Senior Accountant
Rita Beckwith is responsible for accounts receivable for TRG including creating invoices and developing aging reports. She has over 20 years experience in accounts receivable. In her spare time, she is a horse farmer and runs a horse rescue.
Director of Business Development
As Director of Business Development, Rene Bernier provides leadership to TRG’s Business Development team, markets TRG’s services to potential clients, and manages TRG’s proposal development process. He joined TRG in December 2006. Previously, Rene served as Deputy Research Manager on the 5-year USAID Development Information Services Project with the Academy for Educational Development, and as Program Associate with the International Science and Technology Institute, Inc. Rene is proficient in French and has professional experience in Madagascar, Ghana, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Poland, Azerbaijan, South Asia, Cambodia, and Morocco. Rene, his wife, Mary, and two young children, Martin and Mary Clare, enjoy outdoor recreation, including hiking, camping , and cycling --- and when the weather is good, warrior weekends with do-it-yourself landscaping and home improvements.
Senior Accountant
As TRG's Senior Accountant, Christina is responsible for project reconciliation and profitability analysis. She works with Project Managers on various contracts making sure they stay within budget. She has been a member of the Finance Team for 7 years.
Chief Executive Officer
Under TRG’s structure of rotating leadership, Jonathan Darling was elected by the shareholders as TRG’s CEO for the period of 2007-2011. Mr. Darling joined TRG in 1995 and for eleven years served as the firm’s Director of Business Development. In that role he collaborated with clients to identify organizational development and training needs and develop approaches to improving organizational performance and business results. He has also provided direct training and consulting services for such varied clients as the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Department of Commerce, and Major League Baseball. He has worked in the U.S., Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and is fluent in Spanish. Mr. Darling enjoys biking, kayaking, rafting, and wilderness adventures with his family.
In late 2011, TRG’s shareholders unanimously voted to extend Mr. Darling’s tenure as CEO for an additional three years, through 2014. The underlying structure of rotating leadership and TRG’s long-standing commitment to broad participation in leadership and governance remain unchanged.
Project Assistant
Jiwon Paik is a recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in political economy. She came to TRG in 2007 as our Production Assistant and was quickly promoted to the position of Project Assistant after demonstrating exceptional talent in administrative and technical services. As TRG’s Project Assistant, Jiwon provides project support to our staff consultants. In her spare time, Jiwon enjoys oil-painting, listening to live music, and reading.
Chief Financial Officer
Ms. Rabinovich is a certified public accountant with over twenty years in corporate accounting and finance. As the Chief Financial Officer for TRG she is responsible for the strategic development and oversight of TRG’s corporate financial plans and policies. She provides guidance and coordination within the organization’s financial management program and operations.
IT Specialist
Alex works as TRG’s Information Technology Specialist. He has over 15 years experience in server management and end-user support in a multi-platform environment. He is responsible for all aspects of network administration and providing end-user support for office production, graphic and internet applications. He is formerly a professional dancer and has performed in various places including the Kennedy Center.
Director, Administrative Services
Ruth Tarbell has been managing TRG’s administrative services since 1998, overseeing the company’s technology, client support, and reception services. She also provides human resource services, facilities management, and assistance to non-staff consultants, and works closely with the CEO and other operations managers in developing company policy and procedures. Ruth came to TRG with 19 years of administrative and managerial experience, including 15 years as the business manager of a fine crafts and wearables specialty store, and 3 years as a program assistant for a national wildlife conservation organization. She holds a Bachelors of Science degree in mathematics.
Ruth adopted her son Caelan as an infant from Korea in 1997. He keeps Ruth busy as an avid hockey mom. In her spare time, Ruth also enjoys the arts, cooking, shopping, reading, the beach, and riding her Harley.
Receptionist
Connie has been TRG's receptionist and "voice to the public" since 1992. Prior to joining TRG, Connie worked for sixteen years as a secretary and executive assistant in the Mission of the U.S. Agency for International Development in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Connie is by far the best person to contact when you're trying to track down fast moving TRGers. In addition to filling a key role at TRG, Connie is a dedicated mother and grandmother.
