Barbara Schultz

bschulz@adjunctex.com

Ms. Schultz's practice emphasizes alignment of individual and team achievement with clear strategic service and productivity goals , supported by collaborative interaction, and clear, authentic communication. With experience in a wide range of industries, I offer the following services as a complete program or in any configuration of parts, as determined by the needs of the client.

Des ign and Facilitation of Trainings, Workshops, Meetings, and Retreats

Focusing learning events for clarity in communication of strategy, goals, opportunities, concerns, roles and responsibilities, ease in decision-making and accountability, and maximum participation .

Communication Coaching:

With the goal of achieving excellent communication skills as a core competency, identifying and addressing communication priorities; coaching for clear expression, both verbal and written, of organizational vision and strategy; listening for feedback and responding with clarity, consistency, credibility, and authenticity; using effective communication to solve costly business problems; creating the communications architecture that supports and rewards enduring team effectiveness; motivating collaboration, creativity, commitment, and initiative to reach targeted goals;

Organizational/Employee Communications

Developing and contributing to communication strategy and channels and monitoring them for timeliness, accuracy, consistency, and quality of information; optimizing employee messaging, internet, and social network communications; creating and maintaining avenues for knowledge sharing that keep working groups informed and interacting for results; matching employee communications with marketing and investor messaging.

Communication of Organizational Change

Working with HR and OD partners to design and implement effective process, system, market, and cultural transitions; building effective communication, collaboration, and commitment into change processes of any magnitude.

Research, Editing, and Writing

Conducting focus groups, interviews and research; writing reports, white papers, and strategic plans; developing articles for business trade and other publications; developing proposals and materials for book publication; developmental editing of books and articles; coaching writers in developing and expressing their ideas.

Design and Production of Events

Drawing from principles of both facilitation and journalism, producing interactive local/global All Hands meetings, educational forums, and motivational events that keep everyone focused the success of the enterprise.

Experience

Design, Facilitation, and Delivery of Training/Workshops

Design and co-facilitation of training workshops including The Art of Facilitation and The Art of Process Consulting with David Sibbet, founder of The Grove International and Graphic Guides ; The Inner Consultant, applying intuition to business planning and decision-making; and The Inner Leader, focused on leadership development; serving as On the Job Training Assessor/Instructor for Advanced Interactive Systems in the nationwide training of airport security screeners.

Organizational Consulting/Facilitation

SPANworks-Toshiba Knight-Ridder Information Systems Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, Berkeley Software Forum, Donley Construction Consultants, Walker Interactive Systems, Akagi Design, UC Berkeley Extension, The International French School, Yoga Journal, Intuition Magazine, Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, Mobilization Against AIDS, Outback, Veriditas, and Friends of the River.  

Assignments have included design and facilitation of meetings and retreats focused on strategic planning, marketing and implementation strategies, visioning and goal-setting, team alignment, roles and responsibilities clarification, along with executive coaching, management and production team development, product value testing and development processes.

Corporate Communications

SGI (Silicon Graphics), focusing on development and implementation of internal communication strategy and best practices, educational event production, executive interviews for internal portal, and working in the interface between Employee Communications and Leadership and Organizational Development. Prior experience includes full-time employment with Eastman-Kodak, AT&T, Xerox, The California Redwood Association, and the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust, and subcontracted work with Polaroid. Responsibilities included internal communications, reports and newsletters, local and national public and trade relations, and conceptual edit of technical material. 

Research/Writing/Materials Development

Working with Spanworks , a high-tech start-up firm and subsidiary of Toshiba , to design beta tests for laptop software that supports collaborative decision-making in business meetings. This assignment included researching and developing the facilitator's script, facilitating the beta tests, culling the results, and working with principals to develop the marketing strategy.

Facilitating the strategy sessions and producing the resulting Implementation Guide for integrating intensified reliability testing into the front-end of Hewlett-Packard 's product definition process.

Co-designing and developing the Leader's Guide for a TQM (Total Quality Management) Process Improvement training that integrates PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) metrics and team-building skills into a training simulation for Hewlett-Packard.

Developing case studies for the Quality Leadership Training at Hewlett-Packard.

Researching and writing The Nature of Process, a white paper exploring the impact of improved human interactive processes upon business and technical processes for Compaq.

Researching and writing a benchmarking report on TQM training programs for Compaq.

Preparation of marketing content for web sites of both Kirshenbaum Communications ( www.kirshenbaum.com ) and Kassner--Creative Marcom Solutions (www.kassner.com).

Preparation of marketing content for Ariste Research Group , marketing and community relations research professionals.

Interviewing contractors to Anshen + Allen Architects to establish the effectiveness of coordination and communication on the Laguna Honda Hospital project.

Writing of introductions and editing of interviews for Global Business Network web site.

Researching and developing content for BroadcastHealth.com web site; preparation of script, acting, and voice-over for streaming video.

Preparing article on "Millennium Mindsets" for Beverly L. Kaye, president of Career Systems International , published in Training & Development.

Creating the marketing strategy and web site content for an entrepreneurial technical consulting group, Donley Construction Consultants (www.donleycc.com).

Conceptual edit for book on The Future of Money, by Bernard Lietaer; and books on geographic strategies for business and cultural relationships to place and space for The Roulac Group.

Research and Writing for Magazines and Trade Publications: 1991-2002, served as editor, contributing writer, and editorial advisor for At Work: Stories of Tomorrow's Workplace published Berrett-Koehler; regular contributor to Target, the journal of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence; cover story on "Intuition in Business" and regular news column for Intuition magazine; article on "The Inner Life of an Organization: What the Body Can See" for The Inner Edge.

Conference Presentations

"Designing and Facilitating Effective Meetings" (1999 Management Center Best Practices Conference); "Cyberspace and the Corporate Body" (1997 Intuition Network Conference); "The Corporate Body: Making the Intangibles of the Knowledge-Based Society Work for You" (1996 International Conference of Association of Humanistic Psychology); "Deep Relationship and Community in the New Economic Triumvirate" (1995 Intuition Network Conference); the Roundtable Meeting on "The Role of Intuition in Business Vision and Decisions," sponsored by the International Management Institute of Geneva, Switzerland; the Organization Development Network in San Francisco; and the Organization Transformation Network in San Francisco and Ashridge, U.K.

Education and Professional Development

U.C. Berkeley School of Journalism, BA

Advanced Professional Development:

Extensive professional training includes Communicating for Results, Instructor/Trainer Skills, Presentation Skills, High Performance Team Development, Managing Complex Change, Organizational Effectiveness, Collaborative Organization Design, Whole Systems Consulting, Process Consulting, Meeting and Conference Design and Facilitation, Creativity Development, Transactional Analysis, Conflict Resolution, Deming's Total Quality Management, as well as Leadership and Mastery, Inquiry and Dialogue, Psychosynthesis, Integral Consulting, and Personal Mastery oriented to effective communication and organizational performance.