What does Smart stand for?
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, or SMART, is a fault detection, monitoring and maintenance technology used by computers to provide advanced notification for hard disk drive (HDD) failure.
Leaders 𝗫 Changing the world 𝗫
Leaders 𝗫 Changing the world 𝗫
We do the hard work and tell the hard truths creating change and growth
Professional Pipeline Development Group is a boutique management consulting firm positioned to help global leaders reimagine their organization for the future and build capacity for growth in new ways.
Unleashing Power
Organizational Level
Unleashing Vision
Functional Level
Unleashing Yourself
Individual Level
THE GAME CHANGERS @ WORK
PPDG Provides leaders and creators with an immersive bridge crossing space into the future of work–where virtual reality brings concepts to life, avatars accelerate ideation and your talent finds ways to bring their full self into the next normal of work.
Truth Passes Through Three Stages:
- First, It Is Ridiculed.
- Second, It Is Violently Opposed.
- Third, It Is Accepted As Self-Evident
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Our team and client-base live, work and create in a safe harbor for leaders to
breathe and dare to be bold …. freely
PPDG Proven and trusted in spaces where C-Suite Leaders and Boards say “I don’t know” – We are commissioned to push around corners and find human assets who are facing headwinds and turbanlance blocking. The Great Resignation is real. Truth – management behaviors and systems have shoved them into the margins . Quite often your business has been in possession of the hidden figures all along. All that was needed was courage and vision not process and procedures as a cover to inhibit truth, change and the inclusion of the different.
As A Boutique Management Consulting Firm – PPDG brings the wisdom, experience and 18-year success rate to help our clients solve specific business problems. Global Leaders from Industry and The Academy are reckoning with shifts in long-standing traditional norms that have been shattered, questioned and shifted. The world is changing, and there is no playbook for the next journey, yet.
Because of PPDG purpose-driven methodology and approach to make the world better, we are enabling enterprise transformation through the power of people, learning & development of leaders and innovation infused by moonshot thinking.
As we begin 2023- current engagement includes a body of work with Industry focused on:
- Change and human capital
- Operations
- Sales & Marketing
- Environment Social Governance (ESG) Realignment
Change Making Community
Changing the status quo with their super powers.
Dr James Calvin
James R. Calvin joined the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in April 1996. He is Professor of Management and Organization Practice with expertise in the areas of leadership development, minority leadership development, organizational life, international community economic development and nonprofit organizations. James is currently Interim Director of the Center for Africana Studies in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins.
Kenny Polcari
JUDITH A. ROLAND
Writer/Editor
Judy Roland is President of Roland Communications. From small-scale project to comprehensive initiative, typical client work includes:
- Communication counsel and planning – message platforms, communication plans, strategy stories
- Leadership communications – by-lined articles, speeches, books
- Web-based communications – content for websites and intranet sites, including complete redesigns
- Internal/external communications – confidential internal reports, white papers, marketing materials
Judy serves as Chief Writer & Editor for Professional Pipeline Development Group (PPDG). In addition, she frequently “ghosts” articles for clients, which have included Heidrick & Struggles, Korn Ferry, Nygren Consulting, GlaxoSmithKline, Spencer Stuart, American Express, AXA Advisors, Frank Crystal Insurance, Intermountain Health Care, and NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science. Areas of expertise include corporate boards; leadership; organizational change, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Judy’s work regularly appears in Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Bloomberg Business Week, and other leading business and trade publications. She wrote two books for the chairman and vice chairman of executive search firm Spencer Stuart, CEO Succession and The Human Side of M&A, both published by Oxford University Press.
Prior to founding Roland Communications, Judy was a Principal at Mercer Delta Consulting, LLC, where she was a member of the firm’s Strategic Communication Practice.
Before joining Mercer Delta, Judy headed her own communications firm for ten years. She has also served as communications director for executive search firm Egon Zehnder International and, earlier, as an account executive with a research-based public relations firm.
Judy holds an MA from The University of Chicago and a BA from Drew University. She lives in New York City, where she is a mentor at nationally recognized Girls Write Now, New York’s only writing, mentoring, and college advisory program for underserved young women.
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