
Facilitating Change - Achieving Results
Greater New York City Area

Facilitating Change - Achieving Results
Greater New York City Area
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Results and action oriented Learning & Organization Development professional. 20 + years experience as an organization development consultant, executive coach, & facilitator, helping people through change to achieve success. Passionate about learning, managing change, and creating more effective organizations.
Seasoned and versatile practitioner with accomplishments in:
- talent management
- performance management
- management and leadership development
- post-merger culture integration
- managing change
- career transition
Track record in designing and facilitating effective change management strategies and building strong client relationships.
Co-moderator of the Internal OD Practitioner discussion list of the OD Network
Speaker on Internal Consulting at Academy of Management meeting in Philadelphia.
Contributing author to
- Practicing Organization Development: A Guide to Practitioners - 2nd Edition (Wiley 2005)
- The Employee Engagement Handbook. Forthcoming
- Millennials Incorporated by Lisa Orrell - 2008
http://www.theorrellgroup.com/
- The A to Z of Employee Engagement. Edited by David Zinger, e-book, 2008
College level instructor on faculty of Thomas Edison College MBA Program and Rutgers Supervisory Management Development Program.
- leadership development
- organization development
- career transition
- facilitation
- shared wisdom
- managing change
- performance management
- interpersonal relations, conflict resolution
- organizational communication
- culture
- teamwork, collaboration
- creativity
- training
(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)
May 2009 — Present (3 months)
Helping people who are in transition to galvanize their search.
(Management Consulting industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
Career Transition Consultant.
Management & Leadership Development Consultant.
Moderator of The Heart of Meaningful Work social network.
Co-moderator of the St Matthias Employment Ministry.
(Non-Profit; Education Management industry)
April 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 7 months)
- Guided the development of "Igniting Commitment," AMA's successful new management seminar about Employee Engagement, based on the book One Foot Out the Door by Dr. Judith Bardwick
- Guided the development of "Leading Effective Meetings," AMA's successful new 1-day seminar, featuring the PEARLS method for planning and conducting highly productive meetings
- Guided the development of "Leading Virtual Teams," AMA's hotly sought-after seminar, based on the work of virtualteams expert Jessica Lipnack of NetAge in Boston
- Guided the development of "Coaching Boot Camp," AMA's new intensive learning experience for strengthening managerial coaching in organizations, incorporating the AMA GUIDE to Coaching, synthesized from the models of leadership expert Don Blohowiak
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — April 2007 (4 months)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Human Resources industry)
1986 — 2007 (21 years)
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Utilities industry)
February 2001 — October 2005 (4 years 9 months)
Supporting Operations for Elizabethtown Gas, my work spanned the areas of Training and Organization Development, including Supervisory skills training, technical training, process improvement, safety, and culture change.
(Public Company; Human Resources industry)
1998 — 2001 (3 years)
(Public Company; Human Resources industry)
1993 — 1998 (5 years)
(Human Resources industry)
1985 — 1993 (8 years)
EdM , Education , September 1981 — June 1982
BA , Human Communication , September 1973 — June 1977
1969 — 1973
blogging, writing, stewardship, ministry, travel, wine, movies, music, spiritual growth
Contributing author to
- Practicing Organization Development: A Guide to Practitioners (Wiley 2005)
- Millennials Incorporated by Lisa Orrell (2008)
- Employee Engagement from A to Z, edited by David Zinger (2008)
- The Employee Engagement Handbook, forthcoming (2008-09)