Christine Wroblewski is a seasoned advisor, executive, and strategic communications practitioner for public and non-profit organizations. As a valued, effective and personal consultant and coach, she guides organizations to connect and communicate more effectively by developing a deeper capacity for analysis, planning, prioritization, and development.  Areas of expertise include strategic communications, issue identification and management, stakeholder analysis and engagement, and organizational development.

She has worked inside and alongside education-focused organizations since 1993.  As Chief Community Relations Officer for Saint Paul Public Schools, Christine lead the transformation of the office from a communications-only focus to a broader community relations and engagement focus. Among the milestones achieved in partnership with leadership and community in SPPS:

• The most successful referendum in SPPS’ history.
• Two superintendent searches and three superintendent transitions.
• The development of the Strategic Plan for Continued Excellence.
• The first representative survey of SPPS parents.
• The establishment of a year-round, cross-departmental outreach team to have a more positive and regular presence in the community.
• The establishment of a community engagement model that improved and expanded input and awareness.

Christine has received numerous state and national communications awards and presents on communications and community relations topics, both locally and nationally.  She has served on the Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation Board, the board of the Minnesota School Public Relations Association and Family Tree Clinic.

Christine is a two-time alumnus of the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and a Masters degree in Leadership and Management of Public and Nonprofit Organizations from the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. She previously has served as communications director and media liaison for Saint Paul Public Schools and as editor and writer for a weekly Twin Cities area newspaper company.

Wroblewski Consulting, LLC, helps organizations analyze, plan, develop and connect.  In partnership and with a strategic approach, we:

• Plan and manage projects
• Assess the policy, communications, and funding environment of organizations
• Synthesize research and conceptual writings from various disciplines and vantage points
• Advise and train leaders on communications-related issues, stakeholder engagement and marketing
• Develop and use multiple data collection methods including interviews, focus groups, surveys, and document analysis to explore organizational and policy issues and recommend improvements
• Manage and facilitate teams, committees, and task forces
• Manage systems change processes
• Write for and speak to diverse audiences, including policy makers, educators, and the media
• Plan and execute media and community relations activities
• Plan, write, and manage grant proposals/grants

Austin Independent School District

Center for Early Education and Development, University of MN

Community School of Excellence

Eden Prairie Public Schools

Greater Minneapolis Daycare Association

The McKnight Foundation

Minneapolis Public Schools

MinnCAN

Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals

Minnesota Department of Human Services

Mounds View Public Schools

Northeast Metro Intermediate School District 916

Saint Paul Public Schools

Stillwater Area Public Schools

Teamworks International

You can reach Christine Wroblewski, President of Wroblewski Consulting, LLC, at:

(612) 414-7463

christine@wroblewskiconsulting.com

1147 Autumn Dr., Woodbury, MN

Connie Hayes, Superintendent, NE Metro 916 Intermediate School District:

“It is not uncommon for school leaders to be fully aware of the need for improved communications with stakeholders both inside the school organization as well as with their communities.  However, it is less common for those same leaders to have all the insights, skills, and strategies to accomplish the desired goals.  This requires the capacity to think about the systems we work in and how expertly planned communications increase a district’s capacity to build and sustain relationships with stakeholders that are crucial to successful schools. As leaders, we often find ourselves immersed personally in the stakeholder relationships while we search for solutions. Christine, on the other hand is able to see our interlocking systems from the 5,000 foot level to problem solve and advise the leader objectively - to better understand ways to improve relationships through strategic, rather than impulsive, communications.  While some experts can improve the ideas and communication products the school leader has already created, Christine will go beyond that to help a leader problem solve and implement strategically designed communications affecting the greatest positive outcomes possible.”

Shirley Heitzman, Executive Director, Office of Innovation and Development, Austin Independent Schools, Texas:

“Christine is an expert in executive-level consulting, advising, planning and problem-solving. Based on significant experience in executive leadership, community relations, strategic planning, writing, and board and media relations in the education and non-profit arenas, she provides a depth of experience and ability to deliver that is unequalled. Her common-sense approach provides clients with the ability to make coherent decisions based on a strategic, data-driven approach. She understands executive-level pressures and provides optimal solutions in tight timeframes. An effective executive leader, she expands the capacity of any group that she works with, creating a professional and collaborative environment. For over a decade, media products that she and her team have produced have won awards locally and nationally. Christine is consummately effective in successfully orchestrating complex, long-range community relations and strategic planning initiatives in a wide variety of arenas.”

Suzanne Kelly, Vice President, Volunteers of America-Minnesota:

“Christine understands all aspects of the communications and public relations field. She is an excellent writer, skilled strategist and adept at capturing the essence of what needs to be communicated to a particular audience.”