Consultant Biographies
MARTIN S. KURTZ
Senior Consultant
Practice Leader
Martin S. Kurtz is an associate senior consultant with Guttman Development Strategies, Inc. He has directed the efforts of several Fortune 100 companies' organization and management development groups, focusing on senior management's needs by conducting such interventions as organizational redesigns, senior- and functional-team alignments, executive coaching, competency studies, and training in conflict management and building high-performance teams. He has also consulted with numerous Fortune 500 corporations and non-profit organizations in the United States and internationally.
Marty's corporate experience includes a stint as director of the employer service's organization and management development department for Automatic Data Processing. At Warner-Lambert Company, he was global manager of corporate program development, responsible for the design of companywide core training and development programs, the implementation of team-based systems, and the development of team-based performance management tools.
At both Warner-Lambert and ADP, Marty specialized in internal consulting, focusing on the development of staff functions, team development, socio-technical systems, design management systems, and leadership training.
He has spoken at professional conferences on such topics as "Accelerating Team Development," "Team-Based Performance Management Systems," and "Conflict Management."
Marty holds a B.A. from Ramapo College of New Jersey and an M.S. from American University's N.T.L. program in human resources development. He has been a guest lecturer at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Management and currently teaches team building in the master's of organizational behavior program at Fairleigh Dickinson University's Graduate School of Psychology.