About Us
 

 
Gregory Powell, Ph.D.
 
Greg is an organizational and clinical psychologist practicing in Frederick, Maryland and the surrounding region. His management consultation specialties include executive development and coaching, personnel assessment, organizational assessment and change, strategic planning, and team development. Greg is also an expert group facilitator and trainer. He has extensive experience in personnel and organizational assessment, including measurements of personality, leadership style, co-worker perceptions (360° evaluations), and corporate climate. He uses test results to assist leaders with skill development, hiring and promotion decisions, and organizational change initiatives.

Greg earned his Bachelor’s Degree at Brown University and his Master’s and Doctoral Degrees in Psychology at the University of Maryland. He co-founded of the Frederick Psychology Center, where he has practiced clinical psychology since 1985. Developing his long-term interest in organizational consultation, Dr. Powell began consulting with businesses in 1994, then teamed up with Suzanne Dyer-Gear to form Powell & Dyer-Gear Consulting in 1998. Along the way, he has pursued advanced training in organizational consultation at the University of Maryland, Harvard University (Continuing Education), the National Training Laboratories, the Center for Creative Leadership, and the American Psychological Association (Division 13 - Consulting Psychologists).

Dr. Powell currently serves on the boards of the Frederick Memorial Hospital and the Frederick Mutual Insurance Company. He has presented numerous workshops and written many newspaper articles on improving individual and organizational performance.

 
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Suzanne Dyer-Gear, M.A.S., SPHR
 
After more than a decade of Human Resources and Organizational Development experience working in multi-national corporations, Suzanne now helps companies of all sizes improve their performance while focusing on the people side of business.

With more than twenty years experience in H.R. and O. D., Suzanne has a proven track record of developing and implementing systems that significantly reduce costs while enhancing organizational and employee productivity and satisfaction.

Suzanne earned a Master's of Administrative Science Degree in Management with emphasis on Human Resources and Organizational Development from The Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from the University of Tennessee. She is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).

Suzanne is widely regarded as a dynamic trainer, having developed and delivered hundreds of seminars on more than 30 different management and H.R. topics, and has presented at national and international conferences.

In addition to her consultation practice, Suzanne teaches both undergraduate and graduate level college courses on a number of Management, Leadership, Human Resources and Organizational Development topics.

She has published over 70 articles in newspapers and trade magazines, and is currently working on her first book, Lost Employees: How Good Organizations Lose Good People -- While Still Employing Them.