BARBARA SHIPKA
PO Box 50005, Minneapolis, MN 55422
Phone: 763/656-3343
barbara@lightrivers.com
Areas
of Focus for Coaching and Consulting 1980 -
2009
Increasing
organizational effectiveness
Leveraging change and transitions
Developing leadership capacity
Building relationships and teams
Creating a global orientation
Working with differences and diversity
Anticipating
increasing interdependence
Developing
meaningful work roles
Partial
List of Clients
Allina
Health
Aveda
American Express
Cargill
Chemical
Bank
Cray Research
General Mills
Hazelden
Honeywell
Levi Strauss
Medtronic
US Banks
Examples
of Projects
•
Designed
and led process for a 100+ person department to move toward
a structure of self-directed work teams with infusions of
virtual project teams.
•
Coached
numerous executives and teams at all levels in greatly
varied industries to become more skilled at relationship
building, creating high performing teams, conflict
assessment, creative problem solving, effective
decision-making, and at understanding human systems.
•
Served
as an executive coach during the merger of two global
organizations and assisted in the integration of like
functions within the two organizations.
•
Facilitated
a team development process for US managers (primarily in
administration, finance, marketing, and sales) and Mexican
managers (primarily in manufacturing) in a maquiladora on
the US/Mexican border.
•
Facilitated
two software development groups with conflicting goals to
merge their work and relationships and to become one
high-performing team.
•
Facilitated
cross-functional team composed primarily of Information
Systems and Finance professionals in a Fortune 100
organization in moving from failing to becoming a cohesive
and effective team so that they were able to achieve their
goal of implementing a new global finance system
effectively and on time.
•
Designed
and led process for a 100+ person department to move toward
a structure of self-directed work teams with infusions of
virtual project teams.
•
Mediated
in several delicate and discrete situations where diversity
issues needed great attention and particularly where there
were the result of differences of culture, ethnicity,
gender, and sexual preference.
Representative
Publications
Author,
Leadership
in a Challenging World: A Sacred
Journey,
Butterworth Heinemann, 1997
Examples
of articles and anthology chapters
“Putting
the Pieces Together Again,” Perspectives on Business and
Global Change, Journal of The World Business Academy,
Berrett-Koehler, 1999
“Relieving
Spiritual Poverty in our Corporations,” The
New Business of Business,
Berrett-Koehler, 1997
“A Soft
Stuff Application,” Building
Community: Renewing Spirit and Learning in
Business, NLPress,
1995
“A
Sacred Responsibility,” Leadership
in a New Era: Visionary Approaches, New
Leaders Press, 1994
Representative
Presentations
Building
Community at Work
•
The
Power of Relationships and Teams, Puerto
Vallarta, Mexico
•
Building
Teams That Work,
Oakland, CA
Leadership,
Spirituality, Service and Work
•
Dynamic
Balance, Guidant,
Arden Hills, MN
• Leadership
Presence, Medtronic,
Fridley, MN
Our
Global Citizenship
•
Organization
Transformation in a Shifting Environment,
Oberlin,
OH
•
Why2K?
An Inquiry into Global Systems, Chicago,
IL
UNIQUE
EXPERIENCE AND RECOGNITION
Global Work, Study, and Travel, eight
years total on six continents
Mentor,
Menttium 100
Board of Directors, The
Conscious Business Alliance
Board of Directors,
Fellow, Editorial Committee and Fellows Committee,
Community Building Task Force, The World Business Academy
Founder, MN
Chapter of The World Business Academy
Manuscript Reader,
Berrett-Koehler and Butterworth-Heinemann Publishers
Local Organizer and Steward
•
Earth Wisdom Teachings, The Ehama Institute
•
Coaching for Excellence, New Ventures West
• The Empowerment Workshop, David Gershon and Gail Straub
Profiled in
• Who
We Could Be At Work,
Margaret Lulic, “A Quiet Change of Mind”
• Merchants
of Vision, Jim
Liebig, “Achieving a Global Vision”
•
The Effective Executive,
“Bringing Spirituality into the Workplace”
•
Executive Forum,
“Redefining the Meaning of ‘Global’”
Professional Excellence Awards
•
Organizational Impact from MN Chapters of ASTD and OD
Network
• Organization Development Practitioner of the Year, MN OD
Netwnork
Convener,
Business
Focus Group, Women of Vision, Washington DC
Delegate,
Soviet-American
Summit Meeting, Washington, DC
INTERNATIONAL
RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
Director,
Mogadishu, SOMALIA
Management
Development Project with the National Refugee Commission,
Somali Government, USAID, and The United Nations High
Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
Team
Leader and Director, Addis Abba, ETHIOPIA and Asmara,
ERITREA
Management
Training Program, Catholic Relief Services and the
Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat
Research
Consultant, Khartoum, THE SUDAN
Management
Development Project, The Sudan Government and The US State
Department
OTHER
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Program
Manager, China
Adoption Program, CHSFS, Minneapolis, MN
Manager,
Human Resources, Honeywell, Minneapolis, MN
Human
Resources Specialist,
Honeywell, Minneapolis, MN
Leadership
Director, The
Experiment in International Living (EIL),
Brattleboro, VT
Teacher,
Burnsville Public Schools, Burnsville, MN
Teacher,
Falconbridge Dominicana, Bonao, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Teacher,
American Community School, Beirut, LEBANON
Teacher,
Hopkins Public Schools, Hopkins, MN
EDUCATION
Representative
Examples of Professional Development
•
Coaching for Excellence, New Ventures West
• A Gathering of Learning Organization Practitioners with
Peter Senge
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Certification Program,
Association for Psychological Type
• The Empowered Manager, Peter Block
• Consultation Skills Lab, Co-trainer, NTL Institute
• Team Building and Process Consultation, NTL Institute
• Leadership and Mastery, Innovations Associates
• Integrated Management Development Program, Honeywell
• Quality Circle Facilitator Certification, Honeywell
Graduate
Study,
University
of Minnesota
•
Interpersonal and Intercultural Communications
• Human and Perceptual Geography
Bachelor
of Science,
University of Minnesota
•
Education
•
Student Project for Amity among Nations (SPAN) Scholarship
to CZECHOSLOVAKIA
International
Work, Study, and Travel, eight
years total on six continents