Terry Ebert, Ed.D.
Managing Director, Career Transition/Outplacement

Terry Ebert has more than 20 years of experience in the field of career management, working with all industry categories in the Fortune 500.  He has acted as an advisor and mentor to HR professionals in many industry leading corporations, dealing with issues ranging from corporate governance to complex employee relations matters.  He has provided leadership for multiple location downsizings on both the national and international level, with single point-of-service support.  Terry has had the oversight and hands-on management of major projects such as the set-up and ongoing administration of career transition centers, plant closings, and a wide variety of large-scale corporate restructurings involving staff reductions in excess of 1,000 employees.

Terry, who joined The Ayers Group in 1990, is Managing Director of all its career transition programs, individual and group.  He has crafted innovative seminars and personally provided counseling for most senior executives and managers in many of the firm's client corporations.  He has also developed a Human Resources Staffing Augmentation practice providing Senior Generalists, ER specialists, and Recruiters on an as needed basis for corporations in many different industries across our region.

He began his corporate career in computer training with Spiridellis Associates, a management development consultant to the Fortune 500.  Recruited by Morgan Stanley & Co. to run their recruiting and training programs, the training program that he developed was called "the Rolls Royce of training programs" by Datamation magazine.  In 1988, Terry left to start his own consulting firm focusing on skills gap analysis, training design and development.

Terry holds an Ed.D. in Training Management from Hofstra, an M.A. in Psychology from SUNY Binghamton, and a B.A. in Psychology from Queens College.  He is regularly invited to address national and international human resources and training conferences, has been a guest on Wall Street Week in Review and on CNBC-TV, and his articles appear in leading business and trade publications.  He is a member of the Outplacement Institute and is active in several national and international professional associations.