FEATURED AUTHOR
Rik Nemanick
Rik Nemanick is a co-founder and Principal Consultant with The Leadership Effect, a leader and organization development consulting firm. He focuses on helping his clients identify and develop leadership talent through assessment, coaching, and mentoring programs. He has consulted on mentoring with clients as diverse as Anheuser-Busch, Pfizer, Monsanto, Build-A-Bear Workshop, and Boeing. He has also served as adjunct faculty at Washington University in St. Louis and Saint Louis University.
Biography
Rik began working with mentoring programs in 1999 when one of his clients, Anheuser-Busch, asked him to develop a program for their IT organization. From that first program, he developed programs at Boeing, Pfizer, and Nestlé Purina, honing the ideas that became the basis of his book on mentoring. After co-founding The Leadership Effect with Bob Grace, another psychologist, he began helping more clients with their programs, including Monsanto, Reinsurance Group of America, Build-A-Bear Workshop, and Hussmann. He has also worked with many accounting and law firms as they have improved their mentoring processes.In addition to mentoring, Rik helps clients develop their leaders through executive coaching, leadership assessment, leadership training programs, and strategic planning. He earned his doctorate in organizational psychology from Saint Louis University, where he taught in the MBA program for 10 years. He is currently adjunct faculty at Washington University in Saint Louis. He is a Saint Louis native where he currently lives with his wife and two daughters.
Education
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Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2000
M.S., Saint Louis University, 1996
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Mentoring programs
Leadership assessment
Executive coaching
Leadership training
Strategic planning
Personal Interests
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Running
Cooking
Entertaining
Wine