mentor biography: scott gassman

Scott Gassman coaches, trains, facilitates, and manages projects for individual, team, and enterprise-wide initiatives.  Scott has led corporate organization development, leadership development and interactive media groups, matrix and traditional teams, strategic change, learning implementations, and produced a President’s weekly enterprise-wide internal corporate two-way desktop broadcast program. He was the organization development leader for the Systems, Technology, Operations and Infrastructure divisions within two Fortune corporations, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Medco Health Solutions.

Scott’s consulting firm, IdeaJuice focuses on strengthening executive and team effectiveness, improving productivity, designing change or transition initiatives, engaging the whole workforce, maximizing meeting value, and building learning strategies.

The recent client roster includes: Amalgamated Life Insurance, America Speaks, Citigroup, G2, Ninth House Network, Office of Personnel Management, US Fund for UNICEF, Homeland Security and Philip Morris.  Scott facilitated at: California Speaks, the National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Preparedness Initiative with the EMS Operational Chiefs, from America’s fifty largest cities; at the first Governor sponsored Louisiana Recovery and Rebuilding Conference (after Hurricane Katrina) and at Seaport Speaks, to plan the NYC’s Seaport’s next 100 years.

Scott Gassman is an Adjunct Professor, at Milano the New School for Management and Urban Policy.  Scott’s current research focuses on corporate workforce engagement strategies.  Scott reviews manuscripts for Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.  He has been consultant to the U.S. Navy, Chase Manhattan Bank, Montefiore Medical Center, Boeing, and New York City and New York State Governmental agencies.

On behalf of Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Scott received the Ken Blanchard Companies' Humanizing the Workplace Award.  Scott was a recipient of the Training Director of the Year Award by Training Magazine (Lakewood Publications).

E: scott.gassman@gmail.com
P: 917.951.0258