About Us
Competitive Principles LLC is an organizational consulting group that works within the field of athletics to institutionalize the principles of inclusion, tolerance, and respect. We are experts at assessing and developing policies for athletic organizations. We have developed new approaches and strategies that help athletic programs and individuals confront and change inappropriate problematic behaviors.
About Our Name
Our name Competitive Principles is intentionally ambiguous. We want people to think about the name when they see it and question how the meaning behind the words “competitive” and “principles” fit together.
For us, competitive principles are those that elevate the game and uplift the human spirit. Adhering to them will make any competition worthy of attention and every participant a better person. Courage, respect, integrity, fairness and humility are but some of the principles on which American competition was founded.
The name of our organization has prompted many good conversations about principles and competition and we hope it continues to do so.
About Our Logo
Our logo was developed by Mike Sharkey and has a number of sports symbols within it. How many can you find?
JAMES E. SPENCER, Ph.D.
Founder and Principal
Dr. James Spencer is an organizational and Human Resource Consultant with over twenty years of experience working in the corporate arena. His corporate resume is available by going to JamesSpencerAssociates.com.
Dr. Spencer started his career organizing and coaching youth athletic programs and served as a college administrator for four years. He worked for the Massachusetts Trial Court System counseling inner-city youth at risk of incarceration. He was chosen by the court system to be one of the first to counsel and work with families victimized by domestic violence.
He specialized in working with men who batter and educated them on eliminating violence from their lives.
His Doctoral dissertation “Attention Control and It’s Impact on Competitive Athletes” saw him working with a select group of high school athletes around shooting free throws in pressure situations. One of his athletes, Rumeal Robinson, eventually found himself playing for Michigan in the NCAA finals against Seton Hall. This game came down to Rumeal successfully making two free throws to win the NCAA Division One National Basketball Championship with only seconds left on the clock.
Dr. Spencer trained under noted Sports Psychologist Dr. Harvey Dulberg before opting to work as a corporate consultant and now believes that his work helping companies and executives eliminate discrimination, harassment, and violence can be beneficial to the field of athletics.
Dr. Spencer has a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Boston College, a M. Ed in Counseling from Northeastern University, and a B.A. from Wilberforce University.
He is an advisory Board Member of The Family Center, Inc. (Formerly the Board Chair), Wheelock Family Theater, and a Board member of CitySkills Inc.
Listed below is our team of highly-trained professional who have dedicated their professional lives to causes of equality and fairness. Their expertise and experience are described in detail once you click on their name.
KEITH HINDERLIE Ph. D.
Senior Associate
KEITH HINDERLIE Ph. D. is a Licensed Psychologist, Educator, and Independent School Administrator. His experience includes Community Mental Health, Private Practice, Graduate School Faculty, Independent School Faculty and Administration. He has served on the board of several Non-Profit community based agencies, and is the current President of the Denver/Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Association of Black Psychologists. Dr. Hinderlie is part of the Core Faculty for the Milton Academy Cultural Diversity Institute. For more than a decade he has built a reputation of helping individuals reach higher levels of personal and professional development.
Dr. Hinderlie’s background includes a unique combination of knowledge about, personal development, education, leadership, and diversity related issues. His professional background includes supervising, teaching, training, and mentoring mental health professionals, and educators. His administrative experience in independent schools has included applying the knowledge of current trends in leadership and multicultural education into action. Dr. Hinderlie is currently completing a Post-Graduate Certification with the College of Executive Coaching
Professional Coaching for Independent School Personnel
Today’s Independent school environment is complex, competitive, and fast paced. Leaders are asked to take on multiple roles to move an organization forward. This requires demonstrating peak performance of a variety of skills. Peak performance as a leader involves a combination of superior technical knowledge, organizational skills, and relationship skills. One on one coaching provides an intensive training format that is focused on developing an individualized professional development agenda. This intensive format allows for a faster acquisition of necessary skills, and improved performance.
