Experience/Background:
Dr. Jodi Knox is the Founding Director of Action Dialogue Associates, a leading firm specializing in executive coaching and facilitating dialogue processes that lead to shared understanding, committed action and results. Jodi has extensive experience and training in strategic leadership development specializing in behaviorally-focused executive coaching for leaders. Bringing significant industry experience to her consulting work, Jodi develops high-impact, custom-designed, in-company executive/leadership development strategies, systems, and programs that help organizations achieve their strategic objectives and make leadership talent a competitive advantage. With a strong bias towards results, Jodi has consulted with many Fortune 50 companies on leadership development programs and conducted practical research to evaluate and leverage the outcomes and business impact of such initiatives.

In her executive coaching role, Jodi uses her experience and training in Strategic Leadership Development where she specializes in behaviorally-focused executive coaching for leaders. Jodi identifies developmental issues related to business/performance challenges and facilitates leadership development at both the organizational and individual levels. The Strategic Leadership Development (SLD) process she uses recognizes that leadership requirements are situational: the leadership practices an organization needs in its leaders depend upon the organization's strategic objectives and the specific demands of individuals' roles. This process provides an effective way to identify and develop the practices and behaviors each organizational member needs to exhibit. She has done extensive 360-degree assessment and coaching for results to combine the organization's strategic directions and an individual's leadership 360 data in a structured coaching process. Her executive coaching work has successfully focused on helping clients achieve positive, measurable, long-term change in leadership behavior.

Prior to founding her own practice, Jodi spent several years as Manager of Change Leadership & Learning with a large New York based consulting firm. Here her leadership development and coaching work included assisting clients to communicate to the broader organization the underlying common language management uses to identify and develop leaders as developmental priorities. Jodi has designed and implemented new communications and dialogue approaches for action and developed talent strategies to meet the demand for attracting and retaining top talent. She has conducted practical research with Fortune 50 companies on leadership development programs to measure and leverage the outcomes achieved. Jodi brings seven years industry management experience to her eight years consulting experience. As Account Manager for a major semiconductor manufacturing company, Jodi served a variety of OEM clients' product design, development and manufacturing entities and other sales and distribution channels. She has extensive knowledge of customer support issues, sales/distribution functions and processes, technical design considerations and of business processes and environments.

Education:
Jodi earned a Ph.D. and an M.S. degree in Organizational Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology (Los Angeles) and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology.

Clients:
A partial list includes: Agilent Technologies, Allstate, Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Bayer, Boehringer, Deloitte Consulting Group, General Motors, International Flavors and Fragrances, Johnson & Johnson, Jones New York/Nine West Group, Marsh MMC Company, McNeil Consumer Products, The Mony Group, Novartis, Raytheon and UBS. Some of Jodi's non-profit pro-bono work has benefited the Institute for Music and Neurological Functioning, Pathways to Housing, The Sycamores and The California School of Professional Psychology.

Publications:
Learning Journeys: Top Management Experts Share Hard-Earned Lessons on Becoming Great Mentors and Leaders (Davies-Black). Global Leadership Development, Action Learning & 360 feedback: A Case Study. Action Dialogue: Developing Leadership Effectiveness at the Individual and Organization Levels Through Action Learning. Leading Dialogue Processes to Build Commitment and Reach Shared Understanding (Best Practices Leadership Champions).