Burt Woolf

Improving quality of life wherever people
live, work, learn, play, stay well, and visit!

Career passion. For over 30 years, Burt Woolf has been transforming the quality of peoples' lives in communities and on campus! He supports K-16 educational insitutions (colleges, universities, and K-12 schools), private nonprofits and voluntary organizations, public agencies, and individuals to make a difference for a better world by helping them (a) set a clear mission and vision for action; (b) solve problems and address issues through stakeholder collaboration; and (c) 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.

Focus on Transformative Impact. Burt's Accelerated Resilience service helps executives and management teams in educational, nonprofit, and public sector organizations, create a transformative culture where "passion to make a difference" becomes a motivating force for operational excellence, high-performance team collaboration, clear and precise communication, and transparent decision-making. As a result, Burt's clients experience greater fulfillment in their work, an eagerness to improve, workforce camaraderie and kinship, and the energy to deal with the relentless daunting circumstances that they face each and every day.

Problem-solving Approach. Accelerated Resilience is a creative problem-solving process that Burt has facilitated for dozens of clients in schools, public agencies and governmental jurisdictions, nonprofit groups, and professional associations throughout the United States. The process helps client organizations realize a more powerful identity through collaborative and responsive alignment between and among the excecutive leadership, governing body, workforce, and stakeholders. The Accelerated Resilience process has 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.

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: