I am a consultant with  a wide-ranging career encompassing  management, higher education teaching, and administration. My present focus is supporting police agencies in the design and implementation of diversity, ethics, and leadership education through Lifvendahl & Associates.

I am a partner and field researcher of the National Institute of Ethics working in the area of ethics and assessment. We work with secondary education and law enforcement agencies in the area of Integrity Certification.

I currently am an Adjunct Assistant Professor with Cardinal Stritch University (College of Business and Management) and an Adjunct Instructor with Mount Mary University (Justice Program).

I believe that organizational change and improvement must be driven by a clear understanding of the outcomes and objectives that are deemed crucial to change implementation.  I specialize in helping leadership define these essential core outcomes.  The focus of my work has been on providing customized programming that guides change processes that target the following areas:

•  Outcome Development – I believe that one of the most difficult tasks organizations deal with are defining outcomes.  These are core behaviors organization members must exhibit if the business is to be successful. Implicit in this process is the rigorous review of organizational mission and vision statements.  This is done to ensure alignment between achievable outcomes and individual behavior.
• Change Management – I believe that leaders assume that change is inevitable and essential to organizational health.  I work with my client leadership to define what is desirable change and how best to achieve it.  I facilitate strategic planning processes and employ research methods and scrupulous evaluation techniques that  support leadership as it plans change implementation.
• Curriculum Development – I believe that successful implementation of training and development programs is directly linked to the clarity of learning outcomes and lesson objectives to be achieved by learners.  I employ proven techniques for objectively evaluating and recommending revision of current programming.  I am also committed to work with clients over the long term by writing custom curriculum tailored to their unique needs.

As a committed practitioner of adult learning theory and teaching methodology, I have demonstrated outstanding instruction in my ongoing relationships with Cardinal Stritch and Mount Mary Universities.  As I noted earlier I teach a wide range of course content but focus on leadership, management and organizational change.   I also teach classes in law enforcement and comparative justice.

I bring over twenty years of higher education experience into the field of training and development. I combine this with another twenty years of management experience.  All this informs my professional practice with a pragmatic philosophy focused on clearly defining organizational reality and attainable expectations. I work with clients to:

• Define, evaluate and assess current programming with the goal of guiding continuous improvement throughout  all areas of organizational training.

•  Design and write custom curriculum to be implemented by both in-house and external training professionals.

• Formulate and implement train-the-trainer programming designed to support corporate, civil and non-profit trainers as they seek to improve curriculum development and presentation methods.

On-Going Activity-Mount Mary University, supporting the development of the University Justice program by teaching and curriculum design.