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.

About the Associates

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 everyday 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.

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 of experience as a director and officer on numerous nonprofit 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 Lori

Lori Heffelfinger is a management consultant specializing in Leadership Development, Strategy and Change Implementation.

Lori has over 20 years of management consulting experience working with companies that believe investment in people significantly impacts the bottom-line. Lori’s clients have praised her for her ability to give feedback that gets directly to the “heart of the issue” and for her ability to build “ownership” in individuals and organizations. She coaches executives and high potential leaders through a wide range of leadership challenges.

Her consulting engagements have included:
• Working with organizations to increase Leadership Capability resulting in higher performing organizations.
• Working with organizations to ensure smooth implementation of change projects (develop business case for change, ensure stakeholder commitment, develop communication strategies)
• Working with organizations to develop employee capability/commitment
• Working with leadership teams to build strategy and organizational alignment
• Working with leaders to help them improve their own leadership skills

Her clients have come from organizations such as: Thomson, NBC-Universal and other Entertainment Companies as well as Parson’s Technology, Northrop Grumman, Southern California Edison, Royal Mail (UK) and the Accreditation Board of Engineering & Technology (Non-Profit headquartered in Baltimore) and professional service firms (Architecture & Engineering).

Prior to becoming a management consultant, Lori held leadership roles in Organization and Management Development at Raytheon and Allied Signal. In both positions, she was extensively involved in leadership assessment and development, designing, facilitating, and implementing the business talent management/succession planning process, as well business integration and change activities. She held line Human Resource leadership roles across at Allied Signal (Honeywell), Ashland Chemical, and Monsanto.

Her educational background includes:
• MS Organizational Development, Pepperdine University
• BS Business Administration, University Nebraska – Lincoln
• Adjunct faculty, Pepperdine University Business School

Read more about Lori Hefflefinger at http://heffelfingerco.com/

About Janet

Janet Britcher, President of Transformation Management LLC

Ms. Britcher has extensive human resources and organizational consulting experience, and has held leadership roles inside corporations including Thomson Financial Software Solutions and the law firm Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo.

She has an MBA with a concentration in organizational development, is certified in Myers-Briggs, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), LEGO Serious Play and a Gestalt group process.

She was a faculty member in the Management Department of Regis College and Lesley University. Professional leadership roles in the past have included president of New England Women Business Owners, board member of WPI Venture Forum, Entrepreneur’s Network (IEEE), Accion USA a microlending organization, and Vice President Membership for the Boston Area Chapter of Applied Psychological Type (Myers-Briggs). She is a frequent public speaker.

Read more about Janet Britcher at www.transformationmanagement.com/