Crystell Anthony

Julie Bernardin, (SOMWBA)

Julie is the founder of JB Consulting. Julie is a creative and inspiring coach, project manager and facilitator with expertise in communications, planning and career resiliency. In a richly diverse professional career, Julie's experience encompasses facilitation, training and consulting for national public and private sector clients. Julie is also a coach for key managers and for private clients in career transition.

Previously, Julie has been an entrepreneur in a successful oil business, a small business consultant, an executive director of a mutual fund association and a project manager.

Leslie Bestick

Leslie the creator of Instructional Designs provided consultant services in the areas of research, grant writing, and program development, implementation and evaluation. Leslie holds both a BS in Journalism and a Masters of Education in Instructional Design. This education, combined with nearly 30 years of state service, position Leslie to assist you with the design, development, implementation and evaluation of your agency's training. When employed by the MA Criminal Justice Training Council, (now the Municipal Police Training Committee), Leslie was responsible for training more than 300 municipal police academy instructors throughout the Commonwealth to impart a new 800-hour police academy curriculum. She developed and implemented the agency's first formal instructor evaluation process and trained evaluators to implement this protocol statewide. While Leslie was Training Director at the MA Parole Board for 10 years, she radically improved that agency's training program by increasing both their cadre of in-house instructors and their in-house written training curriculum. Recent consultant services provided to the MA Registry of Motor Vehicles, (RMV), resulted in more than $1.2 million in federal grant awards and a Special Recognition award from the Pioneer Institute for research and writing regarding the social and financial costs of license fraud. Other research and evaluation efforts led to the incorporation of document authentication technology into RMV business practice. Work on this project resulted in equipment and system procurement, as well as state and federal funding to implement this technology and training at the RMV.

Debora Bloom, (SOMWBA)

Debora is the Principal of Debora Bloom Associates.

Debora specializes in diversity, harassment prevention and leadership development. Over the past twenty-five years she has consulted to dozens of government, business, and health care organizations on managing the human side of their business. She has worked with twenty different Massachusetts state agencies. Her values-based focus on respect and good business practices is an integral part of her work with client organizations. Debora brings an international perspective and Spanish language fluency to her work. In addition to her diversity, and management development, and human resources expertise, she has designed and facilitated train-the-trainer programs and has guided organizations in strategic planning processes, in installing performance management systems, and in putting career development programs in place.

Betsy Day

Betsy Day is the founder and lead consultant for Special Projects Consulting, LLC, a “learn-at-work” training and development company.  Over the last 15 years, she has designed and facilitated a variety of leadership and management, interpersonal communications, customer service, process improvement and professional development coaching programs. Betsy’s training, consulting and coaching projects span across healthcare, government, government- related, academia, manufacturing and service organizations. Her business model encompasses working with long-term direct clients such as Lockheed Martin Corporation, and in-direct clients through partnerships with North Shore Community College, Casey Hall Training Associates and Rutgers University.

Edward Anthony Colozzi, Ed.D.

Dr. Colozzi is a national consultant for career development projects, state standards, and global conferences. He provides comprehensive career/life counseling for individuals, groups, and corporate training activities to a wide variety of clients. Dr. Colozzi is the developer of DOVE (Depth-Oriented Values Clarification-www.lifeworkps.com/dove) and career guidance materials for K-12, college students, and adult deciders including Internet-based versions for JA Worldwide. He helps agencies develop cost-effective systematic career guidance programs (www.lifeworkps.com/scg), provides stress and time management workshops, and serves as a motivational speaker for various functions. Ed has taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels including in-service training for K-12 staff and has served as a coordinator of career development at the college level. He pioneered the use of computerized career guidance in Hawaii and coined the term “career/life” in the late 1970’s throughout Hawaii and the Pacific Rim area to re-frame the idea that career involves multiple life roles, one of which is the paid worker role. He is the author of “Creating Careers with Confidence” presently being published by Prentice Hall, and various articles, book and monograph chapters dealing with career development, callings, and the role of spirituality, meaning and purpose in the career choice process (www.lifeworkps.com/spirituality).

