Business Name (DBA): Abramson Consulting
Business Address: 126 Cooke Ave., Northampton, Massachusetts 01060
Business Phone: 413 585 0719
Email Address: jabramson@albany.edu
Website: www.abramsonconsulting.com
Principal: Julie Abramson
Categories of service:
Organizational consulting
Grant writing
CEO coaching
Team building
Training for teamwork
Assessing organizations
Managing organizational change and transitions
Facilitating changes in organizational culture
Creating a customer/client service culture
Board development & facilitation of Board retreats
Facilitation of meetings & retreats
Developing management skills in supervision of staff
Designing & conducting focus groups
Qualitative data collection and analysis
Assisting with transitions in leadership
Organizational development and modifying organizational culture
Focus group design
Facilitation
Executive coaching
Description of Services:
Julie Abramson, MSW, Ph.D, is a seasoned management consultant and widely published social work professor who specializes in individualized organizational assessment and interventions for change. She listens carefully in order to define problems accurately and tailors solutions that take unique organizational dynamics into account. Her background in group work provides the foundation for successful facilitation and team building skills. She combines extensive “on the ground” experience with a strong academic background and conceptual foundation.
Dr. Abramson is skilled at organizational assessment, managing complex system change, guiding organizations through transitions in leadership or mission, resolving conflict and creating positive organizational and work group cultures. She is a quick study and brings energy, creativity and a capacity to evoke the strengths of individuals and organizations.
Background on you and/or your business:
B.A. University of Michigan; MSW Columbia University; Ph.D. Social Work. Bryn Mawr College. 15 years as a health care social worker and middle manager; 20 years as a social work faculty member at the University at Albany School of Social Welfare, Albany NY; 20 years as organizational consultant.
Testimonials and/or references:
• Katharine Briar Lawson, Ph.D. and Dean, School of Social Welfare, University at Albany, 135 Western Avenue, Albany NY 12222; 518 442-5324; kbriarlawson@uamail.albany.edu (most aware of administrative background and capacities as well as research and scholarship).
• Jane Diamond, 35 New South St., Unit 308, Northampton, MA 01060, 413 427-0096 (most aware of my facilitation skills).
• Cristina Elzeneiny, Executive Director, Western MA Legal Services, One Monarch Place, Springfield MA 01144, 413 781-7814 celzeneiny@wmls.org (most aware of my coaching, administrative and supervisory skills as well as my capacities to work with organizations).
• Allen Hanson, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Box 34610, Department of Computer Science, Lederle Graduate Research Center, Amherst MA 01003-4610, 413 545-3442 hanson@cs.umass.edu (worked closely with me on writing and editing grants).
Names of and/or links to your books, articles or blogs:
J. S. Abramson & L. Bronstein. (2008). Teamwork entry, 20th Edition, Encyclopedia of Social Work, NY: NASW & Oxford University Press.
J..S. Abramson & L. Bronstein. (2004). Group Process Dynamics and Skills in Teamwork, in C. Garvin, L. Gutierrez & M. Galinsky (Eds.). Handbook of
Social Work with Groups (pp. 384-399). NY: Guilford Press.
J.S. Abramson & T. Mizrahi (2003). Collaboration between Social Workers & Physicians: Application of a Typology. Social Work in Health Care, 37(2), 71-100.
J. S. Abramson & T. Mizrahi. (1996). When Social Workers and Physicians Collaborate: Positive and Negative Interdisciplinary Experiences. Social Work, 41(3).
Service area by country, state or zip code:
United States
