Cheryl Cook-Posley

Biographical

Rev. Dr. Cook has over twenty years of experience leading and collaborating with faith communities, community-based organizations, government agencies and the academy in helping to ameliorate poverty, violence and injustice by re-evaluating and changing policy, programs and systems. She is a passionate urban ministry practitioner and innovatively works with faith-based institutions who desire to live out their faith doing missional, community-based ministry with marginalized, forgotten populations. Dr. Cook is a performance measurement expert, she has skillfully knit together a passion for Christian ministry, social and economic justice, and culture with qualitative research and policy, which gives her a clear lens and market intelligence in which to develop and implement programs, monitor and evaluate performance and recommend solutions.

 My Operational Definition for-Human Performance Consulting

Understanding the professional table where I sit informs my definition of performance consulting. Performance Consulting is the systematic, unbiased and authentic practice of discovery, realized through listening, observing, analyzing, and assessing opportunities, gaps, strengths, weaknesses and potential threats within organizations and institutions and among employees and partners.  This approach aims to dissect, discern, diagnose, design and measure salient and realistic interventions to bring people, process, procedures and practices into alignment to optimize performance enterprise-wide.

My Diversity Philosophy

I approach my diversity philosophy through the prism of a continuous learner, recognizing that my philosophy, like this area is evolving and based on social constructs that are also emerging. Some would argue that diversity, equity and inclusion are static. However, I submit that they are dynamic, must be considered in context, and intentioned to allow us to interrogate, wrestle with and reflect upon our design and our professional identity as 21^st Century instructional designers and human performance professionals.

Personal Land Acknowledgement Statement

I acknowledge that I occupy lands occupied by the Patowmacks a sub-tribe within the Powhattan Confederacy (Algonquian) in Loudoun County, Virginia (Ashburn). With empathy, thoughtfulness and intention I commit to work to promote a culturally sensitive, respectful and responsive climate that centers transformational justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging, accessibility and accountability in my individual and collective work, as I intentional work to disturb, disrupt and dismantle, systemic barriers, policies, procedures, structures and institutions.