Faculty
Executive Coaching Institute
Mark Rittenberg, Ed.D. holds a Doctorate in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco. He currently works as a management consultant to a number of major corporations across the globe. Rittenberg specializes in assessing organizational culture and developing individualized EQ strategies for Cultural Change in the workplace. He has headed consulting teams for a number of corporations including: the Southwestern Bell Corporation, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories, Bank of America, Fieldstone Mortgage Company, Twentieth Century Investments, Gap Inc, Levi-Strauss, The United States Department of Energy, Fresh Express, and Merck Pharmaceuticals. The projects range from unionmanagement contract negotiations, leadership development, team building, and creating an EQ culture in corporations and in Government departments.
In 2002, he co-created the Brand Ambassador Program for The Avis Corporation, Southern Africa. This cultural transformation program focuses on all employees living the Avis brand values, vision, and the promises. The Brand Ambassador Program has achieved increased profitability and major improvements around customer satisfaction making Avis the number one car rental company in Southern Africa. The Brand Ambassador Program has been introduced into a number of blue-chip companies in the USA and South Africa.
Over the past 30 years, Rittenberg's work has taken him across the globe, where his unique methodology has helped companies in the USA, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, Lebanon, Dubai, and Southern Africa.
From 1968 - 1975 Rittenberg studied acting and directing at the American Conservatory Theatre. From 1975 - 1985 he served as the Artistic Director of the Jerusalem Drama Workshop, an Israeli-Palestinian theatre project.
Dr. Rittenberg has worked for more than a decade with leaders from Jordon, Egypt, the Palestinian authority, and Israel. Currently, he serves as both a mediator and communication specialist for the UNESCO Middle East Peace Process forum.
Arina Isaacson has been a senior associate and principal trainer of Corporate Scenes, Inc. for 18 years. She consults and coaches extensively with top management teams in the United States and world wide. She is an internationally recognized director, actress and storyteller. As a principal consultant for Corporate Scenes, Inc., Arina has designed, managed and provided seminars and individual coaching within industry, government and for the Columbia University School of Business Executive Training Program, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the University of San Francisco School of Professional Studies.
As founder, artistic director and master teacher of the San Francisco School of Improvisation, Arina has worked with professionals from all walks of life for over twenty five years. She holds a M.A. in Communications and Education from New York University.
Penny Kreitzer has worked as a Communications Consultant, Executive Coach, and Master Voice Coach in the corporate, academic and theater/film environments for the past 30 years. She has extensive experience in training facilitators from diverse cultures and countries. Ms. Kreitzer is a founding director of Corporate Scenes, Inc., an international communications training company based in Berkeley Ca., and Johannesburg, South Africa.
Corporate clients include The Gap, AT&T, Pacific Bell, Lucent Technologies, Hoffman La Roche, Levi Strauss, Sandia National Laboratories, CNN, Avis Southern Africa, Fattal et cie (Beirut), Deutsche Bank, Pearson. Publishing Corporation.
Ms. Kreitzer has served on the faculty at the University of San Francisco, Vassar, Fordham, SUNY Purchase, The Weatherspoon School of Business, The Haas School of Business, The Olin School of Business, Lesley University, Boston University, The Harvard/Radcliffe Society, The University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg). During South Africa’s apartheid years, she participated in the first multi-racial training for teachers from the Soweto and Alexandria townships. This workshop was held in Jerusalem, Israel because of South African governmental restraints.
Ms. Kreitzer is an award winning San Francisco Bay Area actress and has performed extensively at The Berkeley Repertory Theater and American Conservatory Theater. Roles include, "Angels in America", "Hecuba". "Pentecost", "Mad Forest". In March, 2008, she will be performing "Paula, Paulinka" an original one woman show, based on the life of the German painter, Charlotte Salomon, in New York City. She has been Voice and Dialogue Coach on Academy Award nominated documentaries, "Promises", and "Regret to Inform".
Ms. Kreitzer has a Masters in Theater from San Francisco State University and a Voice and Speech Teachers’ Licentiate Diploma, from Trinity College, London.
