Virginia Auciello Sullivan has spent her professional career developing her training and coaching skills through work experience, collaboration, and continuing education. She has extensive experience and talent for instructional design that applies the principles of adult learning theory. In 1986, she started Auciello Associates, Inc., an instructional design and training delivery company. She has provided curriculum design and training programs to Standish Ayer and Wood, John Hancock, Commerce Insurance Company, Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Fidelity Investments, Senior Aerospace, Worcester Public Schools and many other companies. Virginia excels at creating and delivering content focused programs designed to improve skill building. Participants in her programs often comment of how much they learn and how the learning is directly applicable to their need. In the last ten years, she has devoted her work to executive coaching and leadership development. Her passion for working with individual leaders and executive leadership groups derives from understanding the complexities of human behavior required in a leadership role. Her practice allows her to assist leaders to develop increased awareness and competence and the ability to apply this learning to achieve desired results.

In addition to starting Auciello Associates, she has experience as a public and private school teacher, working as a health educator for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and holding positions of Executive Director at To Your Health, Inc. and Wilson Language Training Corporation. Virginia has also served as adjunct faculty at Worcester State University and Anna Maria College. She has successfully trained entrepreneurs at The Center for Women and Enterprise in Worcester, Boston and Curry College in Plymouth in a ten week program which provides all training needed to open a successful business; including a professional and fundable business plan.

Virginia holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Education, and is a 2004 graduate of the New Ventures West Coaching Program. She has recently completed two continuing education courses at the Gestalt Institute in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, which focused on applying Gestalt concepts to coaching. With a strong commitment to giving back to the community, she proudly completed the SOAR Nonprofit Management Consulting Group Program. She has also served on the Board of Directors of Rainbow Child Development in Worcester, Massachusetts.