Therese Rowley, Ph.D. is a strategic change management consultant, dynamic speaker, innovative educator, and skilled intuitive who supports leaders through change. As President of Accelerated Alignment, (formerly CEO Consultants and Transformational Insights), she applies over 25 years of experience in leadership development, strategic planning, information technology and organization development to partnering with business leaders to rethink traditional assumptions and architect intentional workplace cultures. She has supported large scale change in companies in the telecommunications, manufacturing, financial services, and healthcare industries, as well as in non profit organizations. Dr. Rowley also offers leaders and professionals personal alignment through her practice of intuitive insight, healing and coaching.

In her unique work, Dr. Rowley has found that high performance, sustainable cultures and companies are often the result of self aware leaders and leadership teams. Leaders committed to inner growth as well as organizational growth find that practiced reflection increases their sense of responsibility for the company's position in the marketplace and as part of a global community

Currently, Dr. Rowley teaches Strategic Planning and Management at Northwestern University. As Adjunct Faculty at Aon University at Aon International Corporation and the University of Chicago Graham School, Dr. Rowley has taught on the topic of leadership, intuition, values, and change. Dr. Rowley co-designed the Leadership Arts Certificate Program at the Graham School. As Adjunct Faculty at the University of Chicago LEAD Institute, she co-designed and taught Advanced Facilitation Skills for Seasoned Consultants. She was also Adjunct Faculty at the University of San Francisco's Masters Program in Human Resources and Organization Development as well as the Undergraduate Program in Organizational Behavior for adults completing their degrees.

Dr. Rowley holds a Ph.D. in Organization Transformation from Union Institute and University, a Masters of Management from Northwestern University, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Denver, as well as basic training in somatic psychotherapy and extensive study in the area of the human energy field.

In addition to executive coaching clients, and clients who come for intuitive information and healing, corporate clients include: Andersen Information Engineering Co, Astellas Pharmaceutical, Aon International, Atlas Electric Devices Corporation, AT&T, A.T. Kearney, Inc., Baxter Healthcare, Ben Moon, Inc., Children's Memorial Hospital, Deloitte and Touche LLP, Cohen Financial Corporation, Draft Worldwide, Inc., Imagine Chicago, Pathways Awareness Foundation, First Nationwide Bank, FMC Corporation, Old St. Patrick's Church, Pactiv Corporation, People's Gas and Electric Co., Kaiser Permanente (HMO Division), National Future's Association, StarDate Technologies, Inc., St. Luke's Hospital, and Suzanne Lovell, Inc.

Dr. Rowley created and was the Executive Director of The Global Professional Development Forum, a teaching/learning community of Professional Development Executives from the world's largest consulting firms. She served for two years on the Board of Directors of the Organization Development Network in Chicago and on the Advisory Board of Crossroads Center for Faith and Work. Dr. Rowley is Chairman of the Board of Imagine Chicago, which advances hope, community leadership and imagination, and a positive future for children. (For more information click on: www.ThereseRowley.com)

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