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Customized Solutions For Your Needs
Our solutions always answer the question, What's In It For Me?
Supporting you in
implementing solutions
Introducing best practices
to compare with your process
Introducing best practices
to provide a foundation
Coaching
Consulting
Training
Keeping It SPICEY
Our SPICEY approach to needs analysis and
solution design helps ensure we meet your needs
Success Metrics
Our needs analysis process includes a conversation on how we define success as it is always easier to manage what we measure. Key Performance Indicators
help track progress.
Planning & Implementation
To ensure we meet your needs we tailor every solution by collaborating with you during planning & implementation.
Follow up sessions help
ensure new behaviors
are adapted.
Industry Experience:
We share best practices from over
30 years’ experience in industry including finance, engineering,
healthcare, insurance, technology manufacturing,
and government.
Customization:
Duration: Half or Full Days
Schedule: Days or Weekly
Format: Virtual or In-House
Content: Flexible & Modular
Follow Up Sessions
help ensure success
Emotional Intelligence:
30+ years of mindfulness practice
and MBTI certification enables Heidi
to create a feeling of trust and camaraderie which is the foundation for successful change.
Your Satisfaction is Our Delight
Feedback is a gift and we welcome
your honest feedback any time.
We build beneficial relationships with
a combination of deep listening, humor and respect.
Value Proposition
Practical PM has over 30 years of experience helping people enhance communication, increase efficiency and embrace continuous improvement.
We strive to help leaders implement
practical solutions to challenges while
embracing continuous improvement
and adapting to change.
MISSION
Have as much fun as possible while being a catalyst for positive change.
Note: Fun is defined as exceeding client expectations by meeting success
metrics while continually learning and helping others do the same.
STYLE
Create an atmosphere of trust and camaraderie. Listen deeply, respect all opinions and value differences. In the spirit of continuous improvement:
model giving, receiving and embracing feedback.
SERVICE
Enable teams to move from individual positions to shared interests
which allows creative problem-solving potential to be unleashed
and goals achieved with less stress and more ease.
Team
Heidi Spinella
Founder and Principal
Heidi is a compassionate coach, skilled facilitator, and passionate educator who enables leaders to implement practical solutions to real work issues while embracing continuous improvement.
Partnering with leading educational institutions, Heidi has facilitated more than 550 management seminars throughout North America and Europe.
Heidi spent over a decade as a database consultant in health care, education, government, manufacturing, insurance, engineering and financial services primarily involved with business process re-engineering and automation projects.
Heidi authored and presented the Massachusetts Commonwealth Medicine and UMass Medical School's
Project Management Certification program.
With over 30 years of mindfulness practice Heidi listens deeply which creates an atmosphere of trust and camaraderie. Heidi believes as we move from individual positions to shared interests, enormous problem-solving potential is unleashed.
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
MBTI® Facilitator myersbriggs.org
PMP® PMI.org
Mindfulness Practitioner Shambhala.org
MS Environmental Science
BS Nutrition
Julia Spinella
Instructional Designer
As an Instructional Designer/Project Manager for Practical PM, Julia is passionate about continuous growth and learning. For Practical PM Julia has designed over twenty five micro learning sessions, participant guides and slide decks.
She leverages the ADDIE model to design and develop learning curriculum. Julia aims to ensure that Practical PM clients walk away from training with a rewarding learning experience and tangible resources to bring to the workplace.
Julia has experience working in the fields of team building, consulting, higher education, healthcare. Julia has served as a member of a Global Solutions Team for an international training, coaching, consulting firm where she developed soft skill training programs for corporate clients with a focus on communication, leadership, sales skills.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
ATD Instructional Design Cert.
EdEx Science of Happiness
MA Organizational Psychology
BA Organizational Development