Consultant
Kathy Alison has worked in over 40 countries in South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and Eurasia, Africa, and Central and South America on capacity building, institution building, public consultation processes, collaborative problem solving, consensus building, strategic planning, knowledge management, policy formulation, training needs assessments, training design and delivery, and work plan development. Kathy is currently part of a TRG team that designs and facilitates a series of seven Foreign Service Institute training courses on Reconstruction, Stabilization, and Conflict Transformation for the State Department Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS). Course participants include senior Foreign Service Officers from the Department of State, Department of Defense, USAID and other USG agencies. Kathy also recently served as senior adviser to the CAPES (Communications, Awareness, and Public Education Support) component of the Supporting Activities that Value the Environment (SAVE) project in Cyprus. She supported the design and pre-and post-evaluation of a 6-month water conservation awareness campaign that was launched on World Water Day, March 2007. Kathy enjoys travelling internationally and loves music, particularly jazz and blues.
Regional Training Coordinator
Nancy Claxton joined TRG in in May 2010 as the Regional Training Manager for the Southeast Asia office of the global RESPOND project. Nancy brings to TRG 20 years of teaching, training and curriculum development experience with a focus on curriculum design and development and training delivery to multicultural audiences. She has designed and delivered trainings and courses for teachers, staff, government workers, the military, and program staff at all levels in over 15 countries. Over the course of her professional career, Nancy has worked in the areas of needs assessment, training design and development, training delivery, technical curricular writing, and training evaluation, largely in the development field. She has applied these skills to the fields of teacher education, health programming, psychosocial support, disaster preparedness, and water & sanitation systems. Most recently Nancy served as Head Regional Technical Advisor on Training, Teaching, and Curriculum Development for the American Red Cross’s Tsunami Recovery Program, providing training and technical direction to the six tsunami-affected countries of Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, Maldives, Indonesia, and Kenya. Prior to entering the training field, Nancy worked as an educator at the K-12 levels in Chicago and Detroit and founded the successful LEARN Charter Schools in Chicago. Nancy is also an accomplished author, having published 7 professional titles for educators and trainers in the areas of Financial Literacy, US History, ESL Instruction, Supervision, Debate, and the 2015 Millennium Development Goals. She holds a doctorate degree in Curriculum and Instruction and resides in Thailand with her husband and son.
Consultant
Dan Edwards has 30 years of experience in institutional development, strategic planning, project management, management training, and program development. He has extensive experience providing technical assistance to USAID missions and host country ministry personnel in the areas of project design, start-up, and planning, institutional development, conflict resolution, and management development and training. He conducts needs assessments, designs institutional and organizational development projects, coaches managers, designs and conducts team building and train-the-trainer activities, and manages conferences. He specializes in working with senior managers to identify problems, plan strategies, and develop solutions. He has worked throughout the developing world in such technical sectors as environmental health, municipal development, business development, irrigation, water and environment. He is fluent in Spanish. His spare-time is spent on his career as an artist and you can see a selection of his work on the web site fourwindsart.com.
Consultant
Pamela Foster has more than 15 years experience providing organizational development and consultation services for organizations in the U.S., Africa, South America, Central Asia and the Middle East. Her areas of expertise include management coaching and training, strategic planning, team building, workshop facilitation and a variety of organizational development services. Her clients include the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), USDA Forest Service - International Programs, Abt Associates, IntraHealth, the Global AIDS Alliance, Department of State-Foreign Service Institute, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Government Printing Office, and numerous international health organizations. She holds a Ph.D. in Ethnopsychology and is a licensed clinical social worker.
Consultant
Mr. Frelick is a fluent French speaker and a highly accomplished organization development specialist with more than 20 years experience implementing organizational improvement initiatives throughout the world. Expertise includes performance improvement and assessment, leadership development, training design and delivery, conflict resolution, strategic planning, and executive coaching. He serves a team leader for several of TRG’s projects including work with the IMF, Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), the US Botanic Garden, and Santénet, a USAID-funded health project in Madagascar. In Togo and the DRC, Mr. Frelick supports the strengthening of stakeholder participation through Country Coordinating Mechanisms, and the management systems needed for oversight of activities funded by the GFATM. As team leader for TRG’s partnership role in Santénet, he has facilitated stakeholder participation, conducted leadership and management training and coaching and management development work for project staff, and worked for the development of a national cadre of trainers skilled in community capacity building. Mr Frelick is an instructor in Isshin Ryu Karate and an internal martial arts practitioner in Taiji, Xing I, and Bagua. He is also a Qi Gong practitioner. He is also a member of the Daoist Davinci Institute for Health Enhancement. Mr. Frelick is a father with two grown daughters and has one grandson.
