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Training Associates

Carolyne Ashton Carolyne has a 30-year history of experience that has led to expertise in conflict resolution, collaborative problem solving, cultural diversity, and participatory evaluation. Her experience includes facilitating groups in conflict transformation, problem-solving, and strategic planning. Her skills include training, skill development and curriculum development in the areas of conflict resolution, group facilitation, evaluation, and cultural competence among groups. She specializes in designing and implementing collaborative evaluation models for organizations and businesses that seek to measure their success and the results of their work and to facilitate stakeholder involvement and organizational cultural competence.
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David Wiley Campt, Ph.D.
David has studied and worked for 10 years to foster racial and class reconciliation, create institutional change, and build public awareness of social issues. His experience involves work as policy associate with the President's Initiative on Race; research and evaluation linked to computer science, public policy, and city and regional planning degrees; senior editor with McGraw-Hill's Data Communications; managing and leading professional and community development and empowerment groups; consulting and training; and business ownership. Published contributions include to AIA Research Monograph: Cultural Competence in Perinatal Addiction Treatment, with Dr. Lora-Ellen McKinney, for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and Generating Generations of Poverty, with Dr. Ed Blakely et al, for the Institute for the Study of Urban Development.
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Deborah Threadgill Egerton
Deborah is an internationally respected psychotherapist who has diverse experience with mentoring optimal performance of individuals and of public and private-sector organizations at many levels. Her experience includes consulting and training for a number of nationally significant organizations, and with college and university faculty and students, stress and illness, runaway youth and emergency shelters, and social service agencies. Her skills include consulting, training and facilitation, education, communications, multi-cultural expertise, gender issues, racism reduction, wellness, personal and workforce development and achievement, goal-oriented strategic planning, cultivating leadership for the 21st century, and entrepreneurial development.
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Lubna Ismail
Lubna has studied and worked for 15 years to promote intercultural communication and relations. Her experience involves work as a diversity trainer with IBM; developing cultural orientation training programs for Lucent technologies staff and family assigned to work in Middle East; training and coordinating training for the National MultiCultural Institute; consulting with the International Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research; and developing and managing activities related to intercultural academic orientation and adjustment. Her skills include strengthening communication and work relationships, cultural adjustment, building culturally diverse teams, and supporting organizational leaders, including health care providers, city officials, community leaders, educators and others, to mange a variety of organizational challenges.
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Sally Jue
Sally has studied and worked for 25 years to train, facilitate groups, and consult around issues of diversity; develop and manage mental health programs, and counsel individuals and groups around a variety of issues. Her experience includes curriculum development and participation in the Texaco diversity training group and similar national training efforts, affiliation with a number of leadership, health, HIV related organizations, and organizational development at the community, regional and national levels. Her skills include developing cultural sensitivity and awareness, strengthening communication and management skills, conflict resolution, curriculum development, organization and workforce development, strategic planning, and focus groups.
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Jim Lew
Jim has more than 20 years of experience in facilitating groups, training, and consulting with organizations. His experience includes teaching with Chicago public schools, social work, federal Office of Education employment, and training and consulting with diverse organizations, including the coal industry, corrections institutions, police departments, city governments, Hollywood producers, and corporations such as Hyatt, GE, and Texas Instruments,. His knowledge areas and skills include diversity awareness and cultural competency, system and strategic planning, team-building, conflict transformation, facilitated change, dealing with difficult organizational problems, and a number of learning and psychotherapy models. His special relationships include long relationship with members of the Lakota Tribe of Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
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Concha Montano
Concha is an experienced group facilitator, trainer and consultant who has 20 years of experience in the areas of public health, education, business and diversity. Her experience includes in-depth knowledge of Hispanic culture, work with Hispanic populations, and work with prevention systems, substance abuse programs, health departments, school, university, and corporate clients nationwide, including clients such as the U.S. Army. She is a member of the Marine Reserves and a former Marine. In addition to group facilitation and training, her skills include cross-cultural communication, network and team-building, facilitated dialog, conflict resolution, program design and curriculum development, evaluation, and training of trainers.
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