JPA's President, Dr. Joan Pastor, is a licensed organizational and clinical psychologist who provides keynote, training and consultation services to numerous national and international organizations and associations. Clients such as Pepsi, Bank of America, the Department of Defense, the Singapore Stock Exchange and many dozens more, bring her back again and again to assist them in such areas as management and executive development, building infrastructure, streamlining business processes, implementing high performing teams, and to negotiate and resolve conflicts.
Joan speaks, guides, instructs and facilitates with great expertise and humor, fully involving her audiences and making each presentation an insightful, exciting and educational experience.
Chuck Malkus, JPA’s Media and Communications Trainer, is recognized as one of the most accomplished news media experts in the United States. For the past 27 years, he has provided training to CEO’s of major corporations and government leaders in the U.S. and abroad.
Chuck has handled media relations and crisis management on the winning campaign forpari-mutuels in Florida, brought the Havana Night Broadway Show to the U.S. after its group was held back by Fidel Castro, helped with national automotive dealerships in crisis situations, assisted the United States Navy and initiated tourism programs for the Seminole Tribe. He has written or been featured in articles that have appeared in The Miami Herald, SunSentinel, Associated Press, Reuters, UPI and the Christian Science Monitor.
Sharon Lieder, a JPA Associate, is a Development and Performance Consultant specializing in organizational effectiveness, leadership development and strategic planning. Sharon has extensive experience in system change projects in the private and public sector. She is an experienced executive coach skilled in a number of assessment instruments. Her facilitation skills are utilized by executive and project teams as well as Boards of Directors.
Sharon holds an MBA from UCLA and has held positions at TRW Systems, where she was involved in one of the early organizational development programs. She also headed up the staff training department at UCLA and later at UC San Diego. Her other management positions were at General Dynamics, Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical, and MOHR Development as a senior consultant.
Craig R. Lareau, J.D., Ph.D., ABPP, a JPA associate, has worked in the field of mental health for over 22 years. A psychology major at Yale, he is a graduate of the Joint J.D./Ph.D. Program in Law & Psychology from Villanova University School of Law and Drexel University Graduate School. Following his law and psychology studies in Pennsylvania, he completed a predoctoral internship in clinical psychology at Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino County, California.
He remained at Patton to attend the highly-respected Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Forensic Psychology, one of a handful of such programs nationally. Upon completion of the fellowship program, Dr. Lareau became the hospital's Forensic Psychology Consultant, performing complex forensic psychological evaluations on some of the hospital's most challenging cases.
After becoming licensed in psychology in 2001, Dr. Lareau opened an independent practice in forensic evaluations and litigation consulting. In 2003, he became one of a select few psychologist/attorneys to become board-certified in forensic psychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology. Dr. Lareau is the current (2012) President of the California Psychological Association, and specializes in JPA's Psychology Behind Fraud program.
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