Catherine Stakenas

Organizational Leadership & Development, Consulting and Coaching

Catherine has worked as an outside consultant, facilitator and performance management coach for 26 years. Her leadership expertise is rooted in the laboratory where she worked primarily in hospitals and transitioned to business with Quest Diagnostics. Catherine managed $91 M in sales, service and operations for Quest where she directed six merger/acquisitions. In 2013 Catherine built ASCP's Leadership Academy for all directors. In June 2015 she built and launched the Management Academy. The courses are designed with high levels of participant engagement, respected, valid, and reliable self-assessments, and peer to peer learning. In 2016 Catherine's leadership initiatives expanded to develop the first online "ASCP Leadership Institute" which was launched in 2017 offering CEU credits for each of the courses. Catherine has taught throughout North America, DuBai and Abu Dhabi.

Education and Academics

Catherine earned her M.A. in Integrated Professional Studies with a focus on "change management" from DePaul University. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology since 2004. Catherine is certified in the use and interpretation of 29 self-assessment instruments, examples such as: Everything DiSC, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Styles, Human Synergistics Cultural Analysis assessments, the MBTI, Situational Leadership, Conflict Management, Coping and Stress, Listening, Team Dimensions & Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team.

Organizational Behavior, Organizational Culture and Design, Work Team Dynamics, Organizational Leadership, Applied Research, and Organizational Consulting are courses Catherine has taught on a Masters level. She designed and taught Organizational Behavior and Organizational Culture and Design for online, blended, and on-campus.

Overall facilitation rating during the past 24 years: 4.86 out of a 5.0 Likert Scale