Pivot Consulting LLC

Recent Publications on Health and Education Policy:

Your Guide to Factional Warfare in Education Reform (published July 28, 2014) Note: link expired.

Common Traits of Failed School Experiments as published in the Raleigh News and Observer: Note: link expired.

August 2015 link to Raleigh News and Observer article:  Actice link below

A Sceptics View of Health Care "Reformers"

http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article32658552.html

Experience in Education Synopsis:  Paul Slobodian

Ed.M.BostonUniversitySchool of Education, Program in Counseling Psychology

Ed.D.BostonUniversitySchoolEducation, Program in Counseling Psychology.

M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology,SloanSchoolof Management.

Advisory Board, Center for Leadership Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, NY.

 Kellogg Center for Leadership Program at Binghamton.  During my board tenure the Center ran a program that trained several hundred area teachers and administrators in Transformational Leadership based on CLS founder Bernie Bass’s widely influential stufies of leadership.  This program was funded by the Kellogg Foundation.

Broome Tioga Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES) Superintendent and Business Committee

 Committee of area school superintendents and business leaders.  Initiated project to formalize and expand an existing but limited practice of inter-district student enrollment. 

 New York State Workforce Investment Board.   Appointed by Governor George Pataki.  Accomplishments included creation of a workforce readiness certificate program to enhance the credibility of high school graduates achieving employment.

Charter board member of Vestal School Foundation.  Selection of special projects submitted by teachers, administrators or students to be funded by private donations.

Teacher consultant in the Tri Cities area of suburbanBoston (Malden,Medford,Everett).  Provided consultation to teachers regarding problem students.  This consultation project focused on enhancing teachers’ ability to manage their own reactions to problem students and implement better behavior management and learning engagement tactics.

Chapter 766 consultant, Danvers State Hospital,Danvers,MA.  Developed educational plans for institutionalized students as required by state law.

Universal Instruments Corporation, Dover Corporation.  Implemented an expanded employee education and tuition reimbursement program.   In collaboration with the local community college offered for credit courses at the workplace for non-degreed manufacturing employees using the Tech Prep curriculum.  Implemented an innovative program where community college professors were hired as manufacturing workers during the summer to enhance their understanding of workplace requirements in high tech manufacturing.

Adjunct Faculty, State University of New York at Binghamton, NY.

Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston and New York Chapters

Developed a Leadership Training Curriculum which focuses on group dynamics and interpersonal communication skills.

Publications

Levant, R; Slattery,S.; Slobodian, P. A systematic approach to the selection and training of foster parents as mental health paraprofessionals. Journal of Community Psychology, 1981,volume 9:3

Slobodian, P. andLevantR. Counselor Training in a Community MentalHealthCenter: An Evaluation of a Systematic Skills Program.OregonPersonnel and Guidance Journal.  October 1981.