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Dr. Marla Gottschalk      

Industrial & Organizational Psychologist; Workplace Strategist

Dr. Marla Gottschalk is a charter member of LinkedIn Influencer program where she has built a following of more than 2 Million — and her newsletter The Core Files is delivered monthly to more than 250K LinkedIn subscribers.

Her perspectives on work life have also been shared at The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Talent Zoo, US News & World Report, The Huffington Post, The Muse and The World Economic Forum blog.

She holds a B.S. in Psychology from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in Industrial & Organizational Psychology with a minor concentration in multivariate statistics from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

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To Help Individuals & Organizations Excel, Rediscover Stability

As a topic, stability has been somewhat lost in the mix of conversations surrounding both innovation & digital transformation. This talk — based upon Dr. Gottschalk’s Harvard Business Review article — leads attendees on a journey that revisits the merits of “core stability” and how it is vital to help both people & organizations excel.

This talk helps attendees understand how they may have overlooked key foundations of work life & organizational structure — and how to begin to harness their power. Linking the findings of past & present research, she makes the case that nothing can excel without the support of a strong underlying foundation.

After spending years as an advisor, Dr. Gottschalk realized that adopting a “lens of stability” was often necessary to pinpoint weaknesses and make progress. With this lens, elements as varied as psychological safety & resource allocation can take on new meaning – crystalizing what may need to be tackled to help people & organizations excel.

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