Dr. Denise Cormier

Dr. Denise Cormier, founder of Cormier Associates, has over 25 years of experience creating collaborative work environments, designing meetings and retreats that make a difference, and coaching leaders to achieve excellence in their work and personal lives. Dr. Cormier's expertise is in visioning and strategy development, and leadership coaching and team development. She is a trained mediator and studied at the Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation.  Denise is best known for her ability to design innovative, outcome-focused collaborative retreats and visioning meetings for teams, organizations and coalitions, from small groups to those numbering over 500, and for her unique coaching process which links leadership and personality assessments to personalized goals and outcomes. Her coaching services include one-on-one coaching for executives, leaders and physicians, as well as virtual group coaching programs for emerging and developing leaders. Denise’s clients include businesses, nonprofits, state agencies and coalitions. She is also a preferred coach for leaders at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Denise is currently writing a book on her proprietary personal strategic planning process, designed after a workshop that she created to help leaders find more balance in their lives. For more information on her expertise and services, or to access her recent publications, go to www.CormierAssociates.com.

Dr. E. Wallace Coyle

Dr. Coyle is CEO of E. Wallace Coyle Associates. Dr. Coyle has extensive experience in management consultation, training, and organizational development with numerous public and private organizations over the past twenty-eight years delivering a range of management development programs for entry level, middle and senior managements. Characteristic of these customized training seminars is a concentration on learning by doing. Dr. Coyle previously served as the Assistant Director for Program Development in the Office of Research Administration at Boston College where he assisted faculty in developing research proposals for over 21 million dollars in federal and private foundation funding. Dr. Coyle has also worked at the University of Massachusetts at Boston in a variety of positions as: Director for Writing Proficiency, Assistant Director in Graduate Studies and Research, and Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. He also served as Assistant Director of the MBA Program at the university and he currently serves as consulting editor for a number of distinguished publishing firms in the areas of technical communication and business writing including St. Martin's Press and Harcourt Brace. Dr. Coyle was the Recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished University Service at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and the Distinguished Teaching Award at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Evelyn Estey
Evelyn Estey is a professional life coach who specializes in stress-management and self-worth. Dr. John Gnap trained Evelyn in the mind-body connection. She believes that by incorporating this method into her work she is able to help clients make deeper, more meaningful, and longer lasting changes in their habits of thinking and doing. Co-owner of a Management Training and Human Development Company in the Dutch Antilles Islands; Evelyn also co-founded LIFT Boston, which provided self-empowerment and business growth seminars for large and small corporations. She also co-founded. GROWING FIT, which especially catered to corporate employees.  Evelyn currently serves individual clients, presents seminars, and works with employers in attaining specifically identified goals for employees and the management team.  She works to create an atmosphere that fosters employee loyalty and productivity combined with employer respect for conditions, benefits and treatment of workers.  Evelyn is a volunteer and guest speaker at the International Institute of Boston, working with immigrants to manage the stress of living in a foreign country. Evelyn Estey has a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science and Secondary Education from Elmira College and completed graduate work in education at the University of Southern Connecticut. She is passionate about empowering adults and children to their fullest potential in living, working, learning and loving.

Casey Hall, Principal and CEO of Casey Hall Training Associates (SOMWBA)

Casey Hall has been providing professional development training programs to employees and their managers for over twenty-five years. Formerly the Assistant Director of the Training Group at the Human Resources Division, Casey has been successfully consulting with a variety of clients for the past fifteen years. Casey has had the opportunity to train thousands of adults from a wide range of fields with diverse cultural and educational backgrounds. Her programs have always been highly evaluated by seminar participants and her work with supervisors and managers received an excellent rating in an independent impact study conducted by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Casey is SOMWBA certified and recently was awarded an “Outstanding Performance Award” by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for her services in the field of training and development.

Pam Jaeger

Pam Jaeger, Founder of Coaching Solutions, has over 20 years experience in education, training, and organizational development. Pam partners with clients to promote personal and team development in alignment with dynamic business goals. Her services include assessment, design, training, coaching and facilitation activities. She specializes in leadership development, team development, strategic planning, interpersonal communication, customer service, and multiculturalism. Pam provides services to clients in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. She has worked with several state agencies including the Comptroller’s Office, DCAM, the Department of Workforce Development, and EOHHS. Pam also has extensive experience working in the private sector, with clients from the financial, technology, health, and consumer goods industries. Prior to founding Coaching Solutions, she worked in training and development for Hasbro, Inc. Pam is certified to administer a variety of learning tools, including the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, the Profilor (an external 360-degree feedback instrument), and The PaperRoom System (an internal 360-feedback system). She is certified to deliver Achieve Global professional development programs, and she has completed extensive training with Synectics, a leader in innovation processes. Pam holds a BA in Psychology from Wheaton College and a MA in Education from Boston University.

