Alan Schnur, the founder and Leader of The Schnur Group, is an industrial psychologist who brings a rich background as a management consultant and as a Human Resources executive. He specializes in helping companies improve bottom line performance by, among other things:

• Facilitating effective organizational transformation to drive outstanding performance
• Developing and implementing strategic plans that accelerate growth and profitability
• Enhancing leadership and Board effectiveness
• Aligning organizations and their structures with business objectives, and
• Transforming internal functions and their processes into world-class operations.

Alan has extensive experience in the public sector, retail, technology, energy, consumer business, transportation and media & entertainment industries, having served many of the leading companies in the western United States, including:

Alan has worked on both sides of the table. Prior to The Schnur Consulting Group, he was a Director at Deloitte Consulting, where he specialized in leadership development, process improvement and organization transformation. He was also the Market Leader for Watson Wyatt’s Organization Effectiveness practice on the West Coast. Previously, Alan was a Senior Vice President of Human Resources with Visa U.S.A. where he developed and delivered their executive leadership program and led the company’s restructuring, process/systems improvement initiatives and culture change efforts. Prior to Visa, Alan was the Senior Vice President of Human Resources with the Robert Mondavi Corporation and was a member of the company’s Senior Leadership Team. While at Robert Mondavi, Alan directed two comprehensive, company-wide restructuring efforts, revamped the compensation and benefits programs, installed an HR computer system to increase efficiency, created a novel performance feedback and career development process, and created Robert Mondavi University, a bi-lingual, in-house training and education program. Alan was also responsible for the corporation’s winemaking operations in Chile.

Previously, Dr. Schnur was the Director of Towers Perrin’s Global Employee Research Practice and was a partner in the firm. During this time, Dr. Schnur designed and conducted dozens of employee surveys in the private and public sectors for organizations throughout the world. Prior to joining Towers Perrin, Dr. Schnur was a managing partner of Research and Consulting International, where he was responsible for the firm’s employee survey practice. Dr. Schnur spent two years with The Hay Group, where he was a Director in the Research for Management division, conducting employee surveys for multi-national organizations. Earlier, as the Manager of Personnel Research for Bank of America, Alan was responsible for the corporation’s worldwide employee survey program, the development and validation of personnel selection tests, the installment of a comprehensive human resources information system to lower internal costs, and the evaluation of key programs within the bank.

Before his work with Bank of America, Dr. Schnur was on the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he taught introductory psychology, personality theory, research design, statistics and survey methodology in the Department of Psychology and conducted research at the University’s Institute of Personality Assessment & Research and at the Lawrence Hall of Science. There, Dr. Schnur conducted research in over 50 elementary and secondary schools throughout the San Francisco Bay Area in an effort to identify predictors of smoking behavior in adolescents. Later, Dr. Schnur designed and led a comprehensive program to assess the impact of anti-smoking efforts involving 3,500 pre-adolescent students.

Dr. Schnur, who holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley, is a frequent speaker on improving competitiveness by enhancing leadership and linking employee behavior to bottom-line profitability. He specializes in the study of highly successful, market-driven companies as well as coaches and players of outstanding high school, collegiate and professional sports teams. Alan has a long history of serving boards of non-profit organizations, including, most recently, the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the California Shakespeare Theater of Orinda, California.