Rebecca Turner, Ph.D. Senior Consultant

Rebecca consults with organizations and leaders to help identify and leverage strengths to achieve their business goals, within the context of current challenges. Her work is grounded in well-researched assessment tools and methods, validated in the business world, with links to companies’ bottom line. In addition to customized measurement development, she utilizes the Denison Organizational Culture Survey, an instrument validated against outcomes such as return on investment, customer satisfaction, sales growth, and employee motivation. Rebecca is licensed by Management Research Group for the use of Leadership Effectiveness Analysis tools, including online development surveys for 360 degree feedback and follow-up coaching. In addition to interviews with key stakeholders, Rebecca collaborates with leaders and leadership teams in clarifying their mission, purpose and vision, and helps in translating these into best practices for developing their human capital.

Rebecca has worked with mid-size businesses, non-profit organizations and corporations across a variety of industries including financial services, insurance companies, architecture and design firms, health care services and biomedical research. As an executive coach, she draws upon years of experience in research and the application of psychological principles in organizational settings. She has expertise in the development of effective managers, leaders, and teams, and the assessment and development of emotional intelligence in workplace settings.

As a consultant for Aurora Associates International, Washington, D. C., Rebecca was author of government reports on measures of effectiveness and leadership practices for national programs within the Public Health Service. She has also authored numerous journal publications addressing social and psychological influences on both physical and mental health, including stress, positive interpersonal relations, and emotion management. In 1999, Rebecca received a grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) to study the effects of positive emotion and stress on physiology. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines, including Redbook, Sciences News, New Woman, public radio shows, and a BBC television documentary.

Rebecca is also a Professor at the California School of Professional Psychology and an adjunct faculty member at University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. She teaches social psychology and facilitates medical student seminars on various professional development topics. She is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association, and was appointed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to the city’s Mental Health Board. After earning a Ph.D. in psychology from The George Washington University, where she studied social and organizational behavior, she obtained pre- and postdoctoral clinical training and was a postdoctoral scholar in social development at Stanford University. She grew up in Virginia and has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1985.

Kevin Wheeler