Ben Dattner, Ph.D. is an organizational psychologist, and the founder of Dattner Consulting, a workplace consulting firm based in New York City. He has helped a wide variety of corporate and non-profit organizations sort through their credit and blame issues to become more successful. Ben's consulting services enable organizations to make better hiring and staffing decisions, to enhance the professional capabilities of managers and employees, to configure teams more effectively, and to reduce the amount of interpersonal and inter-group conflict by, in part, embracing candor and accuracy when it comes to handing out credit and blame.

Ben is an Adjunct Professor at New York University, where he teaches Organizational Development in the Industrial and Organizational Psychology MA Program in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has also taught Strategic Career Management in the Executive MBA Program at Stern Business School. Ben received a BA in Psychology from Harvard College, and an MA and Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from New York University, where he was a MacCracken Fellow and his doctoral dissertation analyzed the relationship between narcissism and fairness in the workplace. Ben's master's thesis examined the impact of trust on negotiation.

He is a member of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Society for Consulting Psychology/Division 13 of the American Psychological Association, and the Metro New York Applied Psychology Association. Before graduate school, Ben worked at Republic National Bank of New York for three years, first as a Management Trainee and then as Assistant to the CEO. After graduate school, he was Director of Human Resources at Blink.com before founding Dattner Consulting.

Book website: http://www.creditandblame.com/

I’m an experienced ghostwriter and business journalist. I’ve written many words in my career, more than one million of them, targeting various topics in the worlds of business and entrepreneurship. That spans the more than five hundred articles I have written for publications like The New York Times, Inc., and Forbes. I am particularly passionate about projects that connect to the notion that business can be a force for good and positive change in the world.

I’ve worked with some of our era’s leading entrepreneurs and business thought leaders in writing blogs and white papers covering a slew of topics ranging from practical how-to pieces, to in-depth profiles on some of the world’s most intriguing companies and entrepreneurs. I have explored everything from how one entrepreneur is disrupting the multi-billion-dollar shaving market to the backstory behind the man who tried to bring Chinese cars to America (spoiler alert: he failed).

I’ve also ghostwritten seventeen books (and counting), two of which have landed on multiple best-seller lists while others have garnered attention and applause from other leading business publications, such as the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, and Strategy + Business.

Writing of any length can be a challenge. But writing a book presents special hurdles all of its own. And that’s where I come in. When you hire me, you’re hiring a partner and a collaborator. I’m also what you might call a “time-multiplier”; I help you get more done using less of your valuable time. What’s interesting is that writing a book with a collaborator is really only half about the writing; the other half involves hours of interviews and conversations that allow us to dig more deeply into a topic to better get your ideas from your head onto paper.

What I might be most proud of are the relationships I have built along the way with all the thought leaders, authors, and editors I have worked with over my career. The hundreds of conversations I have with business thought leaders each year continue to be the best part of my job as I constantly get the chance to learn and look at the world from new perspectives. I am grateful for how much I have learned from working with these leaders over the years that it’s become part of my mission to pay these lessons forward. When you work with me, you will reap the value and insight of my experiences and of the relationships I’ve built over the course of my career as both a business journalist and ghostwriter.