Ronald A. Warren, Ph.D.

Ron has a broad range of organizational assessment, executive coaching, and clinical training and experience. He earned a PhD from The University of Chicago, Department of Behavioral Science, specializing in Clinical Psychology. After completing clinical training in Chicago, Ron moved to the Silicon Valley and shifted his vocational focus to Industrial-Organizational Psychology to build computer-based assessment systems. He has since developed personality and competency 360s used worldwide by thousands of professionals. His first pc-based assessment was featured in Newsweek; the second assessment he authored, was declared the best expert system we’ve seen to date by InfoWorld.

Ron began building the LMAP 360 in 1999. The first version was released in 2003 and major revisions and upgrades followed in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2011. Ron now splits his time between research and development and delivering client services.
Since 2006, Ron has been a regular Guest Lecturer at the Yale School of Management Executive Education Program and at Yale’s CEO College. He has provided assessment and coaching services to Temasek Holdings, Deloitte, PPG, Walt Disney World Attractions, Consumer’s Union, BearingPoint EMEA, JP Morgan Chase, Hyatt Hotels, Bain Capital, and Coca-Cola.
Ron’s interests in Personality and Performance were broadened during his six years working in aviation safety with UPS Air and British Airways pilots in Crew Resource Management (CRM) programs and in his work in healthcare (often with LeadershipForward) with medical teams and administrators at Health First, Lakeland, CoxHealth, MediCorp, Geisinger, and other healthcare systems.

Ron was a co-founder and Director of Research and Development at Acumen International from 1984 to 1997. He was Director of Employee Assessment at Kenexa from 1999 – 2002 and Kenexa generously supported Ron’s early work on LMAP. Prior to October 2009, Ron was the Director of the PACE Dual Diagnosis Program at Family Service Agency of Marin, providing clinical services to underprivileged community members. The PACE program was profiled by the BBC in a 2007 documentary on state-of-the-art mental health services in the United States.

“Ron Warren is the one of the most scientifically grounded and pragmatic psychologists working in industry today. More importantly, his insight into character and leadership challenges is exceeded only by his own impeccably trustworthy, discrete, and humble character. Over the past few decades, I have seen him work with the top leadership of such varied enterprises as huge global transportation firms, prestigious global consulting firms, and the nation’s leading financial service institutions. I have recommended him dozens of times with zero personal or financial relationship in his assessment enterprise and have yet to hear anything except top praise from every client.”

- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs, Yale University
Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, Yale University