Affiliate Consultants and Trainers
Sheryl Fox Adler focuses on developing IISC’s powerful training, consulting, and facilitation practices in Israel and the Middle East, and in faith-based communities in the United States. Sheryl comes to IISC with a background in strategic planning, corporate social responsibility, organizational development, nonprofit management, and cross-cultural collaboration. In 2006, Sheryl founded Adler Consulting Services (ACS), which works with organizations to create inspired leaders to advance our world, unleash creativity through collaboration, and increase organizational freedom through strong processes. Prior to ACS, Sheryl served as Director of Overseas Partnerships for the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC). Through this work, Sheryl partnered with community builders from Israel to Ukraine to Ethiopia to combine passionate activism with disciplined organizational process to build just societies and strengthen the fabric of local communities. Sheryl came to JCRC following several years of management consulting to Fortune 500 companies and start-ups, and five years at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, a bipartisan international think tank in Washington, D.C. Sheryl has lived and studied in Israel and has particular expertise in Ethiopian Jewry and in Israel’s developing nonprofit sector.
Pat Bruce-Lerrigo’s professional focus is on leadership practices that produce sustainable, high quality results through optimal staff and volunteer participation. Pat trains leaders, facilitates large conferences and small leadership alignment meetings, and facilitates team building and conflict resolution sessions ranging in size from two people to an entire organization. She also guides planning processes involving a few people in one day to large multistakeholder initiatives that take place over several months. From 1990-2005, Pat served as a business manager and consultant with IISC and Interaction Associates and has continued to regularly serve IISC and IA clients since then as an affiliate consultant and trainer. She has directly consulted with small community-based organizations and large, multi-site nonprofits and public sector agencies throughout the U.S. and in Budapest, Hungary; Belfast, Northern Ireland; New Delhi, India; and Lima, Peru. Prior to joining IISC and IA, Pat was a program director for a national health agency and an international cross-cultural exchange organization. She also designed leadership training, managed training departments, and was a quality consultant for two leading U.S. banks.
Past and current clients include:
- The Family Resource Center Network
- The Corporation for National and Community Service
- First 5 of Alameda, Santa Cruz and Ventura Counties
- The American Leadership Forum
- The Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County
- School districts around the U.S.
Sauda Burch is a former Senior Associate with the Interaction Institute for Social Change, and is currently an independent consultant providing organizational support to nonprofit and public sector agencies.
Sauda partners with an array of nonprofit and community organizations to facilitate diversity, anti-oppression, and conflict management workshops with volunteers, clients and staff. She also provides strategic planning, executive coaching, and team development support, and brings knowledge and commitment in the area of women’s health, specifically women’s cancer research movement, rape crisis, anti-sexual violence, and LGBT issues.
Before coming to IISC, Sauda was the collaboration monitor and training coordinator for the San Francisco Neighborhood Safety Partnership where she was responsible for the effective collaboration of ten non-profit organizations, providing technical assistance and trainings on responses and alternatives to personal, property and community violence to residents of San Francisco.
Sauda is the former Board Chair of the Girl’s After School Academy and currently chairs the board of Ally Action, a nonprofit organization supporting safe school communities throughout four Bay Area counties.
Past and Current Clients Include:
- Women’s Cancer Resource Center
- AIDS Network of the East Bay
- The Stupski Educational Foundation
- The Bay Area Training Academy
- The Charlotte Maxwell Complimentary Clinic
- Center de Juvenad (Center for Youth)
- San Francisco AIDS Council
- San Francisco, Contra Costa, and Oakland Unified School Districts.
Paul Cello is an artist, consultant and trainer with a passion for education and collaboration as key levers for success in social change efforts. Paul has spent the last ten years using his skills as an artist and business consultant to transfer awareness and collaborative capability in organizations across the globe with areas of focus in leadership development, collaborative change management consulting, coaching and the design and delivery of experiential learning events. With extensive experience in both the corporate and non-profit world, Paul brings to his work both a flexibility of mindset as well as a rigorous commitment to results. He has participated in organizational change efforts that have not only impacted the heart and mindsets of organizations but also the financial bottom-line as well. His belief is that it is through the transformation of people’s deeply held but sometimes incomplete world view coupled with demonstrated improvement in concrete tangible results that change becomes permanent.
