Dr. Angela Huntsman is trained as a clinical psychologist as well as an industrial/organizational psychologist. The combination of these two bodies of knowledge and practice bring a special distinction to Angela’s work, research, and teaching.
Angela’s clinical training brings in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of human motivation and emotion at the individual and small group level. Highly skilled at developing and eliciting change practices at close range with individuals and small groups allows Angela to capture and magnify – that organizations can only change one person at a time, and this is where her expertise working with the top three tiers of management is so impactful.
Another benefit of being a clinical psychologist is that Angela has the ability to apply the highest level of cognitive assessment tools in her in-depth executive selection and developmental assessments, providing the kind of data that other non-clinical psychologist can only guess at. Angela understands that to change one person’s mind at the top is to unlock the ability to change the organization elsewhere.
Angela’s specialty in I/O Psychology focuses more on the group and social psychology aspects of large group behavior and how important it is to unlock and elicit the inner motivations of employees to reach strong performance and results. Dr. Huntsman believes that to do work in an organization without engaging top management is to waste valuable development budgets. Teaching and developing people in organizations where there is no buy in from top management is to frustrate employees deeper in the organization when they start to see the gap in what they are learning through training and development and what their leaders really espouse – when there is a gap there is disengagement.
Angela believes that training without this alignment in place is both a waste of money, but also a loss of employee engagement. This is where organizational development and training efforts can backfire and why having a background in both Clinical and I/O Psychology brings about sustainable development and culture change. Dr. Huntsman orchestrates organizational development as a methodical, organic and not in-your-face programming. She works swiftly and effectively to travel down through the organization at a pace where people at all levels can process the change for sustainability, true understanding and personal choice. The change stays long after Dr. Huntsman has finished her work. Dr. Huntsman enacts the kind of organizational development that brings out the best in the human spirit and at the same time distill what it is an organization is trying to achieve.
Dr. Huntsman has built her life’s work around triad mode of practice, research, and teaching, believing that staying active in each area continues to inform and develop the practitioner, bringing renewal and cutting edge ideas.