Name Marilyn Puder-York Role Author | Books The Office Survival Guide | |
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Marilyn Puder-York, PhD, is an American psychologist, executive coach, and author. A former staff psychologist for Citibank, Puder-York applies clinical psychology in the field of executive coaching to help professionals achieve their optimal performance.
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Early life and education
Puder-York has a PhD in clinical psychology from The Graduate Center, CUNY and a master's degree in psychology from City University of New York, and is a magna cum laude graduate of Brooklyn College.
Career
In her work as an executive coach, Puder-York focuses on one-to-one, organizationally-sponsored coaching for CEOs and senior executives in order to improve their leadership performance, career mobility, and direction.
Puder-York works with executives to help maintain their resiliency during organizational and personal changes; adjust behaviors to fit the workplace; and identify and manage “blind spots” to help them achieve superior performance. Additionally, she consults with HR professionals to address behavioral issues in the workplace.
In 2006, Puder-York wrote The Office Survival Guide: Surefire Techniques for Dealing With Challenging People and Situations (McGraw-Hill, 2006), which advises on how to increase professional and personal resiliency in the face of challenges. The book aims to solve common problems (such as office politics, passive-aggressive colleagues, corporate restructures, and mixed signals from superiors) to diffuse conflict, avoid negativity, and create a productive workplace.
As a public speaker, Puder-York addresses issues of resiliency, work and family, and coping with challenging bosses or professional situations.
Puder-York served as Vice President and Director of Citicorp’s Global Employee Assistance Program for 10 years. In this role, she consulted Citicorp management and thousands of executives worldwide on mental health-related issues, and worked with senior management and HR to enhance employee efficacy and manage behavioral challenges in the workforce.
Puder-York is a former Staff Associate for the Legislative Office of Budget Review, where she was responsible for addressing mental health policy and budgetary issues in New York City. She has also served as co-founder and executive director of the East Village Girl’s Club, where she provided guidance and individual and group development services for girls living in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Puder-York has been interviewed and cited in print and broadcast by the business and general media, including The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Business Week, The New York Times, U.S. News and World Report and others. She has appeared on CNN, CBS, NBC and FOX television networks.
Puder-York has written on topics such as leadership behavior, ethical issues in executive coaching, managing difficult customers and clients, and the psychology of success for women.
She is a member of the American Psychological Association, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and is a licensed clinical psychologist in New York State.
Personal life
Puder-York is married to Christopher C. York, Esq. and has a daughter.