JEFFREY D. KUDISCH, PH.D.
Managing Director, Office of Career Services
Robert H. Smith School of Business

Dr. Kudisch is the Managing Director of the Office of Career Services at the University of Maryland Prior to this position he served for eight years as a Ralph J. Tyser Distinguished Teaching Fellow. He has also served as the Associate Chair of the Management and Organization Department. Dr. Kudisch also is a co-founder and Principal Partner of Personnel Assessment Systems, Inc., a human resource consulting firm specializing in management and executive assessment.

Dr. Kudisch received his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, his M.S. in I/O Psychology from the University of Central Florida, and his B.S. in Psychology from the University of Florida. Prior to joining the Smith School faculty in the fall of 2002, he was an Assistant Professor and Director of the University of Southern Mississippi's I/O Psychology Doctoral Program and Center for Applied Organizational Studies.

Dr. Kudisch has provided consulting services in the areas of leadership assessment, executive coaching, succession planning, assessment centers, recruitment, testing and selection, training and development, organizational change, employee attitudes, customer satisfaction, and performance management (e.g., performance appraisal, multi-source feedback) to both public- and private-sector organizations in the United States since 1988. Before venturing into academia, Dr. Kudisch spent several years working in various human resource-related functions at the Tennessee Valley Authority. Some of his recent consulting and executive development clients have included Lockheed Martin, McCormick and Company, Inc., Black & Decker, SAIC, Home Depot, Litton Ingalls Shipbuilding & Litton Ship Systems, Nextel, NIH, Office of Personnel Management, Anne Arundel Health Systems, Imre Communications, Alliant Health Systems, E.K. Fox & Associates, and the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA), among others.

Dr. Kudisch developed Assessment Centers for the University of Marylands EMBA program and the University of Tennessees MBA program. During his time as Director of both assessment programs, he provided feedback to hundreds of executives and students and has selected and trained numerous assessors, role players, and coaches. Dr. Kudisch also serves as an executive coach for the Smith Schools EMBA program.

Dr. Kudisch has taught MBA and EMBA seminars on human capital management, leadership, and negotiations in the Robert H. Smiths School of Business. He has also been an active guest lecturer at Smith partner universities around the world, including the Graduate School of Business Administration (GSBA) in Zurich and the Polish-American Management Center at the University of Ldz.

Dr. Kudisch has successfully taught in Executive Development programs, EMBA, MBA, Ph.D., and undergraduate programs. Dr. Kudisch has been nominated for teaching awards at the University of Tennessee, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Maryland. Since joining the Smith faculty, Dr. Kudisch has consistently been honored for being one of the Outstanding (Top 15%) Teachers, and was selected in 2006 and 2009 for the Allen J. Krowe/Legg Mason Teaching Excellence Award, as well as the Best MBA Team Teaching Award in 2006, 2007 and 2008 for his performance during the GSBAs Zurich HRM-MBA Blocks.

Dr. Kudisch has written articles in the areas of assessment centers, personnel selection, managerial credibility, charismatic leadership, and multi-source feedback, and he has presented his research at national and international conferences. He is a member of the Academy of Management, Society for I/O Psychology, and the Society for Human Resource Management.