COLLABORATIVE STRATEGIES - Key Persons
Chris Barclay is an education advocate, management professional, and working artist-photographer, with a notable public service record. For 10 years, he served as the District 4 representative on the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Board of Education. During his tenure Chris served as Board chair twice and chaired the Fiscal Management committee and Strategic Planning committees. At the state level Chris is an Executive team member of the Maryland Alliance for Racial Equity in Education. His areas of expertise are:
David Rodich has been a labor leader, national organizing director, trainer and chief negotiator with over forty-four years of experience, including serving as the Executive Director of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 500, where his leadership helped better than double the size of the union, and where, representing support staff, he partnered SEIU with the Montgomery County Public School System, the teachers' union and administrators union to help build a nationally recognized collaborative labor relations model.
David served four years as National Director of Public Employee Organizing for SEIU, and then four years as Director of Local Union Organizing, contributing to SEIU's claim to be the fastest growing union in North America. As a union leader, his experience includes:
Negotiating dozens of collective bargaining agreements in both the public and private sectors, utilizing both traditional and interest-based skills.
Helping to lead efforts to enact a collective bargaining law for subsidized childcare providers.
Helping win bargaining rights for 80% of the adjunct faculty at colleges and universities in Washington, DC region, and negotiating first contracts.
David also has extensive experience as an organizational and leadership development consultant to the AFL-CIO working with unions in the emerging democracies of Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the middle east.
Rich Nelson is a consultant, facilitator, and trainer who has worked with educational, non-profit, religious, and business organizations throughout the United States. He has worked successfully with groups of fewer than ten members in rural areas to multi-thousand-member organizations in metropolitan areas, in settings with detailed public employee negotiation statutes to situations with no formal bargaining structures. His expertise includes: