Richard W. Ackley is a practitioner who combines his MBA education with his training as a clinical psychologist to help firms improve effectiveness and manage change. He understands that a firm is both an economic system and a psychological system and that the firm must manage the intersection. Being able to weave behavioral economics in strategic planning, organizational development, and crisis management has been a key to his success. This work has grown to incorporate neuroeconomics and it corporate applications.
As a consulting psychologist, Dr. Ackley has worked with several management consulting firms and is the Managing Director of Change Resources. Numerous Fortune 500 and family businesses have relied upon his advisory services to implement a strategic change, including technological innovation, M&A integration, CEO succession planning and transitions.
As a corporate clinical psychologist, Dr. Ackley has provided crisis management services to a number of companies involving violence prevention and trauma mitigation. He has also advised an insurance company in developing a Violence Prevention product including service provision, provider relations, and quality assurance. In addition, he has been Clinical Director with a Behavioral Healthcare network.
Dr. Ackley has been Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Doctoral Program in Business Psychology at the Chicago School. He also was a professor at the Adler School of Professional Psychology, Morris Graduate School of Business, the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University. As Executive Director of the Benedictine University Executive Coaching Institute, he developed and led the Executive Coaching
Training Program.
As a licensed clinical psychologist, he has maintained a private practice providing psychological assessment and psychotherapy for the past 25 years. He is a partner and Practice Director for Integrated Neuroscience and Behavioral Medicine.
