Dr. Sheryl Petty, Ed.D.

Dr. Petty supports the efforts of practitioners and community members to heal ourselves and our social systems, unleash our joy and creativity, and improve our collective life. She has worked in systems change, education, network weaving, and organizational development for nearly 25 years with individuals, nonprofits, school districts, universities and foundations. Her work focuses nationally and internationally on Equity, Systems Change & Personal Transformation.

Dr. Petty’s work includes equity-driven visioning, change process design and facilitation, cross-sector field-building, strategy development, alliance building, equity assessments, qualitative research, spiritual and life coaching. This work has included tool and framework development to assess institutional functioning, and facilitation of multi-year equity transformation processes focused on race, socioeconomics, gender and other dimensions of difference and their impact on relationships, institutional functioning, field-alignment and evolution. She has been a high school teacher, program manager, development director, executive director, board member, author, public speaker, and consultant.

Dr. Petty was a Principal Associate at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, a fellow at Stanford University's Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, is currently a Fellow with the Mind & Life Institute, a Senior Consultant with Change Elemental (formerly called Management Assistance Group, MAG), an Associate Consultant with Movement Strategy Center (MSC), and was Adjunct Faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University on Equity, Leadership & Systems Change. She also has a long history of supporting individuals and groups in developing socio-emotional competencies and mindfulness as core capacities, particularly in addressing emotionally complex and often tension-filled change processes related to equity. She is ordained in both Tibetan Buddhist (yogic/non-monastic) and African (Yoruba)-based traditions, and holds a B.A. in Mathematics, an M.A. in Systematic and Philosophical Theology, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership & Change. See more about her work at: www.movementtapestries.com.