Carolyn Wicks PHD
Carolyn Wicks PHD: Co-Author
Carolyn Wicks PHD
Carolyn Wicks, Ph.D., is the co-author of several valuable teachers’ handbooks. Plugged In! and Future Force have received rave reviews from teaching professionals, who say the books’ information helps students develop the right tools for learning in the classroom. Carolyn Wicks also co-facilitates workshops on parenting, children and adolescents, and personal and collaborative leadership issues like strategic planning, goal-setting, decision-making, and problem-solving.
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Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Carolyn Wicks PhD: Educational Workshops and Career Guidance
Carolyn Wicks PhD creates and delivers interactive workshops designed to meet the unique needs and concerns of today’s women, as well as for couples, and parents, children and teens. These are designed to encourage the development of shared goals, the foundation of complementary skills, and the creation of open communication between children and their parents.
The “Kids with Personal Power” workshop, provided by Carolyn Wicks PhD, is designed to complement the “Parenting with Perspective” workshop. In “Parenting with Perspective,” she provides parents with training they need to establish better connections and communications with their children. “Kids with Personal Power” works to provide children with similar connection and communication skills. Carolyn Wicks PhD offers both workshops as a way to explore the concepts and principles that provide a parents and children a shared learning experience; one that encourages stronger and healthier parent-children relationships.
Carolyn Wicks PhD provides guidance and instruction with the Center for Creative Leadership since 2013. She has worked with the Center since 2013. As a co-founder of the Center, Carolyn Wicks PhD designs and publishes written materials centered on goal setting, life span developmental theory, decision-making, strategic planning, problem-solving, teamwork and effective communication. She also co-facilitates professional workshops. These personal and collaborative leadership-based workshops cover a variety of issues, such as goal setting, strategic planning, problem-solving and decision-making.
Carolyn Wicks PhD: Highly-Skilled Professional
Carolyn Wicks PhD has a wide range of professional skills, and has used those skills to build a successful professional career. With a PhD in Clinical Psychology, Carolyn Wicks PhD has had the opportunity to work with variety of families, couples, teens, parents and children of all ages.
Carolyn Wicks PhD has also served as both a professional trainer and consultant for industry-leading corporations and educational systems across the country. She has co-facilitated professional workshops designed around the development of collaborative and personal leadership skills. The workshops that Carolyn Wicks PhD has provided include topics like decision-making, goal setting, problem-solving, teamwork and effective communication. She has developed, implemented and designed company-wide strategies for change, all of which are based on the guiding principles of total quality management, strategic thinking and business process re-engineering.
Carolyn Wicks PhD is the co-author of two valuable and renowned guidebooks for teachers. Future Force: Kids That Want To, Can, and Do! : A Teacher's Handbook and Plugged In!: A Teacher's Handbook For Using Total Quality Tools to Help Kids Conquer the Curriculum are the two books she has collaborated on. Many teachers and other educational professionals have found the two guidebooks to be valuable lesson-planning tools, guides that have helped them instill a sense of responsibility into their students.
“I would recommend this book to any teacher!” said one Florida teacher of Carolyn Wicks PhD’s work. “This book gives you all the help you need to change your classroom.”
“(Future Force) helps develop capable kids by providing them with the right 'tools' for learning in the classroom environment,” raved another educational professional. “They have designed and produced a set of principles, skills and strategies that enable children to be continuous learners, prepared for contributing in the 21st century.”
Carolyn Wicks: Workshop Facilitator
Carolyn Wicks facilitates workshops on parenting, designed to foster shared goals, complimentary skills, and open communication between parents and their children.
“Parenting with Perspective” is meant to go hand in hand with the”Kids with Personal Power” workshop. In “Parenting with Perspective,” parents get training designed especially to meet their needs. “Kids with Personal Power” meets the needs of the kids. Both workshops explore the same principles and concepts to provide a shared learning experience that fosters healthier and improved parent-children relationships.
Carolyn Wicks has worked with the Center for Creative Leadership since 2013. She designs and publishes written materials based on life span developmental theory, strategic planning, goal setting, decision-making, problem-solving, effective communication and teamwork. She also co-facilitates workshops on personal and collaborative leadership, covering such issues as strategic planning, goal-setting, decision-making, and problem-solving.
Carolyn Wicks PHD is also the co-author of two highly-regarded teachers’ guidebooks, Plugged In!: A Teacher's Handbook For Using Total Quality Tools to Help Kids Conquer the Curriculum, and Future Force: Kids That Want To, Can, and Do! : A Teacher's Handbook. Educational professionals have found the two books to be invaluable guides in their work.
Plugged In! is filled with classroom examples that plug directly into the curriculum of virtually every course and at all grade levels. The book is considered a great resource for teachers, whether they are just starting out or are well into their teaching careers.
Future Force has also been received with enthusiasm. Teachers say it gives them all the help they need to lead an effective classroom.
Carolyn Wicks: Many Skills
Carolyn Wicks is a multi-faceted person with a range of professional skills. She has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and has worked with couples and families, adults, teens, and children.
Carolyn Wicks has also been as a consultant and trainer for leading edge corporations and educational systems throughout the United States. She co-facilitates workshops on personal and collaborative leadership that include such topics as goal setting, decision-making, problem-solving, effective communication and teamwork. She has designed, developed, and implemented company-wide strategies for change based on the principles of strategic thinking, business process re-engineering and total quality management.
Since 2013, Carolyn Wicks has worked with the Center for Creative Leadership.
Carolyn Wicks is the co-author of two acclaimed teachers’ guidebooks, Plugged In!: A Teacher's Handbook For Using Total Quality Tools to Help Kids Conquer the Curriculum, and Future Force: Kids That Want To, Can, and Do! : A Teacher's Handbook. Educational professionals have found the two books to be invaluable guides in their work. “This book gives you all the help you need to change your classroom,” a Florida teacher said of Future Force. “I would recommend this book to any teacher!”
“It helps develop capable kids by providing them with the right 'tools' for learning in the classroom environment,” another teacher raved. “They have designed and produced a set of principles, skills and strategies that enable children to be continuous learners, prepared for contributing in the 21st century.”
Carolyn Wicks facilitates workshops on parenting, designed to foster shared goals, complimentary skills, and open communication between them and their children.
Carolyn Wicks: Counseling
Carolyn Wicks holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. As a clinical psychologist, Carolyn Wicks worked with couples and families, adults, teens, and children. Her research interests focus on factors that contribute to human resilience. Carolyn Wicks has presented at conferences throughout the United States.
Carolyn Wicks is co-founder of the Center for Creative and Collaborative Strength-Based Counseling. She help clients (individuals, couples, families, parents) develop Learning, Leadership and Life Skills.
Carolyn Wicks PHD has been a consultant and trainer for leading edge corporations and educational systems throughout the United States to assist them in creating strategic business plans and working environments that encourage principle-centered leadership, high-performance teams, communication, creative problem-solving and pride in workmanship.
Carolyn Wicks is the co-author of several teachers’ handbooks. Plugged In! and Future Force have had enthusiastic readers among education professionals, who call it a useful resource guide. “This book is filled with ideas and concepts that are simple to implement,” said a fifth grade teacher. “Best of all, the kids LOVE the things we do from this book.” Another teacher said, “I have used almost every idea in this book. These things really put the responsibility back on the kids.”
In the corporate world, Carolyn Wicks has designed, developed, and implemented company-wide strategies for change based on the principles of strategic thinking, business process re-engineering and total quality management, and provided interactive learning experiences for senior and middle management to translate strategic concepts into a framework for action.