Ron Warren is an expert in helping people and organizations understand and develop the attitudes and behaviors required for high performance. Ron received his Ph.D. from The University of Chicago, specializing in Clinical Psychology. He was recruited to a Silicon Valley start-up and was an early developer of personal computer-based assessment systems. Within a year Ron co-founded Acumen International, where he headed up the R&D team that developed reliable and validated multi-rater assessment systems for clients including UPS, Walt Disney World Attractions, Consumer’s Union,  Nippon Manpower, Bain Capital and Cap Gemini. At Acumen, Ron authored WorkStyles, a family of personality multi-rater assessments (reviewed by InfoWorld as “the best expert system we’ve seen to date”) and co-authored PRAXIS, a family of competency assessments.  Ron also worked with UPS Air Group, British Airways and Bond Helicopter, to develop FAA-mandated Crew Resource Management training programs for commercial airline pilots, focusing on the role of personality in crew error.  

As the Director of Multi-rater Assessment at Kenexa Technologies, Ron worked with Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, Honeywell, Humana, Maytag, and other organizations to develop culture-specific, multi-rater, competency assessments. At Kenexa, Ron continued to hone his skills in training design, team building and coaching, and finished building the MAP11 personality multi-rater. MAP11 is a reliable, validated assessment of personality traits associated with leadership skills and is the multi-rater HPS uses as a part of Catalyst.

In 2002, Ron published The Achievement Paradox: Test Your Personality and Choose Your Behaviors for Success at Work (New World Library). In his book Ron summarizes his twenty years of research showing how specific attitudes and behaviors are keys to success on the job – referencing studies of leaders, managers, commercial airline pilots and individual contributor professionals. 

Carrying through the themes in his book, Ron works with executive teams to help them develop an understanding of how personality styles influence team performance and how team performance influences culture and business outcomes. Ron impresses on participants that even subtle adjustments in leadership style can have a significant positive impact on individual and team performance.