Marilyn Turkovich has been an instructional designer for more than twenty years, a facilitator for
twenty-five years, and a consultant specializing in instructional design, strategic planning, race and
social justice initiatives, leadership development and coaching for the last ten. In addition to this
work, she has been involved in education as a teacher, curriculum coordinator, principal and
director of teacher training programs for the Associated Colleges and Columbia College—
Chicago. She is currently, education director and partner coordinator for The Charter for
Compassion International.
Marilyn’s experience is broad and varied, including helping a number of public departments and
private organizations write strategic, business, development and succession plans. Most recently
she has been involved in facilitating a five-year plan for the City of Seattle’s Domestic Violence
Council and conducting an education program on race and social justice for the City of Seattle.
In addition, she has designed a number of training initiatives, including the design of corporate
universities (i.e., IBM, Medtronics, City of Seattle), the writing of content material and
instructional training/education programs to be used for training and interactive media. In
instructional design, her work includes the authoring or co-authoring of more than twenty-five
training and curriculum books and the design of education manuals for development houses and
publishing companies. Work on leadership, management skills, change and chaos theory, future
thinking, strategic planning and visioning, team building, measurement, communications and
diversity awareness, health issues, engineering and law topics, problem solving has been designed
for a number of diverse clients.