The founders of EDP, Neal Thornberry, Ph.D. and Jerry Parisella, M.S., have worked together on a variety of leadership, management development, innovation and business acumen programs for numerous corporations in America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. As business professor and business executive, respectively, they have fine tuned an approach to customized executive education that combines ‘academic excellence,’ ‘curriculum flexibility,’ and ‘strategic alignment.’ This approach is integrated with program design that blends ‘intellectual understanding’ with ‘emotional insights,’ both of which are necessary for sustainable managerial behavior changes. The result of this innovative approach is the rapid development of critical competencies that enhances management’s ability to execute the sponsoring organization’s business strategy.
GLOBAL FACULTY NETWORK
During a decade of working with hundreds of proven executive educators at many of the world’s best business schools and private practices, Messrs. Thornberry and Parisella have created a Global Faculty Network of business professors, program designers, online educators, subject matter experts and executive coaches experienced in working with managerial groups at all levels of private and public sector organizations.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Their respective areas of expertise include leadership and legacy, competitive strategy, innovation within a complex organization, matrix management and collaborative communities, virtual teamwork, engagement and employee commitment, financial management, building shareholder value, leveraging social media, competitive enterprise simulations, operations management, high performance team design and diversity, conflict and creativity, marketing, the generational workplace, organizational behavior, executive presence, change management, creating a new organizational culture, project management, identifying and mitigating risks, empowering peoples' performance, advanced leadership communications, negotiations, creating persuasive business cases, customer centricity to build brand loyalty, customer relationship management to drive revenue, quality control, emotional intelligence, managing under pressure, implementation and execution, cross cultural management, mastering organizational politics, ownership of your career, and executive coaching.
PUBLISHED IN
Their articles have appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Strategic Management Journal, The Journal of World Business, MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Innovative Leader, HR Magazine, HR Professional, Leadership Excellence, Talent Management, HR Executive, and CRM Magazine, and their perspectives quoted in Forbes Magazine, Inc. Magazine, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS
The professors in our Global Faculty Network hold positions at such business schools as Babson, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Tuck, University of North Carolina, Harvard, MIT's Sloan School, University of Chicago, Kellogg School at Northwestern, UCLA, UC Berkeley, NYU's Stern School of Business, Wharton, University of the Sciences, the Naval Postgraduate School, the Naval War College and, internationally, INSEAD (France), HEC (France), Ashridge (England), London Business School, European School of Management Technology (Germany), IMD (Switzerland), Helsinki School of Economics (Finland), IESE (Spain), Australian Graduate School of Management, Tsinghua University (China), and Hitotsubashi University (Japan).
YOUR FACULTY TEAM
EDP creates a Faculty Teams for each client program in order to ensure an authentic customized, co-production experience. Our faculty and onsite or online program managers then collaborate with you during each program stage to ensure your satisfaction throughout the process:
- Understanding your Business Strategy, Organization and Culture
- Diagnosis of Competency Requirements and Learning Needs
- Assessments and Development Plans
- Custom Program Design and Curriculum Development
- Securing Copyright Protected Program Materials
- Inter-Session Action Learning Teamwork Projects
- Leveraging your IT Platform for Delivery of Online Programs
- Pilot Program Delivery, Evaluation and Refinement
- Program Rollout Onsite Globally or Online Virtually
- Post-Program Action Plans and Executive Coaching