Angela Pearson, Ph.D. serves as the President and CEO of OD Synergistics Consulting LLC, which was founded in 2019. She is a trusted Advisor to business leaders in successful companies in the US, working with them to assess organizational issues, reshape structures and processes, and build depth of management capability. She is a skilled diagnostician who helps her clients to understand organizational strategies and systems to make comprehensive decisions.

In addition to her consulting work, Angela is a Navy and Army veteran and a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Coach. In her career, she has worked for many well-known companies in roles such as Operations Leader, Human Resources Generalist, Training Manager, and Environmental Health and Safety Manager.

In this episode…

Dr. Angela Pearson is humbled to count herself as the first Ph.D. in her family. Getting there wasn't easy, though...

In this episode of An Unconventional Life, Dr. Angela Pearson and Dr. Russell Strickland swap war stories about their doctoral journeys. Like working full-time, being part-time military, and raising four kids...while earning a doctoral degree! And that time when Dr. Pearson changed her dissertation topic --- twice! And that time when one of Dr. Strickland's candidacy exam professors posted elaborate rules about how faculty members can win an oral exam...by laying the student out flat on the floor!

The anecdotes keep flying throughout this laugh-to-keep-from-crying episode.