Seth R. Silver, Ed.D.
Organizational Consultant
For over ten years, Seth Silver has been the principal of Silver Consulting, Inc., an independent organizational consulting practice, where he has worked with such diverse clients as: Alcoa, Alliance One Financial, American Red Cross, Bausch & Lomb, Bosch Security Systems, Cape Cod Healthcare, Charter One Bank, The Friendly Home Nursing Home, IntelliRisk Management Corp., Jewish Home Nursing Home, Manulife Financial, Norman Howard School for Learning Disabled, Rochester Catholic Diocese, Toshiba Business Solutions, Ultralife Batteries, Veeco Instruments and Xerox Corporation, to name a few.
His work has included consulting to senior management on such topics as cultural change, employee engagement, and customer loyalty; working with leadership teams to increase effectiveness and performance; providing clients such services as executive coaching, strategic planning, and organizational diagnosis; and teaching employees professional skills and strategies for workplace success.
Seth Silver has developed and patented a unique business process called The Workplace Covenant, which helps parties in any organization to exchange and agree upon reciprocal obligations so they can ensure trust, feedback and alignment in their relationship.
Since 2006, he's been a Director with Providium Human Resource Group, where he provides outsourced Organization Development and Training services to Providium clients.
Since 2000, he has been an Assistant Professor at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, N.Y., where he teaches at the Masters level in the Graduate Human Resource Development (GHRD) program, and at the doctoral level in the School of Education.
In addition, he is a faculty member with the American Management Association, specializing in leadership and management
Prior to his consulting practice and college teaching, Seth Silver served as an Internal Consultant and Manager of Organization Development for the largest engineering division of the Xerox Corporation, in Rochester, NY.
He was co-responsible for the development of leadership and learning strategies for 500 managers across the country.
His responsibilities included the design and delivery of empowerment and team effectiveness training, individual coaching and counseling for managers, and conducting staff development workshops. He also co-developed the company's Technical Mentoring Program.
Dr. Silver holds a Bachelors degree in Social Psychology from the University of Toronto; a Masters in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University; and a Doctorate (Ed.D.) in Human Resource Development from The George Washington University.
His doctoral research examined the relationship between leadership behaviors, engineers' perceptions of empowerment, and team and individual performance.
He has published in Training Magazine, the Academy of Management Journal, and the Journal of Management Inquiry.