Independent school populations are also becoming increasingly diverse. This reality has changed the roles of school leaders to meet the needs of these increasingly diverse school communities. Successful school leadership now includes demonstration of a high level of cross-cultural competence, the ability to relate to multiple constituencies, and understanding the types of institutional issues that need to be addressed to meet the needs of diverse students, parents, faculty and staff. One on one coaching is a cost-effective way to help leaders learn or improve the skills needed to successfully lead a diverse school population.
Personal coaching programs (on-site and by telephone) build the individual through a process that equips people with the tools, knowledge and opportunities they need to develop and become more successful. Coaching assists leaders to see and understand mismatches between their intended goals and the results of their leadership. Through one-on-one coaching sessions, staff/team observations, assessments, and other interventions, Dr. Hinderlie can help leaders to develop a deeper understanding of their own thinking and behavior and the processes that prevent them from reaching personal and organizational goals. Dr. Hinderlie walks with leaders over time to help them acquire and develop new leadership skills and abilities.
Assessment
Dr. Hinderlie offers tools, questionnaires, and surveys to assist people in defining their career preferences, their psychological type, their work style, managerial competency, and level of emotional intelligence. Individual assessments help professionals review their personal styles and leadership strengths and development needs against the success competencies and goals of the school. Individual assessments include self-report measures of style and preference as well as 360 measurements of leadership styles and behavior. The 360 tools solicit feedback from key co-workers, bosses, direct reports, clients, other observers, and sometimes friends and family members. Through the individual assessment process, leaders can check goodness of fit between themselves and the organization and can also target specific areas for development.
Professional Development Via Telecourse
The increasing numbers of faculty and administrators of color is a new phenomenon in independent schools nationally. As professionals of color “break new ground” in independent schools there are realities that create challenges for success. Professionals of color in independent schools report feeling professionally isolated, having limited contact with other professionals of color, and having limited opportunities for being mentored by an experienced professional of color. Teachers and administrators of color also report that they have a deep commitment to their schools and students. This shared desire for a successful fit between faculty/administrator and school sometimes needs additional support to be nurtured for peak performance. In the end the students served benefit from the experiences and perspectives of a diverse faculty and administration.
Because these issues represent a national trend, a successful professional development experience for professionals of color needs to be able to bring together groups of individuals from different parts of the country. National forums for professional development like the NAIS People of Color Conference, and different summer institutes allow for limited contact amongst individuals. The information presented during national conferences and workshops are valuable. However individuals retain only part of the information provided in large workshops. A more intensive format allows for critical skills to become concretized and allows for feedback to improve performance. A telecourse allows for a cost-effective way to bring together a national group of professionals on a regular basis. Because the sessions are spread out over time it allows individuals the opportunity to reflect and try out new things on the job with the opportunity to gain valuable feedback, and learn from the experiences of other participants. Participants can plan opportunities to connect in person at national events like NAIS People of Color Conference, the NAIS National Conference, Regional POCIS meetings, or one of the summer diversity institutes. In short the telecourse format allows for an effective professional development opportunity, and the opportunity to expand participants professional network of peers and mentors.
PATRICIA DEROSA
Senior Associate
PATTI DeROSA is a consultant, educator, and activist whose work has focused on diversity and social justice for the past twenty-five years. She is the President of ChangeWorks Consulting, which specializes in workplace and community diversity, working in the private and public sectors with corporations, educational institutions, human service agencies, health care organizations, and community groups, with adults and youth. Her work in such diverse environments has provided her with a wealth of experiences and developed her depth of understanding of diversity as it affects different segments of society. Her areas of expertise include anti-racism, diversity management, intercultural relations, multicultural education, organizational change, and leadership development.
Patti has a Masters of Social Work (M.S.W.) in Community Organization, Management, and Planning and a Masters of Arts (M.A.) in African American Studies, both from Boston University. She completed her undergraduate degree (B.A.) in Cultural Anthropology at the State University of New York at Oneonta. She has served on the faculty of Boston University, Lesley University, and Simmons College, teaching courses on racism and intercultural relations. She is the author of several articles on diversity training, white identity, and anti-racism.
HARVEY N. DULBERG, Ph.D.
Senior Associate
Dr. DULBERG is a noted Sports Psychologist and President of his own company The Competitive Edge.
