Neil Yeager Consultant Dr. Neil Yeager is a Director of the Charter Oak Consulting Group, Inc. Charter Oak Consulting Group is a firm that specializes in organization development, leadership development and change management and was selected by Inc, Magazine as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in the United States. Neil has twenty-five years of experience as an organization development consultant. His recent client engagements have focused on executive leadership development through individual and team coaching, as well as custom course design and consultation in leadership, change management and team development. He is a frequent speaker at large scale corporate meetings specializing in helping organizations create high impact learning in limited time periods. He has expertise in the development of competency models for the purpose of conducting 360° feedback at the executive and managerial levels and in the creation of customized corporate mentoring programs. He also conducts web-based distance learning leadership training. Recent clients include: Bear Stearns, McKinsey & Co., Carrier Corporation, Compaq, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Otis Elevator, British Petroleum, Intel, and Northeastern University. Neil is nationally known in the areas of career and organization development and has written six books in the field including: The Leader’s Window (1994, and 2001, with John Beck); The Career Doctor (1991); Power Interviews (1990, 1998 with Lee Hough); and CareerMap (1988). All his books have been published by John Wiley & Sons (except for Leader’s Window, second edition, published by Davies-Black). His book, Power Interviews, was on the 1998 Best Seller List of the Wall Street Journal’s National Business Employment Weekly. Neil is a frequently quoted expert, and his comments have appeared in The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, Money Magazine, the Wall Street Journal and other national publications. He recently appeared on CNN’s, “The Money Gang.” Neil is a former senior faculty member in the Masters in Management Program at Cambridge College where he taught courses in organizational theory and behavior. He was the founding director of the Adult Career Transitions Program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has a Doctorate in Organization Development from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Masters in Counseling Psychology and Bachelors in English from Central Connecticut State University. Among his interests, Neil enjoys spending time with his family and dogs on his farm in Western Massachusetts, bicycling, listening to live music and building his music collection. He is on the Board of Directors of The Northeast Foundation for Children. Back to Our People