Beth comes to her work with a continued commitment to engage people in learning activities that move them to understand critical social and cultural issues. Building on best practice approaches, Beth develops systemic programs that enhance organizational and individual learning and invites participants to behave differently because of that knowledge.
Beth is currently a consultant with One Ummah Consulting, a consulting group that provides multicultural organizational development to, non-profit, educational, business organizations. In addition, Beth specializes in providing organization development and change management services to social justice organization to help them build their organizations in such as way as to develop a broader movement for social change. (Client list available upon request)
Most recently, Beth was the coordinator of Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness at the University of Minnesota. She coordinated the President?s Emerging Leaders Program, a year-long action learning program for a selected group of University professionals, and she also provided consultation University-wide on strategic planning, change management, team building and multicultural organization development.
In 2000, Beth was selected as a Bush Leadership Fellow for the Bush Foundation where she spent a sabbatical year studying organizational development in social change organizations.
Prior to her sabbatical, Beth?s commitment to developing multicultural organizations lead her to be the founding director of the University of Minnesota?s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Programs Office and supervisor of the University?s Diversity Institute. She spearheaded the organizational development, and fundraising campaign that founded a GLBT studies program at the University of Minnesota, and she served as Co-chair of the Board of Directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
Beth has delivered trainings, lectures, workshops and developed curricula at the University, community, professional and corporate levels locally, regionally, and nationally for more than twenty-five years. She has extensive experience working as an educator and community organizer about issues concerning intercultural communication, GLBT communities, HIV/AIDS, and violence against women. Beth also has ten years of direct practice experience as a psychotherapist working primarily with GLBT communities. In addition, Beth has been adjunct faculty at the University of Minnesota, Augsburg College, and University of Missouri, Saint Louis, and she was selected as an Education Policy Leadership Fellow for the Institute for Educational Leadership, Washington DC, where she and national education leaders studied education policy issues.
Beth holds a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in adult and community education from Cornell University and masters degrees in Counseling Psychology and Social Work from Washington University, Saint Louis. She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, a Certified Diversity Trainer, and she has specialized training in coaching, facilitation, community organizing and work place mediation.
Beth currently lives in Minneapolis where she was recently awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by Quorum, the GLBT Chamber of Commerce. In her spare time, she engages in her passions of long distance bicycling, cooking, and gardening (growing more tomatoes than a person could possibly eat.)
Email Beth: beth@oneummahconsulting.com
