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Dr. Jo Longnecker
Sr. Consultant
Leadership and Organizational Development
Jo Longnecker has over 20 years of experience in human resources, specializing in organizational effectiveness efforts. She has worked extensively with leaders and executive teams to develop and implement strategy, lead organizational change, organizational redesign and mergers, and conduct cultural assessments and values clarification. Furthermore, she has worked widely with new leaders to accelerate their engagement and success with new or pre-existing teams.
She has developed and facilitated talent management initiatives, primarily succession planning and management. She’s also facilitated 360 feedback assessments and individual development planning, and coaching. In the area of employee engagement, she has developed new employee on-boarding programs and orientation sessions, employee satisfaction and engagement surveys and action plans, and developing and monitoring mentoring programs. She has received many awards for her work, particularly for designing and facilitating high engagement, large-scale strategic off-sites for management and staff. A favorite area of focus is working with intra-organizational teams to increase collaboration, teamwork to partner more effectively toward common goals. She has held senior positions at the MITRE Corporation, as an internal Organizational Effectiveness Consultant, the US Government Accountability Office, and started her HR career at the International Monetary Fund. She has consulted to public and private organizations.
She earned Doctor of Education and Master’s degrees from The George Washington University in Human and Organizational Development. Her doctoral thesis is titled Work as War: A Phenomenological Study of Meaning Making Through Metaphor (2004). She also has a Master’s Degree in Spanish Literature from San Diego State University & the University of Madrid Complutense. She is certified to use several instruments including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior™ (FIRO-B) and 360 Degree feedback with Personnel Decisions International (PDI).
She has presented at many national and international conferences on distance learning and top management team’s sensemaking efforts. She recently published Boots on the Ground: Use and Implications of War Metaphors in a Top Team (2005) in the Organization and Management Journal, a peer reviewed journal. Additionally she published a chapter in the book, Sustaining Distance Training (2000), edited by Zane Berge, called “Attracting, Training, and Retaining Instructors for Distance Learning at the US General Accounting Office.”
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