What People Say About Simma
Thank
you! Thank You! Thank you! The energy, humor, and honest sharing of
your personal experiences made the presentation a home! Your topic will
create a lasting consciousness about life/work balance throughout our
membership.
James Lee Henderson
Director of Human Resources
Rafferty’s Inc.
We would like to extend our sincere gratitude and thank you for helping
us down the path to achieving our business goals as they apply to
diversity.
Craig Nelson
Team Leader
Chevron
Your impact has been profound. Your skill, sensitivity, and style
were impressive. Your on-point content held the interest of all
attendees, and created an environment that allowed them to share both
professional and personal stories. I was impressed with your ability to
relate to at least three generations of participants from varying
backgrounds.
Edgar
Quiroz
Director, Workforce Diversity
National Diversity
Kaiser Permanente
Your extensive
experience working with conflict resolution and your understanding of
the complexity of our issues helped us navigate through many highly
charged issues to get where we are today.
Karen
Kerr
United Fire Service Women
Your presentation
helped move the HR community closer to the overall goals of the
organization in rounding our our professional development.
Judy
M. Birnbaum
Programs Chair
Northern California Human Resources Association
Simma asks probing
questions designed to define the scope of the problem or issue and then
suggest, in a gentle yet knowledgeable manner, solutions that are both
creative and on the point.
John
Gordon
Director of Human Resources
Renaissance Seattle Hotel
Your program
educated, entertained, engaged and challenged our participants to think
about the role, and how they perceive diversity in their lives.
Chuck
Knippen
Program Coordinator
Monster Diversity Leadership Weekends
We used the
information your obtained through staff and board surveys and focus
groups to develop a diversity plan. Thanks again for working with us
and providing us with a sound assessment from which we could improve
the diversity and cultural sensitivity of our organization.
Dee
Walsh
Executive Director
REACH Community Development
Portland (OR)
Simma surpassed our
expectations. She does an excellent job of humanizing the challenges of
working through differences in the workplace, while also challenging
participants to improve their ability and understanding of others. We
look forward to bringing Simma back.
Denise
Smith
Performance and Development
City of Eugene (OR)
The feedback
received from conference participants was very positive concerning the
information you provided and your presentation captured their attention
throughout the two hour timeframe.
Rob
Cuaghell
President-NCCIPMA
I was in need of a
speaker to assist us I rolling our a new concept that was, not the most
exciting concept ever introduced! I was very pleased with the
results she achieved.
Chris
Steuri
General Manager
Renaissance Stanford Court Hotel
In a word, I think
Simma is fantastic. Her presentation is outstanding, she related
extremely well and is a great speaker.
Sharon
Miller
CEO
Renaissance Entrepreneur Center
San Francisco
Your seminar on Stress Management really hit the point for our
Assistant Principals of the Year! Many of the participants noted that
they continue to use your "techniques" .
Linda Fontana
Manager,
Executive Development
McDonalds Corp.
My observations of
her classroom performance suggests not only a command of the subject
matter, but also a "passion" for the subject of workplace diversity.
Her trainees rated her classroom performance as outstanding.
Gerald Jones
Diversity Curriculum Manager Business Communications Systems
Lucent Technology
Our training
participants enjoyed your approachable and upbeat style of delivery.
The workshop evaluations indicated Gender Communications has been
highly interactive which added to its success.
Sharon Werner
Training Manager
Pillsbury Bakeries & Foodservice
Judging from the
letters and feedback we've received, your presentation, "Time
Management... to create bank" really hit home to our audience of 6, 000
women.
Your strong delivery coupled with candor and warmth, plus your solid
tips and sense of humor affected the viewers in very positive ways.
Leslie Smith
Executive Director
NAFE Women's Foundation
Your session
"Creating Conscious Life Balance" was marvelous and the evaluations not
only reflect how much the students enjoyed your workshop, but how much
they learned from you.
William Curtis
Advisor
Student Life Programs
California State University, Hayward
The training methods
you used got the entire group involved and helped people feel
comfortable talking about sensitive issues. Staff felt that this was
"the best training we have ever had" Thanks to your excellent work, the
door has now been opened for an ongoing dialogue about diversity at
Lifelong Medical Care.
Pat Sussman
Chief Operating Officer
Lifelong Medical Care
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