Dr. Martha Rader has a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, and is an independent consultant as well as a professor of Leadership, Management, Change Management, and Culture. She has a knack and passion for building strong relationships and creating safe authentic spaces that invite exploration of culture, skills, reasoning of behavior, and gaps that, in turn, enable growth and success.

Dr. Rader is principal of Rader Coaching, Training & Consulting, LLC., dba Rader Leadership. She works with companies to coach, train, and develop executives, managers, and teams through understanding strengths and gaps to reach higher levels of capability and performance. She has worked with companies to align, enhance, and transform culture to give them a competitive advantage, a method she calls “Developing MVP Champions; Mission, Values, and Priorities ©.” Her work also includes strategic envisioning and conflict management to build and foster more effective leaders and cohesive teams. Through assessment, her clients gain an understanding and appreciation for the diversity of thought and personalities that help reduce conflict, break down silos, and build a stronger purposeful culture.

Dr. Rader is certified in coaching, training, and speaking (John Maxwell Independent Consultant), Denison Culture, and MHS Emotional Intelligence, and is an Authorized Partner for the Wiley-Lencioni Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team and DiSC Behavior Analysis.

With over 25 years of experience, she previously held executive, leadership, and management positions in a Fortune 500 automotive company and the banking industry. She has had the opportunity to study the effects of generational differences in organizations.

As an independent consultant, she has coached and assisted in building positive, purposeful, productive, inclusive, and performance-oriented cultures in the automotive, hospitality, non-profit, manufacturing, and small business industries. She was nominated for the Automotive News’ 100 Leading Women in the North American Auto Industry in 2010 and has served as a board member for non-profit organizations, and national dealer councils, and is an active volunteer within her community.

Her mission is “To build trust, to passionately develop leaders and teams to inspire a positive and productive culture to achieve meaningful growth, goals, and fulfilled lives.”