Industrial/Organizational
Psychology Master’s Program
Dr. Zimmerman-Oster is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Psychology at University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) in Detroit,
Michigan. In addition to her teaching responsibilities,
she serves as the Director of the Industrial/Organizational
Psychology Masters Degree Program and the Director of Evaluation
and Research for the Leadership Development Institute at
UDM. She is also President of TEST, Incorporated (Training,
Evaluation, & Survey Technicians). TEST, Incorporated
provides consultation, technical assistance, and applied
research to business, industry, schools and universities,
human service agencies, and foundations in the areas of
program and performance evaluation, strategic and organizational
planning, community relations, organizational and leadership
development, diversity training, and human resource management,
training, and assessment.
Dr. Zimmerman-Oster received her MA and PhD in Social and
Industrial Organizational Psychology from Wayne State University.
She is a social/organizational psychologist with expertise
in the areas of program evaluation; vocational, organizational,
and leadership development; and executive team development.
She has extensive experience in the area of “leadership
development across the lifespan”; including youth
development and alcohol and other drug abuse prevention
planning and research, college-age youth development, community
partnership and coalition development, and management and
executive coaching. She has taught over 40 sections of courses
on leadership development and on research methods - including
program evaluation - using a practical, real-world approach
based upon her consulting experience. She has presented
local workshops on leadership, prevention, and evaluation
as well as professional papers on research and evaluation
methods at national conferences of the American Evaluation
Association, American Psychological Association and American
Psychological Society. Her current research is in the areas
of assessment and evaluation of leadership development programs;
executive coaching; the assessment of leadership potential
and its relationship to emotional intelligence; as well
as employee outplacement, career maturity, and vocational
counseling of unemployed adults.\
Cheryl Boglarsky, Ph.D.
Gwen Fischer, Ph.D.
Janette Jelinek, M.A.
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