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 many 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 many 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 many diverse clients.