Sylvia Gaffney is president of Gaffney Corporate Strategies providing custom-designed consulting services in organizational effectiveness and change management nationally and internationally. Sylvia also owns and operates a corporate outplacement company.  She has facilitated workshops and designed   programs and a workbook geared toward Creating the Habit of Resilience. Sylvia lives outside of Chicago in Rockford, IL.

Sylvia owned and operated a successful staffing company, a computer training school, and outplacement firm for over 18 years. She has been actively leading her OD consulting company for the past 15 years. In addition to her resilience work she has created and facilitated sessions in career transition, strategic planning, team building, leadership development, intergenerational challenges, cultural change issues, retention, recruitment, job compatibility and employee morale. She has developed and implemented programs for testing and training initiatives, coaching and mentoring, internal career development, employee orientation and exit interviews.

Sylvia created a handbook for the Associated Press Managing Editors (APME) called Talking With Your Town, and she travels around the country conducting credibility conversations with newspapers and their readers. She is a Fellow in the Workforce Stability Institute as a thought-leader in retention and employee growth. Sylvia is a contributing author to the Institutes’ book on workforce stability and its national newsletters. She is a charter member of the Association of Career Professionals International (ACP), and has her Fellow in the Outplacement Institute. She has authored a career development book titled Careerpreneur.

Past and Current Clients:
Some of her clients include Gannett, SupplyCore, Eclipse Manufacturing, Aetna, Conseco Insurance, Motorola, Baxter Health Care, Catholic Diocese of Wales, UK, Hammacher Schlemmer, Tucson Medical Center, Lifescape Community Services, Elkay Manufacturing, Greater Louisville, and Hospice.

Education:
Sylvia has a master's degree in Organization Development from Pepperdine University, and is currently working on her doctorate in Organizational Behavior and Systems. Her doctoral dissertation is focused on cross-generational connections and challenges in the workplace.

Personal Information:
Sylvia is mom to her three sons and their partners, and grams to her grand children and grand dogs. She has been honored with the national Athena Award, the Business Leader of the Year Award, and Dare to be Great Award. She served as Chairman of the Board of the Chamber of Commerce, on a Bank Board of Directors, and is currently serving on a Hospital Advisory Board.

She can be reached at sylvia@globalresiliency.net.