Strategy and Program Management Office
Internal Consultant Community (ICC)
Overview
The internal consultant community is a forum to collaborate, share best practices, and engage in continuous improvement and education. Our value is leveraging knowledge and resources among systemwide internal consultants to advance location priorities.
Objectives
We are guided by three objectives:
- Strengthen Networks – we will work to grow our networks and engage with each other.
- Expand Skills – we share what works and learn from each other.
- Continuously Improve – we look for ways to improve, based on evidence, from each other.
Community
We broadly define “internal consultants” as those that engage on client projects at their UC location around seven broad capabilities. Furthermore, we have taken a spoke-and-hub approach by identify points of contact at campuses to distribute information to interest and relevant parties at each location.
While the SPMO serves as the primary conveyer of the ICC, it shares overall management responsibility with a planning council and executive advisors:
Community Advisors
- Julian Ryu , Managing Director, SPMO, UCOP
- Grace Crvarich, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Program Development &Execution, UC Irvine
Community Council
- Gerrie Zvara, Assistant Director, Organizational Effectiveness & Development, UCLA
- Mike Cook, Director, Business Process Management Office, UC Berkeley
- Trish Hackemack, Senior Program Manager, Program Management Office, UCSF
- Christiane Spitzmueller, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Strategy, UC Merced
- Rendell Camacho, Strategic Advisor, SPMO UCOP
- Devin Richards, Strategic Advisor, SPMO, UCOP
Community Location Points of Contact
- Mike Cook, UC Berkeley, Business Process Management Office
- Erica Aichwalder, UC Davis, Office of Business Transformation
- Grace Crvarich, UC Irvine, Program Development & Execution Business
- Saroj Sharma, UC Irvine, Program Development & Execution Business Transformation Office
- Geraldine (Gerrie) Zvara, UCLA, Organizational Effectiveness & Development
- Christiane Spitzmueller, UC Merced, Center of Institutional Effectiveness
- Elizabeth (Beth) Claasen Thrush, UC Riverside, Office of Chancellor, Director of Strategic Initiatives & Special Projects Planning, Budget & Administration
- Veronica, Ruiz, UC Riverside, Office of Chancellor, Director of Strategic Initiatives & Special Projects Planning, Budget & Administration
- Allorah Pradenas, UC San Diego, Operational Strategic Initiatives
- Stephen Larkin, UC San Diego, Operational Strategic Initiatives
- Patricia (Trish) Hackemack, UC San Francisco, Program Management Office
- Stephanie Metz, UC San Francisco, Program Management Office
- Chuck Haines, UC Santa Barbara, Home | Office of Budget & Planning
- Christina Armstrong, UC Santa Cruz, Office of Chancellor, Director of Strategic Initiatives
- Julian Ryu, UCOP, Strategy and Program Management Office
If you have any questions or would like to learn more, please do not hesitate to reach out to [email protected].