JPA's President, Dr. Joan Pastor, is a licensed industrial-organizational and clinical psychologist who provides keynote, training and consultation services to numerous national and international organizations and associations. Clients such as Pepsi, Bank of America, the Department of Defense, the Singapore Stock Exchange and many dozens more, bring her back again and again to assist them in such areas as management and executive development, building infrastructure, streamlining business processes, implementing high performing teams, and to negotiate and resolve conflicts.
Joan speaks, guides, instructs and facilitates with great expertise and humor, fully involving her audiences and making each presentation an insightful, exciting and educational experience.
Check out Dr. Joan Pastor's book, Conflict Management and Negotiation Skills for Auditors.
Chuck Malkus, JPA’s Media and Communications Trainer, is recognized as one of the most accomplished news media
experts in the United States. For the past 27 years, he has provided training to CEO’s of major corporations and government leaders in the U.S. and abroad.
Chuck has handled media relations and crisis management on the winning campaign forpari-mutuels in Florida, brought the Havana Night Broadway Show to the U.S. after its group was held back by Fidel Castro, helped with national automotive dealerships in crisis situations, assisted the United States Navy and initiated tourism programs for the Seminole Tribe. He has written or been featured in articles that have appeared in The Miami Herald, SunSentinel, Associated Press, Reuters, UPI and the Christian Science Monitor.
Sharon Lieder, a JPA Associate, is a Development and Performance Consultant specializing in organizational effectiveness, leadership development and strategic planning. Sharon has extensive experience in system change projects in the private and public sector. She is an experienced executive coach skilled in a number of assessment instruments. Her facilitation skills are utilized by executive and project teams as well as Boards of Directors.
Sharon holds an MBA from UCLA and has held positions at TRW Systems, where she was involved in one of the early organizational development programs. She also headed up the staff training department at UCLA and later at UC San Diego. Her other management positions were at General Dynamics, Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical, and MOHR Development as a senior consultant.
Craig R. Lareau, J.D., Ph.D., ABPP, a JPA associate, has worked in the field of mental health for over 22 years. A psychology major at Yale, he is a graduate of the Joint J.D./Ph.D. Program in Law & Psychology from Villanova University School of Law and Drexel University Graduate School. Following his law and psychology studies in Pennsylvania, he completed a predoctoral internship in clinical psychology at Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino County, California.
He remained at Patton to attend the highly-respected Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Forensic Psychology, one of a handful of such programs nationally. Upon completion of the fellowship program, Dr. Lareau became the hospital's Forensic Psychology Consultant, performing complex forensic psychological evaluations on some of the hospital's most challenging cases.
After becoming licensed in psychology in 2001, Dr. Lareau opened an independent practice in forensic evaluations and litigation consulting. In 2003, he became one of a select few psychologist/attorneys to become board-certified in forensic psychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology. Dr. Lareau is the current (2012) President of the California Psychological Association, and specializes in JPA's Psychology Behind Fraud program.
Since 1989, David Rodgers has assisted companies to create accountable, high-performance organizations, develop executives and middle managers, and strengthen project and functional teams; thereby achieving business outcomes and deliverables, ahead of schedule and within budget.
David leverages a unique blend of operational experience in business management, marketing, program management, engineering and business development to guide and facilitate practical solutions, which literally transform the way leadership, teams and organizations execute.
David’s client list includes: General Dynamics C4 Systems, Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric, Florida Power and Light, Ameren Utilities, Consolidated Edison of NY, Pacific Bell, Michelin, Enbridge Liquids Pipelines, Chevron Corporation, Shell Oil Company, 21st Century Insurance, Bank of America, Experian, Baxter Pharmaceuticals, Genentech Inc., Bayer MaterialScience, Kaiser Permanente, Queen’s Medical Center, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Apple Computer and Northrop Grumman. David has presented for the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), the Association for Quality and Productivity (AQP), the Organization Development Network (ODN), and the EPA Professionals Association. He also gives leadership and keynote presentations for Fortune 500 companies.
David holds a Masters Degree in Applied Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, California; and will be awarded is doctoral degree in June 2012. David has held the position of Managing Director for a non-profit international educational organization. David currently resides in Encinitas, California and is an active golf and road biking enthusiast.
Thérèse Reilly, JD, LLM and CIPP/C, has practiced law for over 20 years, having spent the last decade as a privacy lawyer and consultant. Her expertise includes 18 years of leadership as in-house legal counsel and roles in corporate governance and as Director of Privacy for AOL-Canada and Chief Privacy Officer of the Financial Advisors Association of Canada. She specializes in privacy and the management of data security and personal information breaches. She counsels clients on the essentials of a privacy compliant management program, breach response, privacy policies, training, terms of use and the rules governing the use of user-generated content on websites.
Thérèse has had some interesting assignments through her career. At one time she was hired into a large financial institution where she ended up managing 900 breaches of privacy in eight months. Currently she is working for the Canadian Federal government that oversees the regulation of privacy in the private sector where she conducts privacy complaint investigations. Her work often requires her to work as part of a team that includes audit, IT, compliance, HR and other internal functions inside the organization being investigated.
Thérèse is a member of the IAPP Canadian Advisory Board. She holds a Master’s of Law in Alternative Dispute Resolution from York University, and a JD and BA from the University of Alberta.
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Pam Anderson, Office Manager
Shelly Meier, Office Assistant
Jill Campbell, Web Design, Office Assistant
Carrie Faleumu, Office Assistant
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