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About Ginger Lapid-Bogda, Ph.D.

Ginger Lapid-Bogda, Ph.D., is an organization development consultant with over thirty years of experience consulting for Fortune 500 companies, service organizations, consulting firms, nonprofits, and law firms. An experienced consultant, expert trainer, and skilled facilitator for groups from five to five hundred, Dr. Lapid-Bogda is also a member of the Organization Development Network (ODN) and National Training Laboratories (NTL). In addition, she is an internationally recognized Enneagram consultant and currently serves as president of the International Enneagram Association (IEA).
Consulting Expertise
Vision and strategy development
Organization problem solving and learning
Organizational design
Change management
Executive team development
Executive coaching
Leadership development
Communications
Conflict management
Team development
Diversity
Power and politics

Dr. Lapid-Bogda earned her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968, M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1978. In addition, she is a trained Gestalt therapist and a graduate of Columbia University’s Advanced OD Program.

In her role as a faculty member at such institutions as University of California, Los Angeles, Antioch University, and Sonoma State University, Dr. Lapid-Bogda teaches courses in leadership, organizational behavior, organizational change, and consulting skills. As an invited speaker, she has made presentations at numerous professional conferences for organizations that include the Center for Creative Leadership, Organization Research and Development, the Organization Development Network, and the Association for Training and Development. In 1991, the American Management Association awarded Dr. Lapid-Bogda a “10 Best Speakers Award” for her speech, “Managing Complex Change.”

A contributing author to books and a sought-after writer for professional journals and magazines, Dr. Lapid-Bogda is most recently the author of the chapter, ”OD Interventions or Help! What Do I Do Now?” which appears in Organization Development: Perspectives and Foundations (Jossey-Bass, 2002). In addition, she has published many articles on the topic of diversity, including “Diversity and Organizational Change” (Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer 1998 Consulting Annual) and “Charlie, We’ve Got a Problem” (Across the Board, 1994).

Dr. Lapid-Bogda also writes on the subject of organizational power and politics. For her article “Judge Your Company’s Politics Before You Climb Aboard,” published in the National Business Employment Weekly, Dr. Lapid-Bogda received the “Best 10 Articles of 1991” award. She is also featured in the commercial video, Improving Workplace Gender Culture, available through Missouri Western Library.

Her recent book, Bringing Out the Best In Yourself at Work: How to Use the Enneagram System for Success (McGraw-Hill, 2004), has received critical acclaim from organization development consultants and internationally recognized Enneagram teachers. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Lapid-Bogda describes how to integrate organization development theory and practice with the wisdom of the Enneagram, an ancient and profound personality system, to help people in organizations improve communication, provide effective performance feedback, manage conflict constructively, develop leadership capability, and create high-performing teams.


Partial Client List

Arthur Anderson Business Consulting
American Express
Apple Computer
Automobile Club of Southern California
Blue Cross
CBS
Center for Creative Leadership
The Clorox Company
CUNA Mutual Insurance
Disney
First Union Bank
General Electric
Gillette
Hewlett Packard
Kaiser-Permanente


 

Litrex Corporation
MacDonald’s
Mexican Museum
PacifiCare
PBS
Proctor & Gamble
Rational Software
Raytheon Electronic Systems
Sun Microsystems
Time Warner
TRW
U.S. Postal Service
Whirlpool
Numerous law firms