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Ben Uhrich, PhD

Senior Consultant | Prosci® CCP

Benjamin Uhrich, PhD, is a Senior Consultant in BerryDunn’s Medicaid Practice Group with a rich background in talent management and organizational development. He has a proven track record in guiding organizations through complex transformations by leveraging his expertise in strategic planning, leadership development, organizational and individual assessment, and change management. With a career spanning governmental, healthcare, industrial, and educational sectors, Ben has consistently delivered strategic insights and implemented solutions that enhance organizational effectiveness and employee engagement.

Ben designed and implemented a strategic planning process for BerryDunn’s Medicaid Practice Group, which he now leads with various clients. His approach fosters culture formation and change through highly interactive virtual and in-person activities that collaboratively produce strategy. In addition to his strategic planning work, Ben leads leadership development initiatives that empower leaders and teams to achieve their full potential. He also spearheads the development of BerryDunn’s VOICE assessment, an innovative tool designed to evaluate and enhance employee engagement and organizational performance.

A voracious learner and dedicated professional, Ben holds a doctorate in Organizational Science from UNC Charlotte and a Master’s in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from East Carolina University. Ben’s academic contributions include publications on workaholism, employee engagement, work-life balance, constructive self-talk, emotional intelligence, and stress prevention.

Benjamin Uhrich, PhD, is a Senior Consultant in BerryDunn’s Medicaid Practice Group with a rich background in talent management and organizational development. He has a proven track record in guiding organizations through complex transformations by leveraging his expertise in strategic planning, leadership development, organizational and individual assessment, and change management. With a career spanning governmental, healthcare, industrial, and educational sectors, Ben has consistently delivered strategic insights and implemented solutions that enhance organizational effectiveness and employee engagement.

Ben designed and implemented a strategic planning process for BerryDunn’s Medicaid Practice Group, which he now leads with various clients. His approach fosters culture formation and change through highly interactive virtual and in-person activities that collaboratively produce strategy. In addition to his strategic planning work, Ben leads leadership development initiatives that empower leaders and teams to achieve their full potential. He also spearheads the development of BerryDunn’s VOICE assessment, an innovative tool designed to evaluate and enhance employee engagement and organizational performance.

A voracious learner and dedicated professional, Ben holds a doctorate in Organizational Science from UNC Charlotte and a Master’s in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from East Carolina University. Ben’s academic contributions include publications on workaholism, employee engagement, work-life balance, constructive self-talk, emotional intelligence, and stress prevention.

Experience highlights

Ben helps clients in a variety of areas, including:

  • Employee engagement survey development and action planning
  • Leadership training and coaching
  • Change management
  • Strategic planning
  • Talent management
  • Team building workshops
  • Competency modeling
  • Performance management and succession planning

Additional Certifications

  • Executive Coach Certification (Assenter Coaching)
  • DDI Facilitator Certification Process Workshop (Development Dimensions International)
  • Everything DiSC Workplace® Certification (Everything DiSC: A Wiley Brand)
  • Assessment Certification Workshop (Center for Creative Leadership)

Publications and presentations

  • Smarts or Trait Emotional Intelligence? The Role of Trait Emotional Intelligence in Enhancing the Relationship Between Cognitive Ability and Performance, The Psychologist-Manager Journal, Uhrich, B., Heggestad, E. D., and Shanock, L. R., 2021.
  • Beyond Nine to Five: Is Working to Excess Bad for Health?, Academy of Management Discoveries, Ten Brummelhuis, L. L., Rothbard, N., & Uhrich, B., 2017
  • How Far Can Support Go?: Supported Supervisors' Performance and Subordinate Dedication, Journal of Business and Psychology, Woznyj, H.M., Dunn, A.M., Shanock, L.R., Heggestad, E.D., et al., 2017.
  • The Predictive Validity of Constructive and Dysfunctional Self-Talk. Presented at the Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology Conference, Uhrich, B. B., Rogelberg, S. G., Williams, E. B., Caudill, L. E., Gur, S. S., and Moffit, M. M., 2017.
  • “Yet” ~ A Brief School-Based Program for Fourth Graders, Journal of Youth Development, Rogelberg, S. L., Uhrich, B., Caudill, L. E., Gur, S., Moffit, et al., 2016.
  • Self-leadership, Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Uhrich, B., 2016.
  • Stress management programs, Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Uhrich, B., 2016.
  • The causes and consequences of workaholism, Gender in Organizations: Are Men Allies or Adversaries to Women’s Career Advancement?, Aziz, S., Uhrich, B., 2014.
  • A Culture of Paradoxes: An Interpretative Phenomenological Approach to Virtual Work, Electronic Journal of Communication, Long, S.D., Dunn, A.M., Makkawy, A., Uhrich, B., & Olien, J., 2013.
  • The Workaholism Analysis Questionnaire: Emphasizing Work-Life Imbalance and Addiction in the Measurement of Workaholism, Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, Aziz, S., Uhrich, B., Wuensch, K. L., & Swords, B., 2013.
  • The Relationship Between Flexible Schedule Policies and Job Satisfaction via the Work-Family Interface. Presented at the Southern Management Conference. Uhrich, B., 2013.
  • The Workaholic Organization: Cultural Factors that Enable and Sustain Workaholism. Presented at the Academy of Management Conference. Uhrich, B. and Scott, C., 2013.
  • Do employees need to be happy to be healthy? A longitudinal latent variable analysis. Presented at the Work, Stress, and Health Conference. Finch, J. F., Baranik, L. E., Uhrich, B., Baker, M., Buria, C., 2011.

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Education

BA, Psychology, UNC Greensboro

MA, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, East Carolina University

PhD, Organizational Science, UNC Charlotte

Certifications

  • Prosci® CCP