Lecturer, Jefferson College of Population Health

Organization Development & Change in Healthcare

Dr. Marcia V. Wilkof, mvwGroup’s founder, has more than four decades of experience in organizational consulting, management training and university teaching. She has published business and scholarly articles on health care and high technology management, organizational culture and change, strategic alliances, creating women-friendly organizations, decision making and the transfer of scientific and technical information.

Dr. Wilkof consults to for-profit and non-profit organizations in both the private and public sectors. She works with groups of all types and at every organizational level to improve performance by aligning strategy, structure, culture and work processes; improving communication, conflict resolution and decision making; capitalizing on diversity; and developing effective inter-group relationships. She brings to each client engagement the rigor of her academic training and an accessible communication style that reaches persons at any level within the client organization: board members, executives, managers, and employees. 

Dr. Wilkof's research has been the subject of articles and papers in publications such as: Health Progress, Journal for Quality and Participation, R&D Management, Journal of High Technology Management and Marketing Research and Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. She has discussed her work at conferences and seminars, including Managing the High Technology Firm, State of the Art in R&D Management, Association of Quality and Participation, Academy of Management, Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and the Army War College.

Dr. Wilkof received a BA with honors from the University of Cincinnati and earned a MS and PhD from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is listed in Who’s Who of American Women.