Harvey Floyd II
Harvey Floyd II is an organizational psychologist, senior executive coach, startup advisor, and University lecturer who specializes in the areas of diversity and inclusion, leading and managing complex change, executive development, and high performance teams. Harvey has forged, facilitated and consulted on strategic change initiatives in organizations such as the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), Booz Allen Hamilton, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), by leveraging Systems Change principles that connect people, processes, and business strategies.
Currently, Harvey holds Lecturer positions in the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Science in Organizational Dynamics Program, and the Wharton School’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education, where he teaches/has taught on Diversity and Inclusion in 21 Century Organizations, Strategic Persuasion, and Collaboration. Working primarily across Wharton’s Executive Education portfolio, Harvey is intimately familiar with the challenges and opportunities facing Senior Executives who are leading change.
As an Executive Coach at the Wharton School, Harvey coaches cross-sector leaders – MBA’s to C-Suites – in signature programs including, the MBA, Executive MBA, General Management Program and Advanced Finance Program, and serves as a Lead Executive Coach for the Executive Development Program. Harvey is also an Adjunct Faculty in the U.S. State Department’s School of Leadership and Management at the Foreign Service Institute, and Team Coaching Faculty alongside Harvard Researcher and Author of ‘Senior Leadership Teams,’ Ruth Wageman.
Harvey’s thought leadership as a cross-sector, scholar-practitioner has been recognized by public and private organizations such as VC Include and Include Ventures, Harris Blitzer Sports Entertainment, L3 Harris, the U.S Department of State, Federal Aviation Administration, IBM, Vail Resorts, PepsiCo, Citi Bank, HSBC, the University of Pennsylvania, American Bankers Association, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Chubb Insurance, Accenture, IE University, and The North Face among others.
A former private sector management consultant, Harvey functioned as a Leadership and Organization Development SME in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Strategic Innovation Group. In his role, he advanced executive and management development efforts impacting the Intelligence Community, Department of Veteran’s Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, and Booz Allen’s Leadership Development Community of Practice.
Harvey holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology and Change Leadership from Columbia University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He received coach training at Teleos Leadership Institute (neuropsychology, emotional intelligence, intentional change, adult development and systems theory), the Center for Creative Leadership, and Columbia University. He is also a certified Executive Team Coach.