ABOUT US

UPD Consulting is a Baltimore-based, minority-owned public sector management consulting firm that helps public school districts, state education agencies and local government agencies transform into organizations that manage performance for better outcomes.  

One of the characteristics that sets UPD’s professionals apart is our direct and extensive experience in public sector management. All of UPD’s partners and most of its professional staff have recently worked in senior or executive level positions reforming school districts and government agencies from the inside.  Our first-hand knowledge of managing and reforming public sector programs grounds our strategies and implementation assistance in the day-to-day realities of executing change at the local level.

 

KEY STAFF

Douglass Austin, President & CEO  
Sherry Chen, Partner Robert Pipik, Partner
Patrick Cook, Partner Bryan Richardson, Partner

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Tara Beaner, Senior Consultant Dustin Odham, Senior Consultant
Elaine Budish, Senior Consultant Jessica Pierre-Louis, Senior Consultant
Kim Clark, Senior Consultant Otis Rolley, Senior Manager
Julio Gonzalez, Senior Consultant Ana Quintana, Senior Consultant

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Amadi Anene, Consultant Tim Marlowe, Consultant
Jason Bentley, Consultant Chantal Richmond, Consultant
Ian Brown, Consultant Karl Schumann, Consultant
Janice Flynn, Consultant Jenna Shapiro, Consultant
Nick Goding, Consultant Jacqueline Skapik, Consultant
Eric Hopkins II, Consultant Rohini Thukral, Consultant
Angel Johnson, Consultant Talisha White, Consultant
Loretta Ludwick, Consultant Titi Williams-Davies, Consultant