SHARP MIND - Key Persons
Dr. Gary Lambert is the founder and President of SHARP MIND, a consulting and research firm dedicated to helping people and organizations achieve their full potential.
He completed his doctorate in Industrial/ Organizational Psychology and over the past +25 years, served in various leadership positions for organizations such as CarMax, Northrop-Grumman, Right Management, MeadWestvaco, LandAmerica Financial Group, and Randolph-Macon College. During that time, he also consulted with a wide variety of companies and organizations. In 2012, he used his experience and passion to help others to create SHARP MIND. This entrepreneurial endeavor allows him to consult with organizations and leverage his deep business experience to identify, develop and deploy talent with maximum effect. SHARP MIND also allows him to do the cutting-edge research that holds so much potential for applying advances in neuroscience to help people perform at their best, especially in high risk jobs.
With over 25 years of serving and consulting with a wide variety of companies and organizations, Gary has gained the practical, hands on HR/OD experience in Talent Management, Leadership Development and OD Consulting that allows him to help individuals and organizations deliver high-quality, practical, business results. As an adjunct professor at Randolph-Macon College he teaches and guides the applied research that fuels SHARP MIND Research.
Job Titles:
- Chief Scientific Officer, Posit Science / Founder & President, Brain Plasticity Institute
For more than three decades, Dr. Merzenich has been a leading pioneer in brain plasticity research. Dr. Merzenich has published more than 150 articles in leading peer-reviewed journals (such as Science and Nature), received numerous awards and prizes and been granted nearly 100 patents for his work.
Job Titles:
- Interim Director of the Commonwealth Educational Policy Institute / Virginia Commonwealth University
Dr. McDougle's research involves working with service-based organizations and law enforcement agencies to evaluate the efficacy of programs offered to residents in communities that suffer many of the negative consequences resulting from high levels of crime, specifically violent crime.