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public education
| school boards | school support organizations | public sector | non-profit | law and judicial system | private sector

Public Education Consulting

School Departments
Boston Public Schools

  • Coordinated or directly ran many projects in central administration, at regular schools and pilot schools from (1995-2001)
  • Human Resources Department - HR Reinvention project, executive coaching for HR Director and Assistant Director (1999-2003)
  • Center for Media and Library Technology - Executive coaching, strategic planning, team development (2001-2004)
  • Baldwin School - Executive coaching, team development sessions (2002-2004)

Mount Greylock Regional HS, Williamstown, MA

  • Assessment, organization development intervention (2003-2004)

Narragansett, RI Public Schools

  • Community-based strategic plan, Administrators' planning retreat (2002-2003)       

Peekskill, NY Public Schools

  • Strategic plan (2001-2002)

School Boards

  • Boston School Committee - Strategic planning, board development, SC office process redesign, annual goals retreats (1997-2003)
  • Providence School Board - Strategic planning, team development, role clarification (2001)
  • Peekskill, NY School Board - Board development, role clarification, planning sessions (2001-2002)
  • Southern Rhode Island Collaborative of School Boards (9 districts) -Training on NSBA curriculum: Key Work of School Boards, planning for Special Education services (2002-2005)
  • Bristol-Warren RI School Board - Board development, role clarification, annual goals (2002-2003)
  • Westerly, RI School Board - Board development, role clarification, annual goals (2004)
  • East Bay Collaborative (4 districts) - Training on NSBA curriculum: Key Work of School Boards (2003-2004)
  • South Kingstown, RI School Board - Board development, annual goals (2004-2005)
  • North Kingstown, RI School Board - Board development, annual goals (2004-2005)
  • International Charter School (Pawtucket, RI) Board - Board development (2004-2005)

School Support Organizations

  • Center for Collaborative Education, Boston - Role clarification, communication and decision-making retreat for senior staff (2002)

Other Public Sector Consulting

City of Boston

  • Many City of Boston departments, including Office of the Parking Clerk, CFO, Mayor's Office, Healthy Boston, Safe Neighborhoods Plan, Economic Development and Industrial Corporation - Customer service and Managing Upwards trainings, strategic planning, project management, meeting and retreat facilitation (1988-1995)
  • Countdown to Kindergarten - Interagency planning retreats, consulting to Founder/Director on start-up (1999-2003)
  • Homeland Security Initiative - Facilitation of planning sessions (2002)

City of Providence

  • Board of Tax Assessment Review - Training on board basics and start-up ofnew board (2003)

State of Vermont   

  • Division of Vocational Rehabilitation - Developing a New Consensus Conference, 2001; Summit on Employment for People with Disabilities - design and facilitation (2003)
  • Vermont Student Assistance Corporation - Design consultation (2003)

Non-Profit Consulting

  • Boston Literary Trail - Organization and marketing retreat (1999)
  • Countdown to Kindergarten, Boston, MA - Planning and organization consulting, management coaching, and planning retreats (1999-2003)
  • Day Care Justice Cooperative , Providence, RI - Executive coaching, staff retreat facilitation, MBTI training (2000-2002)
  • All Children's Theater , East Providence, RI - Board development, executive coaching and job plans, facilitation of Board sessions (2001-2002)
  • Local Initiatives Support Corporation , Providence, Rhode Island - Staff team development retreat (2003)
  • Boston GreenSpace Alliance , Boston, MA - Board planning retreat for hiring Executive Director (2004)
  • Progreso Latino , Central Falls, RI - Focus groups, interviews and Community Forums to support strategic planning process (2004)
  • New England Regional Head Start Conference , Nashua, NH- Co-design and facilitation of program on Leadership (based on Jim Collins Good to Great - link), and on teambuilding for Center Teams (2004)
  • Team Skills Trainings , 1985-1995: Massachusetts Rehab. Commission, BU MBA Orientation, Boston Public Schools School-Based Management, BU Office of Personnel Management, BU Boston Leadership Academy, Castleton State College, Evanston Hospital

Law and Judicial System Consulting

  • City of Boston Law Department - Executive coaching and team development (1992-1995)
  • Massachusetts Judicial Institute - Education Committee strategic planning, District Court judges conferences - Mission, Vision, Values (1992-1993)

Private Sector Consulting

  • Garnet Consulting, Reading MA, Subcontractor:
  • International Strategy Consulting Firm - Feedback skills training, leadership training, session facilitation for Project Leaders and Managers(1993-2005)
  • Lafarge Building Materials/International Leadership Program - Training in Leadership style and team skills, Meyers-Briggs and management coaching (1995-2004)
  • JP Morgan - Study group start-up, team and leadership skills trainings (1985-2001)  
  • Banker's Trust - New hire orientation, team and leadership skills trainings (1992-1997)
  • Babson Executive Education - Leadership and Influence program trainer (1996-1998, 2001)
  • Brooktrout Technology, Engineering conference - Feedback Skills training (2000), New Public Networks Group, Teambuilding (2001)
  • Fidelity Investments, Large Plan Services, FIRSCO, Operations Audit - Teambuilding sessions (1992 and 1994)
  • Sony Consumer Products Group - Team Skills training (1994)
  • Arthur D. Little Master of Science in Mgt. Program - Study Team Development Sessions (1996-1997)
  • Hollander and Kerrick Associates, Peterborough NH, Subcontractor:
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA - Team Skills Training (1992)
  • Citibank - Team Skills Trainings (1996-2000
  • GE Workout Programs, Team facilitation (1988-1990)
  • Columbia Executive MBA Program - Team Skills Trainings (1994-1995, 2002-2003)
  • Columbia Senior Executive Program - Team Skills Training (2000-2002)
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Executive MBA Program - Team Skills Training (2003)
  • Team Development Sessions/Team Skills Trainings from 1985-2000 with:
  • Bishoff-Solomon Communications
  • Pfizer Marketing Division
  • Coopers and Lybrand
  • Price Waterhouse Coopers IAS Institute
  • Digital Equipment Corporation
  • Tupperware Latin America

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