Sue Grolnic

• She designed and implemented the training program for all elementary school teachers in a small African country. The goal of the training was to change the way teachers saw their role - from dispensers of information, to facilitators of learning;
• She created advisory boards to enable a post-secondary technical institution to better understand the future needs of local technology-based industries. Sue then worked with these boards to create new programs aimed at helping women enter traditionally male-dominated fields;
• For a school system where supplemental materials were essentially non-existent, she developed a process through which teachers could create their own materials to support classroom instruction;
• She worked with the Community Colleges of Appalachia to help them market informal learning assessments and consulting to local industries.
• She worked with several large organizations (including Eli Lilly and McDonald’s Corp.) to help them understand how employees’ perception of organizational values affects what and how they learn at work;
• She worked with the University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Public Health to devise a meta-mentoring model that allowed various departments to coordinate their work in the community.
• She facilitated Future Searches - a whole group decision-making process that uses a positive focus to reach a desired future.

Sue is president of Sister to Sister, a non-profit organization she founded to promote mentoring. The organization divides it work between one-on-one mentoring for women and women-led companies, and “meta-mentoring” work with schools and organizations.  Sue was the founder and president of The Connection, an afterschool program for adolescents that became a national model for adolescent programming.  She was Managing Director of the Center for Workforce Development at EDC and directed the work of the Teaching Firm project. She is an organizational development consultant for an NGO in Thailand that provides native English speakers to teach English in the public schools.

Sue has provided consulting, facilitation, and design services at the national level, for colleges, post-secondary technical school, school system, large corporations, businesses, and individuals. She is currently leading her college’s Early College High School development process, and managing its Service Learning and Community Engagement, and Learning Communities efforts.

Sue’s focus is on helping individuals and organizations identify their strengths, envision the desired future and determine the steps needed to reach that future.  She uses the strengths of the individuals in the organizations to grow the organization.  Based on her extensive research on informal learning, Sue is able to help organizations better understand what employees are really learning  and how to create an intentional learning environment that will enable them to learn skills the organization values.

Sue has an Ed.D. from Harvard University in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy.  She has a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction and a B.Ed. in Elementary Education, both from Northeastern University.

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Specialties

• Appreciative Inquiry
• Early College Design and Development
  
• Collaborative Decision Making
• Develop a Shared Vision
• Future Search
• Interviewing
• Learning Organizations
• Mentoring
• Organizational Change
• Organizational Culture
• Organizational Development
  
• Service Learning
• Teacher & Trainer Training and Development
• Team Building
  
• Visioning and Futuring