CREATE-LEARNING-Team-Building LLC – Buffalo, New York
Adventure Consultant• Consult with Corporate and Business Clients on ways to build and strengthen teams within their organizations.
• Present Experiential programs to Corporate, Small Business, Universities, and classrooms.
• Facilitate off-site and on-site meetings with business clients. Covering topics of Goal Setting, Strategic Planning, Leadership Development, Inter and Intra office Collaboration.
• Teach, Facilitate and Consult with organizations on the topic of Emergent Leadership: Leading Millennials Effectively.
• Create and Facilitate with University and Corporate groups on the topic of Global Team Development. Using “Virtual TeamBuilding” leading, facilitating and teaching experiential activities to globally dispersed participants.
SELECTED APPLICABLE EXPERIENCE New York State Leadership Educators Consortium
• 5 Experiential Activities to Teach Leadership- These hands-on activities will teach leadership styles and illustrate to participants the power of implementing hands-on learning mixed with theoretical learning into your curriculum. All five experiential activities can be adapted and used to teach what leadership styles are effective, when they are needed and useful. Participants will learn about emerging processing techniques that deliver the greatest learning possible to multiple learning and leadership styles. Participants will leave the workshop with a full experiential program design, set up, processing (de-brief) write-ups and a special gift for attending.
Association for Experiential Education: North East Conference
• Empowering Work Teams: Trends and Methods in Workforce Development - The changing world of work in a global economy means that facilitators need to create a positive learning environment for corporate & adult audiences. This workshop will include methods to empower work teams and develop self-directed employees. Participants will leave the workshop with new ways to lead experiential activities while in an indoor meeting or conference facility as well as an awareness of the new trends in the workforce development field.
Western New York Student Leadership Conference
• Hands on Team Leadership - Highly interactive, hands on workshop to empower participants to see how personal leadership affects groups. Topics of Self-Directed vs. Other Directed behaviors, self and team reflection, as well as personal leadership styles will be covered. Participants will learn about personal leadership and team leadership through interactive experiences.
Cazenovia College - Freshman Orientation, Facilitated Freshman Orientation
Cazenovia, New York
• Design and implement experiential activities for ~450 Freshman Students
• Teach Cazenovia College Students (Orientation Advisors) how to properly facilitate and lead experiential activities for small groups of Freshman Students.
The 2nd Annual Work-Life Jam Session, Workshop Presenter - Millennium Airport
Buffalo, New York
• Hands-On Leadership – Workshop provides hands-on initiatives to re-engage personal and professional passion by discovering and defining what encourages you in your career. Self-Directed and Other-Directed behaviors will be discussed. As well as, what makes jobs “miserable” and leads to employee absenteeism. This program will empower participants to view their personal behaviors and discover how it affects those around them in the workplace.
SUNY Buffalo College, Guest Lecturer – Buffalo, New York
• Guest Lecturer “Project Lead”, a leadership development organization for SUNY Buffalo College Students.
SUNY Buffalo College, Guest Lecturer – Buffalo, New York
• Guest Lecturer “Emerging Student Leadership Program”, Inspire Shared Vision, based on Kouzes and Posner The Leadership Challenge.
SUNY Brockport College, Guest Lecturer – Brockport, New York
• Guest Lecturer “Adventure and Challenge”, a class for education majors to learn experiential education activities.
SUNY Brockport College, Guest Lecturer – Brockport, New York
• Guest Lecturer “Beginner and Intermediate Jogging”, Lectured on Ultra-Running
Niagara Climbing Center, Climbing Instructor – Buffalo, New York
• Instruct Youth and Adult Rock Climbing Clinics
Elderhostel, Guide – Summerton, South Carolina
• Lead Elderhostel groups on canoe tours of South Carolina Rivers and wet lands
• Assist with Elderhostel Natural Resource lessons including botany, ornithology, herpetology, and entomology
Ananda Montessori School, Educator – Charlotte, North Carolina
• Educator of Physical Science
• Educator of Environmental Science
• Coordinator of ecology camp summer programs
Grove Street Academy, Environmental Educator – Kingston, New York
• Work with groups of “at-risk” students building a foundation of trust and compassion for each other and the environment
• Work with a team of “at-risk” students to build a Nature Center on campus
• Train students to be educators and curators of the Nature Center
CERTIFICATIONS, SELECTED EDUCATION, and PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
• Leadership and Team Development – University North Carolina, Charlotte NC
• High and Low Ropes: Challenge Course Management and Facilitation
• Research; Global Communication in a Flattening World, skills that organizations need to create a global work team.
• Teachable Moments: Advanced Facilitation – High Five Adventure, Brattleboro Vermont
• Advanced Facilitation for Experiential Educators – Project Adventure, Morraine Farm – Beverly Massachusetts
• Challenge Course Adaptation for Corporate Clients – Project Adventure, Morraine Farm - Beverly Massachusetts
• Association for Experiential Education: Member
• Organizational Development of Western New York ODWNY: Member
• Association for Challenge Course Technology: Member
• New York State Outdoor Education Association: Member
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