaningful individual and team learning experiences
and helps organizations build a commitment to the sustained
growth of leadership competencies.
Her approach combines strong diagnostic skills, an
understanding of individual and team developmental processes,
and skill in work based learning efforts.
Monica
is currently Director of the Leadership and Learning Teams for
the Wharton School and Adjunct Assistant Professor teaching
Foundations of Leadership and Teamwork. She is serving as
Faculty point on student issues of gender and diversity.
The Wharton Leadership course uses a team-based action
learning approach to the development of leadership skill.
Monica’s
most recent consulting assignments include; the design of a
strategic senior leadership development process, the design and
implementation of the executive engagement phase of a diversity
initiative and the management of over 100 action learning teams
using real work issues as a vehicle for learning.
Additional assignments include acting as lead consultant
to top management teams in the development of a leadership
competency model, the delivery of high potential learning
programs and working with senior executives and managers in a
one-on-one coaching relationship.
She
holds a Ph.D. in Psychological Studies from Temple University,
specializing in group and organizational psychology.
She is a currently member of American Psychological
Association, The Academy of Management, Wharton Center for
Leadership and Change, Philadelphia Human Resource Planning
Group and International Executive Women’s Development Network.
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