Faculty

Betty Sugarman

Dr. Betty Sugarman is a consultant for executive education. She has worked independently since the early 1990s with clients in the consulting industry (the Boston Consulting Group, Bain and Company, Deloitte Consulting, PriceWaterhouseCoopers,) service organizations (IBM, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard) and large corporations (American Express, AOL-Time Warner, Fanny Mae, Merck, CSX Rail.) Sugarman has designed and taught a wide range of seminars, delivering courses in strategic communications, consulting methodology, and relationship management. She works with senior management and consultants to develop strategies for effective problem solving and communications. Sugarman is also president of SOE, Inc., a firm that designs and licenses professional development programs for large international consulting firm events. Before working independently, Sugarman was Internal Consultant for Professional Development at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, responsible for special projects in both organizational development and executive training. She helped redefine the firm's mission and values, designing a new strategy for individual and team development that became firm policy. Prior to her work at Booz, Allen, & Hamilton, Sugarman served as a communications and research consultant to industry and nonprofit organizations. She wrote annual reports for major corporations as well as speeches and articles for chief executive officers and elected public officials, including the Mayor of Jerusalem. Sugarman received her B.A. in English from Brooklyn College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in literature from Columbia University.

Betty Sugarman teaches Learning to Lead: Effective Communications and Advanced Communications Project.