Doug Linnett, President of Life Adjustment Team, Joins ABL Organization

Santa Ana, CA — September 1, 2010 — Doug Linnett, President and Director of Business Development at Life Adjustment Team, LLC, has joined the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization (ABL). As part of California’s leading vertical-industry Chief Executives’ Organization, ABL Members provide one another with executive leadership coaching through its confidential, professionally-facilitated, peer-CEO Advisory Board Round Tables, executive learning workshops, network of CEO peers, and expert resources.

Life Adjustment Team (LAT) provides intensive psychiatric outreach rehabilitation services to assist patients to function successfully in the community. Established in 1977, LAT’s professional rehabilitation team implements evidence-based psychosocial rehab programs on a one-to-one basis, in the home, at its centers, and during goal-oriented outings in the community. This approach has proven to be instrumental in significantly reducing or eliminating the need for repeated hospitalizations and has helped many patients achieve a satisfying level of successful independent living.

LAT’s staff of Masters- and Doctorate-level clinicians can arrange team visits from one to seven days a week, depending on the need. The intensity of treatment is determined by the personal needs and treatment goals of the patient, as well as the integrity and strength of the current support systems. The focus of treatment with the Life Adjustment Team is determined by an assessment of seven specific Domains of Functioning: psychiatric/medical; social/interpersonal; recreation; self-management; family; education/vocation; and belief system. Goals and plans are developed to stabilize patients using a combination of skills training in medication and symptom management and goal-directed, supportive outreach case management services. LAT’s staff is professionally trained in the evidence-based best practices published in Dr. Robert Paul Liberman's book, “Recovery from Disability,” a comprehensive manual of psychiatric rehab spanning 40 years of state-of-the-art research at the UCLA Research Center for Schizophrenia and Psychiatric Rehabilitation.

Doug is a Founding Partner and serves on the Board of Directors of the Mental Health Provider Network, comprised of individuals working in mental health services - including community-based mental health centers, hospitals, local law enforcement, the Department of Mental Health, and consumer advocacy organizations - to help providers deliver the highest quality of mental healthcare possible through networking and resource sharing. Doug is also the President of the Men’s Association of Addiction Treatment, founded by a dedicated group of professionals in the treatment industry to provide a forum for airing new ideas, as well as educational and networking opportunities.
 

About the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization
ABL supports the needs of its Member CEOs by providing a place for top-level executives to draw on the experience, knowledge and skill sets of their peers in a vertical industry, personal advisory board – “multi-coach approach” – setting.

The core component of the CEO Membership experience is the group Round Table meeting. Members meet once a month for a half-day with a group of peer CEOs, Presidents, COOs and Division General Managers from non-competing companies, all from the same industry (healthcare, technology or life sciences), in a trusted and confidential board room-like setting, which allows ABL Members to tackle topics and enhance their decision making and business performance. Topics include: developing and honing new business strategies and best practices, new lines of business, “A-players” on the management team, and an effective board of directors, as well as understanding trends in new markets, mergers and acquisitions, compensation, and other “hot” topics brought to the Round Tables by the Members themselves.

ABL Members also gather several times a year at workshops and conferences to exchange ideas and connect with other chief executives beyond their own CEO peer groups. In effect, ABL Members serve as one another’s business coaches within the Round Tables and are encouraged to connect and leverage their co-Member peers’ particular skills and expertise for additional leadership coaching, one-on-one, outside of their monthly group meeting. In addition, each Round Table’s facilitator also serves as an objective business advisor, offering executive and industry insights and advice.

 ABL's Chief Executive Leadership Development Round Table program is currently offered in California's Greater Los Angeles, Orange and San Francisco County areas. More information about the ABL Organization can be found at http://www.abl.org .