Consultant
Patricia García is an experienced organization development consultant, coach, facilitator and trainer with more than 25 years of experience in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa. Ms. García has extensive experience in team building, team facilitation, strategic planning, coaching, project management, leadership training and adult learning in international organizations, corporations and US Government. Since joining TRG in 2003, she has developed strategic plans, facilitated team building and improvement processes and designed and delivered training for numerous organizations including the Population Services International (PSI), USAID, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, CGIAR, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), U.S. Forest Service, US Commerce Department and U.S. Botanic Gardens. She holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resources Development from George Washington University and an MBA specializing in Human Resources from the University of the Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. She is also certified in Emotional Intelligence and Myers Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI). Ms. García is fluent in Spanish and English. Her hobbies include martial arts (currently black belt in Shotokan Karate), dancing (certified in synergy dance) and Latino music and Latin dance.
Consultant
Since founding TRG in 1973, Ms. Gormley has specialized in improving the performance of individuals and organizations. She has designed and conducted numerous organizational effectiveness programs for both domestic and international organizations. These include leadership programs, organizational assessments, organizational restructuring programs, retreats, team building workshops, strategic planning efforts, management and leadership assessments and coaching. For fun, Wilma likes to ride horses, hike, ski, read, and hang out with friends. She also loves visiting her daughters who live in Montana near Glacier Park.
Consultant
Laura Guyer-Miller is a talented facilitator, trainer and management consultant with over 20 years of experience providing training and training management services in multi-cultural environments. Ms. Guyer-Miller specializes in the design of professional training programs and all aspects of organizational development. She has worked with public, private and non-profit clients in the United States and throughout the world including Africa, the Middle East, South America, Asia and Europe. Her clients include the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Department of Commerce, AMIDEAST, the UNDP, UNFPA, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), the World Bank, and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Most recently, she authored case studies and co-facilitated a global conference sponsored by the CGIAR and held at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio aimed at identifying the success factors needed to develop and retaing African women scientists and to create strategies to fast track their careers more effectively. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer and Training Director in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea and as a Training Specialist for the Peace Corps in Morocco. Laura has worked, lived and traveled in over 80 countries, and her current portfolio of work reflects an emphasis on development work in Africa
Consultant
Lisa Howard-Grabman is a facilitator, trainer and certified professional coach with excellent interpersonal communication skills. With over 25 years of experience in international development and public health, she has designed, implemented, managed, and evaluated many participatory community development programs in challenging settings in Africa, Latin American and Asia. She has extensive experience leading team building activities, facilitating events, and has strong capacity strengthening skills, especially in strengthening community-based organizations’ capacity. As a professional coach, she has developed curricula for Senior Managers and partners at a private management consulting firm, and coached a variety of individuals and groups to improve job performance, teamwork and communication skills. She is a published author of articles and books on various aspects of community mobilization, participation and communication. She is fluent in Spanish.
Consultant
Steven Joyce is a training and organizational development consultant with over 25 years of experience designing and implementing activities for private and public sector organizations in the United States and throughout the world. He has extensive experience assisting international and multicultural organizations including USAID, the IMF, Department of State, AMIDEAST, and the Peace Corps. Since 2002, Mr. Joyce has been a part of the decentralization effort in Albania, designing participatory processes for policy and technical interventions involving multiple stakeholders. He provided similar assistance to the USAID Agricultural Reconstruction and Development Program in Iraq from 2003-2006. For eight years (1994-2002), Mr. Joyce was the resident organizational development specialist for two USAID projects in Egypt. Mr. Joyce in those positions focused on public-private sector policy dialogue, capacity-building (government institutions and private sector associations), local and national awareness programs, and stakeholder participation. In recent months, Mr. Joyce has provided short-term assistance to governance and community development programs in Afghanistan and Tajikistan, and to the Environmental Rangers in Jordan. In addition to Egypt, he has also resided in Nigeria and Benin.
