About Johanna.

Johanna Merritt Wu, Ph.D. has focused her consulting efforts and broader career on organization development and human resources management in large corporations such as GE, Microsoft, TED Talks, Newell-Rubbermaid, and Western Union as well as many non-profits and educational organizations. Prior to moving into consulting, she served as the department chair of the Human Resources Management program at Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio.
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Dr. Wu served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources in a GE Capital company, as well as Master Black Belt and Quality Leader, Manager of Organizational Development, and Cultural Integration Manager at General Electric. She facilitates meetings, conducts training, and has given business presentations in a number of countries including Italy, Japan, Portugal, England, and the United States. Johanna also has extensive work experience in career development, leadership development, executive coaching, human resource process improvement, team building and decision-making, meeting facilitation, training and development, and online curriculum and tool development.
Johanna worked at the Bahá’í World Center in Haifa, Israel in the 1990s – where she met her husband Steve Wu as scuds flew overhead, during the first Gulf War. She also has lived and worked in Ireland, as well as shorter term work in England, Barbados, and Romania. She is co-author of "Starting with Me: Knowing Myself before Finding a Partner" and “Marriage Can Be Forever—Preparation Counts!”, books that have been used across the globe to help individuals and couples know the character and compatibility of a future marriage partner as well as their own.
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Dr. Wu earned her doctorate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and a masters degree in Psychology from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, along with completing some of her doctoral training at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds a summa cum laude bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Johanna, her husband, and their daughter currently live in West Lafayette, Indiana, where Steve is a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University.
Testimonial from Paula Larson, Organizational Effectiveness Consultant; Former FORTUNE 500 Chief Human Resources Officer
"Johanna is an outstanding Organization Effectiveness professional who can help at the individual, team, or organization levels.  She comes with an excellent array of tools including her deep organizational psychology background as well as an intuitive nature that leads her to adjust as needed to meet or exceed clients’ expectations. Johanna gains credibility quickly in meetings or training interventions given her diverse array of clients and work experience globally. She differentiates herself in the midst of numerous organization consultants with her strong research background, her PhD, and her background as a Master Black Belt (Six Sigma’s highest accreditation) along with her relentless bias for action."