“The Best Kept Secret in APA!”
The Society of Consulting Psychology 
Mid-Winter Conference
Scottsdale, Arizona
January 30 – February 2nd 2003

Join us in Scottsdale, Arizona 
for our annual
Mid-Winter Conference!

Last year’s conference received raved reviews for excellent programs, networking opportunities with colleagues and hospitality.  This year’s conference, Psychological Consulting to Business and Industry in Changing Times, promises to be even better!  Key highlights include:

• A full-day master coaching workshop
• Four distinguished keynote speakers
• Society of Consulting Psychology Town Hall Meeting
• Multiple exciting programs including:
       » Consulting with CEOs
       » Large scale organizational change
       » Clients for life
       » E-consulting
       » Transitioning from clinical to consulting psychology

Great content!      Great colleagues!      Great location!

To see the conference agenda and print a registration form, click here!

Four Keynote Speakers To Address The 2003 Mid-Winter Conference

The Society of Consulting Psychology is pleased to announce that four distinguished keynote speakers will be presenting at the 2003 Mid-Winter Conference.

Richard Farson, Ph.D.  Cofounder and President Western Behavioral Sciences Institute. Coauthor with Ralph Keyes of Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation (2002).

Jag Sheth, Ph, D.  Professor of Marketing and founder of the Center for Relationship Marketing at Emory University. Coauthor with Andrew Sobel of Clients for Life (2000) and coauthor with Banwari Mittal of The Rule of Three (2002).

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph. D. Professor of Psychology at Claremont Graduate University. Author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1990) and Creativity (1998).

Harry Levinson, Ph. D. Clinical Professor Emeritus Harvard Medical School and Chairman of The Levinson Institute. Author of 13 books including Organizational Diagnosis and Organizational Assessment (2002).

A Letter From the Editor
Steve Gravenkemper, Ph.D.

Special thanks this edition to John Deleray, Eric Summons and Phyllis Watts for serving as contributors to The psychology of consulting to small businesses article and to Nancy Polk, Carl Robinson and Randy White for serving as contributors to the Sometimes runners stumble: Coaching derailing executives article. Their contributions reinforce the value of the members-speaking-to-members format we have created in the Spotlight series.

This will be last edition as editor of The Consulting Psychologist. My goal from the beginning in co-creating an online newsletter with Steve Kincaid, was to produce a publication that served as both a resource to members on key consulting issues and presented important news of interest to members from the Society of Consulting Psychology. In addition, we hoped to take a step forward in building a sense of community and ownership within the Society of Consulting Psychology by incorporating perspectives and contributions from a diverse set of members.

The enthusiastic response to the new format exceeded my expectations! Readership from the first online newsletter to the second doubled. APA recognized the newsletter as a model for other divisions. We were successful in publishing a preview of the Mid-Winter Conference program for the first time last year, enabling members to see the program content before attending the conference. The Spotlight on e-consulting article drew interest from an outside organization that made it available through another distribution channel, crediting the Society of Consulting Psychology with authorship. We have built a library of five articles on key consulting issues as part of our Spotlight series. I envision that this library will continue to grow and serve as a valuable resource for members.

Most rewarding has been the individual e-mails that members took time to write! I received approximately 25 – 30 emails after the last online newsletter edition enthusiastically supporting this new format. Many members related that they now view the newsletter as a valuable resource and have found the contributions by their peers in the Spotlight series to be helpful and informative in their practice of consulting psychology. These communications have served as powerful confirmation that the new course that Steve and I charted for the online newsletter, as a membership-focused publication, was successful.

Thanks again for your support! I hope to see you in Scottsdale, Arizona for an exciting and informative Mid-Winter Conference put together by David Dunning and his team. If you are interested in editing the newsletter or know of anyone you might like to nominate, please e-mail Dick Diedrich, at the following e-mail address, rcdiedrich@hotmail.com.

Steve Gravenkemper, Ph.D.
Editor, The Consulting Psychologist™

Society Of Consulting Psychology Announcements

Congratulations to New Fellows

Please join us in congratulating the four new fellows of the Society of Consulting Psychology!  The new 2002 fellows are:

We are looking for volunteers to speak at graduate and undergraduate psychology programs about careers in consulting psychology. We are also seeking college and university programs that would like speakers. We can provide a PowerPoint presentation and handouts.   Please contact:

     Judy Blanton
     jblanton@rhrinternational.com; (213) 627-5145

or 

     Jane Kasserman
     jkasserman@rhrinternational.com; (215) 564-1442.

Great news!  The California School of Organizational Studies Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychology is now available!  Congratulations to Rodney Lowman for his energy, persistence and vision in editing this important work for the field of consulting psychology.  Congratulations also to the multiple members of the Society of Consulting Psychology who contributed chapters to the Handbook.  The content provides helpful insights for those beginning their career in the field as well as those who have been consulting for years.  Published by Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, go to their website, www.josseybass.com  to order your personal copy.