Sharon Wiseman

Sharon is a managing partner in Wiseman Consulting and Training (WCT).  Located in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago, WCT focuses on providing transformational consulting in the non-profit sector with special emphasis in libraries and nonprofit organizations.

Sharon has held senior positions in libraries including serving as Director of Staff and Organization Development for the Chicago Public Library.  Her experience includes consulting work with library systems, state libraries, university libraries, and individual libraries as well as other non-profit organizations. She focuses her practice on helping organizations creatively plan for the future, build employee motivation and commitment, develop skills to effectively facilitate change and continually improve their service and performance.

Sharon holds Masters Degrees in library science from Indiana University and also a Master of Arts degree from Holy Names College in Oakland, California. Sharon has worked in a multitude of library settings in Indiana, Illinois, Texas, and Pennsylvania.  The libraries range from public and special to systems, academic and state libraries. Prior to moving to the Chicago area Sharon was Associate Director of the Indiana State Library responsible for Library Development. She  has also done work with the American Productivity and Quality Center in Houston, Texas in the areas of quality improvement, meeting facilitation, team development, leadership skills and communication.  In addition, Sharon has provided training and development services for several profit and non-profit organizations in both staff member and consulting roles. Sharon’s work with schools, libraries, and businesses typically causes them to understand each other better, be more effective as an organization and have a lot of fun in the process.

Sharon is currently an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University in Chicago.  She teaches courses in library leadership, communications, public relations, and history of the book.

Contact Sharon at swiseman@wisemanconsulting.com