Deanna Banks, Ph.D.

As a consultant with Ernstmann Consulting, Deanna Banks helps individuals, teams and organizations develop and perform to their full potential. She is a workplace psychologist with over thirteen years of experience providing organizational development services to clients in the private sector, government agencies and non-profit organizations. Deanna designs, develops and facilitates high impact leadership training and development programs for all levels of management. Her programs build self-awareness through assessment and feedback. She supports participants in transforming their leadership style through recognizing and adapting their behavioral patterns.

Deanna serves as an Executive Coach for the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business' Executive MBA program. She also engages the collective power of individuals to produce breakthrough results by designing and facilitating strategic team offsites and team building programs. Finally, Deanna promotes communication and development throughout organizations by developing competency models and performance management systems.

Key Skill Areas:
  Organization Development
  Executive Coaching
  Leadership Development
  Team Building
  Process Facilitation
  Competency Modeling and Performance Management

Consulting and Facilitation Engagements:
  Design, develop and facilitate leadership development
    and professional training programs
  Provide executive coaching for mid- to senior-level
    organizational leaders
  Design and facilitate team building programs and
    strategic team offsites
  Design and implement multi-rater feedback programs
  Coach and develop leaders using multi-rater feedback tools
  Design and implement talent management, succession
    planning and career development systems
  Conduct competency modeling studies and develop
    performance management systems

Education:
  PhD: Industrial & Organizational Psychology
    George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
  MA: Industrial & Organizational Psychology
    George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
  BS: Psychology
    Guildford College, Greensboro, NC