Katherine M Berezniy
Boise,ID
Summary
Customer-focused professional with successful twenty-year career in education, social work, property management, nonprofit management. A multi-tasking Manager well-known for creating positive workplace culture and profitable small businesses. Demonstrated innovative solutions to complex problems, including competitive offerings, budgeting, profit and loss solutions via networking.
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Skilled Life Coach with eight years of experience supporting clients in in goal-setting, skill-building and clarity sessions. Versed in communicating effectively and leveraging active listening skills to assess client needs. Personable and direct with focus on guiding clients toward self-reflection and personal development. Helpful with sales and customer service too.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Paraeducator, Special Education
Future Public School
11.2022 - Current
- Delivered personalized educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
- Supported students'' social-emotional development through one-on-one counseling sessions and group activities.
- Contributed to a positive school culture by participating in staff meetings, committees, and volunteering at extracurricular activities that supported students'' growth and development.
- Provided a safe and inclusive learning environment that accommodated diverse learning styles and abilities.
- Collaborated with teachers and specialists to assess student progress.
- Enhanced student learning by providing individualized support and accommodations for special education students.
Certified Life Coach
Kindness Manifests Beauty Consulting
01.2015 - Current
- Individual Education Plans, divorce process, parenting, recovery, end of life transitions and other social work/life events in which People Need Guidance from an outside source.
- Facilitated meetings and conferences between various parties, enabling better collaboration and efficient decision-making.
- Fostered strong client relationships through empathetic listening skills, non-judgmental support, and genuine interest in client success.
- Helped clients build life management and coping skills to handle daily needs and specific stressors.
- Improved client self-awareness by conducting in-depth assessments and facilitating insightful coaching sessions.
- Supported clients in overcoming personal challenges by applying solution-focused coaching methodologies and evidence-based techniques.
- Proven ability to develop and implement creative solutions and real lasting changes to complex problems.
Special Education Paraprofessional
Sonoma County Office of Education
03.2018 - 10.2019
- Assessed individual student needs and enacted solutions to provide training and skills for recent high school graduates ages 17-26 in school to work program
- Provided onsite job training of various work skills
- Taught budgeting, social, and professional skills in classroom setting as well as on job sites and in the community
- Improved quality of environment for adult education students via implementing classroom changes to meet students needs.
Manager/Social Worker
Sonoma County Alano Club
01.2014 - 04.2018
- Managed the daily needs of a nonprofit office by implementing the vision of Alano's club board of directors mission to provide services to those using 12 step programs
- Coordinated fundraising, event management, coordinated meeting room rentals, volunteer schedules, cataloged & purchased inventory, managed daily profits/losses and revised budgets with board treasurer & bookkeeper
- Implemented two grant programs to add additional staff at no cost to organization utilizing senior and disabled adults
- Trained volunteer staff on cash handling and customer service
- Supervised court appointed workers.
Property Manager
Berezniy Properties
12.1999 - 09.2015
- Managed all operational aspects of multiple rentals: including accounting, background checks on renters, running advertisements, writing leases/ notifications, actual repairs, maintenance, contractors
- Also helped people with low cost housing and finding community resources
Social Worker I
Napa Health & Human Services
10.2011 - 03.2013
- Supervised visits between parents and children including transporting children to visits which were conducted at the office, offsite, correctional facilities, and rehabilitation institutions
- Compiled case notes, followed case file protocol, directed clients in behavior and modification skills
- Maintained confidential files, kept confidentiality in public with clients, maintained professional demeanor under highly emotional situations and made independent decisions with protocol
- Interacted with various clients such as biological parents, foster parents, family members, legal professionals, general public and professional persons while balancing safety of clients.
Education
BA - Sociology
University of California at Santa Barbara
Skills
- Skilled in teaching, training, case management, and business management
- Ability to set priorities in managing a variety of tasks and activities
- Networking and establishing relationships with partnering local businesses
- Easily inspires trusting rapport and positive results in varied environments
- Demonstrate creativity and sensitivity in working with diverse population
- Maintain, collect, analyze, utilize professional data and databases
Certification
- Mindset Certified (2023)
- Life Coaching (1999)
- Reiki (2015)
- Somatic Therapy (2015)
- Indigenous Lifeways Program Completed: 2014-2018
- Animal Assisted Therapy Therapist (2000) - Therapy Dog Training Institute
- Landmark Self Expression and Leadership - Public/professional speaking and group leadership (2010)
- Landmark Communication: Access to Power - Professional communication and motivation (2010)
- Landmark Advanced Communication: The Power to Create - Advanced communication and networking skills training, goal planning, marketing, coordinating with others (2010)
- Landmark Team Management & Leadership - Training, selling, motivating, networking, promotion, marketing, and communication (2010)
- : Southwestern Book Publishing Company; Gold Seal Gold Sales Award
Timeline
Paraeducator, Special Education
Future Public School
11.2022 - Current
Special Education Paraprofessional
Sonoma County Office of Education
03.2018 - 10.2019
Certified Life Coach
Kindness Manifests Beauty Consulting
01.2015 - Current
Manager/Social Worker
Sonoma County Alano Club
01.2014 - 04.2018
Social Worker I
Napa Health & Human Services
10.2011 - 03.2013
Property Manager
Berezniy Properties
12.1999 - 09.2015
BA - Sociology
University of California at Santa Barbara
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