Consultant
Sherise Lindsay has been a training and organizational development specialist since 2001. Her expertise is in increasing stakeholder involvement in community and corporate change initiatives through capacity building, training, data analysis, leadership development, and program assessment. Since joining TRG in 2008, she has contributed to developing and delivering training programs and providing organizational development services for a number of international organizations. Her clients include USAID, USG PEPFAR Teams, the US Forest Service Office of International Programs, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the World Bank. Ms. Lindsay has provided technical and organizational support for these clients in Namibia, Malawi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Ethiopia, Egypt and Brazil. Under the USAID-funded Community REACH program, she partnered with PACT and the Namibia Ministry of Health and Social Services to design and pilot a curriculum on Community Based Home Care for HIV/AIDS for para-healthcare workers which focused on concerns related to vulnerable populations such as OVCs. She also served on a TRG team that partnered with USAID/Intrahealth and UNICEF, through the Southern Africa Human Capacity Development Project, to build the management capacity of the leadership team of Malawi’s Ministry of Women and Child Development. Ms. Lindsay has worked extensively with USG PEPFAR Teams, with a focus on technical working groups, to increase effectiveness and forge more collaborative inter-agency and inter-governmental relationships.
Consultant
Scott Loomis is an accomplished change management and organization development specialist with over 30 years of experience in domestic and international programs. Mr. Loomis specializes in helping organizations move forward in a changing world through, strategic planning, problem-solving workshops, team development and management and leadership development training programs. Since the 1970s, he has worked with public, private, and non-profit clients in the U.S. and throughout the world helping clients confront and respond to many of the challenges of our time, such post-conflict stabilization, climate change, pandemic influenza, and homeland security. His primary clients currently include the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Loomis has worked with the Foreign Service Institute on supporting a variety of management and leadership programs. Most recently, he is supporting the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stablization. In 2008, he was the TRG team leader for the preparation and facilitation of a start-up and planning workshop for a USAID sponsored program to support the Iraq Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). Mr. Loomis has worked with many USAID field missions including Bangladesh, Bolivia, Botswana, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya, Nepal, Poland , Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania and Uganda. He is also engaged with several EPA offices as they consider how best to emerging climate change policies. Mr. Loomis holds a Masters of Human Resources Development from University Associates and a Masters of Public Health from the University of Texas. He currently holds a Top Secret clearance.
Consultant
Jawara Lumumba has conducted a diverse range of organizational development interventions for clients in the United States and the developing world for over 20 years. An expert on helping institutions plan and achieve organizational change, he has conducted programs on collaborative partnerships, teamwork strategies, leadership and management development, valuing diversity, strategic communication skills and emotional intelligence. Mr. Lumumba has provided these services for clients in the United States and an expansive assortment of international settings; some illustrative examples are Mali, China, Brazil, Serbia, India, etc. Most recently he has provided concentrated organizational development support to HIVAIDS organizational clients in Uganda, Swaziland, Lesotho and South Africa.
Consultant
Meredith MacDonald is a highly talented consultant and project manager with significant experience enabling the successful implementation of conferences, workshops, and training programs for international organizations. She has worked with numerous domestic and international clients including USAID, the World Bank, the Environmental Protection Agency, the International Monetary Fund, Biogen Idec, and many others. Ms. MacDonald is skilled in the development of highly effective participant materials and in the use of information technology in supporting the achievement of conference goals and objectives. She is an extremely competent writer and manager who engages actively and productively with client staff at all levels. Ms. MacDonald helps to design and deliver World Bank courses for ACS staff including Building and Sustaining Successful Team Performance I and II, Meeting Facilitation Skills, Emotional Intelligence, Critical Thinking, and Tips and Tools for Giving and Receiving Feedback.
