One in Three Women

Cheyla McCornack has created a body of work that represents nearly thirty years as a professional consultant, community activist, training specialist, strategic planner and speaker. She continues to demonstrate a strong commitment to ending violence against women, and social justice, working with both large mainstream systems and progressive, grassroots community organizations.

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Cheyla’s extensive experience includes training advocates and professional staff of numerous non-profit agencies on: strategic planning, major donor solicitation, marketing, board and volunteer recruitment, transformational leadership development, mentoring women of color, social change and anti-oppression. She has successfully conducted community organizing activities, provided expertise regarding hiring staff, staff evaluations, long-range planning, developing core values, working with internalized oppression, creating a vision statement, developing feminist management, executive coaching and identifying emerging issues. She is often called upon to facilitate important discussions such as, Freedom: Conversations on Resisting Oppression.

Ms. McCornack has applied her excellent organizational development skills to her current focus: building leadership within immigrant/refugee communities. She assists participants in her twelve-week leadership course to develop their own potential for leadership by building leaders from the inside, out. She has created a multi-racial, multi-cultural, inter-generational, cross-cultural sustainable leadership model as her primary training and coaching focus, using progressive teaching methods such as the Theatre of the Oppressed and Appreciative Inquiry to work on internalized racism and anti-oppression.

Her current work is grounded in: the essentials of experiential learning, team building, storytelling, role-playing, collaborative and integral leadership practices, effective communication strategies, peer mentoring, inter-dependency and conscious living.

As a woman of color and an independent consultant, Cheyla applies her passion and commitment to social justice and social change to every facet of her work. Recent clients include the Asian & Pacific Islander Women & Family Safety Center and Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition, and involved large-scale, long-term projects designed to assess non-profit agencies’ needs and complete a capacity building plan. As coordinator of the Multilingual Access Project sponsored by City of Seattle’s Domestic & Sexual Violence Prevention Office through an Office on Violence Against Women Arrest Program Grant, she facilitated a year-long planning process with eleven domestic violence programs serving immigrant and refugee victims to develop a comprehensive, culturally and linguistically competent plan to better serve non-English speaking victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Past training projects also include: Advocacy Based Counseling, a statewide training model for the Washington Coalition Against Domestic Violence and training for advocates, volunteers and Executive Director’s. Additionally, she was responsible for the following training components: Leadership Development, Team Building, Strategic Planning, Executive Coaching, and Developing Social Change Strategies. Other workshops she conducted are: How to be an Ally to the Asian/Pacific Islander Community, Re-Framing Conflict: Cross-Cultural Conflict and Resolution, and Philosophy of Legal Advocacy.