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Diana Gurwicz

 

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First Name
Diana
Last Name
Gurwicz
Phone 1
6097057779
Organization
Acrux Consulting LLC
State/Province
New Jersey
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Summary of Experience
Diana founded Acrux Consulting LLC, a minority, women-owned business in 2009 to help clients leverage the power of people as collaborative forces of excellence. Diana uses her almost 30 years of consulting and facilitator experience working with corporate and non-profit boards of Fortune 500 companies, government and non-profits to help leaders of all organizations maximize the value of their sessions. With me, participants are able to leverage the expertise that comes from a senior level McKinsey background with the creativity, active listening and facilitation skills attributable to a Certified Master Facilitator, a rare combination.
Facilitator Expertise
  • Board of Directors and Focus Groups
  • Coaching
  • Community Outreach
  • Conflict Management / Issue Resolution
  • Construction
  • Education
  • Government Services
  • Health Care
  • Human Resources
  • Intellectual Knowledge
  • International Experience
  • Leadership
  • Organizational Design
  • Organized Labor
  • Project Management
  • Real Estate
  • Sales / Trade
  • Strategic Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Team Building
  • Transportation Industries
  • Virtual Facilitation
Facilitator Expertise (other)
Certified Master Facilitator, Certified Change Management Professional
Biography
Diana received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her MBA from the Wharton School of Finance and Economics. She is currently the chairperson of INIFAC, the international certification board for facilitators and is certified through ACMP as a Change Management Professional and holds an SCP-HR from SHRM. Diana is an accomplished writer and public speaker, and has given multiple talks on various subjects throughout the private and public sector including Strategic Selling, Dealing with Dysfunction, Strategic Decision Making, Innovation and Ownership Thinking and Strategic Planning and Remediation.
Project Descriptions
Drawing upon almost years of consulting and facilitation expertise, Diana Gurwicz has successfully guided clients across diverse industries worldwide, elevating their performance, revitalizing their organizations, and optimizing their processes, ultimately enabling them to not only excel, but to transform the landscape in their respective environments. Her career experience with facilitation extends from board level retreats to corporate training and spans topics ranging from strategic planning to developing accountabilty, improving product development processes to on the ground emergency response. She has performed a significant amount of facilitation and consulting work in the areas of organizational design and has worked with several corporate and non-profit entities to help them find ways to attract, retain, and develop talent that better reflect their global clientele. Diana has spent significant time working within the government sector, helping people and teams become more efficient and effective in their daily meetings, assisting departments with strategic planning activities, and helping groups navigate the personnel difficulties related to major transitions. Diana has used her facilitation and consulting skills to assist global for profit and non-profit organizations design optimal organization structures, win the war for (global) talent, develop strategic plans (with assured implementation) and identify and employ greater efficiencies to compete more aggressively in the ever-changing marketplace.
Level of Education
  • Professional Master’s degree (e.g., MBA, MPA, MSW, MSE, MSN, MPH, MFA, etc.)
Formal Facilitator Training
  • Leadership Strategies Training
Certifications – Credentials – Assessments
  • DISC
  • Leadership assessments
  • MBTI
  • Negotiations
  • TKI (conflict style)
Certifications - Credentials - Assessments
CMF, CCMP, SHRM-SCP
Meeting Formats You Can Facilitate
  • In-person
  • Virtual
  • Hybrid
I began facilitating in
1997
Language Proficiency
English
Compensation
  • Pro-bono
  • Compensated work
Sectors you work with
  • For Profit
  • Not-for-Profit
  • Government
Six-Digit NAICS Code(s)
541611
541612
541618
611430
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