Consultant
Kelly Macías is a trainer and organizational development specialist with 12 years experience working with government, non-profit and educational organizations on issues related to education, training, and program design and development. As a consultant, she has designed and conducted training and organizational strengthening services in Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico, Russia, the Philippines and Thailand and has consulted on projects pertaining to leadership development, immigration and migrant communities, and curriculum development and design. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish from Syracuse University and a Master’s degree in Sociology: International Training and Education with a concentration on Cross-Cultural Communication from American University. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Conflict Resolution and Analysis at Nova Southeastern University. She is fluent in Spanish.
Consultant
Jim McCaffery has 25 years of experience providing organizational performance consulting services to clients that include international and multilateral organizations, private companies, U.S. government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. He is an expert at helping organizations become more effective and competitive in today’s work environment. His specialties include organizational development, management systems consulting, strategic planning, team building, and executive coaching and development. In his spare time, Jim likes to ski, golf, read novels, and listen to Allison Krause and Michael Feldman.
Consultant
Margaret Morehouse is a management and organizational development consultant with 20 years of experience. She has worked with clients in the US and internationally and is recognized as a results-oriented practitioner. She specializes in organizational assessment, change management, workshop design and facilitation, inter-organizational collaboration and decision-making. Ms. Morehouse is particularly effective in the application of participatory organizational development approaches to internal and external programs. Recent activities include strategic and operational planning, team building, development of training strategy and training of trainers, facilitation of large scale meetings and conferences.
Consultant
Paul Purnell is a trainer, facilitator and organizational development consultant with over 30 years of professional experience. Paul’s areas of expertise include team building, strategic planning, communication, change management, and training of trainers. In December 2004 Paul joined TRG as a full-time staff member, and is currently working with TRG clients including the Foreign Service Institute, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency. He provides leadership training to State Department employees and leads the TRG project that is providing training support to the Department of State’s Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS). Paul has an MS degree from the Southern Illinois University. In his spare time Paul enjoys listening to jazz, photography and running.
Regional Training Coordinator
Wendy Voahangy Ravano is a medical doctor and public health specialist fluent in French, Spanish and Malagasy; currently learning Modern Standard Arabic. She was hired in April 2010 to serve as TRG’s Regional Training Manager in Kinshasa under the USAID-funded Respond Project. Wendy has over 25 years of experience in 25 countries of Africa and the Middle East, which she acquired while working for international NGO and multilateral agencies such as The World Bank Group. A mentor, trainer of trainers and service delivery specialist both in health facilities and in communities, she has expertise in the following subject matters: safe motherhood and child survival; reproductive and sexual health, including family planning; prevention of mother -to-child transmission (PMTCT)of HIV; and health sector and policy development. A practitioner of "Community Mobilization for Health and Social Change,” Wendy was the technical manager of the PEPFAR-funded "Prevention, Control and Mitigation of HIV AIDS Along Transport Corridors from Ethiopia to Djibouti.” Wendy’s original Malagasy name is Voahangiarisoa Vololomanana Ravaonoromalala, which translates into English as “pearl/rich in blossoms/new light cherished.” She finds it much easier going through life as Wendy Ravano.
Consultant
Fred Rosensweig is an organizational development and training specialist with 30 years of experience in the areas of human resources and institutional development in developing countries. He has extensive experience in the health, water and sanitation, and local government sectors. His specific areas of expertise include organizational assessments, design of activities to improve organizational performance, development of strategies that build local capacity, training design and delivery, and the use of participatory process to gain increased involvement and commitment of key stakeholders. Mr. Rosensweig has been the capacity-building team leader and a member of the senior management team for Health Systems 20/20 since the inception of the project in 2006. His focus in HS 20/20 is on developing the capacity of local organizations to provide technical assistance, training, and research in health systems strengthening. From 1981-2004, he served as Technical Director for Human Resources and Institutional Development under the Environmental Health Project (EHP) and the Water & Sanitation for Health (WASH) Project. In his work with WASH, EHP, and other projects, he has authored numerous guidelines, training manuals, strategies, and other documents. He has worked in numerous countries in Africa, Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa. He speaks French and Spanish.
Consultant
Ed Salt has over thirty years of experience providing management consulting, training and organizational development services to federal and state government departments, government agencies in developing countries, and private sector firms. He has been with TRG since 1984 and previously held senior level positions with the State of California. TRG has a practice of rotating the role of Chief Executive Officer and Ed served as TRG’s second CEO from 1996 to 2001.
Ed has worked in over fifty countries in all regions of the world beginning with service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia. When not at TRG, Ed enjoys waking up very early and rowing on the Potomac River with the local rowing club, Alexandria Community Rowing.
Consultant
Stephanie Schalk-Zaitsev has 10 years of experience as a trainer, facilitator, and organizational development consultant. She specializes in providing organizational development services for government agencies, multinational and international organizations and non-governmental organizations. As a full time TRG staff member, she has designed and implemented a variety of trainings, teambuilding activities, strategic planning, and skill development workshops for clients in the U.S. and overseas. She has extensive experience with the World Bank Group, and currently serves as the project manager for a variety of services offered by TRG for the WBG’s Administrative and Client Support staff. She also has significant experience as a project manager for various EPA offices providing retreat design and facilitation services, strategic planning support and designing and implementing organization wide assessments which focused on evaluating the status of the divisions or offices. Additional clients include the Foreign Service Institute, Publix Supermarkets, Casals & Associates and the U.S. Agency for International Development. She works professionally in English and Russian.
Consultant
Linda Spink is a highly skilled organizational development professional with over 23 years of experience. She is also an effective and accomplished manager, having directed numerous complex and multi-faceted programs both within organizations and in a consulting role. Ms. Spink’s specialties include strategic planning meetings, team-building, group and organizational effectiveness, facilitation, and workshop design and delivery. Between January 1, 2001- December 2006, Ms. Spink served as the CEO for TRG. As the CEO Ms. Spink was instrumental in helping TRG implement management reforms and streamlining initiatives, manage change, institute a team-based approach to quality management and corporate governance, and lead the company in designing and moving into its new headquarters office. Prior to becoming TRG’s CEO, she managed a four-year Ford Foundation grant focusing on partnerships, teamwork, and knowledge management for the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR). In addition to the CGIAR, her clients have included the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. Ms. Spink has a MS in Social Work from the University of Hawaii.
Consultant
Rachael Wilcox is a trainer and facilitator with over 10 years of professional experience. She specializes in designing collaborative programs and activities involving senior level officials from government agencies. Over the course of her career, Ms. Wilcox has worked in strategic planning, training needs assessment, training design and delivery, work plan development, collaborative problem solving and consensus building. The technical areas that she has worked in include democratic governance, health policy and public administration. She also has substantial international experience, having worked in Europe, Eurasia, and Asia in curriculum development and teaching.
Consultant
Stephen Yank is an experienced organizational development consultant and trainer with over 27 years of experience. He recently served as Director of Leadership and Organization Development at the Department of Housing and Urban Development where he designed and implemented two six-month leadership development programs, provided organizational development consulting and coaching to headquarters and field offices, and facilitated change management workshops. He served as Director of the Executive Development and Exchange Network (EDEN), an interagency network of over one hundred public and private sector professionals who provide and manage leadership development programs for the Federal government. Mr. Yank has work and volunteer experience in the Central African Republic and Haiti and is fluent in French.
RESPOND Training Manager
Leslie Zucker was hired in 2009 to serve as TRG’s training manager for RESPOND, a global health project headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Leslie came to TRG with 18 years of experience in teaching, training and organizational development in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. Her areas of expertise include project management, training curriculum design and experiential learning process facilitation. Formerly, Leslie served as the co-founder and vice-president of echange, LLC, an international consulting firm specializing in training, technology and change management of microfinance institutions. Her primary role was director of an Inter-American Development Bank project aimed at combining modern distance learning technologies with best practices for staff training in Latin America. Leslie has also worked in the performing arts field, serving as the director of programming for a national association for professional dance.
Leslie earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish from Northern Arizona University and her Master of Science degree in International and Intercultural Management from the World Learning Graduate Institute. She is fluent in Spanish and conversational in German. In her spare time she practices dance, enjoys the companionship of her dog Rosco and is learning to play the ukulele.