Specializing in executive assessment and executive coaching for hiring and leadership development purposes. Significant experience in organizational / assessment and intervention as it applies to senior teams, departments and organizations as a whole.
Dr. Gillis is a licensed psychologist who has 12 years of health care experience in the academic and clinical hospital settings. She has completed a three-year fellowship in Sleep Medicine and also worked as a hospital-based Consultation Liaison Psychologist. She has published 5 articles in academic, peer-reviewed journals including the Annals of Behavioral Medicine and Pain Medicine.
Trained as a health psychologist and clinician, Dr. Gillis left an academic research and clinical pain management career to pursue management consulting. For three years she worked with RHR International, a 61-year old, Chicago-based consulting company helping Fortune 500 companies identify, evaluate and grow leaders. While at RHR International, she provided Executive Assessment and Coaching services to leaders at Merck & Company, Steelcase, Best Buy, Johnson Controls, Dow Corning, Joy Global Mining and Machinery and others.
Dr. Gillis joined Plante & Moran in 2008, where, in addition to individual Executive Evaluation, Executive Coaching, and succession planning, Dr. Gillis puts her clinical skills to work developing high performing teams. She also conducts a number of educational workshops that help organizations grow leaders and manage change.
Experience
RHR International, Chicago, IL
Consultant, 2005 - 2008
RHR International is a pioneer in cultivating performance at the highest levels of the worlds most successful corporations and organizations. Delivered the following services to retail, manufacturing, automotive supply, and energy industries among others: executive candidate assessment, executive integration, team assessment and development, high potential development, succession planning and process consultation.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Detroit, MI
Sleep Disorders and Research Center, Henry Ford Hospital
2002 - 2005
Education
Henry Ford Hospital
Sleep Center, Dept. of Pulmonary Medicine, Detroit (2002-2005), Arthritis Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Grant title: Sleep and Rheumatic Disease: A Clinical Investigation
Henry Ford Hospital
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Dept. of Psychiatry (1999-2000), Pre-doctoral Internship