Dr. Larry Stybel

Dr. Laurence J. Stybel is a psychologist, regular contributor on leadership at Psychology Today, co-founder of two companies, and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at a private equity firm. He is a co-founder of Stybel Peabody Associates, Inc. Its mission is to partner with clients to put success into leadership succession.
Core services revolve around retained search for Board members, CEOs, COOs, and CFOs; relationship management consulting at the C-Suite, and C-Suite Outplacement.

The readers of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly named Stybel Peabody the #1 or #2 outplacement firm for six years in a row. Stybel has been on the Board of Directors of the New England Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors. He also has been on the Board of several companies in the HRTech space and was on the Board of Directors of the National Human Resource Association. Stybel is the former President of the Boston Human Resources Association (BHRA). Since 2011, Psychology Today has published Stybel Peabody’s monthly perspectives on leadership and career management. There have been nearly 500,000 downloads.

Stybel is the co-author of "Navigating the Waterfall", a book about career management and job search in the 21st Century. His perspectives on leadership have been published by California Management Review, Directorship, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review. Stybel is listed in Who’s Who in Business and Finance and Who’s Who in America. In 2019 the publishers of Who’s Who presented Larry with the Albert Marquis Distinguished Service Award for 'his enduring contributions to the field of leadership'.

He received a doctorate in organizational behavior from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and is a licensed psychologist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Stybel was named a Career Management Fellow (CMF), the highest level of professional certification by the Institute for Career Consulting International. ICCI is the world’s only international certifying body for the career services industry (www.careercertification.org)