The Strategy and Training Partners, LLC team is comprised of experts in strategy, research, analysis, workshop design and facilitation, marketing, and implementation. Our team includes
Serving Maryland, DC, Virginia, Delaware and Pennyslvania since 1996.
Illysa Izenberg, Managing Principal Tracy Rusch, Principal Associated partners
Illysa Izenberg, Managing Principal
Illysa Izenberg founded Strategy and Training Partners, LLC in 1994. She is a professional-development educator and business strategist, conducting culture audits and needs analyses, devising strategies and action plans, and facilitating diversity, harassment prevention, implementing change, coaching employees, leadership and management, and inter-group communication workshops. Ms. Izenberg works with clients to better understand their employees, customers, and other constituents 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 or trained over 10,000 employees -- from front-line production workers to highly-educated professionals -- managers/supervisors, 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. She serves as President Elect and Programs Chair for the Howard County Human Resources Society (HoCo HRS), an affiliate of the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM).
Ms. Izenberg was graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Business and Brandeis University and has over 15 years experience in strategic planning and implementation. She is trained and certified by the Minds At Work Immunity to Change Institute, A World of Difference, and the National Conference Dismantling Racism Project as a workshop facilitator.
Ms. Izenberg draws upon her MBA education and management experience, including profit-and-loss responsibility with a Fortune 500 multinational firm, to understand corporate perspectives and business needs. Additionally, she has assisted several government organizations to work toward greater inclusion—both as a citizen selected to a city government task force that tackled community-wide ethnic diversity challenges a well as a paid consultant and workshop facilitator.
Out of the combination of business education and experience comes her belief that utilizing and valuing the great diversity of the employee and customer base is part of a sound organizational development strategy.
Ms. Rusch brings to Strategy and Training Partners, LLC 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.
She has extensive experience developing business plans to attain financing, generating marketing plans to increase sales, and implementing these plans to achieve client's goals.
Ms. Rusch 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. Rusch utilizes strong research and analytic skills to ensure our clients fully understand their current challenges and future opportunities.
Partnering Associates
Strategy and Training Partners, LLC assesses the resource needs of each client’s project and assembles a targeted team. We partner with independent, regional and national consulting firms, calling upon those with appropriate experience and expertise.
Our team of associates includes strategists, workshop designers and trainers, diversity and multicultural communication experts, market researchers, marketing implementers, graphic designers, and organizational development specialists.
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