Highlighting the potential at stake, our team of consultants have collectively seen enabled savings in the hundreds of $Millions over scores of initiatives by the application of the right talents, in the right circumstances, with individuals of the appropriate Cognitive Style. We have also observed the tragic results of not understanding the ramifications of Cognitive Style in situations of significant lost opportunity, organizational conflict, failure in objectives and business plans, stalled projects and initiatives, and even business failure.
We use instruments validated to Phd rigor and which have been proven in industry, business, academia, and in research. An imperative of our work is that the process and results are measurable, predictive, prescriptive, and repeatable. Our assumptions, methods, and processes have been derived from many years of experience in technology, manufacturing, and business. Cognitive Appreciation™ and the Cognitive Appreciation Framework™ represents our integration of Cognitive Style knowledge with this experience which yields a powerful understanding of how collaboration, innovation, and productivity are enhanced on a personal and corporate basis.
It is our objective to enable our clients and partners to take our knowledge and framework of application and tailor it to add a new and powerful dimension to their organization or specific field of application for a more sustainable, competitive, and successful future.
Mark A. Davis MBA
President
Mark Davis holds an International MBA from Lawrence Technological University in Michigan, a Bachelors Degree in Management, and a degree in Industrial Engineering Technology. He has over 25 years experience in business and manufacturing on a national and global basis working for Fortune 100 and smaller companies including many years in automotive manufacturing. He is an entrepreneur and has worked in business, management and many engineering disciplines including industrial, process, product, manufacturing, and controls and in information technology for much of his career.
With a cognitive style of high innovator, over his career he has been fortunate to have developed a very diverse experience base and has consistently demonstrated the ability to 'see' opportunity for innovation and improvement and has initiaited/authored a substantial number of enhancements and developments within manufacturing, people, business, and IT systems; savings exceeding $100M.
He has spent over 10 years in the application and research of Cognitive Style in manufacturing, business, and organizations while uncovering many of the dimensions of potential for profound effect on business outcomes and in the lives of individuals; both organizationally and personally.
This understanding has also demonstrated itself to be an exciting key enabler for clients in their implementation of Blue Ocean Strategic initiatives.
While pursuing a career in law enforcement, Dr. Jones completed his undergraduate work in psychology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn with a focus on industrial and organizational psychology before going on to complete a masters degree in clinical psychology at Eastern Michigan University. He earned his doctoral degree in clinical psychology at the University of Toledo. He has worked in medical residency programs at the Wayne State University Medical School and in a fellowship at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He has served as the Director of Behavioral Medicine at the Providence Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program and is currently the Market Director for Behavioral Health Integration at Mercy Health in Toledo, Ohio.
Dr. Jones has published research on how to improve job evaluation feedback and has presented at national conferences on an array of topics, including psychometrics, integrated care, posttraumatic stress disorder, posttraumatic growth, and innovative treatments for chronic pain. His thesis employed a grounded theory analysis to examine psychotherapy outcomes for posttraumatic stress disorder while his dissertation investigated the Janus Face Model of posttraumatic growth.
Dr. Darren Jones
Dr. Davis graduated from Alliant University with a PhD. degree in Neuroscience and Forensic Psychology. He also holds a Master of Science degree in General Administration and Health Services from the Central Michigan State University.
As a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA, Dr. Davis did research in the emotional aspects of medical intervention in chronic illness. As a research psychologist in Medicine and Pain Management at UCLA, he served as a consultant on resident research projects with a primary responsibility to mentor students/residents in the ethical aspects of research. As a research associate at the University of Utah Medical School, he has conducted research and worked with staff and students in the development of research projects and grant submissions. As a recent Postdoctoral Fellow in Computative and Engineering Science at the University, he developed new approaches for analysis of Medical and Health data.
As an officer in the United States Army, his responsibilities have included deployment with the Medical Services Corps in Europe in psychological counseling for military personnel returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. In concert with his military career, he has also worked extensively in the development of grants and studies into veteran health issues and is credentialed as a research psychologist (WOC status) at the Veterans Administration.
Most recently, in conjunction with the Technology Commercialization Office at the University of Utah, Dr. Davis founded and developed a TCO licensed company in association with the Departments of Computer Sciences and Bioengineering to develop and market new technologies for the measurement of human stress and resilience and to administer a health tracking project with Biomedical Informatics Department.
Dr. Philip J. Davis
Mark A. Davis MBA
Dr. Kathryn Jablokow
Dr. Robert Inskeep
Dr. Darren Jones
Dr. Philip J. Davis
Dr. Kathryn Jablokow
Dr. Jablokow graduated from The Ohio State University with B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering. She joined Penn State University in 1990 after serving as an NSF/NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technical University of Rhineland-Westphalia in Aachen, Germany. Dr. Jablokow spent her first six years at Penn State in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University Park, where her research and teaching interests focused on robotics, control, and engineering creativity. Since that time, Dr. Jablokow’s research and teaching expertise in problem solving and creativity have expanded, and she is now recognized as one of the leading experts in this field as it applies to science and engineering. Some of her current research projects include cognitive/creative diversity in engineering design, the assessment of engineering creativity, impacts on design ideation, and the enhancement of problem solving processes in industry.
Dr. Jablokow has been active in both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for over 20 years. In addition to organizing national conferences, chairing sessions, and reviewing papers, she served as Associate Technical Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine and the Chair of ASME’s Technology and Society Division. Dr. Jablokow has also served as a Mechanical Engineering Program Evaluator for the national Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); she is a Fellow of ASME, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Member of ASEE, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi.
Dr. Inskeep graduated from Wayne State University’s College of Liberal Arts with a PhD. degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He also holds a Master of Arts degree in Industrial Psychology from Wayne State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Dr. Inskeep has designed human resource systems, counseled, consulted, and taught on a number of individual and organization development matters, and managed human resource operations for a variety of domestic and international for profit, nonprofit and government organizations including the Stroh Brewery Company, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and held leadership positions with the Michigan Department of Education and Lawrence Tech University. His university teaching experience spans four institutions. For the past 10 years he has taught exclusively for Lawrence Technological University, in Michigan, Vancouver and Toronto. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he is founder of the LTU’s Center for Nonprofit Management – whose mission it is to “prepare individuals to improve communities, strengthen organizations, and advance society through innovative and practical management education."
As a human resource executive his responsibilities have included personnel planning, administration and human resource/organization development, recruiting, training, compensation and benefits, employee counseling/relations, succession planning, performance management, policy development, and total quality management.
Dr. Robert Inskeep
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