Academic Training
Ph.D. Texas Woman's University, 1979
Major: Counseling Psychology
Minor: Special Education
Doctoral Dissertation: Psychological Changes in Early Adolescent Males Induced by Systematic Exercise
M.A. Central Michigan University, 1972
B.S. University of Maryland, 1970
Licensed Psychologist in Massachusetts: #2819
Clinical Experience
Private Practice (3/83 - Present)
Counseling and psychotherapy for individual athletes and teams. Performance enhancement, motivation, stress management, eating disorders, substance abuse, marital and family problems, career transitions and injuries.
Chestnut Hill Psychotherapy Associates (Chestnut Hill, MA. 1/80 - 2/83)
Senior Staff Psychologist, Director of Sport Psychology. Individual, couples, group, marriage and family as well as sex therapy. Sport psychology with amateur, Olympic and professional athletes.
BUDD Program (Fitchburg, MA. 8/78 - 2/80)
Clinical Director. Day treatment program for emotionally disturbed, developmentally disabled young adults. Duties included administration and supervision of a multidisciplinary staff, administering and interpreting psychological test batteries on each person admitted to the program as well as individual, group, family therapy and consultation.
Devereux Foundation (Devon, PA. 9/77 - 8/78)
Pre-Doctoral Intern in Clinical Psychology: APA-approved training program in clinical psychology. Residential setting for adolescents with mild to severe emotional difficulties. Major responsibilities included individual and group psychotherapy, weekly psychodiagnostic evaluations and consultation with residence hall and school staff. Ongoing seminars in individual, psychodynamically oriented therapy, psychodiagnostics and research techniques.
University Counseling Center (North Texas State University 8/75 - 5/76)
Intern. Duties included working with students and athletes with problems in emotional adjustment, marriage, vocational choice, educational plans or school adjustment. Psychological testing was also done.
Applied Training Unit (North Texas State University 8/75 - 5/76)
Intern. At this clinical facility in the Psychology Department's outpatient clinic, university students as well as people from the community were treated utilizing various modalities of therapy to help them solve basic problems in adjustment.
Consultation
Northeastern University (Boston, MA. 8/00 - Present) Consultant. Work with individual athletes, teams and coaches to enhance performance.
Boston University (Boston, MA. 9/87 - Present) Consultant. Two talks a year to the Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance on stress management and eating disorders.
USA Hockey (Boston, MA. 9/95 - 12/99) Consultant. Give talks to coaches on utilizing sport psychology techniques for their hockey programs.
Teaching Experience
Simmons College (Boston, MA. 1/01- Present) Lecturer. Teach a graduate seminar in sport psychology.
Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA 1/87 - 5/97) Lecturer. Taught an undergraduate course in sport psychology.
Framingham State College (Framingham, MA. 9/80 - 5/83) Lecturer. Taught courses in sport psychology, introduction to psychology and theories of personality.
Publications
* The Mental Edge (1/96 - Present) Editor. A monthly sport psychology publication to high school, college and professional coaches.
* The Sport Performance Report (1/87 - 12/90) Editor. A monthly report on performance enhancement techniques to coaches and athletes.
* Boston Herald (Boston, MA. 3/87 - 11/88) Wrote a weekly sport psychology column Sports Shrink.
* United Media (New York, NY. 7/87 - 12/87) Nationally syndicated sport psychology column.
* Dulberg, H.N. & Bennett, F.W. Psychological changes in early adolescent males induced by systematic exercise. American Corrective Therapy Journal
BILL FRIEDMAN
Senior Associate
BILL FRIEDMAN has over 15 years of consulting, training and facilitation experience devoted to increasing the effectiveness of relationships across the workplace.
His clients in industry, finance, legal, higher education and government institutions have sought his expertise in building a foundation for understanding and implementing diversity strategies and enhancing work teams at all levels.
DEBORAH LEWIS
Senior Associate
DEBORA LEWIS, Founder and Principal of Integrated Resources, is an organizational development consultant committed to helping organizations create an equitable, innovative, high performance culture that values diversity and fosters inclusion. With over twenty years of experience as a trainer, consultant, and educator addressing issues of organizational effectiveness, workforce diversity, and leadership development, Deborah brings both expertise and passion to her work.
