Consultant, Author
Strategy, non-profits, goverment agencies
San Diego, California
Judi Adams is an internationally recognized strategic planner and organizational coach. Judi Adams provides strategic planning services to numerous community collaborations and local/national initiatives including: San Diego County Department of Education and San Diego First 5 Commission Preschool For All program, LISC Neighborhoods First Projects, California Coalition for Youth, President’s Family Justice Center Initiative, UCSD School of Medicine, and HIPPYUSA – a nation-wide home instruction program for parents of preschool youngsters.
Judi has over 25 years experience in organizational development, collaboration and planning and is a Mentor Trainer in Techniques of Participation (ToP™) Group Facilitation Methods. She is a licensed Marriage, Family Therapist and has a Master’s Degree in Education from the University
of Southern California. The blending of her clinical skills with her organizational development experience makes her a dynamic, effective consulting partner.
She provides collaborative strategic planning services for thirty-five Family Justice Centers across the country and around the globe including Canada, England, Bahrain and Jordan. Family Justice Centers are created by developing collaborations of on and off site partners (government, NGOs, institutions and service providers partners) to provide co-located services at a single site for victims of family violence and abuse.
Whether designing and implementing a comprehensive wrap-around service delivery center, or creating a community collaborative or working with an institution or organization; success is dependent upon uniting a multidisciplinary collaboration of many partners and stake holders, who, experience has shown, often have varying viewpoints, differing philosophies, and competing priorities.
Judi co-authored the recently published“The Big Girls Club: Little Girl Rules for the Big Girls Workplace”, a book that shows/guides (www.thebiggirlsclub.org). In addition Judi is a published author in the International Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect and co-authored the chapters on Strategic Planning for Hope for Hurting Families I and II (Gwinn and Strack).
She is chair of the board of directors of the
Operation for HOPE Foundation. She donates her time and resources to several San Diego organizations. Judi lives in San Diego
with her husband, Carl. They have six grown children.