Barbara Deming has worked as a consultant with Management Analysis and Development since 1990. Barbara’s experience includes broad agency assessments and strategic planning, interagency change efforts, and other facilitation services. She has training and experience with Appreciative Inquiry as a strengths- and success-oriented way of managing change.
Throughout her career with MAD, Barbara has worked on various types of organization development projects:
Recently Barbara led efforts to redesign MAD’s Facilitation Skills Course to deliver it online during the pandemic, including shifting from two full in-person days to four shorter online days, and creating an interactive workspace online where participants could view materials and participate in group activities.
She has also served as MAD’s champion for Appreciative Inquiry, providing training and exploring ways to build research into “what works” into consultants’ approaches.
Other unique projects include developing a strategic planning approach and training in leading strategic planning for Department of Health nurse consultants serving local public health agencies; facilitating a long-term interagency team (Departments of Education, Human Services, Health, and Employment and Economic Development) in developing a pilot project to promote person-centered, interagency facilitation of IEP meetings for students with disabilities; and working with a colleague to design and facilitate processes to lead volunteer governing board members in a process to hire an executive director at the Commission of Deaf and DeafBlind Minnesotans.
Barbara holds a bachelor’s degree in Russian and International Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
