Professional Profile
Susan Christy has created the first ever comprehensive approach, book and training for building strong staff-faculty relationships – Working Effectively with Faculty: Guidebook for Higher Education Staff and Managers. Her current focus is consulting and speaking for universities, colleges, and higher educational conferences on the topic of academic culture, staff-faculty partnerships and how staff and faculty can work together to create the best in education, research and organizational effectiveness.

Experience

Author, consultant, keynote speaker/trainer – Academic culture, staff-faculty relationships, strategies and best practices for staff who work with faculty

• Working Effectively with Faculty: Guidebook for Higher Education Staff and Managers – published in 2010
• Customized keynote speeches and trainings for universities, colleges and higher education conferences (see partial client list and topics below)
• Consulting and research for higher education – staff-faculty partnerships, organizational effectiveness, lean management, shared services, teambuilding, department and team retreats
• Individual coaching for faculty and/or staff at all levels

Management consulting, training design and delivery, coaching, retreats
President, Christy Consulting, Inc. 1998-2011. Christy Associates 1988-1998.

• Team building with high-performing teams and teams in crisis – team tune-up to major interventions, team retreats
• Management consulting
• Training: Leadership skills for managers and supervisors, team building, coaching, listening, accountability, working with difficult people
• Coaching - one-on-one support that focuses on the client’s agenda
• Christy Consulting, Inc. was dissolved in 2011 and Susan now works as a solo proprietor

• Speaker to businesses, academic institutions and community organizations. Topics represent Susan's broad background in psychology, business, team building and empowerment
• TV talk show host, weekly program - REACHing the Disabled

Tenured Professor of Psychology
Asnuntuck Community College, Enfield CT. 1973-1984

• Directed Psychology program and designed psychology curriculum
• Established and coordinated Speakers' Bureau
• Consulted with the Women's Center, Day Care Center, and Disabilities Program

• University of Hartford, Hartford, CT. 1971-1973. Part-time Instructor
• Tunxis Community College, West Hartford CT. 1971-1973. Part-time professor
• University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. 1968-1969. Part-time Instructor
• Lowell State College, Lowell, MA. Full time Instructor. 1966-1967

• Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, 1994. Dissertation on Self-esteem
• M.A., University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, 1967. (Psychology) Thesis on motivation and cooperation in business
• B.A., Connecticut College, New London, CT., 1965 (Psychology)

California College Teaching Credential - Business and Psychology

Board Member:

• The Institute of Management Consultants
• The California Institute of Integral Studies
• Keep Your Freedom, Keep Your Dreams (Teen pregnancy prevention)
• American Association of University Women
• Positive Resource Center - AIDS Benefits Counselors

• Mojave Indians, Navajo Indians, Zuni Indians – projects to save their cultures
• Tsunami Relief work in India – worked in two fishing villages and raised $21,000 to feed hungry people, build 10 houses and buy fishing nets for a whole village
• Juvenile Hall. Self-esteem, anger management work with youth
• Guest speaker at many schools and universities
• Center for Attitudinal Healing – facilitated many groups for caregivers