Jerry Berlin is both a consulting psychologist and an experienced pilot. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1961. Since then, he has spent much of his career in general, commercial, and military aviation.
He spent the decade of the seventies in Israel where he taught at the Univ. of Haifa and served as a full time officer in the Israel Air Force.
His last position was as Chief of Training Research and Development with the rank of Lt. Col.
From 1979 through 1982, he served as Director of the Aviation Research Center at Embry-Riddle University, and was the senior author of a three-volume study on pilot judgment training.
In 1985, Dr. Berlin was appointed a member of a Federal Task Force on Counter-Terrorism, and, the following year, developed the first automated terrorist screening profile, the essentials of which are still in use.
Between 1988 and 1998, Dr. Berlin developed the initial Cockpit Resource Management training for four major U.S. air-carriers, and developed team development processes, pilot selection systems and safety training programs for the U.S. Air Guard, air carriers, and several corporate aviation departments.
More recently, this has led to the development of new methods for improving the safety cultures of both flight and maintenance organizations.
In addition to his consulting, Dr. Berlin remains interested in training the next generation of organizational psychologists, and lectures at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology.