She has demonstrated the ability to create forums in which people honestly explore challenging issues and engage in vital conversations “across their differences” that enhance knowledge and understanding.
Deborah specializes in facilitating engaging, experiential programs on topics including sexual harassment, challenging homophobia, communication skills, facilitation training, conflict management, decision-making, and leadership development. She has worked with clients in the both the private and non-profit sectors and in a variety of industry sectors including: telecommunications, manufacturing, energy, petrochemical, finance, education and healthcare.
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Masters in Social Work from Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Clark University.
DEBORA BLOOM
Senior Associate
DEBORA S. BLOOM, and her company, Debora Bloom Associates, build bridges of understanding within and between organizations. She is a specialist in workforce diversity, harassment prevention, and leadership development. Over the past 25 years she has consulted to dozens of business, educational, governmental, and health care organizations on diversity and improvement of management practices. Throughout her career she has fostered multi-cultural understanding and respect in the workplace. In addition to her U.S. based work she has provided management training and organization development services in a dozen countries in the Americas as well as in Nigeria, Hong Kong, and Belgium.
FRED JEWETT
Senior Associate
FRED JEWETT, an English teacher, football and track coach and founding member of the Hingham High School Climate Committee has worked diligently to build a learning environment based on mutual respect among parents, teachers, students and administrators. He is also the Director of the Student Facilitator Program, established in 1999 to create student led discussions on issues of prejudice, exclusion, bullying and name-calling. He has initiated a number of programs, because of incidents of violence, harassment, racism, and heterosexism. Workshops are conducted at Hingham HS for every student and for parents and coaches attending the Hingham Sports Parent Nights. Student Leadership workshops are presented twice yearly for all captains of sport teams and officers of clubs and organizations.
KELLY BATES
Senior Associate
KELLY BATES is an attorney with expertise in employment law, civil rights law, and sexual harassment prevention law. Kelly is an expert in diversity, leadership, planning, management, conflict resolution, training, and facilitation. Known as the "bridge builder," she has managed scores of complex consulting projects and conducted hundreds of workshops. Her projects include diversity assessments, diversity and sexual harassment prevention trainings, mediations, conflict management training, strategic planning, executive coaching and leadership transition consulting. Kelly has worked with major colleges and universities and athletic departments to support them to foster diversity and understanding on the field and in the classroom.
She has worked with SUNY Cortland, Harvard University and Babson College on major diversity initiatives and training programs.
In the 1990's Kelly served as the Executive Director of the Women's State-Wide Legislative Network. Kelly was the chief lobbyist and architect responsible for the passage of a state law in Massachusetts that requires employers to have policies and encourages training to prevent sexual harassment. Kelly has also served in many executive and management positions in nonprofits, where she was responsible for increasing the racial diversity of the work place staff and her board of directors.
Kelly is a motivational speaker on topics related to diversity, leadership and change. She has spoken at numerous national, regional, and local conferences, universities, and events. Kelly served as faculty for Northeastern University Law School, teaching a ground breaking required course on Law, Culture and Difference. Her article, Diversity in the Workplace Will Attract Women, was featured in India New England News. She is currently writing a book chapter for a publication focused on innovations in personal and organizational change on the multiracial/mixed race experience entitled "The Third Reality". Kelly is also writing an article on leadership transitions from white executives to people of color and/or younger executives.
Kelly is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and recipient of the Eureka-Boston Fellowship for Nonprofit Leaders. She is the recipient of the Rising Star of the Year Award by the UMASS Program for Women in Politics and Government. She has served on numerous nonprofit boards including the Mavin Foundation, WomenIn and the Massachusetts Human Services Coalition.
Kelly Bates received her bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Albany in Africana Studies and a law degree from the Boston University School of Law. Kelly, a Biracial woman of African-American and Irish/English ancestry was raised in New York City and currently lives in a diverse neighborhood of Boston. Kelly is an athlete, regularly attending the gym and playing tennis, volleyball and other activities.
