About Us

Sophie Parker & Associates has developed a network of dynamic professionals, with extensive experience in their chosen fields, to give the company the flexibility and expertise to uniquely adapt to each client’s specific needs.

About Sophie

Sophie Parker is an organizational development consultant specializing in organizational assessment and change management. Her background in theatre gives her the sensitivity, humor and creativity necessary to work comfortably with diverse people and organizations. Ms. Parker has extensive experience training groups in conflict management, leadership development, and building communication skills.  She has a coaching practice with managers and executives in corporate, government and NPO agencies.

Training and certification as a coach, creativity consultant, facilitator, and mediator includes: The Birkman® Method Assessment, Gestalt Organization and Systems Development International Program (OSDI), Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ® (MBTI) and the Harvard Mediation Program.

Ms. Parker is a board member of TransCultural Exchange and serves as Head of the Governance committee.
(www.transculturalexchange.org). TCE is an award-winning non-profit organization dedicated to promoting international art and the understanding of world cultures through high quality art exhibitions, cultural exchanges and educational programs.

About the Associates

About Lee

Lee Bruder is an organizational consultant who specializes in working with nonprofit boards and executives.  He holds a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology and number of post graduate credits in Organizational Management.  Bruder has 20 years of professional experience in leadership, community collaboration, administration, facility design, employee education and motivation, and senior management.  He is creative, self-motivated, energetic and well focused with strong presentation, communication, and organizational skills.  Bruder has 17 years experience as a director and officer on numerous non-profit boards.  His consulting work with senior and middle managers and Boards of Directors has been key in helping organizations to achieve their goals. Bruder’s range and depth of experience make him an ideal coach.

The basis of Bruder’s work lies in his love of facilitating meaningful personal and organizational change.

Read more about Lee Bruder at www.leebruderassociates.com.

About Perry

Perry Carrison is an Executive Coach. He uses the process of self discovery to aid his clients in learning who they are…so they can lead their organizations more effectively. Living by the maxim, “Life is a debrief-able event,” Carrison helps his clients use their every day lives as experiential development labs. This ability to use everyday life as an immediate learning tool came to Carrison though his long experience leading ropes courses and orienteering initiatives in the late 1980’s. In 1991, with two colleagues, he designed and implemented one of the first 360º assessment-based Leadership Development programs in the U.S Besides inventories, their program used coaching to amplify their clients’ development work.

Early in 2000 during graduate study at Catholic University, Perry designed a development program for senior teams called Team Fitness. In it, leaders learn how to keep their Senior Team stoked, nourished and fit…able to execute their plan, lead their organization and champion their individual units.

Read more about Perry Carrison at www.carrison-inc.com.