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Rose Miller, MS
Organizational Consultant and Executive Coach
Rose Miller is an organizational consultant and an executive coach. For more than twenty-five years, she has worked with organizations and their leaders in the public, non-profit, and private sectors throughout the US and internationally in the fields of education, healthcare, philanthropy, political action, religion, government, and commerce.
Using a systems and psychodynamic perspective, she investigates the human processes of organizations and their work practices. Ms Miller works collaboratively and in partnership with her clients to help them discover underlying root causes which may impede optimal organizational functioning and productivity. Her interventions have steered clients through the tumult of organizational change and leadership transition, helped mount strategic planning processes, and developed effective leadership and productive teams.
Her work as an executive coach helps leaders strengthen their work performance and function more skillfully in their organizational roles. In interactive one-on-one sessions, Ms. Miller actively listens, raises questions, offers feedback and insights in response to her client’s leadership goals and challenges. She helps them consider new work strategies, experiment with new ideas, and formulate solutions that will help increase their individual work effectiveness and positively contribute to their organization’s vision and aims.
Ms Miller maintains a private consulting and coaching practice in Philadelphia. Among client organizations are: The Ford Foundation ( US, Nigeria, and Egypt offices), Spoornet (South Africa), Cyanamid (South Africa), Southern New England Telephone, the National Office of American Friends Service Committee, The United Nations Development Programme-Virtual Development Academy, OMG Center for Collaborative Learning, Bread & Roses Community Fund, CARE USA, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Bridging The Gaps: Philadelphia Community Health Internship Program, National Organization for Women, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Philadelphia Public Schools, Area Health Education Center Inc., Homeland Ministries of the Christian Church, the National Junior League, The Episcopal Church Center, District of Columbia Commission on Health, Deloitte, Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam, Freire Charter School, and the C.G. Jung Institute, New York.
Ms. Miller is a faculty member of the Organization Program of the William Alanson White Institute in New York where she has led courses in role analysis, organizational consultation, and the dynamics of small group behavior. She is a fellow of the Aresty Institute of Executive Education, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. There she has worked with executives from multinational client companies and served in roles that include: academic director for custom management development programs, teacher, executive coach, and adviser to the development of special projects in South Africa.
Ms Miller is a fellow of the A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems. Under the sponsorship of this organization she has directed numerous Group Relations Conferences for the study of leadership, authority, and the covert dynamics that influence group and organizational life.
Past educational roles include: Training Associate, Training and Consultation Division, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Yale University; lecturer, the Berkeley Center, Yale Divinity School, Yale University; and adjunct faculty, Continuing Education Program, Doctor of Ministry Program, Princeton Theological Seminary (under the auspices of The Grubb Institute ).
Recent publications are: Kaminstein, D., Smith, K.K., & Miller, R. (2000), Quiet Chaos: An Organizational Consultation in Mandela’s South Africa, Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research; and Smith, K.K., Miller, R. S., Kaminstein, D.S. (2003), Consultant as Container: Assisting Organizational rebirth in Mandela’s South Africa, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.
Ms Miller is a professional associate of the Grubb Institute in the US and the UK. She holds B.A. and M.S. degrees from Hampton University and Southern Connecticut State University respectively.
Rose Miller can be reached at 215.864.0494
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