CURRICULUM VITAE
Catherine Mogan Hambley, Ph.D., BSN
catherine.hambley@gmail.com
87 Alta Mesa Circle, Monterey CA 93940
Phone: 831 277-1395
Overview
Catherine is a strategic business partner who utilizes brain science to promote
effectiveness and positive change in her work with organizations, teams, and leaders
(from front-line to C-suite). She has experience with Fortune 100 companies,
healthcare, transportation, agriculture, high tech, mergers and acquisitions, family
business, and not-for-profit organizations. She demonstrates innovative and strategic
thinking, strong facilitation skills, a collaborative approach, and an ability to relate well at
all levels of the organization.
Key skills include:
 Leadership development
 Executive coaching with a focus on enhancing thinking to create positive change
 Team facilitation
 Strategic planning facilitation
 Assessment tools for development (individual, team, and organization) and
selection
 Promoting high performance cultures with an emphasis on effective change
management, aligning culture to the organization’s strategy, facilitating
organizational structure changes
 Training and learning – design and delivery of leadership development and
personal effectiveness programs
 Talent management and succession planning
 Planning and implementing a corporate university
Career History (starting with most recent)
Leapfrog Consulting: Organizational Consulting and Leadership Coaching (owner): 2002
- current
Services provided include executive coaching, team facilitation, training, conflict
resolution, leadership and management development programs, strategic planning
facilitation, coaching for leadership presence, and use of leadership and organizational
culture assessments to promote greater effectiveness
Experience working with the following industries (including Fortune 100 companies)
 Healthcare
 High tech
 Transportation/heavy civil construction
 Agriculture/produce
 Governmental agencies
• Not-for-profit organizations and boards
TEDx Monterey: Presentation skills coach 2014
Worked with speakers on their content and delivery to create powerfully persuasive
presentations.
NeuroLeadership Institute (NLI): Consulting, teaching, and facilitating. 2013 – current
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NLI is a global human performance consultancy, drawing from the latest findings in
neuroscience, to address the following:
• Enable individuals to create positive change by enhancing their thinking
• Help leaders improve the quality of their conversations
• Train and certify executive and personal coaches
• Partner with organizations to drive employee performance
Stanford Alumni Consulting Team: Consulting (pro-bono) for non-profit boards and
organizations in the Monterey County area: 2013 - current
Services provided include:
 Strategic planning and board facilitation
 Board governance consultation
 Organizational development
 Succession planning, hiring, and development of job descriptions
 Marketing
Granite Construction - Senior Manager of Organizational Development and Talent
Management: 2007 – 2013
Led a team of OD professionals - responsible for corporate-wide learning, training, and
development; talent management and succession planning; and organizational
development processes. Designed and implemented a corporate-wide talent
management and succession planning process that included:
 Assessment and identification of talent
• Aligning leadership needs to company’s strategic goals
• Development plans for high potential talent that ensured future leaders had the
necessary competencies and skills
• Proactive succession planning and building bench strength
• Development and evaluation of meaningful talent management metrics
• Worked with the Board of Directors’ succession planning committee
• Performance management and employee development planning
Provided executive coaching to leaders at all levels of the organization, from the Csuite to front-line managers. Team facilitation including strategic planning, promoting
team effectiveness and addressing dysfunctional team processes/interactions.
Developed a change management process and organizational development solutions
to assist the company in the implementation of a corporate-wide enterprise resource
program (ERP), several organization structure changes, a significant change to the
company culture, and integration of mergers and acquisitions. Implemented a new
organizational culture assessment process, inclusive of follow-up action planning.
Aligned the company’s learning and development with their strategic plan:
• Established a corporate university utilizing up-to-date technology and social learning
processes
• Incorporated a blended learning approach through e-learning, virtual learning, face-toface programs, and post-learning plans to increase knowledge and skill retention
• Assessed the organizational learning needs
• Identified career paths and associated job competencies
• Developed curriculum based upon the job competencies
• Supported the design and delivery of technical, interpersonal, and professional
training programs
• Designed and delivered communication skills training, including difficult
conversations, facilitation, performance management, and persuasive presentations
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• Designed and delivered a suite of leadership programs, from preparing for a new
management role to senior leader programs
• Provided a structured approach to support on-the-job and informal learning
• Established a company-wide mentoring program
• Helped to plan, organize, and facilitate the company’s annual leadership conference,
addressing key organizational challenges and initiatives.
Clinical Psychology (private practice): 1991 – 2006: Provided psychological
consultation, evaluation, psychotherapy, group therapy, and marital/family counseling
Faculty - MA in Psychology Program, Chapman University 1995
Registered Nurse (Emergency Room and ICU) 1977 - 1986
Manager of Emergency Department - Panorama City Hospital: 1982 - 1984
Education
Ph.D. in Psychology
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
M.A. in Psychology
California State University
Chico, California
B.S. in Nursing
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
National Dean’s List for honors in graduate study (MA and PhD)
Licenses and Certificates
Licensed Psychologist, State of California – PSY13470
Certifications:
 Results Brain-Based Coach
 Gallup Strengths Finder and Q12 Engagement Survey
 Hogan Assessments
 One Page Business Plan (strategic planning facilitation)
 Colors/Personality Dimensions
 Myers Briggs
 Denison Organizational Culture and Leadership Development surveys
 Leadership Versatility Index (360 assessment)
 Difficult Conversations program
Interests
Avid cyclist, marathon runner, triathlete, hiking, love of the outdoors, international travel,
music, and most of all, family time with 4 adult children and husband
Willing to travel. References available upon request.
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