About
Working Wisdom, LLC serves leaders and leadership teams who seek to integrate spirituality and faith into their life, leadership, and organization.
Our approach comes from a unique blend of contemplative spirituality and organizational psychology. It helps leaders transform themselves and their organization’s culture to promote well-being, staff member engagement, and service excellence.
Meet Rhonda
Through listening, observation, and reflection, Rhonda helps leaders cultivate greater awareness and produce transformative change that results in lasting value for themselves and their organizations.
Rhonda Pfaltzgraff-Carlson has a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from The Ohio State University and an MA in Theology from Xavier University. Rhonda has a certificate of spiritual nurture from The School of the Spirit, a Quaker ministry, and is a certified coach through the Get Positive Coach Training program, which is ICF approved.
She is a member of the Academy of Management and belongs to its Organizational Development and Change division and its Management, Spirituality and Religion interest group. She is also a member of Spiritual Directors International and the Spiritual Directors Association of Ohio.
Prior to integrating spirituality into her work, Rhonda provided employee relations consulting for small businesses, non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, and large professional services firms. In particular, she resolved divisive conflicts, improved labor relations, helped cross-departmental teams improve attendance, and created employee surveys that improved organizational effectiveness.
Rhonda lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband and has two sons and a cat. She is a member of Campus Friends Meeting in Wilmington, Ohio and an Associate in Mission with the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati. In her free time, she enjoys reading, crocheting, knitting, vegan baking, and gardening with native plants.
Workshops and Presentations
Rhonda is available to facilitate workshops and to speak for virtual and in-person events.
Titles of recent presentations and programs include:
- Want to Attract and Retain High Quality Staff Members?: Cultivate Spiritual Wellness
- Elevating Compassion: Increasing Awareness and Structuring Systems to Promote Caregiving
- Women at the Well: Tapping into the Spiritual Purposes of Work
- An Introduction to Quakers: The Stories of Three Influential Women
If your group or organization is looking for a speaker or a program facilitator on these or similar topics, please be in touch.