Donna Jenson
Donna Jenson has been a consultant to non-profit organizations, small businesses, and the public sector for over three decades. With a special emphasis on Board development she has facilitated many organizational processes in visioning and mission definition, strategic planning, team-building, management and supervision, conflict resolution, and collaborations. She offers leadership coaching, mentoring and training to both veteran and emerging leaders individually and within leadership development programs. Her emphasis is on helping leaders to articulate their vision, identify their core needs and take steps necessary to strengthen their organization. Donna received an MA in Organizational and Leadership Development from New York University. She has held faculty positions in Human Relations and Counseling at the New York Theological Seminary, and in the Department of Labor and Management at Cornell University. She is certified by Birkman International to apply Executive Development Instruments.

Charles McCrea

Charles McCrea is President and founder of CMcCrea Associates, a management consulting group specializing in leadership development, change management, and team building (developing a sense of community). He has worked with private, non-profit, public sector and educational groups in strengthening leadership, governance, and teamwork such that individuals work together in new ways to achieve goals that had previously been challenging. Charles’ professional career encompasses manufacturing and marketing in the private sector, as well as nonprofit, military, and public sector experience.

Gregg McCutcheon  

Gregg is the founder of LifeWork Resources, a consulting practice devoted to the personal and professional growth of those who work in service to others. He has over 30 years of experience designing and delivering training and facilitation services for workforce development, education, and human service organizations. Gregg specializes in helping individuals and organizations deal with the stressors and possibilities brought on by major transition such as downsizing and layoffs. He is regarded nationally as a knowledgeable, creative trainer able to engage and inspire staff and administrators who attend his workshops. Gregg’s training methods are lively, practical, and responsive to learner needs.An innovator in the workforce development field for decades, Gregg pioneered a statewide, clinical services program which helped thousands of unemployed workers better cope with job loss and more quickly take part in job placement activities. He has worked extensively with adults and youth as a family therapist, social worker and instructor in a variety of settings including an outpatient clinic, residential treatment center, alternative school, workforce development programs, and adaptive Outward Bound programs.

Jeanne McGuire

Jeanne McGuire, of The Focus Group, has twenty-five years of experience in the areas of organizational development consulting, and training. She provides facilitation to executive teams in customer focused change initiatives, strategic planning and customized skill training programs in marketing, process improvements, customer service, management, team and project development. Jeanne has helped many organizations implement their own Total Quality Management programs. Her work has been recognized with “Preferred Vendor” awards from many of the corporations she has served. To ensure skill training that accelerates the achievement of business objectives, Ms. McGuire has designed 45 training programs and has directly trained more than 20,000 individuals. She created Connections, a powerful, simple, and easy-to-understand organizational development model that has been used by leaders and managers with remarkable results to align individual and team performance with business goals. Her designs for public/private sector partnerships in employment for the City of Boston and Tampa, Florida have received recognition from the President’s Commission on Employment Policy and Stanford Research Institute. Ms. McGuire was a senior consultant to the design of the welfare reform initiative for the State of Florida. Ms. McGuire has been a corporate trainer for Boston University Education Center since 1993 and is currently an instructor at the University of California at San Diego’s Business Extension School in Customer Service Management, and other academic and corporate institutions on models of motivation and training for a diverse work force.

Jeanette Millard

Founder of CJM Consulting and organization development consultant with clients in the private, public and non-profit sectors. For more than 20 years Jeanette has worked with a wide range of organizations, helping them to design and manage successful change processes, and also to build the structures and develop the skills to sustain improvement. A key focus of Jeanette’s work is building highly effective teams through improved communication, role clarification and the development of interpersonal competency. Jeanette often uses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in this work. Over the past decade Jeanette has broadened her focus to include managing and learning from diversity, multi-cultural organization development and racial/cultural identity development.

