James M. Walters, PhD

Jim is an Executive Leadership Coach and Organizational Consultant with extensive experience in strategic planning, executive and organizational development, and management.  He supports senior executives and their teams to  substantially improve their ability to manage people and work in today’s turbulent business environment.  Clients include leaders and their teams in a variety of industries including:  major pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical CROs; hospitals and academic medical systems; (petro) chemical and biochemical; advertising and direct marketing; and others.  

Prior to co-founding QUAD2 Consulting, Jim served in a variety of executive and organizational development roles: Senior Research Director of the Science Center, a consulting arm of Philadelphia’s major universities; COO of a multi-state Chamber of Commerce-related organization; and Vice President for Quality Assurance and Development at SpectaGuard (now Allied-Barton), the national security firm. His last corporate role was as the senior executive responsible for executive, managerial and non-clinical professional development within the Allegheny Health System, when he also was on faculty at the Allegheny/Katz School of Business Leadership Institute, teaching strategic business planning and Executive Development.

Jim holds Doctoral and Master's degrees in social psychology and social science from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor's degree in social anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania.  Additionally, he has certifications in various technologies for leadership assessment and development; strategic planning; quality process and organizational development.

 Jim’s Value Proposition:

“Leadership is the art of getting others to do what you need them to do because they want to do it ”                                                                                                 (General Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Today’s business environment of fast-paced change and matrixed organizations demands leaders with the business savvy to plan strategically and the organizational savvy to execute through influential persuasion.  Effective coaching and team development sharpens those skills and accelerates results.

Martha Christine Kenty, PhD
Chris, co-founder and co-principal of QUAD2 Consulting, has been providing  expertise  to a wide variety of non-profit social service organizations for more than twenty years.  Her specialties include program evaluations, qualitative and quantitative research, training seminars in multidisciplinary teaming and organization development, and strategic planning.  

She has authored a manual on multidisciplinary case review, a key element of Children’s Advocacy Centers, for the Northeast Regional Children’s Advocacy Center. Also for NRCAC, she is conducting an evaluation of the Leadership Exchange and Coaching Project, two years of experiential learning and mentoring for Executive Directors of CACs.  

With a very active consulting practice among multiple Children’s Advocacy Centers around the US, Chris facilitates multidisciplinary team building and providing training on organization development and program evaluation.  She is currently conducting a survey and preparing a regional manual about multidisciplinary case review, a key element of Children’s Advocacy Centers.

As the qualitative program evaluator for  the Dyson Foundation Community Pediatrics and Advocacy Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia,  Dr. Kenty is studying the effect of a new advocacy curriculum into the medical residency.

Dr. Kenty, in collaboration with Weiss Associates, has recently completed an appreciative-inquiry-based strategic planning process for the Board of the National Children’s Alliance, interacting with Children’s Advocacy Center professionals from every state in the Union.  She has also conducted a national survey for NCA. 

Chris also serves part-time as the Director of Research and Evaluation for the Support Center for Child Advocates, which provides legal and social work representation for abused and neglected children in Philadelphia.  There she has developed systems of outcome measurement both for the local agency and for the National Children’s Law Network.   

Dr. Kenty’s PhD in social science and psychiatric research  is from the Medical College of Pennsylvania.