Ron Warren

Ronald A. Warren, Ph.D., is a psychologist and expert in helping people and organizations understand and develop the attitudes and behaviors required for high performance. Ron has twenty years experience developing technology-based, 360-degree assessment tools that generate in-depth narrative feedback reports that explain an individual’s results in plain-English. Ron has participated in developing assessments for UPS, Walt Disney World Attractions, Saturn, BMW, Johnson & Johnson, Consumer’s Union, British Airways and Hyatt Hotels.

Ron also works on the implementation side of assessment: designing training programs, follow-up surveys, and performance management systems. He works with executive teams to 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.

In 2002, Ron published The Achievement Paradox, a book that explores the role of personality in job performance. The book shows how personality operates like a lens and either focuses or blurs a professional’s other job-related skills and abilities. The paradox of achievement is that organizations place a premium on intellect, education, and technical knowledge — but more often than not, personality determines who will thrive as a team manager and leader. The Achievement Paradox identifies five personality traits that facilitate high performance and five common personality traits that get in the way of high performance. Not coincidentally, these personality traits are at the core of his latest assessment of character and work style, MAP11 (for Multi-rater Assessment of Personality – 11 Traits).

Ron was the co-founder and Director of Research at Acumen from 1984 to 1997, and the Director of Assessment at Kenexa Technology. Ron earned his M.A. and Ph..D. from The University of Chicago, Department of Behavioral Sciences. He’s published articles in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Adolescence, Symposium of Aviation Psychology, Executive Excellence, Training, and a chapter on leadership in the CCL book, Measures of Leadership. Ron has been an invited speaker at ASTD, Training, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the International Aviation Psychology Symposium and Harvard Business School.

Ron Warren's Email: ron@achievementparadox.com