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About Me

Dr. Rita Maselli has lived and worked in North America, Latin America, the West Indies and now in the Middle East. She has first hand experience with the role of culture on management styles and the effects of different business cultures on employees and their productivity.

With a PhD in Management and Administration and an MA in Leadership and Supervision, and experience in international management at many different levels, she is able to integrate theoretical knowledge with real work experience. She has also taught and continues to teach Human Resources Management, Human Resources Planning, Business Organizations, Change Management, Organizational Behavior and Change Management and Strategic Planning in MBA programs in Egypt.

During her career, she has worked in both the for-profit sector as well as in not-for-profit sectors at many different levels of management, including that of board member. In addition, Dr. Rita has had a number of years of hands-on experience managing international for-profit, private educational organizations in the Latin American area and spent two years as the Assistant Superintendent of a large international institution in Egypt. She has successfully led schools through the accreditation process and was a member of a number of accreditation teams for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

Dr. Rita believes that applying quick fixes to business issues is usually misleading and non-productive. To be effective, all solutions must be integrated into the culture of the company, aligned with business or organizational processes and must be strategic in outlook.

Some Consulting Areas of Expertise

• Management Assessment Centers – Using assessment centers, during the last two years she has assessed 76 of the Pirelli Group’s (Italian multi-national) junior, middle and senior levels managers in their Alexandria Tyre Company operation in Egypt.
• Career Counseling – She has recently completed a project for the Aga Khan Foundation which created a career counseling program to reduce employee dissatisfaction and turnover.
• Organizational Development – She has worked with a number of organizations to assess their organizational effectiveness and plan improvement initiatives.
• Customized Assessment Instruments – She recently designed screening tools for interviewing crew and managers for a major FMCG company. She is trained to administer and debrief a number of psychometric assessments.

Trainer
She designs and delivers training programs in the following areas: leadership development, empowering work place attitudes, maximizing workplace productivity, emotional intelligence, change management, crisis management, strategic thinking and planning, TNA assessment and evaluation, and other related areas.