Keren Stashower, MSW
Keren Stashower is an organization development consultant specializing in strategic organizational assessment and design of large-scale planning and change efforts. She works with clients at all organizational levels to support effective organizational growth. She has provided executive coaching, designed and conducted management development training programs, facilitated strategic planning and team building retreats, designed customer service and employee satisfaction surveys and facilitated large group discussions. Keren has also facilitated key interdisciplinary and cross-functional organizational efforts to ensure project outcomes are timely and thorough.
Keren served as the Director of Organization Effectiveness for Sharp HealthCare, providing services to five hospitals and three medical groups, including design of a physician/executive leadership development program, a supervisory training program and redesign of several key departments. She also served as Director of Quality for a major medical group. As a member of the executive leadership team, she was responsible for designing organizational systems and structures that supported collection, dissemination and use of quality data to improve overall performance. She designed and implemented a large-scale change effort aimed at improving service delivery, with demonstrable results. She managed a diverse staff of 33 healthcare professionals.
Keren’s other clients have included Sea World, the Commission for Children, Youth and Families, the County Water Authority, Children’s Hospital, and the City of Encinitas. She has facilitated numerous supervisory and management academies for UCSD Healthcare, the State Department of Fish and Game, local cities/counties, and the City of Berkeley.
Keren is currently working on her Ph.D. in Human and Organization Development at Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara. She holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from San Diego State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego.