Mara Gottlieb has a Bachelor’s Degree from Brown University, a Master’s Degree in Social Work from New York University, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the New York University Silver School of Social Work.  She is the founder and CEO of Talking Changes, a company whose mission is to create and implement trainings in which participants can be and express themselves in a safe, supportive environment.  Her trainings focus on a range of topics, including but not limited to cultural/bias awareness, sexual health, sexual orientation, communication, team-building, stress management, and time management.  Previous clients have included Morgan Stanley, Time Warner, New Jersey State Police, the Anti-Defamation League, the New York Public Library, and the NY Administration for Children's Services (ACS), and audiences have ranged in age from seven to seventy-five, with particular focus on adolescents and adults.  Ms. Gottlieb has also been a guest lecturer at various universities including Hunter University, Monroe College, the Fashion Institute of Technology, Chatham College, SUNY New Paltz, and Carnegie Mellon University.  She is currently an adjunct Lecturer at the NYU Silver School of Social Work, teaching at both graduate and undergraduate levels.

 

Ms. Gottlieb has developed a wide variety of training curricula for a range of clientele, including "train the trainer" models.  She developed the curriculum "Don't Stand Idly By" for the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, a manual to help teachers who work with adolescent Orthodox Jewish girls at risk for self harm; a 198-page HIV/AIDS Peer Training Curriculum for UJA Federation of NY, the Abstinence curriculum for Cicatelli Associates, the mentoring program for Time Warner Books, and co-authored the Mayor’s Office Coalition to Combat Domestic Violence curriculum on Teen Relationship Violence.

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