Career passion. For over 30 years, Burt Woolf has been transforming the quality of peoples' lives in communities and on campus. He supports mission-driven organizations and institutions -- colleges and universities, nonprofits, voluntary organizations, public agencies, and individuals -- to make a difference for a better world by helping them (a) set a clear purpose and vision for action; (b) solve problems and address issues through stakeholder collaboration; (c) live by values that promote equity, integrity, and excellence; and (d) build and nurture resourceful, productive relationships. This intention threads through every executive position he has ever held and every consulting assignment he has ever undertaken. Burt's career -- as senior and chief executive, coach, and consultant -- has been an ongoing creative source of his own personal learning, meaning-making and self-actualization.
Action Targeted to Impact. Burt helps executives and their management teams build and sustain a
team culture of excellence where "passion to make a difference" becomes the primary motivating force for operational high-performance, team collaboration, clear and precise communication, and transparent decision-making. Burt helps organizations create or revitalize their mission, vision and values so that team relationships and strategic action are focused on the impact everyone is striving for. By connecting "what they do" with "the difference they make," Burt's clients experience a sense of urgency to get the job done well, eagerness to improve, camaraderie and kinship within the workforce, greater fulfillment in their work, and the resilience to withstand the relentless daunting circumstances that they face each and every day.
A Toolbox of Services Rooted in Transformative Learning.Each of Burt's assignments is a custom designed process -- developed in conjunction with the client's input, needs, and circumstances -- using the scholarship, practice, and tools of
Transformative Learning. Burt is best known for his:
- Box of Possibilities model of Transformative Leadership
- Mission-Vision-Values programs for strategic direction and team focus
- Accelerated Consensus approach for stakeholder-centric strategic planning
- Team Culture of Excellence advisory services for increased cohesion, focus, integrity, and trust in the workplace and within the workforce
- Team Culture Tune-Up and Mission Alignment assesssment tool for organizational improvement
- Transformative Leadership professional development services (coaching, training and workshops)
Record of Success. Burt has worked with over 20 colleges and universities, and facilitated/directed over 100 assignments in the nonprofit public sector throughout the United States and in the Pacific Asia region. He has helped client organziations realize a more powerful identity through collaborative and responsive alignment between and among the excecutive leadership, governing body, workforce, and stakeholders. His services have proven to be an efficient organizational approach for mission and vision refinement; strategic planning; transformation of organizational structure and culture; institutional assessment; building unified and motivated management teams; leadership development; employee motivation; and product/program innovation. Links to Burt's LinkedIn Profile and Qualifications, as well as project lists can be found on the left column of this web page.
Quality-of-life fields. Burt's professional work and scholarship (Ed.D. 2011) have intersected with many different domains of expertise in the public, nonprofit, and education sectors: