ELIYAHU LOTZAR, Ed.D., MSW

Eliyahu is a change agent who passionately seeks the greatest good for the greatest number of people by working at organizational, team, and individual levels. A collaboration builder who provides concrete processes, he is essentially an organizational therapist.

• Years of experience in workforce development, social work, leadership, and business. 

• Strategic and innovative thinking; radical candor; tough love; values-based leadership. 

• Certified facilitator of Arbinger process workshops; certified facilitator of Adizes' synergistic team problem-solving methodology; experience utilizing the Competing Values Framework to map and adapt organizational cultures. And years providing counseling and coaching.

• Doctorate in Executive Leadership, with research in the intersection of organizational culture and employee soft skills (St. John Fisher College); Master of Social Work Administration (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); and Bachelor of Arts in Political Philosophy (James Madison College at Michigan State University). 

Certifications

• Adizes Institute: team integrator certificate (2019); organizational transformation - conceptual foundations certificate (1990).
• Arbinger Institute: certified Arbinger process facilitator (2012-2018).
• Melitz Institute: certified group facilitator (1994).

Publications, Public Interviews, Webinars

• Resilience at Work: What You Need to Know Before Returning - Webinar
• Radically Candid: The Art of Handling Feedback - Participative Presentation
• Deframing Leadership: A Leaders Guide to Staying Relevant -  Leadership training to invitation-only leadership group
• Individual Assessment and Synergetic Team Results - Online Summit Presentation for Nonprofit Leaders
• Why is Everyone Talking About Employee Engagement? Webinar
• Employee Soft Skills and Organizational Culture: A Case Study (dissertation)
• SOAR Change Agent Interview
• WAER Workforce Development Interview (Episode #30)
• Congressional testimony on Workforce Development