ILLYSA IZENBERG, Managing Principal
Ms. Izenberg founded Strategy and Training Partners in 1994. She is an adult educator and business strategist, conducting
culture audits and needs analyses, devising strategies and action plans, and facilitating leadership, management, conflict,
coaching, project management, team-building, and inter-group communication workshops. Ms. Izenberg works with clients to better
understand their employees, customers, and other constituencies for a more productive and profitable future.
Ms. Izenberg has consulted to corporations, government agencies, and not-for-profit organizations in the U.S. and Canada.
She has presented to, coached, or trained over 10,000 employees, managers, and executives in a broad range of industries including
technology, health care, financial services, and retail and is a frequently sought speaker and writer on business issues.
Ms.
Izenberg is also a professor at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She
teaches business management, leadership and communication to both undergraduate and graduate students, primarily in science
and technology fields.
Ms. Izenberg was graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Business (MBA, General Management) and Brandeis University
(BA, English and American Literature; minor in Education). Her experience
as a manager with profit-and-loss responsibility for a Fortune 500 multinational firm enables her to understand corporate
perspectives and business needs. Out of the combination of business education and
experience comes her belief that managing and valuing employees is part of a sound organizational development strategy.
Here's a taste of some of her work (click links to listen/view audio recordings):
Influencing without authority
Focusing on your strengths
When not to coach
Speaking assertively vs aggressively
Asymmetrical information
TRACY MORGAN, Principal
Ms. Morgan brings more than thirteen years of experience in strategy, marketing, and manufacturing with large, medium,
and small companies, including Cabot, DuPont, General Electric, and Procter and Gamble.
Ms. Morgan was graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Business
and Princeton University. She focuses on finding innovative solutions for small businesses and not-for-profit organizations. Ms. Morgan utilizes strong research and analytic skills to ensure our clients fully understand
their current challenges and future opportunities.
She
is also managing partner of Brandywine Marketing Associates. This Delaware-based firm offers regional businesses world-class
strategic planning and the ability to implement effective marketing on any budget.
* ASSOCIATES
Strategy and Training Partners assesses the resource needs of each client’s project and assembles a targeted
team. Our team of associates includes diversity trainers, strategists, graphic designers, Internet experts, and organizational
development experts.
Satisfied Clients
Since 1994, Strategy and Training Partners, LLC has assisted corporations, government agencies, educational institutions,
and not-for-profit organizations including:
Corporations:
ACI Telecentrics Health
Extras
Atlantic Pharmaceutical Services
IBM-Canada
Business Seminar Series (Carroll Community
College) Impressions Marketing
Cendant ING Direct
Choice Hotels INTELSAT
Datatel Merrill Corporation
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
NationsBank
Wilmington
Trust
Educational Institutions:
Goucher College University
of Texas Medical Branch
Sidwell Friends School
Numerous Public and Private Schools in St. Louis, MO
University
of Maryland, Baltimore County
Government
American Red Cross Maryland Aviation Administration
Andrews Air Force Base Maryland
Transportation Authority
Baltimore's Office of Employment Development
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Howard County Government (including Police and Fire departments, Department of Public
Works, etc.)
Washington DC Metro Authority
HUD-St. Louis
WIC-Arizona
Not-for-Profit Agencies and National Associations:
Adventist Health Care The
Nature Conservancy
American Nursery and Landscaping Association
National Wildlife Federation
American Urological Association Nursery Growers of Lake
County Ohio
Maryland Committee for Children
A World of Difference
What
Our Clients Have Said About Us
"She (Ms. Izenberg) has the ability
to read the group and respond to its needs. She understands group interactions and questions participants in a timely and
effective manner. She has a very professional air, yet is amiable. She is a joy to work with; I will hire her again."
Patricia Clark, Director of Social Services for the National Benevolent Association/HUD-St. Louis
"Strategy and
Training Partners took our diversity training ideas and created comprehensive Leader's Manuals. These Manuals enable us to
use line supervisors as workshop facilitators, saving our in-house training team time and money. Illysa is a well-rounded training resource. She brings strong content knowledge to the subject of diversity.
In addition, her design and writing skills enable her to produce excellent results with fast turnaround."
Beth
Chesterton, Director of Training for Boatmen's Bancshares (now NationsBank)
"My experience
working with you (Strategy and Training Partners, LLC) was quite positive and produced some very concrete results. More specifically,
your help in creating several strategic business plans, developing some financial and demographic models as well as competitive
industry studies were key to our company obtaining new development . . . opportunities."
David
Smith, President of One-on-One Senior Living Center
What participants in our training programs have said
"This training was beneficial as it shed some more light on potential ways to
utilize different conflict styles in sequence to get a desired result. It's also caused me to take some more ownership over
negative habits I could see myself potentially falling into when managing employees. I also particularly liked the variety
of group exercises and ways we exchanged information."
Team leader,
not-for-profit agency
"I thought this session was going to be a complete waste of time. However, I have learned so much about what
an inclusive environment is and what it would take to get us there--I have to say that this class is crucial to our future
success. I'm going to send my whole team to the next one offered."
Senior manager of a multinational corporation "My supervisor asks me, 'where is your schedule? What is your plan?', and I think to
myself, 'I'm an engineer! I didn't go to school to learn this stuff.' But now I see
what tools to use when, what my supervisor needs to get his job done, and what I need to do to get him off my back.
I feel much more prepared to manage my projects from start to finish without so many things falling through the cracks
or turning into major fires."
Senior Engineer
"The information shared here today taught me new aspects on how to deal with difficult situations
I've had in the past in a more professional manner."
Manager of architectural team
"I have taken a lot of training programs before but this was absolutely the best I've ever attended!"
Retail Manager
"I have renewed
confidence in my company -- if it can make such a smart decision as to bring you in maybe the new management
team really is going to change things around here for the better!"
Engineer in newly merged firm
"This program
has been a good use of my time because it provided some simple tools to help organize the planning prcoess
of a project. It demonstrated the collaborative buy-in potential that good planning can enable."
Team Leader, Government
Agency
"This program was a good use of my time because as managers we need to have good coaching skills to make our
work group more effecient. If I can train 5 of my team leaders to be able to resolve their own problems,
we can accomplish much more than if I attempt to resolve all the problems myself."
Supervisor of construction crew
"Through the workshop,
I learned the different communication styles of men and women and I have expanded my cultural comfort zone. I used to believe
that treating people equally meant treating them the same. Now I realize that in many ways I was making assumptions that did
not fit individuals with whom I work and to whom I sell. As a result, I am able to minimize misunderstandings previously caused
by cultural differences."
Salesperson
"Illysa is a dynamic yet thoughtful workshop leader. She and her team take participants
on a journey through self-exploration to understanding of difficult and sometimes controversial issues. They bring a business
perspective to diversity education-which surprisingly is what we needed!"
Not-for-profit agency manager
"I applied the
tools I learned in the first session to a project I am currently working on and I'm looking forward to the second session
because I know there will be more I can use."
Manager, Transportation Firm
