Becca Bartholomew

A strategist, facilitator and coach with a background in organization development, Becca has extensive experience working with groups and individuals to foster communication among diverse stakeholders and implement strategies that promote self-reflection, new learning and increased awareness of a person’s impact on others. She is known for her clear communication, innate ability to foster trust and firm, yet gentle approach to helping others recognize their blind spots and implement specific tools to improve their efficacy.

With an approach valuing diversity and promoting equity, she focuses her work on supporting the human systems central to successful organizations. In addition to consulting, Becca serves American University’s Masters Program in Organization Development both as a facilitator and as the coordinator of all facilitators who support cohort-learning throughout the program.

Becca co-facilitates the Emerging Leaders Program through Ivy Planning Group for the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute. This seven-session, cohort-based program supports emerging leaders to develop greater self-awareness, increase their emotional intelligence and grow their impact while also learning about key issues such as diversity, equity and inclusion, conflict management and systems theory.

Prior to consulting, Becca spent over nine years working for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has since served the JHU School of Engineering as a meeting design adviser and facilitator for a national convening around research priorities, funded by the National Institutes of Health. Becca holds an M.S. Tufts University and a B.A. from Hampshire College. She is certified in the MBTI and the EQi/EQ-360.