CSUDH Leadership Institute
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Leaders as Change Agents
Audience: Leaders experiencing change within their organizations including Managers, Executives, CEO's and Business Owners
Benefit to audience: Leaders will understand the nature of change as a constant process that must be managed in order for organizations to succeed. Leaders will be able to define their role within the change process and apply leadership concepts and principles that facilitate the process. Leaders participate in intense knowledge and skill building, opportunities to integrate new skills and reflect upon their impact in real time and make sustainable changes to their organizations through their own leadership.
Duration of course: 40 hours (20 hours of in-class and 20 hours of online courseware)
Starts: June 18th, 2009
Fees per enrollee: $2,995
Includes: 1 hour free assessment - recommendations around leadership and management and corporate assessment
Instructors: Elizabeth Waetzig, Rachele Espiritu and Suganya Sockalingam
Instructor Profiles:
Elizabeth Waetzig, JD
Elizabeth (Liz) has been managing conflict as a lawyer, mediator, facilitator, and trainer for over 15 years. Liz focuses those efforts in the areas of health care, mental health, child welfare, education and other human services. Liz brings broad experience in all phases of program design and implementation including planning with small, large, and diverse stakeholder groups, conflict resolution among individuals and teams, coaching, and training in all levels of interaction from individual negotiation to large group facilitation.Liz is an adjunct faculty member of the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development. In this capacity, Liz supports leadership programs and youth involvement for youth with serious emotional disturbance, and works with leaders at community, state, and local levels to transform the mental health system for children. Specifically in child welfare, Liz has worked with multiple jurisdictions to create, plan, implement and evaluate mediation programs aimed at engaging families in decision making and reducing the time to permanency for children. Liz is a graduate of the Duke University School of Law. While she works nationally, she resides in Pasadena, California with her husband and three daughters.
Rachele C Espiritu, PhD
Rachele has more than 15 years experience in the areas of children's mental health, substance abuse prevention, and juvenile justice. Her expertise extends to program evaluation, organizational change, strategic planning and implementation, technology support for networks, outcomes planning, and logic model development.Rachele is also an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University's Center for Child and Human Development. She provides technical assistance and training to leaders in states and communities to build their capacity to plan, implement, and evaluate children's behavioral health services in multiple child-serving systems. She currently serves as the coordinator for the National Network to Eliminate Disparities (NNED) in Behavioral Health, a federally funded network to address disparities in behavioral health care, reduce the current fragmentation and begin to link “pockets of excellence” in reducing disparities. Rachele received her B.A. in psychology from the University of California at San Diego and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she was a Patricia Robert Harris Fellow.
Suganya Sockalingam, Ph.D.
Suganya has 12 years experience as co-founder and executive director of TeamWorks, a consulting firm which provided consultation, facilitation, and training on cultural diversity, competence, and communication as well as conflict resolution and leadership solutions. She conducts focused dialogues, consensus building, strategic, and action planning workshops on issues related to health, social services, and education.Additionally, she serves as a senior consultant to the National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC), a technical assistance organization whose mission is to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design, implement, and culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems. She also serves as a senior consultant to the Summit Health Institute on Research and Education (SHIRE) an organization committeed to addressing health disparities through research and education. She has co-developed several curricula to guide systems transformation, and has worked with health and mental health organizations to address 'ISMs' within their organizations and move beyond fractured personnel relationships to an inclusive multicultural workforce.
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