Collaborative Partners

The River Birch Group

Cultivating Learning and Corporate Performance

The River Birch Group, led by Susan Schwartz, collaborates with an extended network of experienced professionals.  Each partner brings expertise that helps global work teams minimize isolation, increase knowledge sharing opportunities, and improve overall performance.

Phyllis Beaver, Ph.D. Covington Associates Inc., is a performance improvement consultant specializing in role-based certification, process re-engineering, all facets of training analysis, design,development, implementation, and evaluation.  Her unique job-task analysis methodology enables her to facilitate a stream-lined process to identify the tasks, skills, and knowledge associated with specific positions.  Her common sense approach to improving job performance produces cost-effective results that make a difference no matter how large or small an organization may be.

The Baldwin Group, Inc. (TBG) is a unique management consulting firm that has a highly experienced staff of professionals working together to provide exceptional services and client support. The TBG mission is "to collaborate with our clients to make them the envy of their industry. We create knowledge-powered change that energizes employees, enlightens management, and produces inspired results."

TBG is certified by the U. S. Small Business Administration as 8(a) until 2008 and by the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce.  The Baldwin Group is also listed on the Federal Supply Schedule to provide Management, Organizational, and Business Improvement Services (MOBIS) to the General Services Administration.

Christina Morfeld, Affinity Business Communications, has earned a reputation for developing documents that are reader-focused, benefits-oriented, and results-driven.  Whether writing to persuade, instruct or inform, she has an exceptional ability to inspire commitment and a favorable response from her readers.

"Throughout our working relationship, Susan Schwartz has worn many different hats depending on the nature of the project so I have had the pleasure of working with her when she has been the ideal project manager, team player, team leader, worker bee, visionary, networker, marketer, and/or

creative thinker. Whatever Susan does, she is committed 200% and excels in the planning, development and implementation of her assignments."

Phyllis Beaver, Ph.D.

Security Evolutions, Inc (SEI) is committed to the education and training of IT Security Professionals. In addition to curriculum, technology education/training consulting, SEI provides consulting and development services in IT Security and Information Security topics. 

Non-Vendor education programs include (ISC)2’s CISSP®, SSCP®, and ISSEP® professional certifications. Vendor education and training expertise include Cisco Systems®, Microsoft®, PatchLink®, Hewlett-Packard®, Checkpoint®, Foundstone®, EnteraSys®, and others.

Global Skills Exchange (GSX) designs strategies and processes for the application of skill and work standards in the private, public and federal sectors by continuing to expand on the comprehensive research originally performed by the former National Skill Standards Board (NSSB). GSX combines the foundation of NSSB's accomplishments with its own expertise in the development and implementation of standards, assessments, and certifications to define and measure workforce needs and optimize workforce performance.