ELIYAHU LOTZAR, Ed.D., MSW

Reframed Reality is an organizational development consultancy based in the Northern Virginia / DC area. Principal Consultant Eliyahu Lotzar collaborates with affiliated colleagues to provide the services you see on this website. 

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.

 Capitalizing on years of experience as both business owner and clinical therapist, Eliyahu and his associates facilitate processes of executive, team, and organizational transformation in the association, not-for-profit, government, and commercial spaces. 

• Growth orientation; strategic and innovative thinking; tough love; values-based leadership; practical holistic outcome-focused methodologies.

• Decades of experience that span social work, workforce development, corporate and privately held business, and leadership. 

• Doctorate in Executive Leadership (St. John Fisher College), with direction-setting research in organizational culture and employee soft skills; Master of Social Work Administration (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Bachelor of Arts in Political Philosophy (James Madison College at Michigan State University). His research has been sought after in over 100 countries by higher & technical education institutions, governments, military agencies, and commercial ventures such as GE, Haliburton, GlaxoSmithKline, and Infinity Broadband. 

Certifications

• Authorized Everything DiSC® Partner
• Certified Everything DiSC® Trainer
• Certified Everything DiSC® Management Trainer
• Adizes Institute: team integrator certificate (2019); organizational transformation - conceptual foundations certificate (1990).
• Arbinger Institute: certified Arbinger process facilitator (2012-2018).
• Office of Labor and Welfare, State of Israel: certified group facilitator (2000).
• Israel Ministry of Education: certified group facilitator (1994)
• Experienced in use of Cameron & Quinn's Competing Values Framework to map and adapt organizational cultures.

Selected Publications, Public Interviews, Presentations

• Emotional Intelligence for the Difficult Workplace. Webinar.
• Leadership: Person & Group. Keynote presentation
• Purpose, Presence, & Personality: A Deep Response to Burnout and Reviving Employee Engagement. Presentation to SHRM (Dulles)
• Mindset Freedom (the Fine Art of Avoiding Advil) - Participative Presentation
• Creating New Models for Work and Home - Panel on the new worklife
• Together in Transition - Keynote presentation on returning to work
• 3 Steps to Generating a New Worklife Stability - Webinar
• How to Express Love as a Leader - Webinar with Eli Bohemond
• 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)
• Testimony to U.S. House of Representatives on Workforce Development