About
Mind Open Learning Strategies
provides truly engaging, transformative learning experiences for individuals, groups, and organizations working toward social justice goals.
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We specialize in times when team members need to learn new ways to work-- whether it's adopting evidence-based practices, applying an equity lens, capturing meaningful metrics, or any of the countless ways in which success depends on constant readiness for change while keeping a clear mission-driven vision.
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With the fast pace and competing demands of today's workplaces, it is all too easy to lose the full value of training, coaching, and consulting when employees' minds are somewhere else. MIndOpen Learning Strategies is different because we use research-based, field-tested techniques to draw out each participant’s unique expertise and ensure their Minds are Open to taking in new information and skills.
Dr. Elizabeth Speck
MindOpen's Principal and Founder, Dr. Elizabeth Speck, knows firsthand that well-timed transformative learning leads to better client services and less burnout among staff. With 25 years of direct service, management, and capacity-building experience in New York City's complex human service systems, Elizabeth has adapted to many program and policy changes, broken down systems silos, and built a network of leaders committed to moving beyond the status quo.
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With a background in community-based theatre for social change, Elizabeth started her career as a Teaching Artist in schools, shelters, hospitals, jails, and prisons. She earned a Master’s Degree in Drama Therapy from New York University while a Fellow with the Creative Arts Team, and was among the first Licensed Creative Arts Therapists in New York State. Her subsequent diversified experience in new program development and organizational change led her to pursue a Ph.D. in Organizational Development from Fielding Graduate University. A lifelong learner, Elizabeth is always adding new tools to share for building thriving organizations, and is currently a Social Innovation Fellow with the Starting Bloc Institute and Fielding Graduate University’s Institute for Social Innovation. (Please check out her LinkedIn profile for more details.) With MindOpen Learning Strategies, Elizabeth both leads and guides coaching, training, and consulting services, drawing from a cadre of dynamic subject matter experts.
Our Team
MindOpen Learning Strategies projects draw on a team of dynamic subject matter experts known for their commitment to and innovation in advancing social justice.
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“Her Justice worked with MindOpen to support our staff with vicarious trauma and to build trauma resilience. MindOpen staff coached supervisors in their own journeys towards trauma resilience and in their capacity to support staff as they worked with survivors of trauma. Elizabeth and Melissa were responsive and flexible to our needs and goals. We were impressed with their experience, approach, support, and compassion.”
-Director of Law and Policy, Her Justice, Inc.