Paul received his education from Bennington College in Vermont focusing his studies on theatre and psychology and has also worked with some of the most prestigious theatre companies in the world including Steppenwolf Theatre, Shakespeare and Company, the Magic Theatre in San Francisco as well as the Royal Court and Chichester Festival in England. In addition, Paul was part of the visual effects production teams of several Academy Award winning films including The Matrix.
Past and Current Clients Include:
- Chandler Unified School District
- Department of Homeland Security
- Genentech
- Healing Waters
- Library of Congress
- Paradise Valley School District
- PriceWaterhouseCoopers
- U.S. Department of Education
Shoshanna Cogan is an international consultant with over 24 years of experience serving over 22,000 participants as a college educator, professional counselor, program director, and international facilitator. In addition to her work with IISC, Shoshanna has worked as a trainer, facilitator, coach, and curriculum developer for the U.S., Puerto Rico, and New Zealand governments, Bali Institute for Global Renewal in Indonesia, IAF-Europe Conference, The Corporation for National and Community Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Service Leadership Institute, New Zealand and Australian Wellness Centers, Aguirre International, CHP International, and Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, as well as many other national and international organizations. Shoshanna has authored a variety of manuals and curriculum, is a member of the National Organizational Development Network, a published contributor and presenter with the International Association of Facilitators, and a certified conflict mediator.
A native of Georgia, Daryl brings an intense passion for learning and educational equity to IISC. Prior to joining IISC, Daryl was an educator and administrator in the Public Schools of Brookline (MA), where he also served as the Teacher Leader for the Educational Equity Project , a system-wide collaborative project to eliminate the racial achievement gap. As a classroom teacher, Daryl was inducted into the Aula Laudis Society, the American Chemical Society’s Hall of Fame for high school chemistry teachers. In his last year in Brookline, he served as the Interim Director of METCO, a 40-year old Boston-area school integration program. While studying to be a teacher, Daryl was deeply inspired by the work of Paulo Freire. It is Freire’s notion of education as freedom and transformation that continues to guide him today.
Past and current clients include:
- Boston Parent Organizing Network (BPON)
- Boston Schools Leadership Institute
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Inc.
- Center for Collaborative Education
- Citizen Schools
- New Leaders for New Schools
- New York State Black Gay Network
- Rochester City School District (NY) – Rochester Children’s Zone
- The Steppingstone Foundation
- U-46 School District
Glenna Gerard is co-founder of The Dialogue Group, co-author of DIALOGUE: Rediscover the Transforming Power of Conversation (John Wiley & Sons, 1998), and creator of the Presence Walkabout Program. She has 30+ years of personal experience in education, business, and consulting across a diversity of sectors. Glenna’s expertise is facilitating increased clarity and strategic decision making around issues of critical importance to leaders in their professional and personal lives. She does this through a blend of experiential programs and facilitated conversations, providing individual and group coaching as well as an array of tools and practical skills for collaborating with others, discerning and acting on “what is the next elegant step forward?” Glenna speaks Spanish as a second language and has presented at many local and national professional conferences: Systems Thinking in Action, ASTD, AQP, AHP, ASQC, International Conference of Work Teams, International Association of Facilitators, and the International Conference for the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
Partial list of clients includes:
- government (Environmental Protection Agency, Boston Police Dept.)
- foundations (The Fetzer Institute)
- religious organizations (Episcopal Dioceses of San Joaquin)
- education (UCI, Fullerton College)
- healthcare (PeaceHealth, St. Joseph’s Healthcare System)
- corporations (Intel, Boeing, Levi Strauss & Co., SGI, 3-Com Corp., Hewlett Packard)
- individuals and leaders interested in expanding their effectiveness and reconnecting with their passion and purpose
Linda González is a bilingual organizational consultant with over 15 years experience facilitating and training groups of diverse participants in the education, non-profit, health care, and government sectors. Her primary purpose is to work with multicultural wisdom and balance and inspire people to embark on a creative, joyful, cooperative journey of love and healing for this and future generations. Linda also has a thriving practice as a coach, working primarily with organizational leaders and writers, and is on the roster of volunteer coaches for LeaderSpring Executive Coaching program. As a principal of Diversity Matters for ten years, Linda developed successful and innovative approaches to integrating multiculturalism into strategic planning, team building, conflict resolution, and leadership development.
Ted Lay has worked for the past twenty years as a manager and as an internal and external consultant. He has provided facilitation and training to middle and senior management, physicians and staff in the fields of health care, technology, financial services, higher education, manufacturing, public utilities, city and county government and nonprofits, among others. One of Mr. Lay’s specialties is in designing and facilitating group processes. He has provided leadership and facilitation in areas ranging from conflict resolution, strategic planning, organizational mergers and restructuring to technology implementation and organizational development.
