BRIAN L. MARUFFI, Ph.D.

Brian Maruffi is a leadership and organization development consultant and coach with over 20 years of international and domestic experience working with CEO’s, senior executives, managing directors, partners, high potential managers and management teams in Europe, Canada, China, Japan, and South America. His goal is enhance and develop leadership behavior, performance, awareness, credibility, skills and competencies, maximizing leadership and organizational effectiveness.

Areas of Expertise include:

He helps clients by:

• Designing, developing, and delivering customized leadership and executive development solutions that make a profound difference in the way people think and act;
• Providing executives with concise, accurate, and practical one-on-one coaching and feedback
• Developing client-specific behavioral change programs and road maps to help them recognize and address leadership, interpersonal, communication and performance issues;
• Developing, evaluating, facilitating and delivering of innovative programs and solutions that fit the organization’s culture, mission, strategy and values;
• Creating, harvesting and leveraging “real value” and measurable results from strategy-driven leadership and executive development programs;
• Creating valid, reliable, and user-friendly systems, tools, and processes to assess, reward, improve and accelerate leadership development and effectiveness;
• Translating client needs and requirements into detailed strategies, specifications and measurable learning objectives;
• Serving in a variety of roles, acting as creative partner, faculty member, group facilitator, program manager and coach during program design, development and delivery.

Dr. Maruffi was global Director of Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness at AIG, Ciba, and Novartis. He has held Senior Manager and Principal positions in the leadership development, change management   and HR practices at Ernst & Young, PwC and KPMG.  The clients that he has worked with include: AT&T, AIG, American Express, American Home Products, Betz Dearborn Chemicals Group, Blue Cross-Blue Shield of NJ, CBS, Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Delta Airlines, GE Capital, Hercules, Holland Chemicals, Wachovia Bank, Novartis, Smith Kline Beecham-Galaxo, Rhone Poulenc, Johnson & Johnson, SC Johnson, Pharmacia, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals, Textron, Union Carbide, MOVA Pharmaceutica, IBM, Louis Dreyfus SALD, Lucent Technologies, International Flavors and Fragrances, Scholastic Publishing, Playtex, NECA, Readers Digest International, PwC, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, NewsCorp, The Swedish Mission to the United Nations, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Brian received his B.A. in Psychology (with Honors) and Biology from New York University. He received an M.A. degree in Social and Organizational Psychology from New York University’s, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and an M.A. degree in Management Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Brian received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Management from Columbia University.

Brian is a Professor of Management at Fordham University’s, School of Business. He is responsible for developing and delivering Fordham’s Executive MBA Leadership Development Program. He is also responsible for developing courses and curriculum in the areas of strategic planning, international HR management, supply chain management and social entrepreneurship. Brian is also an Adjunct Professor of Organizational Behavior at NYU Stern Graduate School of Business. He was a member of the faculty at Columbia University, Pace University and St. John’s University. He is a stimulating and engaging public speaker.