Tes Zakrzewski, Ed.D

Passionate about creating spaces for people to connect through listening and self-reflection using my expertise in adult education and dialogue

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

About

Passionate educator, practitioner, and scholar dedicated to teaching excellence that enables people to excel in a dynamic, global world. Draw upon over 30 years of experience leading learning functions in higher education and global financial services. Lead with a strong business perspective, coupled with a focus on people and the organization to the develop organizational capability at the individual, team, and organizational levels though systemic collaboration and strength-based management. Areas of Expertise: adult education, designing and facilitating learning and transformative listening spaces, leading learning/instructional technology functions, integrating academic technology in teaching and learning, negotiating strategic goal alignment, implementing change, building high performance teams, and operations management. Research Interests: Dialogue, transformative listening, reflective practice, experiential and informal learning, transfer of learning, organizational change/culture.

Experience

  • Implementation Consultant at ATTECS, LLC
    Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    ATTECS LLC helps institutions move from strategy to execution — turning vision into measurable, sustainable change. Our work focuses on aligning people, processes, policy, and technology to successfully launch and scale high-impact initiatives in learning, workforce development, and organizational transformation.

  • Wentworth Institute of Technology (13 yrs 7 mos)
    • Senior Affiliate Faculty
      Jan 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 7 mos

      Organizational Behavior (undergraduate; hybrid & online); Business Operations & Process Management (graduate; online)

    • Retired Senior Director, Teaching & Learning Collaborative
      Jan 2021 - Feb 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos

      The Teaching & Learning Collaborative team are partners to your best teaching leading through evidence-based, inclusive, active learning strategies that promote student success. We consult, develop, and deliver flexible, innovative instructional solutions and resources that foster transformational learning experiences and deepen student engagement. We work closely with faculty and staff in course development, instructional coaching, and learner support to assure course quality and academic success for all students (undergraduate, graduate, non-degree seeking and non-traditional) and course delivery methods (in-person, hybrid, online and mixed). sites.wit.edu/tlc

    • Director Learning Innovation & Technology
      Jan 2013 - Dec 2020 · 8 yrs

      Provide leadership in developing and implementing teaching strategies, instructional design, hybrid/online course development, and integration of learning technologies. Work closely with deans and departmental chairs to provide departmental support, engage faculty members, expand learning communities and mentoring across campus, researching emerging trends and technologies, best practices, curriculum development, course design and formats, leveraging internal / external resources, evaluation, and benchmarking. Adjunct lecturer in Wentworth College of Professional & Continuing Education.

  • Adjunct Lecturer at Suffolk University
    Aug 2011 - Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Lecturer in the College of Arts & Sciences Organizational Learning & Development Masters Program. Classes include: Systems Thinking, Adult Learning Theory, Instructional Design, and Professional Career Internship.

  • Lecturer at Northeastern University
    2010 - 2012 · 2 yrs

    Part-time lecturer in the College of Professional Studies. Classes include Organizational Behavior for undergraduate international business students.

  • Ed.D Adult Education and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University
    Jun 2007 - Dec 2010 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    Dissertation "Learning to Internalize Action Dialogue": The purpose of the study was to understand how participants who attended a communications workshop perceived their ability to engage in dialogue was improved or enhanced. The study explored how they think about dialogue, how they apply dialogue principles in their practice, in what ways they learned to apply dialogue in their day to day lives, what they perceived changed as a result of using dialogue, and what factors enhanced or hindered their use of dialogue.