"Thank you for your enthusiasm! Also, you are to be complimented on your ability to bring everyone into the discussion with positive reinforcement." -Participant "I can't thank you enough for all your time and efforts. The Kickoff was a great success! Your presentation made all the difference." -Client About my work Mary Dingee Fillmore, Director Clients Projects	BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH As the founder and director of Changing Work since 1981, Mary Dingee Fillmore applies more than twenty five years of experience to changing workplaces to be more participatory, accessible, and effective. While Ms. Fillmore is known for a wide range of initiatives in organization and career development, mentoring programs are a strong specialty-- beginning with her involvement in establishing a network and mentoring system at the Environmental Protection Agency in the late seventies. In 1986. she consulted on the development of the Department of Labor pilot mentoring program which was the model for many others throughout government. Since then, she has worked with many agencies, in the U.S. and overseas, both to design programs appropriate to their objectives, conduct training to ensure that both parties are prepared to make their relationship successful, and evaluate the results. Her clients include the Royal Institute of Public Administration (London), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Agricultural Research Service of USDA, the Food Safety Inspection Service, the National Park Service (North Atlantic and Rocky Mountain Regions), the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Products Laboratory, the Food and Nutrition Service, the Forest Service, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and others. In addition to mentoring programs, Ms. Fillmore has a broad consulting and training practice which includes: teambuilding and planning retreats, e.g. for an EPA Assistant Administrator and the top people involved in a pesky, complicated process which needed to be reviewed. A speciaity is situations where support staff are involved, e.g. Teaming Up: A Workshop for Support Staff and Their Supervisors, and agency wide reviews of policies and practices affecting support staff effectiveness. facilitator training and course design, especially by technical people for a lay audience, e.g. for senior scientists presenting new regulations to managers, and generic workshops for a newly established training institute. participatory training design and delivery on a spectrum of communications and career enhancement topics, including listening skills, goal setting, and establishing career support groups. Currently, Ms. Fillmore is the Career Strategies columnist for Women at Work, a Malaysian glossy magazine distributed throughout South Asia. In 1987, Ms. Fillmore's study of the career impact of the MBA degree for women was published by G.K. Hall (part of Macmillan). In commenting on Women MBAs: A Foot in the Door, Betty Harragan, author of Games Mother Never Taught You, said it is "one of the few absolute MUST books for today's serious career women." Ms. Fillmore is also editor of Connecting Women in the Community: A Handbook for Programs (Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College, 1983). She is a contributor to Simon and Schuster's bestselling Ourselves Growing Older, and to Mentoring Means Future Scientists (Association for Women in Science, 1993). At the Environmental Protection Agency, Ms. Fillmore led a national program to improve the status of the 6,000 women employed as scientists, engineers, support staff, and managers until 1981. She provided oversight and guidance to managers at 21 field locations and Washington headquarters. Recognized as a model government program, the EPA effort was later adapted elsewhere. Ms. Fillmore established the first Secretarial Advisory Council in government to address policy issues affecting support staff; and helped to create a network and mentoring program to involve top women managers, scientists and engineers, clerical and secretarial workers, and women of all races. Ms. Fillmore's previous experience includes full responsibility for three newsletters on science and public policy issues: the Federation of American Scientists Professional Bulletin, the National Women's Health Network News, and the Environmental Policy Center's Lobby Report.
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