Leadership Management Associates
Rick Karges, CEO
About Us
Our Specialized Services
What We Do For Helping Organizations
We help you further identify, develop, maintain and enhance the performance of your organization. We have the capabilities to effectively address problems, plan solutions, take action, and evaluate results. This process includes being able to effectively engage in regular self-reflection, identify areas needing attention, and implementing positive changes where appropriate. Leadership Management Associates, LLC has a team of professional consultants to dive deeply into your organizations most difficult challenges and greatest opportunities. By conducting a comprehensive assessment of your organization, LMA can positively influence, energize, and inspire your organization to identify and achieve the results you desire. We offer a highly, flexible, affordable, and professional approach tailored to your organizations needs, objectives and desired results.
Advice From People Who Have Been In Your Shoes
Our Mission
Today, you and your organization are one step closer to maximizing your full potential and achieving greater success. As a solution-focused team of non-profit and for-profit executives and experienced clinicians, our goal is to help you uncover more of your leadership potential and that of others. We focus on helping you successfully achieve your own personal, professional, and organizational goals and dreams.
While we can't change difficult situations you faced in the past, we can work together to better understand and resolve challenges and opportunities ahead.
By applying proven approaches and techniques, we will unearth long-standing patterns that may be holding you and your organization back. If you're looking for support and guidance through a challenging personal situation or you're looking at implementing major organizational change, we can help!
We are at your service to provide you with the highest quality of experienced leadership, change management, and results oriented solutions.
LISW-S, ACSW
Meet Owner and CEO Rick Karges
Richard R. Karges, has more than 30 years of leadership experience in the behavioral healthcare field. He the Owner and CEO of Leadership Management Associates, LLC, an organization dedicated to identifying, developing, and enhancing professional leadership skills and expertise in the helping professions as well as improving the organization, mission and functions of both non-profit and for-profit entities.
For the past 10 years he served as the Executive Director & CEO of Hopewell: a therapeutic farm community serving adults with serious mental illness. Prior to this he was the Executive Director /CEO at Crisis and Counseling Centers based in Augusta, Maine.
Rick was recognized for his outstanding work in the mental health field when he was named the 2007 Professional of the Year by the Maine Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). He also has served as Chair of the (Maine) Governors Substance Abuse Services Commission. He has been an adjunct Social Work instructor at Ohio State University and Case Western Reserve University. He also served as a member of the American Residential Treatment Association and has volunteered for the Cleveland area MedWorks program.
Rick has been published and interviewed in Behavioral Healthcare Magazine and has contributed to several other professional journals and academic manuscripts addressing mental health issues and practice areas.
In the mid 1980’s to 1990’s, Rick was Executive Director of the Lake County Mental Health Center and prior to that held a leadership position at University Hospitals of Cleveland’s Psychiatry Management Center.
He received both his BS and MSW degrees from The Ohio State University and completed training at the US Army Academy of Health Sciences. He is a member of NASW and the Academy of Certified Social Workers.
Contact
46 Shopping Plaza Suite 179 Chagrin Falls, OH 44022