Linda M. Garverick, Ph.D.

Dr. Linda M. Garverick is an engineer, Gestalt-trained process facilitator, management consultant, and executive coach. She brings to her clients entrepreneurial experience, training in experiential learning and emotional intelligence, and a deep understanding of technology. She works with senior-level executives to improve business and management practice, as well as organizational effectiveness.
Dr. Garverick has clients in the for-profit, non-profit, and academic sectors. Recent work has included

• working with senior faculty to advance collegiality across the school of engineering,
• building supervisory and professional skills among the leadership council of a large social service agency, and
• group coaching senior executive female leaders drawn from separate organizations to build a knowledge generating and supportive community that is often lacking for women at the top.

Before becoming a management consultant, Dr. Garverick founded and ran Essential Research, a research and development company. Essential Research developed technology for producing high-efficiency solar cells for powering satellites. It performed research for NASA, the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force. The company grew to employ twelve people and had a gross revenue of $1.5 M in 1999. She was named one of Northeast Ohio’s "Top Ten Women Business Owners" by the National Association of Women Business Owners, and was named one of "Forty Under Forty" in Crain’s Cleveland Business. She sold Essential Research in 2000. The company still operates in Cleveland, performing contract research and development, both government and commercial.

Dr. Garverick’s recent professional development has been focused on organizational effectiveness and leadership development. She completed two 18-month training programs at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland: one in clinical psychology, and another in organizational development. She has also trained at the Gestalt International Study Center on Cape Cod, and at the Weatherhead School of Management of Case Western Reserve University. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Materials Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Electronic Materials, also from MIT.

Dr. Garverick was a Presidential Fellow at Case Western Reserve University and taught in the SAGES program. She serves as board vice president of the East End Neighborhood House.