Charlee Garden, PhD: Management consultant, Ironman triathlete and consummate learner. With over 20 years of experience in the organizational effectiveness field, she brings her expertise and dedication to every client interaction. Charlee has developed long-standing relationships with some of the most respected names in the business world, and continues to build a solid track record of success.

Why Charlee Garden?

• Commitment to Results: As a competitive Ironman and endurance athlete, Charlee offers her clients the passion and dedication of a world-class competitor. She is willing to take risks and give 110% to ensure that each client's experience justifies the investment of time and money.
• Multi-Faceted Expertise: Charlee holds a B.S. in electrical engineering, an MBA and a Ph.D in organizational psychology. This unusual academic background reflects a potent combination of analytical drive, business acumen and psychological insight. Dr. Garden continually and flexibly applies these resources to every assignment.
• Psychological Aptitude: Charlee is an exceptional listener and a skilled professional who asks the right questions – which, in turn, provide a catalyst for informative responses. She brings to each project extraordinary levels of authenticity, transparency, availability and creativity. Her unique combination of empathy and insight leads clients to trust Charlee and make positive changes.
• Continuous Improvement: Clients not only benefit from their work with Charlee Garden, they also benefit from others' work with Charlee. She is dedicated to learning and improving. She meticulously reviews her approaches and designs, and applies the accumulated knowledge to each subsequent project.

Background

Garden & Co. founder Dr. Charlee Garden has consulted with investors, business leaders and companies for over 15 years. She works at the intersection of business and psychology, drawing on both disciplines to inform strategic decisions and effect beneficial changes to an organization’s leadership, capabilities, employee engagement and risk profile.

Charlee has a multi-faceted educational background. She received a Ph.D. in Social Systems Psychology from California School of Professional Psychology, a Masters Degree in Management from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University – where, as a non-Mormon, she had her first opportunity to objectively observe a complex and unique organizational culture!

A continuous learner, Dr. Garden’s professional certifications include Master Coach, Newfield Group; Organizational Development Consultant, NTL; Myers-Briggs certification; Consulting Psychology; Generative Coaching; Somatic Coaching; Coaches of Change; and Six Sigma Black Belt. In addition, she is a certified USAT triathlon coach.

Dr. Garden co-leads a research project sponsored by Columbia Business School investigating how people dealing with change respond to different types of dialogue. In addition, she serves periodically as an adjunct professor teaching leadership effectiveness in the executive MBA programs at both Columbia Business School and Farleigh Dickinson University.

Prior to founding Garden & Co., Dr. Garden worked at Bell Labs, AT&T and Chase.

Charlee Garden is known for her piercing clarity and humor.

For more on Garden & Co., click here.

To grow, find the balance between pushing the limits and respecting limitations. Remember the spring: unstretched, it serves no purpose; overstretched, it snaps. >More