Ted Ryan, Ph.D., Executive Consultant with The Advisory Alliance, has several decades of experience as an organizational consultant and executive coach in leadership development and organizational effectiveness. With leadership as his core passion and underlying focus, Ted focuses on both personal and organizational transformation, through in-depth coaching, enhancing talent acquisition and management processes (such as selection and performance evaluation), organizational analyses and change initiatives, as well as leadership workshops.

Ted has been privileged to work with a diverse array of leading organizations, such as Accenture, American Museum of Natural History, Banc of America Securities, Bank of America, Bankers Trust, Central Park Conservancy, Deutsche Bank, Dun & Bradstreet, Federal Reserve Bank NY, General Electric, Getty Oil, JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, McGraw Hill, Merrill Lynch, MasterCard International, Morgan Stanley, The New York Times, PepsiCo, Standard & Poor's, Swiss Bank, The U.S. State Department, Tiger Management, Warner Lambert and Young & Rubicam.

Ted has led the creation and implementation of a wide array of organizational improvement initiatives, including:

- Designing, developing and implementing the hiring process for global financial services and consulting firms. Ted was the primary trainer and process leader for selecting superior talent at these firms for many years.

- Helping lead the merger of two major financial services firms, focusing on the positive integration of their respective personnel, cultures, communications and human resources processes.

- Creating and implementing 360 performance evaluation programs at three Fortune 100 financial services firms.

- Helping lead the integration of the corporate and investment banking platforms at two leading European and North American-based financial firms.

- Helping develop a "best in class" employee communication capability at a Fortune 50 financial services firm and helping embed this firm’s vision and values into its management practices.

Ted earned a Ph.D. in Counseling/Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, did graduate work in the humanities at Princeton University, and has a master's degree from Princeton Theological Seminary.