Professional Profile
Dr. Susan Christy is a consultant, coach and trainer - in team building, collaborative leadership and customer service. She helps business and academic teams improve productivity, embrace change, and resolve difficult people problems. Susan enjoys showing people the human side of enterprise: managing and motivating employees, building teams, and providing top-notch customer service.

Experience

Management consulting, training design and delivery, coaching, retreats

President, Christy Consulting, Inc. 1998-2005. 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, customer service, working with difficult people
• Coaching - one-on-one support that focuses on the client's agenda

Head Trainer and Director of Programs, 1985-1987
HighGain Inc., San Francisco, CA. Vice President of Programs, 1987-1988

• Designed and implemented communications training programs, consulted with clients on management and team building
• Hired, trained, and managed thirteen trainers and program department staff

• 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

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

• Directed Psychology program and designed psychology curriculum
• Created and taught Psychology of Personality, Psychology of the Family, Life Span Development, Psychology of Adjustment, and Psychology of Men and Women
• 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 Taught Psychology of Adolescence
• Tunxis Community College, West Hartford CT. 1971-1973. Part-time professor Taught Psychology of Adjustment and Psychology of Adolescence
• University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. 1968-1969. Part-time Instructor Taught Introduction to Psychology, Making Knowledge Relevant for Mankind
• Lowell State College, Lowell, MA. Full time Instructor. 1966-1967 Taught Introduction to Psychology, Child Development, Psychology of Personality

• 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)

Listed as one of the top 15 Management Consulting Firms in the East Bay by the East Bay Business Times

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

• Juvenile Hall. Self-esteem, anger management work with youth
• Guest speaker at schools and universities