Eric Roth, Ph.D. Senior Consultant

Eric works with organizations to develop leadership talent and effectively manage change. Grounded with business acumen and consulting psychology, his areas of expertise include executive coaching, leadership assessment and training, and team development. As an organizational consultant, he focuses on strategic planning, change management, mergers and acquisitions, and succession management. He succeeds at developing the leadership capability of people at all organizational levels and in helping companies create cultures that support individual initiative, performance, and accountability.

Roth was a consultant for Personnel Decisions International (PDI) a global leadership consulting firm, where he led the assessment and coaching practice areas in the San Francisco office. At PDI, Roth focused on coaching executives and managers in leadership skills and developing leadership competencies and delivered leadership training programs to PDI’s clients. He developed expertise in the use of multi-rater (360) feedback and worked extensively in assessment centers. As a lead assessor he provided comprehensive evaluations of candidates for executive and management positions.

Roth was also with the HR division of Wachovia Bank Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia, where he held the position of VP of Organizational Development. In addition to managing the corporate Training and Development function, he facilitated organizational change initiatives and team development projects in the corporation’s business units. He also led organization-wide interventions in preparing the company for, and implementing, the merger of First Atlanta Corp. and Wachovia Bank Corp.

Roth has worked with organizations in biotech, software engineering, telecom, computers and IT, financial services, engineering and construction, power and energy, healthcare, and retail.

Roth completed his doctoral studies in Counseling Psychology at the University of Georgia with a special emphasis on organizational behavior and career development. He is currently on the adjunct faculty at the University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University, teaching courses in Organizational Development. He is the current Outreach Coordinator for the Bay Area Applied Psychologists.

Janet Schatzman