Facilitators

Juanita Brown, founder of Whole Systems Associates, collaborates as a strategist and thinking partner with senior leaders in applying living systems principles to developing knowledge-based organizations and large-scale change initiatives. She has worked with a wide variety of corporate and non-profit clients in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Pacific Basin. Juanita has served as a senior affiliate at the MIT Organizational Learning Center (now SoL), as program faculty at John F. Kennedy University and the California Institute of Integral Studies, and as a research affilitate with the Institute for the Future. She is a Fellow of the World Business Academy and has been honored in the World Who's Who of Business and Professional Women. She and Peter Senge serve as co-faculty for SoL's Executive Champion's Workshop. Juanita's writing with co-author David Issaacs includes "Conversation as a Core Business Process" and "The World Café: Living Knowledge through Conversations that Matter" published as lead articles in The Systems Thinker and "Asking Powerful Questions: A Key to Strategy Evolution" in The Dance of Change.

Robert Hanig is a vice president for DIAlogos, Inc. as well as maintaining a private consulting practice. Formerly he was a vice president with Innovation Associates, Inc. and Arthur D. Little and the director of the Leadership Practice. He oversaw both companies´ public training offerings and in-house programs for clients focused on large-scale systems change. In addition, he conducts the Leadership & Mastery program for senior executives and engages in consulting projects with selected clients. His client list includes Motorola, British Petroleum, Nike, AT&T, UNOCAL, Shell Oil and the World Bank. He also works extensively with Peter Senge and the Society for Organizational Learning.

Sherry Immediato is acting managing director of the Society for Organizational Learning. She is also an experienced organizational consultant and founder of Heaven & Earth Inc. Her priority is to support those she works with in being true to their highest aspirations while being fully grounded in the realities of their current situation. Her focus is developing the habits, skills and infrastructure that produce desired results as simply as possible. Ms. Immediato is a founding member of SoL and served as co-chair of the Council of Trustees from 2000-2001. She is also chair of the board of the Northeast Foundation for Children. She was a member of the Consortium on Productivity in Schools, sponsored by the Columbia University Teachers College and co-author of Using what we have to get the schools we need: A productivity focus for American education. She is co-author of Creating Integrated Care and Healthier Communities, a computer simulation and learning experience for healthcare leaders. She has made presentations regularly at the International Systems Dynamics Society, Systems Thinking in Action, the Power of Systems Thinking, the Organization Development Network, and the Quality of Work conferences and is a contributor to The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations.

William Isaacs is founder and president of DIAlogos, Inc.; a company offering transformational leadership educational programs in dialogue and dialogic consulting and change projects for organizations. Isaacs assists leaders in navigating the major transitions required of them and their institutions as they enter the 21st Century. His research and consulting have focused on producing strategic dialogue, accessing the tacit intelligence of organizations, using dialogue to produce large systems change, and overcoming the dilemmas and obstacles that human beings encounter when seeking to live by a set of shared ideals. His book, Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together, was published by Doubleday in September of 1999.

Beth Jandernoa brings over 14 years of experience working in a variety of sectors including business, healthcare, education and government. She has served on the faculty of Columbia University and the University of Michigan´s Advanced Program in Organizational Development and Human Resource Management. Beth spends several months a year working on a variety of special projects in South Africa. She has worked on the learning organization initiative at the University of Natal, and has just completed a contract with one of the South Africa´s major financial services companies. Beth has consulted to South African insurance companies and a private investment firm. She has worked extensively with Peter Senge for the past twenty years and has also partnered with Peter and Daniel Kim in the facilitation of the Core Course for over ten years.

Richard Karash is an independent consultant in Boston, Massachusetts. He teaches the broad range of learning organization disciplines, with special emphasis on systems thinking. He facilitates and consults on system dynamics and systems thinking issues. Rick is a contributor to The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, has been a regular presenter at the annual Systems Thinking in Action conference and a contributor to The Systems Thinker. He is the creator and moderator of "Learning-Org," a worldwide public dialogue on the Internet about learning organizations, was a founding Trustee of SoL, and led SoL's Internet efforts during 2001. In a prior life, Rick spent 20 years as a high-tech entrepreneur. His experience includes computer software, artificial intelligence, decision support, modeling, and statistics. He holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Science from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Daniel Kim is an organizational consultant, facilitator and public speaker who is committed to helping problem-solving organizations transform into learning organizations. He is co-founder of the MIT Organizational Learning Center (which has since become The Society for Organizational Learning). He has helped dozens of organizations across many industries put into practice the five disciplines of the learning organization- shared vision, personal mastery, mental models, team learning and systems thinking ñ to improve their effectiveness and produce extraordinary results. His current work focuses on helping management teams articulate a shared vision of the future and bring that vision into reality by using the Vision Deployment Matrix™ as a framework for large-scale change. The VDM helps organizations crystallize their thinking about a desired future by helping to make explicit their vision of the future at multiple levels of perspective-events, patterns, systemic structures, mental models and shared vision. Starting in 1995, he has been working extensively with numerous ministries in the Singapore government as they transform themselves to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Daniel is the author of "Organizing for Learning: Strategies for Knowledge Creation and Enduring Change" and founding publisher of The Systems Thinker newsletter.

Peter M. Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL); a global community of corporations, researchers, and consultants dedicated to the "interdependent development of people and their institutions." He is the author of the widely acclaimed book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization (1990) and, with colleagues Charlotte Roberts, Rick Ross, Bryan Smith and Art Kleiner, co-author of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (1994) and a fieldbook The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations (March, 1999), also co-authored by George Roth. In September 2000, a new fieldbook on education was published, the award winning Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education, co-authored with Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Timothy Lucas, Bryan Smith, Janis Dutton, and Art Kleiner. Dr. Senge has lectured extensively throughout the world, translating the abstract ideas of systems theory into tools for better understanding of economic and organizational change. His areas of special interest focus on decentralizing the role of leadership in organizations so as to enhance the capacity of all people to work productively toward common goals.