RUSSELL R. DAY PH.D.

Russell R. Day, Ph.D. specializes in helping organizations build workforce capabilities by better leveraging their human capital. He is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist with over sixteen years of human resources experience including positions both in industry and consulting. He has extensive experience applying a broad spectrum of human resource management and organizational development practices to improve individual and organizational performance. He specializes in leadership development and assessment, competency-based human resource systems, executive coaching, strategic staffing and succession planning, performance management and reward systems, employee and customer surveys, teambuilding and organizational development.

He has published several professional articles on topics such as managerial training, goal setting, integrated personnel selection systems and evaluating the cost/benefit of human resource systems. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, Society for Human Resources Management, Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and the American society for Training and Development. He is also a past president of the Chicago Industrial/Organizational Psychologists.

Prior to joining Wolf Management Consultants Inc., Russell was a Vice President of Vernon, Roche and Hodgson, Inc. and managed the firm’s Chicago office and consulting practice. He worked directly with various industries and businesses to enhance workforce capabilities by providing consulting services in human resource management functions of selection and development, organizational effectiveness, executive coaching, and succession planning.

He also worked for the Amoco Corporation as the practice leader for Strategic Staffing and as a Senior Consultant within the Measurement and Assessment practice area within the Organizational Capability Group of the Human Resources Department. He worked with internal clients to create competitive advantage by developing integrated staffing methodologies, processes, and plans to help enhance organizational capabilities through systems such as competency modeling, succession planning and career development.

Prior to joining Amoco, he was the Assistant Vice President of Human Resources Development for ten years with the Chicago and NorthWestern Transportation Company. As head of Human Resources Development he had primary responsibility for all corporate initiatives in the design and validation of selection systems, executive assessment and succession planning, management training and career development, performance management and organizational research such as employee surveys, focus groups and process analysis. He was also a consultant for two years with William M. Mercer, Inc., international human resources consulting firm. While at Mercer he provided consulting services in a wide variety of human resource management areas, specializing in personnel selection systems, job analysis, performance management systems, succession planning, employee opinion surveys and organization development.