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Secrets of Facilitation reveals the principles and techniques effective facilitators use to produce amazing results through groups. The author identifies 60 secrets that separate great facilitators from good ones. He then puts you right in the room through his case studies and numerous sample dialogues, so you can see and experience the techniques in action!

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Cathy Alper, Senior Manager

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Cathy Alper is a Senior Manager for Leadership Strategies, Inc. She brings to our team and provides our clients with over twenty years of experience in facilitation and organization development consulting. As a facilitator Cathy has been instrumental in setting direction for non-profit organizations, school systems, and major businesses.

As an internal and external organization development consultant Cathy has:

  • Organized and led company-wide visioning sessions and change initiatives.
  • Designed and executed professional development curriculum for employees, managers, and senior managers.
  • Developed and presented facilitation on visioning, strategic planning, and change implementation to over 100 school agencies throughout the nation.
  • Designed and facilitated team interventions that included facilitated problem solving, targeted training and discussion, and manager and individual coaching.
  • Managed the change adoption process for a tight resource, tight timeline, high-profile project which delivered high-end software tools to people not comfortable with technology.
  • Designed a training system that allows a small business to provide a complete training/coaching program for its sales force.

She has been actively engaged by clients such as: Apple Computer, Deluxe Check Printers, Harley-Davidson, Mississippi State Department of Education, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly Clark, The Centers for Disease Control, Abbott Labs, Allstate, State Farm Insurance, Iowa Secretary of State, Owens-Corning, United Way of Central Ohio, Alberta Ministry of Education, Alberta Ministry of Natural Resources, a variety of non-profit agencies, and school districts throughout the United States. 

Cathy has a BS degree in Human Development from the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. She also holds a MA degree in Human Development and Family Relations from the University of Connecticut.