Susan Christy, PhD
2604 Woodside Court
Pinole, CA 94564
Phone (510) 222-2992
Fax (510) 222-7770
Susan@SusanChristy.com
Susan Christy, Ph.D.

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
Professional speaker, television talk-show host
  • 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
College and University teaching

  • 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
Education
  • 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)
Certified Management Consultant

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
Volunteer:
  • 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

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