Meet the Experts At QUAD2 Consulting
James M. Walters, Ph.D.
Jim is an Executive Leadership Coach and Organizational Consultant with extensive experience in strategic planning, executive and organizational development, and management. He supports senior executives and their teams to substantially improve their ability to manage people and work in today's turbulent business environment. Clients include leaders and their teams in a variety of industries, including major pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical CROs; hospitals and academic medical systems; (petro) chemical and biochemical; advertising and direct marketing; and others. Continue to read more about QUAD2 Consulting and our founder.
Prior to co-founding QUAD2 Consulting, Jim served in a variety of executive and organizational development roles: Senior Research Director of the Science Center, a consulting arm of Philadelphia's major universities; COO of a multi-state Chamber of Commerce-related organization; and Vice President for Quality Assurance and Development at SpectaGuard (now Allied-Barton), the national security firm. His last corporate role was as the senior executive responsible for executive, managerial, and non-clinical professional development within the Allegheny Health System, when he also was on faculty at the Allegheny/Katz School of Business Leadership Institute, teaching strategic business planning and Executive Development.
Jim holds Doctoral and Master's degrees in social psychology and social science from the Medical College of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor's degree in social anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, he has certifications in various technologies for leadership assessment and development, strategic planning, quality process, and organizational development.
Jim's Value Proposition:
"Leadership is the art of getting others to do what you need them to do because they want to do it" (General Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Today's business environment of fast-paced change and matrixed organizations demands leaders with the business savvy to plan strategically and the organizational savvy to execute through influential persuasion. Effective coaching and team development sharpens those skills and accelerates results.
Martha Christine Kenty, Ph.D.
Co-founder and co-principal of QUAD2 Consulting, Dr. Kenty has been providing expertise to a wide variety of non-profit social service organizations for more than forty years. Her specialties include program evaluation, evaluation of forensic interviewing, multidisciplinary work, qualitative and quantitative research, strategic planning, client data collection, and training in all these areas.
With an active consulting practice among multiple Children's Advocacy Centers (CACs) around the US, Dr. Kenty authored several manuals on multidisciplinary case review, a key element of Children's Advocacy Centers, for the Northeast Regional Children's Advocacy Center. Also for NRCAC, she served for fourteen years as evaluator of the Leadership Exchange and Coaching Project, two years of experiential learning and mentoring for Executive Directors of CACs. For this project, she created and managed a customized 360 leadership assessment, and wrote about specialized leadership skills in this milieu.
Dr. Kenty, with Weiss Associates, completed an appreciative-inquiry-based strategic planning process for the National Children's Alliance, interacting with Children's Advocacy Center professionals from every state in the Union. She also conducted several national surveys for NCA, and wrote both long and short form white papers on the effectiveness of CACs.
As the qualitative program evaluator for the Community Pediatrics and Advocacy Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Dr. Kenty studied the effect of a new advocacy curriculum in the medical residency. As evaluation consultant for the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, Dr. Kenty designed the evaluation protocol for grantees in receipt of federal funds to set up Closed Circuit TV for child victim forensic interviewing and court testimony against their abusers.
Dr. Kenty also serves as the Director of Research and Evaluation for the Support Center for Child Advocates, which provides legal and social work representation for abused and neglected children in Philadelphia. There she has developed systems of client data collection and outcomes measurement both for the local agency and for the National Children's Law Network.
Dr. Kenty's Ph.D. in Social Science and Psychiatric Research is from the Medical College of Pennsylvania.
