Suganya Sockalingam, PhD

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Senior Consultant
National Center for Cultural Competence
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
2721 Breakers Creek Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89134
Phone: (212) 957-5351
E-mail: suganya@mindspring.com

Suganya Sockalingam, Ph.D. is co-founder and executive director of TeamWorks© a consulting firm which provides consultation, facilitation, and training on Cultural Diversity, Cultural Competence, Cross-cultural Communication as well as Conflict Resolution and Leadership solutions. She conducts focused dialogues, consensus building, strategic, and action planning workshops on issues related to health, social services, and education. She is passionately committed to creating an environment in which health care consumers/clients and their families, providers, and advocates can dialog meaningfully to create innovative approaches to address health and social services access and utilization. She ensures all points are included through attentive listening, processing the information collaboratively with her audience, and offering insight to address issues at hand. Her greatest strength is her ability to set aside her own philosophy, values, and beliefs capturing the true essence of what the group visualizes. Her commitment as a facilitator and educator is to motivate and focus thought and action.

Suganya is a senior consultant to the National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC), Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development, Washington, DC. Through her services to the center she supports it's mission to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems. She also functions as a senior consultant to Summit Health Institute on Research and Education (SHIRE), Washington, DC an organization committed to addressing health disparities in unserved and underserved populations through research and education.

She has co-developed several curricula including "Culture, Conflict and Communication" on culturally competent conflict resolution and mediation, and "Transformative Leadership" that incorporates values and principles that guide leadership, cultural and linguistic competence, family involvement and conflict resolution. She is currently working with health and mental health organizations to address 'ISMs' within their organizations and move beyond fractured personnel relationships to an inclusive multicultural workforce.

Suganya has worked in many capacities in Public Health at the state and local level, both nationally and internationally, for over 28 years.

Current as of September 2006