Facilitator Bios
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Juanita Brown is President of Whole Systems Associates, an international consortium of professionals dedicated to strategic inquiry and complex systems change. Since 1974 she has served as a consultant to business and industry, government and educational institutions, health organizations, and community service agencies in the United States, Latin America, Canada and Europe. Ms. Brown has served as program faculty at the John F. Kennedy University School of Management, The California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Monterrey, Mexico. She serves as a Fellow of the World Business Academy and has been honored both among the World Who's Who of Business and Professional Women and Community Leaders of America. Her work on the core processes of organizations as communities is included in Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. Robert Hanig is a Vice President for Innovation Associates, Inc. and Arthur D. Little, and the Director of the Leadership Practice for Arthur D. Little. He oversees both the company's public training offerings and in-house programs for clients focused on large system change. In addition, he conducts the Leadership & Mastery program for senior executives and engages in consulting projects with selected clients. He also works extensively with Peter Senge and the Society for Organizational Learning, and has been co-facilitating the Foundation for Leadership Program at SoL since its inception. 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 South Africa's major financial services companies. Beth has consulted to South African insurance companies and a private investment firm. Beth has worked extensively with Peter Senge for the past twenty years, and had also partnered with Peter and Daniel Kim in the facilitation of the Core Course for the past ten years. William Isaacs lectures at the Sloan School of Management, and is Founder and Managing Partner of Dia • logos, a company offering educational programs in dialogue and consulting projects designed to create integrated change processes in organizations. He is the recent author of Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together. 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-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 vision. Peter Senge is the Chairman of the Council of Trustees for SoL and a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, author of the internationally-acclaimed book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (circulation 300,000), and co-author of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization. He recently co-authored The Dance of Change, the best-selling follow-up to the Fieldbook. Dr. Senge was recently listed in the Journal of Business Strategy as one of the top 24 people who have influenced business strategy in the past 100 years. |