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FAY KANDARIAN, EdD
Consultant, Author, Speaker, Trainer
Dr. Fay Kandarian has worked as both an internal and independent organizational change consultant over the past 20 years. She has been a consulting partner with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1998.
Her extensive line, staff, and executive experiences provide constant reference points that inform her consulting. Her areas of expertise include whole systems change, executive coaching, strategic planning, intervention design, leadership and team development, communication skills and process consultation.
Fay is a coauthor of the book Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations, written with Ken Blanchard and the founding associates and consulting partners of The Ken Blanchard Companies.
While doing doctoral research at the Columbia University's Department of Organization and Leadership, Fay studied and developed proficiency in using large-group interventions as a new paradigm for organization development and large-scale change.
She researched Polarity Management (B. Johnson, 1996) as a training intervention to help teach systems thinking skills and later introduced Polarity Management's "both/and" thinking to The Ken Blanchard Companies.
Working with fellow HPO team members Jesse Stoner, Eunice Parisi-Carew, and Don Carew, she helped create the HPO SCORES model and coauthored the article "High Performing Organizations: SCORES." Using the HPO conceptual framework, she further investigated how leaders learn to guide their organizations to high performance.
Fay holds a bachelor's from George Washington University, a master's in business from the University of New Haven, and master's and doctorate in education from Columbia University.
Clients
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Bayer Corporation, Biogen, Edelman Public Relations, Pfizer, Stop & Shop Supermarket, The Hartford, TJX/The Marmaxx Group