About

Prism and Sean Brady provide dynamic group facilitation and decision support to clients in the education, health care, government, finance, news and entertainment, energy, telecom, technology and transportation sectors.

Alliances with a number of other consulting firms allow us to aggregate a wide variety of skill sets to meet customers’ needs. Typical engagements involve strategic planning, benchmarking and target setting, implementation planning, conflict resolution, and general decision support.

Please review our Testimonials and Case Studies pages for examples of our work.

Mission

Provide dynamic group processes and state-of-the-art systems to accelerate group decision making.

Vision

Maximize the human potential of collaborative groups to make and implement decisions that achieve their preferred future.

Beliefs

• All organizations possess within them the creativity knowledge and skills to achieve their full potential.
• Every individual deserves to be treated with respect and dignity.
• All groups can be trained to think more efficiently, plan more creatively and implement more effectively.
• All individuals are interconnected and interrelated.
• Every challenge has an ethical solution.
• Even the most difficult and intractable challenges offer new opportunity.
• There are many ways to a successful, fulfilled life including time for family, travel, volunteerism, and the opportunity to pursue personal interests.
• A little more humor never hurt.

Sean Brady’s Experience

President, Prism Decision Systems, LLC 1997 – present

Board member, United Health Services Hospitals, 2009 – present

Board president, United Medical Management, Inc. 2007 – present

Board member, United Medical Management, Inc. 2004 – 2006

Manager, Strategic Planning-Generation, New York State Electric & Gas Corporation (NYSEG), 1995 – 1997

Coordinated strategic planning, alliance management, competitive intelligence and communications for NYSEG’s generation business.

Communications Specialist, NYSEG, 1991 – 1995

Project managed the Annual Report, regional and national public relations efforts, and general employee communications. In this position, established an entrepreneurial role within the company as facilitator of strategic planning, general problem solving, rate case negotiation and customer focus groups. Acquired CoNexus® for the company.

Teacher, Various Schools 1979 – 1991

Developed and implemented a program for gifted and talented students in the African Road Junior High School, Vestal, NY. The program, based on the Osborne-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Process, emphasized collaborative problem solving and conflict management skills. Taught English at Tioga Central School, Tioga Center, NY; St. Francis High School, Athol Springs, NY; and Broome Community College, Binghamton, NY.

Professional and Business Associations:

• Creative Education Foundation: lifetime member
• Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) at MIT, 2004 – present
• Farsight Group for Strategic Renewal and Innovation, 2002 – present
• Leadership 2000, Associate Partner, 1995 – 2002

Education

• Frontier Analyst® certification, Banxia Software, 2000
• Concept Systems® certification, Concept Systems, Inc., 1999
• Advanced Facilitator Degree, Creative Problem Solving Institute, 1997
• Harvard Program on Negotiation: “Dealing With Difficult People”, 1995
• Cornell School of Industrial Labor Relations: “Interest Bargaining”, 1994
• Harvard Program on Negotiation: “Getting to Yes”, 1994
• Certified Creative Strategic Thinking Facilitator, Leadership, 1994 – 2000
• Masters Degree, English Literature, SUNY Buffalo, 1985
• Bachelors Degree, University of Toronto, 1979