Ben Dattner, PhD
Ben Dattner has helped a wide variety of corporate and non-profit organizations become more successful by developing a better understanding of the impact of individual psychology and group dynamics on performance. His consulting services enable organizations to make better hiring and staffing decisions, enhance the professional capabilities of managers and employees, configure teams more effectively, and reduce the amount of interpersonal and inter-group conflict.
Before graduate school Ben worked at Republic National Bank of New York for three years, first as a management trainee and then as an assistant to the CEO. After graduate school Ben was Director of Human Resources at Blink.com before founding Dattner Consulting.
Ben is an adjunct professor at New York University where he teaches organizational development in the Industrial and Organizational Psychology MA Program in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He teaches strategic career management in the Executive MBA Program at Stern Business School. Ben is also an adjunct professor at Marist College at the New York City Police Academy where he teaches organizational change in the MPA Program.
Areas of Expertise
- Team Building & Group Process Consulting
- Performance Appraisal & 360 Degree Feedback
- Organizational Culture Change
- Emotional Intelligence
Industry/Functional Experience
- Financial Services
- Media
- Pharmaceutical
- Consumer Products & Manufacturing
- Chemicals
- Retail
- Real Estate
- Non-Profit
Education, Memberships, Publications
- BA, Psychology - Harvard College (honors)
- PhD, Industrial & Organizational Psychology - New York University (awarded MacCracken Fellowship)
- Member of the Society of Industrial & Organizational Psychology, The Consulting Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association and The Metro New York Applied Psychology Association.