JANE BERMONT
Senior Associate
JANE BERMONT is President of Bermont & Associates, a management consulting and training firm specializing in organizational assessment, change management, diversity and executive coaching. She combines professional skills in organizational development and psychology. Examples of her consulting and training assignments include:
Assessment, strategic planning and implementation for an Inclusion Initiative at leading biotech,
Design and delivery of sexual harassment training for a global law firm,
Teambuilding, management coaching and strategic planning at colleges and universities
Executive Coaching -- including Benchmarks 360 Feedback instrument,
Consultation to executives of a petrochemical corporation charged with the development of a Corporate Strategic Plan for Diversity, and
Development of a Strategic Plan for Work-Life Initiative at a leading university
Her long-standing commitment is to the "human side of the enterprise" and to enhancing employee engagement. Ms. Bermont brings her clinical knowledge and expertise to her strategic change management and diversity work. She is the founder of the Boston Work/Family Forum, a network of researchers and consultants specializing in the work/family and diversity areas. She is a frequent presenter on the topics of Change Management, Diversity, Women's Leadership, Work and Family, Sexual Harassment and Corporate Culture Change.
Ms. Bermont has consulted and trained over the past 20 years in a wide variety of organizations and industries. Her academic clients include Wellesley College, Keene State College, Harvard University, and Babson College; some her corporate clients are Chevron Corporation, IBM, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group, Avid Technology, and numerous law firms.
Ms. Bermont’s previous positions include Assistant Vice President, Employee Assistance Programs, McLean Health Services, Inc.; Executive Vice President, Ibis Consulting Group, Inc.; and Senior Consultant at WFD (Work/Family Directions), provider of global work-life strategy and women’s advancement consulting. She received her B.S. in Psychology from Tufts University and her Master's degree from Bryn Mawr College. Ms. Bermont is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social worker (LICSW) in Massachusetts.
Prior to operating her own business Ms. Bloom was on the human resource development staffs of Wang Laboratories and Digital Equipment Corporation. In addition, she has been a department head in hospitals, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia, and taught at Northeastern University, Lesley College, and the University of Massachusetts. A former varsity athlete, Ms. Bloom holds a Bachelors Degree in Recreation from the University of Florida, received her M.A. in Education from New York University and did doctoral studies in Organization Development at Harvard and MIT. She is fluent in Spanish.
Ms. Bloom serves on the Diversity Committee of the Northeast Human Resources Association is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and has been active in the American Association for Training and Development.
KEVIN FAULKNER
Senior Associate
KEVIN FAULKNER spent much of the last 27 years coaching at the collegiate level.
Coach Faulkner has worked with some of the finest coaches in college Football. While at the University of New Mexico, he worked with head coach, Dennis Franchione (now head coach at Texas A&M). While at Mizzou, UTEP and UMass, he coached alongside current UTEP athletic director, Bob Stull. During that same period, current Philadelphia Eagles head coach, Andy Reid, and assistant head coach, Marty Mornhinweg, as well as Arizona State head coach Dirk Koetter were also assistants for Stull.
Faulkner served as the Offensive Coordinator for the Amarillo Dusters (currently members of the Arena Football League 2), coaching them to the Intense Football League championship in 2004. While there, he was credited with tutoring league MVP and Offensive Player of the Year, Julian Reece.
He coached 14 players who played professionally, seven of whom were drafted.
At New Mexico Highlands University, Faulkner was a standout student-athlete. He earned All-Rocky Mountain Conference honors while earning a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Physical Education 1979. He then went on to earn his M.A. in Secondary Education 1981.
Faulkner also participated in the NFL Minority Internship Program, serving summer internships with the Minnesota Vikings (1992 & 1993) and the Green Bay Packers (1994).