Trained to the standards of the state Dispute Resolution Commission, Ted has provided organizational mediation in a number of settings from contract negotiations for physician groups and hospital administrative boards to the selection and implementation of $35 million software project.
Some of the IISC clients Ted has worked with are the Los Angeles Unified School District, Multnomah County Health Department (Oregon), and the Paradise Valley School District (Phoenix).
Madeline McNeely is a leadership coach, consultant, and trainer for executive leaders and organizations in both the non-profit and corporate sectors. Madeline moves leaders and organizations into condition to do meaningful work by coaching them to embody and practice theories, methodologies, and strategies. Madeline has been an affiliate trainer and consultant with IISC since 2003 and a senior consultant and trainer with IA since 2006.
For organizations, Madeline’s areas of expertise include strategic and organizational development, culture change, facilitation and collaboration skills, community and board development, diversity, cross-cultural education, open space technology, and writing and editing leadership training curricula and manuals. As a leadership coach, Madeline’s work includes professional and personal mastery, leadership development, career focus and alignment, presentation training, supervision and management, collaboration and relationship building. She also researches, co-writes and edits YouthBuild Innovations, a series of articles focusing on organizational best practices at local YouthBuild programs, for YouthBuild USA.
Past and current clients include:
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation -Citizen Schools
- City Year
- Florida Department of Public Health
- Louisiana Disaster Relief Fund
- Merck Family Fund
- Traces of the Trade
- YouthBuild USA
Robert Ryan delivers training, consulting, and facilitation services. He works with individuals, teams, and organizations, in the areas of leadership development, team-building, organizational improvement, and strategy implementation. Robert has devoted a considerable amount of his time coaching leaders as they build the alignment and commitment necessary to move their organizations forward.
Prior to joining the IISC, Robert was the founder of R. F. Ryan and Company and cofounder of RyanRossini, focused on organization effectiveness, change management, and leadership. He began his consulting career at McBer and Company, a Boston based international consultancy, which applies the behavioral sciences research and theory of founder, Dr. David C. McClelland and his colleagues to improve the performance of individuals and organizations. During his thirteen years there, he held increasing degrees of responsibility, including serving as the President and CEO. Robert’s first career was as a secondary school teacher, coach, counselor, and administrator. He is a founding member of the Ecopsychology Institute, whose mission is to change the way that human beings understand and function in the natural and physical world.
Past and current clients include:
- Florida Department of Health
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Metropolitan Economic Development Authority
- Oxfam
- Resiliency for Life
- The Door
- Urban Ecology Institute
Julia is an affiliate consultant and trainer with both the Interaction Institute for Social Change and Interaction Associates. Her focus is on building collaborative relationships and group processes that support organization changes and their evaluation. Early on in her career as a legal advocate in the inner city, Julia noticed that the very skills that made for successful attorneys rendered those same attorneys unable to collaborate or work productively in groups. She became inspired by the notion that our worldviews influence the choices we make regarding organizational management and workplace learning and went on to pursue studies in organizational development. She has also been educated by the National Training Laboratories (NTL). Julia has taught courses in Organization Behavior and Processes, Theory of Instructional Design, and has supervised doctoral students for graduate programs at Lesley College, New Hampshire College, Universidad del Sagrado Corazon (Puerto Rico), and Centro Caribeño de Estudios Postgraduados (San Juan, Puerto Rico).
Past and current clients include:
- Ball Foundation
- Bay State Health Systems
- Institute for Civic Leadership
- Library of Congress
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Northeast Action
- U.S. Department of Education
Bruce delivers training, consulting, facilitation and coaching services, helping individuals, organizations and community groups to build alignment, increase their leadership and collaborative capacity, optimize performance and manage change. Bruce has over 28 years of experience serving in leadership positions in the nonprofit sector. As an instructor, course director and program director with the Colorado Outward Bound School, Bruce designed and delivered custom training programs focusing on team building, leadership development, change management, collaborative problem-solving and communication for a broad range of for profit and nonprofit organizations for over 18 years. In addition, he served as executive director of two northern California environmental organizations over the span of ten years. Bruce is a former member of the board of the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center, and a former president of the board of Marin Nexus, a technical assistance and support center for nonprofits. He is founding board chair of the Environmental Education Council of Marin.