Cheryl is a learning and development professional with nearly 20 years experience designing and facilitating learning across a wide range of industries and cultures internationally. Cheryl has taught classes from the “plant floor” to “executive suite” for corporations including MasterCard International, Avon Cosmetics, Barrick Gold Mining, Grey Advertising, Sikorsky Aircraft and Boehringer-Ingelheim.
Cheryl’s passion is in helping leaders increase effectiveness in managing their direct reports and teams. She has designed, developed and delivered classroom and self-study programs in the areas of Leadership and Management Development, Interpersonal Skills, Coaching and Feedback, Communication Skills, Performance Management, Career Development, Goal Setting, Performance Review, Presentation Skills, Flexible Work, and Sexual Harassment.

Cheryl has extensive experience working with individuals and teams to improve communication skills, ideation, creativity and presentation abilities. She has led numerous initiatives requiring customized design and development to facilitate organizational, team and individual change.

Cheryl is particularly adept at root-cause problem analysis for poorly functioning teams. She uses facilitated, group discussion, simulations, team exercises and individual coaching to help teams gain awareness surface issues, create vision, define strategy, problem solve and develop skills.

Cheryl is certified in many professional training programs and assessment tools, including: DiSC Personal Profile System, Profiler 360 Degree Feedback, Situational Leadership, Thomas-Kilman Conflict Mode Instrument, Firo-B, Business as UnUsual and Employee Workshop for Organization Change from Pritchett and Pound, Presentation Skills, Change Cycle® and TMC’s Cultural Orientations at Work.

Cheryl is a certified Teacher of English as a Foreign Language and has served as adjunct faculty teaching English as a Second Language at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut and Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Connecticut. She has also designed and delivered Welfare to Work training for the State of Connecticut in support of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act.

Cheryl is a graduate of Boston University’s School of Management with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration; she earned a Masters in Education from Fairfield University’s School of Education and completed post-graduate certification in Organization Development Practices from Columbia University.