Lorette Pruden

Crisp goals, clear expectations, concrete measures, coachable moments: keys to overcoming any organization's challenges. Lorette Pruden, Ph.D., works at the intersection of business and people processes that yield success. Her most popular talk is titled "Is your strategic plan working (or is it in a binder on the shelf?" Here's what some clients say: Lorette can make people perform and produce as "winners" in an industrial setting-priceless". Tom Davis, EHS Director, Mobil Chemical "She's smart, articulate, knowledgeable…and funny." Chuck Griswold, former President, SII Group. "I learned a lot of good techniques to manage my project team and interact with my colleagues. And I didn't need to get my MBA or PM certification to acquire these skills!…It was a GREAT course! Thank you. The instructor's ease was infective." Participants in Leading Technical Teams for the National Institute for Science and Technology. "You brought life to a dull subject!"-comment after talk on TQM to directors of Volunteers of America, GNY. A proven people turnaround agent, Lorette speaks and consults on creating and executing strategic plans, instilling quality principles, and creating and sustaining effective teams, with for-profits and non-profits both. She has over 15 years experience in corporate organizational effectiveness as a quality manager, team leader, consultant and speaker. A partial client list: AIChE, ASQ, ICCA, MA-DMC, MPI-NJ, NIST, NJAWBO, Pfizer, Princeton University, Project Management Institute, Society of Women Engineers, Volunteers of America-GNY, Wharton/Engineering at Penn. As a certified Team Nimbus facilitator, Lorette has also worked with over fifty small business owners to impact their bottom line, both in time and money. Lorette has a Ph.D. from Princeton, and serves on the boards of IMC NJ, NJ Youth Symphony, and NJ Council of Farmers and Communities. She is a Mobil-certified team skills trainer, and a certified PeopleSmart™ trainer.