ELIYAHU LOTZAR, Ed.D., MSW

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

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

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

• 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 125 countries by commercial ventures such as GE, Haliburton, GlaxoSmithKline, and Infinity Broadband; institutions of higher & technical education; governments, and military agencies. 

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.
• Who's Who honoree (2024)

Selected Publications, Public Interviews, Presentations

• NPR's Marketplace Morning Report Interview on 'Human Skills' in the Workplace (minutes 1:10-4:30)
• Leadership: Person & Group. Keynote presentation
• Emotional Intelligence for the Difficult Workplace. Webinar.
• 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)
• WAER Syracuse, Workforce Development Interview (Episode #30)
• Testimony to U.S. House of Representatives on Workforce Development