Introduced CohortTracker™, an early warning web application that allows schools to monitor students’ progress towards graduation – 2012
Facilitated the North East Alliance Federal Credit Union board and management strategic planning retreat – 2011
Delivered to Cornell University’s New York State Center for Rural Schools an iPad® app, Budget Playground, which allows school districts to create multi-year budget scenarios – 2011
Provided decision support to Elmsford Unified Free School District to implement a performance driven planning process at the district and building level and to complete a collaborative weighted criteria and cost-benefit analysis of five facilities options – 2009 – 2011
Worked with Lockport City School District planning teams at the district and building level to implement the New York State Board of Regents Reform Agenda and to articulate measurable, performance-driven plans with specific scopes of work, timescales and accountability – 2008 – 2012
Worked with Binghamton City School District planning teams at the district and building level to articulate measurable, performance-driven plans with specific scopes of work, timescales and accountability – 1997 – 2012
As its strategic partner, Prism assisted New & Improved®, LLC, to facilitate a large, cross-functional McDonald’s team charged to introduce specialty coffees at Mickey Ds. According to The Wall Street Journal, this will be McDonald’s largest new product roll-out in the last 30 years, expected to generate $1 billion in revenues annually – 2007 – 2008
Prism used its decision matrix to facilitate the parish councils of two churches that are merging to break a two-year impasse and decide which site to close – 2007
Partnered with Idea Sciences, Inc. to introduce schoolbenchmarking.com, a service used by the Arizona Department of Education, Arizona State University and the Magellan Foundation. Users of this service can find benchmark or best-in-class schools that act as models to help them set and justify aggressive improvement targets and seek the programs, strategies and practices necessary to achieve those targets – 2006-present
Subcontracted to Westwood International in order to provide group decision support to Johnson & Johnson’s corporate quality control group in a recent meeting of 20 international vice presidents – 2007
Provided group decision support to nearly 100 school and BOCES teams at regional dropout prevention workshops sponsored by the Rural Schools Association of NYS – 2005-2008
Utilized Prism’s weighted decision matrix to assist a team of 40 Ithaca City School District professionals select an early literacy assessment – 2007
Consulted with Standard & Poors on the design and delivery of a training Institute for Michigan school districts interested in using benchmarking as a school improvement tool – 2004-2005
Contracted by Syracuse University and the New York State Education Department to do Frontier Analyst® benchmarking studies of elementary and secondary schools in New York State to support a best practice identification and dissemination service – 2004-2005
Contracted by Arizona State University and the Arizona Department of Education to do Frontier Analyst® benchmarking studies of elementary and secondary schools in Arizona to support a best practice identification and dissemination service – 2005
Retained by Boards of Cooperative Educational Services and school districts across New Your State to provide school improvement planning expertise including facilitation, benchmarking, and decision support – 1997 – 2005
Provided strategic planning process support and team building to GHS Federal Credit Union – 2001 – present
Provided strategic planning support to First Heritage, DOT and Colombia-Green Federal Credit Unions – 2003 – 2004
Used Frontier Analyst® to complete a performance target setting and benchmarking study of 3800 New York State schools - 2001, 2002, 2003
Used the Concept System® to do a statewide professional development needs assessment for the New York State Education Department. Participants included the State’s Superintendents as well as members of leading educational organizations – 2001
Used the Concept System® to survey stakeholders of the Mercy Health System of Philadelphia. The detailed strategic map created by these stakeholders was used as a foundation for a management retreat. Prism facilitated this retreat using Conexus® 2000-2001
Assisted twenty-eight Times Mirror Corporation senior executives at a three-day off-site to select finalists for its METPRO.biz program that recruits people of color into Times Mirror’s leadership track – 2000
Provided Concept System® global support to United Medical Associates in order to provide 150 physicians different time/different place Internet decision support capability so that they could collaborate on the design of their compensation model – 1999-2000
Provided strategic planning support to United Health Services, Inc., for its annual three-day off-site for 35 top managers – 1999
Provided strategic planning support to the Washington, D.C. Area Metro Transit Authority HR Department (with McDonald Bradley, Inc. – 1999)
Provided strategic planning and polling support to the Times Mirror Corporation for a three-day off-site for 120 top managers – 1998
Provided strategic planning support to The Los Angeles Times president and senior management team in with Innovation Systems Group – 1998
Supported the National Institute for Health’s Chief Information Officer’s strategic planning off-site with 55 managers (with Litton-TASC) – 1998
Supported the merger integration of Bellcore and Science Applications International Corporation; worked with Bellcore to plan the Mathematical Sciences Research Center, an innovative community of applied mathematics researchers – 1998
Introduced a strategic planning process, including an analysis of emerging customer needs, for Chenango Memorial Hospital – 1998
Established strategic planning cycle for Union Endicott Central School District – 1998
Developed a major five-year transition plan for the Broome-Tioga Board of Cooperative Education Services Special Education Division – 1998
Coordinated negotiation and implementation of an alliance among NYSEG, Conrail and CONSOL resulting in a 31% delivery efficiency gain and millions of dollars saved – 1996-97
Resolved persistent fifteen year conflict between front-line workers and management in NYSEG‘s energy control center – 1995
Supported more than a dozen Northeast utilities as they aligned their state and federal environmental policies related to ozone transport issues and electric power generation performance standards – 1995-96
Led task force that resolved race relations challenge for urban school district – 1994-96 Led NYSEG‘s vice presidential team through forty hours of strategic planning, resulting in a major restructuring of the company – 1993
Facilitated sixteen separate sessions among NYSEG, the New York Public Service Commission and more than a dozen parties to negotiate four performance incentives for a three-year rate agreement – 1993