AL FISHER: Associate and Survey Consultant

Quote:
“Our function is to present vox populi to top management.”

Mantra/Philosophy:
“Provide consulting services and conduct surveys to improve human resource development.”

With a keen insight to human nature and more than two decades experience designing custom surveys for associations and nonprofit organizations, Al delivers targeted surveys that get to the heart of your needs for data and administration.

Since ASI Inc.’s inception in 1986, Al has designed and conducted tailor-made surveys that help stakeholders pinpoint requirements for new CEO’s, reveal valuable employee attitudes and opinions, and provide member input for new strategic plans. His surveys move organizations toward a better understanding of themselves and the environment in which they operate. From professional and trade associations to non-profits and private enterprises such as parks and museums, Al absorbs your unique organizational culture to help you unravel the path to the future.

For executive search and transition, Al’s surveys probe strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges to go beyond the nuts and bolts of the CEO position and help an organization discover its long-term goals and mission. “The surveys are a good way of collecting that kind of information and feeding it back to everyone,” he says, “including the new executive so all are onboard with what the stakeholders expect from their organization.”

Before becoming an independent consultant in 1983, Al was a management consultant on HR topics to private and public sector organizations, including state, national and international organizations. The deep knowledge of workplace and corporate issues he gained from that experience is among Al’s greatest assets for clients. Whether it’s helping a 100-surgeon medical school figure out how to keep academic surgeons productive and satisfied despite job stress (answer: provide good rewards, recognition and fairness) or redefining the elements of successful CEO transition for your particular organization, Al does it.

Al’s extensive technical acumen first blossomed when he helped automate manpower assignment systems for the US armed services, conduct worldwide surveys for the Department of Defense, and analyze executive compensation factors for the World Bank/IMF. Al combines creativity with expertise in sampling design, data collection, tabulation, statistical analysis and report presentations to deliver what you need in the form you need it. Some of his greatest successes include creating an automated system to tabulate and report survey results on best practices for dentists, and designing innovative e-mail job satisfaction surveys.

In addition to his surveys, Al also keeps ASI, Inc. on top of OD trends by researching topics such as strategies for success for CEO’s, successful governance strategies, and staff development practices, and the benefits and drawbacks of creating co-CEOs from the next generation of managers.

Al holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Purdue University, M.S. from Iowa State and B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, American Marketing Association and American Statistical Association.