The Snider Advantage
Why invite Dr. David Snider into your organization? Do you want an organization that’s growing from the contributions of happier, empowered staff? Do you want a more productive workforcse? Do you want an environment that creates positive change?
David can especially help clients who:
Want to focus on the quality of relationships within their organization;
Wish to build an enabling organization that balances forceful leadership with shared staff control;
Share his values of building strong, supportive working relationships within their organization.
David Snider facilitated a two-day retreat for my administrative team and what a retreat it was! Not only did we leave the retreat recharged, but we all had a better appreciation for what we contribute to each other. This continues to be a topic in our work groups.
David has the rare balance of professional expertise and emotional competence that enables him to inform and sensitize people. He engages large diverse groups - helping them to progress farther – and more quickly – more so than anyone I’ve seen in my twenty-five years of consulting and teaching. Dr. Snider is the seasoned advisor I would refer my clients to with confidence and trust.
David Snider builds on years of experience in Leadership and Team Development, Coaching, Diversity Education and Strategic Planning to help you and your organization appreciate the best in people and practices and build on those “bests.”
Here are some of David’s “bests”:
- Orchestrated a strategic planning for parents, teachers, administrators and board members of school for gifted children. Energized by the school’s ability to transform their children’s lives, participants created new directions for the school.
- Guided a leader and team members in a 17,000-person organization to discover significant, opposite preferences about how to do their work. By the end of their journey they understood better the compromises they needed to make to work together creatively and productively.
- Provided leadership for a corporate team to identify the ways in which age, hierarchy/empowerment, gender and race are sources of organizational costs and benefits and are important personally.
- Led eGovernment transition team for a newly-elected county executive to create recommendations for ways the county could improve service to employees and other citizens by more effective use of the internet and related technology.
- Managed a national ecumenical agency’s 18-month project of to create a regional organization that enabled food providers and denominational agencies to work together. Work included identifying potential stakeholders, transforming them into active stakeholders, guiding development of mission, vision, strategy, fund raising, marketing and hiring staff.
- Led long-term conversations of African American and white members of a religious community about the personal and societal sources and consequences of racism. Guided efforts to move from conversation to volunteer action for racial justice.
- Led administrators, teachers, bus drivers, security people, cafeteria workers to greater awareness of how diversity affects their high school and them personally. Began process of diversity change that continued for several years and involved students.
- Energized a leadership team with Appreciative Inquiry and MBTI® activities. One highlight was David’s “Appreciation of Colleagues” exercise in which team members described behaviors they liked and wanted their colleagues to continue