Consulting, Workshops & Presentations

Consulting Expertise | Most Requested Presentations | Connecting to Your Organization
Prior Presentations and Sponsors | Publications

Use models for transformed practice and other frameworks, combined with organization reflection and feedback to transform your organization and sustain change over time. A. B. Harvey-Smith seeks to transform learning organizations to continuously and effectively adapt to change, improve quality with clearly defined and measurable results.

Consulting Expertise

A. B. Harvey-Smith is a dynamic consultant who believes in customizing services to fit your diverse needs, and providing personalized attention one client at a time. Independent consulting services and presentations have been provided successfully aiding organizations to achieve positive outcomes. Services are provided to a richly diverse client base with a unique focus on leadership, learning and success including:

	Implementing the Seventh Learning College Principle
	Implementing an Innovative 10 Stage Framework for Transforming Learning Organizations
	Instruction on How To Become An Authentic Learning Organization
	Establishing Cultures of CARE (Compassion, Appreciation, Respect and Empowerment)
	Understanding and Appreciating Organizational Culture
	Strategically Transforming Culture To Introduce Change
	Moving Through Change to Transformation
	Evolving Strategic Organizational Cultures and Strategic Planning
	Team Building
	Authentic Communication
	Leadership Development

Most Requested Presentation & Workshops

	The Role of Student Development in the Learning College - Gain critical insights on how to transform student services practice using the learning paradigm.
	Blended Partnerships Between Academic Affairs and Student Affairs - Learn new collaborative models for creating partnerships in the academy.
	Managing With CARE (Compassion, Appreciation, Respect, Empowerment) - Acquire effective management skills designed to inspire peak performance
	Leading With Passion - Passionate leadership ignites committed teams. Learn key strategies to lead with authentic zeal
	Diversity Training For the New Millennium - Working effectively in collaborative teams is essential to organizational success. Learn how your organization can use the power of the collective to move forward.
	Retention Theories and Research - Let the latest research on retention, student success and student learning aid your institution in designing a comprehensive support system.
	Strategies for Transforming The Classroom Learning Experience - Gain new understandings regarding culturally mediated instruction and the learning styles.
	Believing & Achieving - It all starts with self- acceptance and a desire to thrive no matter the odds. Experience what believing will propel you to achieve.
	Life Lessons - Learn new strategies for listening and applying your own life lessons to guide you to ultimate achievement.
	Strategies for College Success & Beyond - The session explains comprehensive strategies which, lead to academic survival and personal and social success.
	Building Holistic Systems for Student Development Services - Systems thinking and other processes are explored to developed comprehensive models of support.
	Enhancing Community Linkages - Explore strategies for establishing effective partnerships
	Contemporary Ideas that Support and Enhance Minority Student Retention - Proven strategies that support minority student success and learning are explored.

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A. B. Harvey-Smith Consulting & Presentations Believe that 21st century organizations succeed or fail based on their established cultures and seek to effectively help organizations shape strong cultures, where people matter and thrive through authentic collaboration, communication and leadership.

Let this dynamic and successful consultant aid you in assessing and strengthening your culture, build effective teams, implement strategic planning and thinking, build effective relationships, develop a strong core of leaders and rejuvenate your teams.

Connecting Researched Based Data To Your Organization

A. B. Harvey-Smith Consulting connects researched based data to your organizations' outcomes and involves seven key stages.

Detail assessment through pre-planning to determine your organizations' exact needs.
1st series of structured focus groups and naturalistic inquiry to determine the relevant cultural elements.
Development of preliminary plan of action in response to institutional needs.
Involvement in early stages of implementation.
2nd series of structured focus groups and naturalistic inquiry to determine and assess impact.
Revision of plan, according to institutional feedback.
Presentation of final recommendations and plan of action.

Additional follow-up and assessment is also available as needed.

Prior Sponsors, Consulting and Presentations

A. B. Harvey-Smith has a successful track record as consultant and speaker on wide range of educational topics.

Sponsors include:

	Association of Community Colleges National Conference - Boston
	Central Piedmont Community College, NC
	Clark Atlanta University: Whitney M. Young School of Social Work, GA
	St. Petersburg Community College, FL
	West Virginia Community and Technical College, WV
	The Institute for the Advancement of Working Families, PA
	Lakeland Community College Kirtland, OH
	National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc. Alpha Mu Chapter of MD
	Wayland Baptist Church, MD
	Timothy Baptist Church, MD
	Developmental Education Association of MD
	US Department Of Labor
	Baltimore City Public Schools, MD
	National Council On Student Development
	National Council Of Black American Affairs
	Phi Theta Kappa Leadership Conference, MD
	Oakland Community College PASS Program, MI
	American Association Of Women In Community Colleges
	McNair Project - Honors Program
	Division Of Education Coppin State College
	Maryland Multicultural Coalition State Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education
	Morgan State University - Urban Community College Leadership Doctoral Program.

Publications

A. B. Harvey-Smith has published books, articles and essays on a variety of educational topics, most notably are:

Editor/Lead Writer The Seventh Learning College Principle: A Framework For Transforming Learning Organizations, (2005). National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.

Co-authored, The Role of Student Development In The Learning College in Establishing & Sustaining Learning-Centered Community Colleges (American Association of Community Colleges, 2005).

The Evolving Role of Student Affairs in Learning Organizations (NASPA, 2005).

The Seventh Learning College Principle and Organizational Transformation (NASPA, 2005)

Co-authored, From Theory to Practice - A Blueprint For Transformation Using Learning College Principles, (NASPA, 2005).

Co-authored, A Framework for Transforming and Sustaining Learner-Centered Student Affairs Divisions, (NASPA, 2005).

Growing Learning Communities At The Community College: Two Decades of First-Year Student Development Efforts, (2004). National Resource Center and First Year Experience and Transitions.

A Framework for Transforming Learning Organizations: Proposing a New Learning College Principle, (July 2003). League For Innovation - Learning Abstracts, Volume 6, Number 7.

An Examination of The Retention Literature and Application In Student Success, (2003). Promoting Inclusion Journal, American Association of Community Colleges.

The Adoption of the Learning Paradigm in Student Affairs Divisions in Vanguard Community Colleges: A Case Analysis – (2003) Dissertation University of Maryland-College Park.

Retention Literature Review-From Theory To Practice, Removing Vestiges Magazine (2002).

Critique Violence on Campus: Defining the Problems, Strategies for Action appeared in Commuter Perspectives - National Clearinghouse for Commuter Programs, spring (1999).

Getting Real - Proven Strategies for Student Survival and Academic Success, text published by Duncan & Duncan Publications (1998).

Cited in the Chapter: Nests For Dreams, Backdrops For Visions: Making A Difference With Students, appearing in Life At The Edge Of The Wave, published by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Culp & Helfgot Compiling Editors (1998).

Cited in: The Community College Journal, February/March (1997), Student Development Issue,

Article: Believe the Possibilities-Holistic and Continuous Networks Necessary in Retaining Students, National Council of Black American Affairs Newsletter, April 1995.