A graduate of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, where she earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology, Leslie S. Pratch is the CEO and president of Pratch & Company. Drawing upon almost two decades of experience in clinical psychology, Leslie S. Pratch has created several programs for determining the coping capabilities of business executives, including the Active Coping Assessment system.
Designed to help companies predict how executives are likely to perform across challenging situations, the Active Coping Assessment System includes techniques that present the executive with vague and potentially discomfiting situations, each of which requires a response. Instead of relying on rote, rehearsed, responses, executives must draw upon their internal psychological resources in order to respond to the stimuli.
As such, the Active Coping Assessment System leverages psychological realism to predict how the executive will perform in a complex management role. The system determines the stability and strength of the executive’s current coping and future tendencies, also links the executive's coping style to his or her motivations and values and complexity of mental processing, in addition to mapping the executives skills and experience to the demands of the role.
