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The Modern Facilitator: Designing Fruitful Discussions for Meetings, Workshops, and Coaching Conversations

Julie Palazini|
Julie has facilitated organizational learning programs for more than 20 years in a variety of settings including educational institutions and for- and non-profits. She enjoys coaching technical and subject matter experts on effective (and fun!) knowledge transfer techniques that deliver on the job performance. She graduated from the College of the Holy Cross with a BS in Psychology and complete a graduate certification in Expressive Facilitation at Salve Regina University.


Colleen Wheeler
Colleen loves helping people learn, and has been doing just that in a wide variety of environments for more than thirty years. Her favorite work is facilitating growth at the intersection of creativity and technology.

Colleen served NERCOMP’s community as a Board member, officer, and committee chair overseeing programming and membership education. She helped institute a unique and successful caucus-based, all-volunteer program of instructional workshops, and personally led numerous professional development workshops.

She co-founded The New Manager Series (Parts I and II), the Learning Organization Academy, and The Susan Vogt Leadership Fellows Program (Boston Consortium for Higher Education).

Colleen holds degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, and was a fellow at the Frye Leadership Institute and the Klingenstein Summer Teaching Institute. She has worked in technology and education at Wheaton College (MA), The Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Technology, and as a teacher in private and public schools for wonderful students in grades 6-12. She is especially proud that her high school students awarded her a Golden Apple Teaching Award.

Colleen is an active trombone teacher and performer in the Boston area. 

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