The majority of
the sessions at this year's Annual Meeting will be offered in poster session
format. Aligned with the theme and objectives of the meeting, these sessions will allow
members of the SoL community to showcase their work, focusing on at least one of the
following:
Ipek Kursat
has been a founding SoL member since 1996 and an adjunct faculty member at
Cornell University and consultant for 15 years. Ipek weaves together systems thinking
approaches from different cultures, archetypal psychology, Ken Wilbur’s work and her
experience as a consultant in the trenches to enable deep learning in leaders and organizations.
Robert Dickman
generates breakthrough insights in how to make daily business
communications more engaging. Bob is recognized by clients for his enthusiasm and talent for
involving them in interactive communications trainings. His consulting improves clients’
communications by improving both message content and delivery using narrative techniques
developed from rhetorical and dramatic traditions.
Manuel Manga
is an organizational design consultant and leadership coach whose work
focuses on leadership development, organizational learning, and effective communication based
on language and transformational conversations. Manuel has taken courses with Humberto
Maturana and Ximena Davila in the Biology of Cognition and the Biology of Love.
Bill Torbert
is professor at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Earlier, Bill
served as the school’s graduate dean and Ph.D. program director. He is also a founding faculty
member of the Executive Program Leadership for Change, is a board member of Trillium Asset
Management, and has consulted widely in Europe, Latin America, and the USA.
Madeline Nold
is director of Creative Action Associates, a corporate consulting and
executive counseling practice in the Boston area. Madeline was the first and primary protégé
of
the late mythologist, Joseph Campbell. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and
her M.A. and B.A. degrees from Sarah Lawrence College.
Charles Kiefer
graduated MIT with degrees in physics and management. In 1976, Charlie
founded Innovation Associates to help large organizations innovate; in 1990, cofounder Peter
Senge published the landmark management best seller, The Fifth Discipline, based in part on
IA’s work. In 1995 Innovation Associates was acquired by Arthur D. Little.
Robin Charbit
is a chemical engineer with an MBA and an early career in Exxon that
culminated as the general manager of a billion-dollar business. He joined Arthur D. Little and
ultimately led and managed the North America Chemicals Practice. When ADL dissolved in
2002, Charlie Kiefer repurchased Innovation Associates and, with Robin, formed Insight
Management Partners, a member of the IA Group.
Ann McGee-Cooper,
Ed.D., is founding Partner of Ann McGee-Cooper & Associates, a
team of futurists and consultants. Ann is an international leader in researching and applying
servant-leadership in the workplace, having served on the Culture Committee of Southwest
Airlines for 14 years and with TDIndustries for 28 years.
Steve Saunders
is a founding member of the SLLC and CEO of Tempo Mechanical
Services, a residential HVAC company in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. In 1997, when
parent company TDIndustries decided to sell the Tempo business unit off as unprofitable, Steve
led an Employee initiative to buy Tempo. The Tempo Partners paid off the loan ahead of
schedule and have won several prestigious awards in the industry.
Karina De Déa
Roglio is an associate professor of Pontific Catholic University of Paraná,
Brazil, where she teaches Human Resources Development and Leadership in Business
programs. Currently, Karina is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University, where
she is doing her doctoral research on reflective executive development.
Heidi Sparkes
Guber and David C. Flanigan are cofounders and principals of TriGlobal
Associates, a consulting consortium specializing in organizational transformation, collaborative
learning, and strategic breakthrough. Heidi has consulted for over 25 years in organizational
transformation and high performance. Dave has 33 years of global business leadership with
experience in strategic planning, acquisitions, mergers, start-ups, and managing transnational
joint ventures and integrations. They have been SoL Consultant members since 2002 and
currently facilitate the SoL Liasion quarterly meetings.
Carolyn Hendrickson,
Ph.D., is president and founder of Tandem Group, Inc., a firm that
delivers extraordinary results through large-scale change and transformation. Carolyn has over
15 years of experience working with senior business leaders in the areas of executive alignment,
large-scale change, organizational mobilization, business process redesign, organizational
learning, and leadership development.
Vince Pelote
is director of the Center for Organizational Learning at UMass Memorial
Medical Center, where he is responsible for supporting the development of 500 clinical and
administrative leaders. Vince is a research member of SoL and a founding partner with
Leadership Development and Research.
James Hunt
is associate professor of management at Babson College, where he teaches
leadership and strategic human resource management at the MBA and executive education
levels. James is also a faculty codirector of the Coaching for Leadership and Teamwork
Program at Babson.
Madeline Nold
is director of Creative Action Associates, a corporate consulting and
executive counseling practice in the Boston area. Madeline has developed a facilitated a variety
of leadership courses, both in the U.S. and abroad. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia
University and her M.A. and B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.
David Stroh
and Marilyn Paul, Ph.D. are founders of Bridgeway Partners, an organizational
consulting firm that integrates four aspects of human experience—thought, action, emotion, and
spirit—to help leaders and organizations achieve outstanding, meaningful results. David, also
a
cofounder of Innovation Associates, has expertise in visionary planning, leadership
development, systems thinking, organization design, and change management. Marilyn has been
an independent organizational consultant for 15 years, specializing in time management,
disorganization and managing workload systemically.
Art Kleiner,
author of Who Really Matters (2003) and The Age of Heretics (1996), is the
research and reflection director at Dialogos, editorial director of the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook
Project, columnist on “culture and change” for Strategy & Business, and faculty member
at
New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
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