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Barbara Upston

Barbara Upston has more than 15 years experience as a management consultant to Federal, State, and corporate clients. Her work on human resource and organizational development projects includes strategic planning programs, staff and management selection, training design and delivery, and program evaluation. In previous years, as on-site project director and instructor for the DOL Academy of the U.S. Department of Labor, she worked with nearly all the Department's agencies, designing and delivering training and facilitating agency staff development initiatives. Ms. Upston has assisted client organizations with quality improvement efforts, consensus building, management and executive selection and development, performance appraisal, workforce diversity training, and other skills building projects. She has also provided training design and delivery and team facilitation services for a U.S.-German international assistance project in the Republic of Turkey. She graduated from Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1969 and the Maryland College of Art and Design in 1979 and received Assessor Certification in 1984.