Suganya Sockalingam, PhD

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Founding Partner/Treasurer - Changematrix Co-Founder/Executive Director - TeamWorks
2721 Breakers Creek Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89134
Phone: 702-953-5743
Fax: 702-953-5743
ssockalingam@changematrix.org
teamworks@mindspring.com

Suganya is a founding partner at Change Matrix Inc., a firm that assists agencies undergoing change through motivation, measurement and management. Additionally, she is co-founder and executive director of TeamWorks© which provides consultation, facilitation, and training on Cultural Diversity, Competence, and Communication as well as Conflict Resolution and Leadership solutions. She conducts focused dialogues, consensus building, strategic, and action planning workshops on issues related to health, social services, and education.

She serves as a senior consultant to the National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) a technical assistance organization whose mission is to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems. She also serves as a senior consultant to the Summit Health Institute on Research and Education (SHIRE) an organization committed to addressing health disparities through research and education.

Suganya is passionately committed to creating an environment in which health care consumers/clients and their families, providers, and advocates can dialog meaningfully to create innovative approaches to address health and social services access and utilization. She ensures all points are included through attentive listening, processing the information collaboratively, and offering insight to address issues at hand. Her greatest strength is her ability to set aside her own philosophy, values, and beliefs capturing the true essence of what the group visualizes. Her commitment as a facilitator and educator is to motivate and focus thought and action.

She has co-developed several curricula including: "Culture, Conflict and Communication" on culturally competent conflict resolution and mediation; and "Transformative Leadership" that incorporates values and principles that guide leadership, cultural and linguistic competence, family involvement and conflict resolution. She has worked with health and mental health organizations to address 'ISMs' within their organizations and move beyond fractured personnel relationships to an inclusive multicultural workforce.

Suganya has worked in many capacities in Public Health, both nationally and internationally, for over 20 years. She continues this commitment on a personal level by serving one two boards of non-profit organizations—The Institute for Cultural Affairs and the The Tromthar Community Development Foundation, two social change network organizations serving diverse communities within the US and globally.

Content last updated September 19, 2008.