Kerri Kearney
Biography:
Kerri Kearney is a Senior Consultant with EDA, her professional experience includes:
Faculty, Educational Leadership, 2004-present, Oklahoma State University
Research/publish in areas of leadership, organizational and human change, and visual qualitative methodologies. Teach and advise master’s and doctoral students. Lead/participate in research grants and contracts. Engage in service activities, including organizational consulting. Was requested in 2005 to take leadership of a contract with the U.S. Army; size of the contract tripled in 18 months to a budget of $1.4 million, making it the largest contract in the OSU College of Education.
Senior Consultant, 2001-present, Character of Excellence (dba Executive Development Associates); Partner/Owner, 2004-2007; Director/Vice President, 2002-2004
Worked with company founder to establish organizational consulting firm. Established operations and maintained oversight of marketing, finance/budget, and other day-to-day administrative/management responsibilities. Worked in concert with President to accomplish business development planning.
Selected Clients (personally served) Since 2001: HSBC; Dun & Bradstreet; St. Luke’s Healthcare Network; Donovan Industries; Lockheed Martin; Federal Aviation Administration; Eisai Pharmaceuticals; Campbell Soup; Aggreko; Ruskin Air and Sound Control; University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana; PeopleAnswers; ConocoPhillips; Magic Empire of Girl Scouts full-time regional management staff. Certified business affiliate of Maximum Impact, Inc., teaching leadership for corporate audiences including: Motorola, Target Corporation, Honeywell, York International, NovaStar Financial, Briggs & Stratton, Hallmark Cards, Ortho-McNeil, and others.
Senior Management Trainer, Corporate Training, 1997-2000, WorldCom, Inc.
Consulted with managers and training staff in MCI-WorldCom Communications to provide a full range of management services. Partnered with managers nationwide to provide solutions for team and individual management issues; built and managed relationships with regional executives and managers; teamed with HR in situations of uncontrolled attrition, sex harassment investigations, and other conduct issues; designed and developed curricula for custom deliveries and “core” management classes; administered and applied a variety of individual assessment instruments. Established corporate training presence in the Chicago area following acquisition of Metropolitan Fiber Systems.
Senior Advisor, 1996-1997, Bernard Haldane Associates
Recruited to coach and counsel mid-, senior-, and executive-level corporate clients in new career selection and transition primarily due to corporate acquisitions and downsizing. Realignment of service delivery led to 25% reduction in client preparation time; first advisor in local market to achieve monthly campaign closes of over ten; ranked in top five advisors nationally.
Director, Career Assistance Center, 1991-1996, Meridian Technology Center
Was hired to design and implement a service center for student and business populations. Supervised and delivered services within a federally-funded program for single parents and displaced homemaker students; supervised counseling staff. Established potential client companies’ needs; managed profit and loss; provided consulting services; designed and delivered custom training. Established first annual statewide assessment conference for vocational education; design of Center and/or services was used as a model for other facilities in the USA and Canada. Established contracts with and continuously served over 50 regional companies; training services were profitable in first year. Served as member of senior organizational management team.
Director of Marketing, 1994-1996; Interim Director of Personnel, 1995; Program Development Specialist, 1990-1991; Industry Trainer/ Contractor, 1987-1990; Evening Supervisor, 1987-1990, Meridian Technology Center
Formal Education
- 2002 Doctor of Education
- 1990 Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Specialization in Management
- 1988 Bachelor of Business Education
Professional Certifications/Other Formal Qualifications
Organizational Effectiveness Survey Performance Dashboard, Inc.
Business Affiliate/Certified Instructor Maximum Impact, Inc.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Association for Psychological Type
Strong Interest InventoryTM Consulting Psychologists Press
FIRO-BTM (motivations assessment) Consulting Psychologists Press
Job Profile Analyst and Assessor Valpar International Corporation
Certified Facilitator PeopleSkills
Certified Facilitator AchieveGlobal
Certified Facilitator The Pacific Institute
Selected Research Publications
Kearney, K. S., Self, M. J., Bailey, L, Harris, E. L., Halcomb, S., Hill, B., Shimp, U. R. (2008). Building an academe and government partnership in workforce education: Challenges and possibilities. Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 44(3), 1-21.
Harris, E. L., Bailey, L., & Kearney, K. S. (2007, in press). An evolving focus: From product to process orientation in a civilian military organization. Proceedings of the 2007 OACTE, OCTP, and OATE Joint Fall Conference, Stillwater, OK.
Archer, D. E., Kearney, K. S., & Blackburn, B. (2007). Impact of transition from sport: The emotional experience of intercollegiate athletes. Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education, 1(1), 67-76. Article selected for the inaugural issue.
Kearney, K. S., & Mathers, J. K. (2007). Rooms with a view. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 10(2), 1-18.
Kearney, K. S., & Hyle, A. E. (2004). Drawing out emotions: The use of participant-produced drawings in qualitative inquiry. Qualitative Research 4(3), 361-383. Article listed in March 2006 as one of “The 50 Most-Frequently-Read Articles” in Qualitative Research.
Kearney, K. S., & Hyle, A. E. (2003). The grief cycle and educational change: The Kubler-Ross contribution. Planning and Changing, 34(1&2), 32-57.
Kearney, K. S., & Hyle, A. E. (2008, in press). Participant-Generated Visual Data: Drawing Out Emotions. In K. Finson & J. Pederson (Eds.), Drawings as visual data.
Kearney, K. S., & Hyle, A. E. (2006). A look through the Kubler-Ross theoretical lens. In V. A. Anfara, Jr., & N. Mertz (Eds.), Theoretical frameworks in qualitative research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Selected Organizational Research, Work in Progress
Kearney, K. S. (2007-present). A study of the impact of individually-held values on the leader-follower relationship. This study seeks to determine the impact of personally-held values on the leader participants’ day-to-day leadership decisions and practices; in addition, the study seeks to determine the transparency of leader participants’ values to followers and the impacts on the followers’ levels of commitment to the leader. Initial discussions related to development of a related 360-degree assessment leadership product are in progress with external organizations.
Kearney, K. S., Siegman, K. D., & Bailey, L. (Article in progress, 2006-present). Facilitated organizational change: 360-degrees of perspectives. The original purpose of this study was to examine the effects of specific change intervention practices on individuals who choose to stay within a corporate environment during large-scale organizational change. While an article from this perspective will be written, a secondary focus of the study data speaks directly to the human experience of being inside the storm of large scale change, as communicated through the diary and additional thoughts of an insider. This second article is currently a work in progress.
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