Karen Murphy, (SOMWBA)

Karen Murphy is President of Murphy Associates, a SOMWBA certified training and consulting organization specializing in Occupational Spanish, Cross-cultural and Customer Service initiatives. Murphy Associates’ training programs target public, private and non-profits sectors. Beginning her professional career as a teacher of modern foreign languages, Karen transited to the corporate environment in 1979. She has over twenty years of management experience in sales, marketing, business development and customer service. Working in both Fortune 500 and start-up ventures, Karen has built, serviced and managed business on a global scale. Her professional experience living and working abroad and dealing with international markets provides first-hand knowledge of the importance of language and cultural awareness skills along with the positive impact of exemplary customer service. She has worked with the Far East, lived and worked in Europe and has worked/traveled in Latin and South America. Her language proficiency includes Spanish, French and Danish along with a knowledge of Japanese.

DB Reiff

DB Reiff the Principal of ClearPath Resolutions, an organization dedicated to helping organizations and individuals work more productively by helping them communicate more effectively, especially during organizational change and stress.  She helps people break through barriers so they can return to the creativity and collaboration that are the lifeblood of every organization.  DB offers mediation, coaching, facilitation and training at all levels of an organization. And, she helps leaders use their voices in strong, clear and compelling ways to inspire employees, stakeholders and clients. She is an affiliate consultant/trainer with Interaction Institute of Social Change where she trains leaders in Facilitative Leadership and facilitates large multi-stakeholder meetings.DB brings unique training as an organizational ombuds, helping people express concerns, resolve disputes, manage conflicts, and learn more productive ways of communicating. She specializes in facilitating contentious meetings and enabling highly polarized groups to hear each others’ interests. DB helps organizations leverage employees' knowledge and create a cultures inclusion that energize employees and enables them to share solutions for organizational success. DB has an MBA from Simmons School of Management and a Bachelor’s in Education from Boston Conservatory of Music. She is a Massachusetts mediator, member of The International Ombudsman Association and a certified MBTI administrator. She has been a guest lecturer at MIT, Simmons School of Management and Camp CEO of the Patriots Trail Girls Scouts.

Judith Rice

Founder of Corporate Fitness, Judith Rice is a health educator with eighteen years experience designing and presenting motivational programs. Her company, Corporate Fitness, conducts seminars for hospitals, community groups, government agencies and corporations. Judy's most popular programs include stress management, communication skills, burnout prevention, relaxation techniques, smoking cessation, and fitness training. In addition to training experience, Judith has also worked for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Tobacco Control Program as a program coordinator. Judy is known for her interactive style and her highly motivational presentations. Judith is a licensed Massachusetts social worker. She is certified by the Aerobic and Fitness Association of America and the American Lung Association.

Doris Ferrer Roach, J.D.

Doris Ferrer Roach is a management consultant, executive coach and former senior attorney with a major Fortune 500 Company where she practiced business law for 10 years.  Doris left the legal profession to follow her passion to make a concrete, positive, and profound difference in the lives of individuals and organizations, by helping them to recognize and realize their potential for growth and transformation. Through her consulting practice, Potential Horizons Realized®, Doris is committed to developing effective leadership, strong teams, and helping organizations benefit from an increasingly diverse workplace. The analytical, problem solving, and communication skills she honed as an attorney serve her clients well and her mediation training also allows Doris to support the successful resolution of conflict that inevitably arises with change and transformation. An experienced facilitator and trainer, Doris designs creative and customized meetings and retreats and has delivered numerous programs on management and supervision skills, employment law, diversity in the workplace, team building, managing change and communication skills.Doris has consulted with a wide range of clients in both the private and public sectors including the Forum Corporation, Justice Resource Institute, KPMG, Management Consulting Services, Marsh, Inc., MIT, Northeastern University, and Pfizer, Inc.

Lisa Sherrer

Jay Vogt

Creator of Peoplesworth a consulting practice helping people who lead organizations discover greater creativity, spirit and harmony in their workplaces through training and consulting services that support shared leadership, continuous learning, and win/win collaboration. Jay has designed and led hundreds of on- and off-site retreats for management teams, work groups and boards of directors in corporations, nonprofit organizations, small businesses, and state agencies. He has facilitated over forty whole system events using Open Space Technology involving over 4,000 participants, three Future Search Conferences involving over 240 participants, and eleven Real Time Strategic Change conferences involving over 1100 participants. Jay has facilitated the design and implementation of scores of strategic planning processes resulting in widespread commitment to mission, vision, goals, and action plans.