CSUDH Leadership Institute
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Leaders as Evaluators
Audience: Leaders responsible for strategy and accountability including Managers, Executives, CEO's and Business Owners
Benefit to audience: Leaders in change are required to identify shared outcomes and design plans that promote thoughtful change.  Leaders must document the achievement of shared outcomes through an intentional process of accountability.  Leaders will understand the process of evaluation within strategic planning and will become familiar with tools used to develop evaluation plans.  
Duration of course: 30 hours (15 hours of in-class and 15 hours of online courseware)
Fees per enrollee: $2,495
Includes: 1 hour free assessment - recommendations around leadership and management and corporate assessment 
Starts August 13th, 2009

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.

For additional information, please email: csudh@Artilient.com

 

 

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