The Kevin Faulkner File
2005 Cheyney University (Cheyney PA) - Head Coach
2004 Amarillo (TX) Dusters Arena League 2 - Offensive Coordinator - Quarterbacks/Receivers
2004 Cumberland University (Lebanon, TN) - Offensive Coordinator - Quarterbacks/Receivers
2001-02 Lincoln University (Jefferson City, MO) - Offensive Coordinator - Quarterbacks/Receivers
1999-01 Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, IL) - Receivers Coach
1994-98 University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM) - Receivers/Running Backs
1989-93 University of Missouri (Columbia, MO) - Receivers/Tight Ends
1986-88 University of Texas at El Paso (El Paso, TX) - Tight Ends
1984-86 University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA) - Outside Linebackers
1981-84 New Mexico Highlands University (Las Vegas, NM) - Inside Linebackers
GERARD COX, Ph.D.
Senior Associate
JERRY COX received a Ph.D., in Psychology and Organizational Behavior from Harvard University, is a licensed psychologist in the state of Massachusetts and is a member of the American Psychological Association. For the past twenty-five years he has been an executive coach and organizational consultant to a number of Fortune 500 companies. He has been a vice president at Manchester, Inc., an international consulting firm which pioneered research and delivery of executive coaching programs. His practice also includes organizational assessment, team building, management of diversity, and management development. A partial list of clients includes:
- Aetna Health Plans
- Bank of America
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Cabot Corp.
- Dartmouth College
- General Motors
- Harvard Medical School
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Rohm and Haas
- IBM
- Internal Revenue Service Prime Computer
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- U. S. Navy Office of Personnel Development
Bill has designed and delivered an array of higly rated training programs on such topics as Diversity in the Workplace, Leadership, Communication, High Performing Teams, Sexual Harassment and Supervisory Skills.
He is a skilled facilitator who has directed retreats, planning sessions, and strategy sessions for executives and managers.
Mr. Friedman holds degrees in Psychology from Harvard and in Organization/Human Resource Development from The American University-NTL. He is a member of the National Organization Development Network.
Bill brings his perspective as a straight, white, male to conversations around diversity and inclusion. He is committed to exploring issues of similarity and difference that effect our relationships at work and in our communities.
Mr. Jewett and the Student Facilitators have facilitated workshops for the Anti Defamation League World of Difference Institute, the MA. Governor's Task Force on Hate Crimes, Project Teamwork at Northeastern University, and at many high schools throughout MA.
In December of 2000, Mr. Jewett and the Facilitator Program were presented the prestigious Founders Award at Team Harmony VII at the Fleet Center in Boston. In May of 2001, they received Citations from the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives for their efforts to make Hingham HS a safe and inclusive school. The World of Difference Institute has presented Mr. Jewett with the Teacher Incentive Award and his student facilitators have won six Golden-Sugihara Awards. Fred Jewett serves on the Massachusetts Peer Helpers Association Board of Directors and the South Shore Educational Collaborative Advisory Committee. He has presented workshops at the Massachusetts Peer Helpers Convention, the Massachusetts Assistant Principal's Convention, the NE. Community Police Association Convention, and the National Peer Helpers Convention in Kansas City and Atlanta and the Massachusetts Inter-Scholastic Athletic Association.
In March 2002, Fred spoke at three of Massachusetts Attorney General, Tom Reilly's Regional Conferences, A Prerequisite for Safe Schools: Protecting Students from Harassment and Hate Crimes. Currently he serves on the Attorney General's Safe School Initiative. These workshops focused on reducing the potential for violence in schools by creating a positive school environment.
In 2002, 03, and 05, he organized the Plymouth County White Ribbon Campaign at Hingham High School. At the White Ribbon Campaign, sponsored by the Hingham Police, the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office, the Sheriff's Department, and the South Shore Women's Center, over 1,100 men have pledged not to commit violence against women.
In 2004, Fred spoke about empowering people to create positive learning environments in schools at the ADL Torch of Liberty Corporate Division Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City and was recognized for his work in creating safe schools at the Torch of Liberty Dinner sponsored by Bank of America at the Westin Hotel in Boston. As a coach, teacher, and father, Fred knows the importance of building respectful relationships that foster teamwork and a strong sense of accomplishment. A strong advocate against bullying, harassment, hazing, prejudice and bias, he has dedicated himself to building successful positive organizations.
Fred holds a Masters Degree in Education from Boston State College and has been a coach and teacher for over thirty years.
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