Senior Leader Coach & Senior Professor of Practice
VA Support Team/Pharos Group Inc. & Tulane University
Round Roc k, Texas, United States
COL (ret) Jeffrey S. Yarvis, PhD, LCSW, BCD, ACSW is a 35-year veteran leader in veteran affairs, executive medicine, clinician, life-long educator and well-published social work and military scholar in the field of psychological trauma. A transformational leader, Dr. Yarvis has built, transformed, restored, and grown large organizations and optimized their performance using high reliability principles. He has significant experience in restoring integrity, award-winning labor relations efforts, collaborating between agencies and restoring the integrity of failing programs. He has been described by his students, superiors, and subordinates as a visionary, honest, ethical, big-hearted, “real,” and a servant leader who inspires teamwork, coalition building and mission success. He is an unconventional leader that gets things done with an infectious passion. His ability to leverage his skills and translate them to any setting makes him the ideal candidate for the most challenging leadership environments. Always to attempting to improve his leadership repertoire, Dr. Yarvis recently completed two additional masters degrees in Executive Leadership and Strategic Studies. Awards include: NASW Pioneer, Researcher of the Year-Texas A&M University-Central Texas, DiversityMBA.org-Top 50 Executives Under 50, AMSUS Uniformed Social Worker of the Year, US Army Social Worker of the Year, Mental Health Professional of the Year, Military Alpha Designator as a Professor & Military Scholar in Social Work, the Bronze Star Medal and Combat Action Badge, the Legion of Merit, and Order of Military Medical Merit. Board Certified in Clinical Social Work and Fellow of the APA. COL Yarvis was the first Army Social Worker to Command a Combat Support Hospital, Medical Brigade, and Hospital Center. He currently is a high reliability organization functional subject matter expert and executive leader coach to the Veterans Health Administration High Reliability Organization Support Team and contractor support to the Veterans Health Administration Office of Healthcare Transformation, Pharos Group Inc.
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