REFRAMED REALITY & ELIYAHU LOTZAR, Ed.D., MSW

Reframed Reality is an organizational development consultancy based in the Washington, DC area, with international connections. Founder and Principal Consultant Eliyahu Lotzar collaborates with affiliated colleagues and Adizes Institute Worldwide to provide the services you see on this website.  

Dr. Lotzar is an organizational therapist. Capitalizing on years of experience as business owner, clinical therapist, and academic, Eliyahu and associates facilitate processes of organizational, team, and individual transformation. They help clients implement improvement processes in the commercial, association, and nonprofit spaces.

• Orientation: Growth; strategic and innovative thinking; tough love; values-based leadership; agile balancing of competing values; strong ethics; practical outcome-focused methodologies. Eliyahu's top strengths according to Gallup's StrengthQuest assessment are: Input (takes in lots of information); Strategic; Learner; Achiever; Empathy.

• Doctorate in Executive Leadership (St. John Fisher College); Master of Social Work Administration (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Bachelor of Arts in Political Philosophy (James Madison College at Michigan State University). His direction-setting research in organizational culture and employee soft skills has been sought after in over 130 countries by an impressive roster of institutions of higher & technical education, commercial ventures, governments, and military agencies. Listed in Marquis' Who's Who.

Certifications

• Authorized Everything DiSC® Partner
• Certified Everything DiSC® Trainer
• Certified Everything DiSC® Management Trainer
• Adizes Institute: Adizes Associate (2024). Team Integrator(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.
• Who's Who Honoree (2024)

Selected Publications, Public Interviews, Presentations

• 3 Steps to Generating a New Worklife Stability - Webinar
• Creating New Models for Work and Home - Panel on the new work-life
• Deframing Leadership: A Leader's Guide to Staying Relevant - Leadership training to invitation-only leadership group
• Emotional Intelligence for the Difficult Workplace - Webinar
• Employee Soft Skills and Organizational Culture: A Case Study 
• How to Express Love as a Leader - Webinar with Eli Bohemond
• Individual Assessment and Synergetic Team Results - Online Summit Presentation for Nonprofit Leaders
• Leadership: Person & Group - Keynote presentation
• Leading Teams Through Change - Interactive Presentation
• Mindset Freedom (the Fine Art of Avoiding Advil) - Presentation
• NPR's Marketplace Morning Report Interview on 'Human Skills' in the Workplace 10/25/24
• Purpose, Presence, & Personality: A Deep Response to Burnout and Reviving Employee Engagement - Presentation to SHRM (Dulles)
• Radically Candid: The Art of Handling Feedback - Interactive Presentation
• Resilience at Work: What You Need to Know Before Returning - Webinar
• Testimony to U.S. House of Representatives on Workforce Development
• Together in Transition - Keynote presentation on returning to work
• WAER Syracuse, Workforce Development Interview (Episode #30)