Glennifer Gillespie
Glennifer Gillespie is an organizational development practitioner specializing in organizational learning, the practice of productive conversation and dialogue, coaching, and work with women leaders.

Glennifer will facilitate Coming Into Your Own: Women, Leadership Archetypes and Life Cycles (TF2) with Beth Jandernoa.

Michael Goodman
Michael Goodman has published widely, authoring one of the first textbooks in the field, Study Notes in Systems Dynamics, and serving as the primary contributor to the Systems Thinking chapter in the acclaimed Fifth Discipline Fieldbook by Peter Senge, et al. He also contributed articles to two other Senge books: The Dance of Change and Schools that Learn. Among his international clients are Caterpillar Corp, Seagate Technologies, SABIC (Saudi Arabia Basic Industries), and the World Bank. His work has included the design and delivery of training sessions, individual coaching, side-by-side work with internal resources, and the engagement of strategic leadership teams to understand complex problems and identify the leverage points critical to their resolution. He is a charter member of the System Dynamics Society and an initial member of the Society for Organizational Learning. He also is an Adjunct Professor at Texas A&M University, Kingsville, Texas. Michael is the Principal at Innovation Associates Organizational Learning.

Michael will facilitate Leading Systemic Change (RF3) with David Stroh.

Beth Jandernoa
Beth Jandernoa is an organizational learning consultant who divides her time between the U.S. and South Africa. The scope of her work includes leadership development, dialogue facilitation, profound large-scale participative change interventions (Theory U) and personal development programs for women in leadership. Beth has over 20 years of experience working with business, healthcare, education, non-profit and government clients.

In the mid-80’s Beth directed a Corporate College for Executive Leadership for a $3 billion health care company with 48,000 employees. Since 1995 Beth has served on the faculty at SoL teaching the Core Competencies and Foundations for Leadership course with Peter Senge. She teaches Presencing: Leading for Profound Innovation and Change with Otto Scharmer, and has been on the faculty for the 10-month Leadership for Collective Intelligence Course offered by Dialogos, and for the U.S. Government Graduate School Leadership Academy.

Beth will facilitate Coming Into Your Own: Women, Leadership Archetypes and Life Cycles (TF2) with Glennifer Gillespie.

Lorri will facilitate Leadership as Energy: An Exploration of Where Energy Comes From and the Leadership Principles at Work (WA2) and also Leading Through Listening: Inquiring Into Behavioral Patterns Blocking an Organizations' Ability to Learn and Change (WP2).

Carol Mase
Dr. Carol Mase is a results-oriented professional with 25 years of business experience. Backed by an extensive education in medical and social sciences, she has worked successfully as an entrepreneur, a global marketing executive, and organizational consultant and coach. She is an internationally experienced leader; living and working overseas to develop global business strategy with executives from North America, Europe, and Japan. She designed and led a corporate-wide restructuring of the strategic scenario-building process and acted as a Thought Partner for senior executives during implementation. Recently, she provided multi-level leader and team coaching during the redesign of a consumer marketing division; working vertically within the organization to ensure alignment during the change effort and producing effective and sustained results. Dr. Mase uses metaphor and dialogue to create meaningful change that regards Organizations as Organisms, rather than machines, and creates unique offerings tailored to the needs of each organization.

Carol will facilitate Systemic Change During Times of Uncertainty (WF3)

Jim Myracle
Jim Myracle specializes in assisting teams and organizations build the leadership, processes and cultures necessary to grow through innovation, strategy and change. He has extensive personal experience in new product development, strategic planning, and change initiatives, and has evolved an inclusive, inquiry-based approach to planning that energizes organizational understanding and commitment. Prior to co-founding TMT Associates, he spent 22 years at Philip Morris USA, where he held executive positions in New Product Development, New Technology, Quality Systems, and Strategic Planning. He currently serves as a strategy, innovation and change consultant to a diverse array of organizations and serves as an executive thought partner to leaders in those organizations. He is an adjunct faculty member for executive education programs and designs customized, engagement-based leadership development programs that deliver measurable results. Jim holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Catholic University of America, and has been awarded seven U.S. patents.

Jim will facilitate Creating New Growth from Within: Enabling Disruptive Innovation to Succeed (MF2) with Diane Oettinger.

Diane Oettinger
Diane Oettinger specializes in assisting teams and organizations develop the leadership, learning cultures and aligned systems that enable innovation and sustainable change. Prior to co-founding TMT Associates, she spent 25 years in corporate positions with J.C. Penney, Merrill Lynch and Philip Morris, culminating with the position of Senior Vice President, Human Resources for PM USA. In this role, she was a member of the leadership team responsible for a whole systems transformational change effort. She currently serves as a change and leadership consultant to organizations in both the private and not for profit sectors. She also serves as an executive coach to many of these organizational leaders, and as executive education adjunct faculty. Combining all of these diverse perspectives, Diane also designs customized, engagement-based leadership development programs that deliver measurable results. She is a proud alumnus of Cornell University. Diane is a consultant member of SoL.

Diane will facilitate Creating New Growth from Within: Enabling Disruptive Innovation to Succeed (MF2) with Jim Myracle.

Linda O’Toole
Linda O’Toole is an explorer and illuminator of the ways perception and communication operate within and between people. She helps individuals and groups utilize how they perceive themselves and others so they are better able to develop, interact, and achieve their goals. Linda was part of the original research team at Human Dynamics International and centrally involved in the development and implementation of Human Dynamics programs for over twenty years. She has provided coaching, facilitator training, and delivered workshops and presentations in more than 15 countries for clients ranging from community literacy programs to global corporations.

Linda will facilitate Vital Differences: An Approach for Exploring and Using Individual Differences (TA2, WA1), Vital Differences: Building Collaborative Partnerships (WP1), and Putting it All Together: Integrating our Learning as Practice (FA1) with Jon Vogen and Karen Stratvert.

Michael Sales
Michael Sales Ed.D. is a strategist, trainer, author and theorist. He consults on leadership and strategy to industry, academia, non-profit organizations, and government. Representative current and past client engagements include Partners Health Care, Rohm and Haas, Fidelity Investments, JPMorganChase, the City of Newton, the International Association for Product Development and MIT. He is the co-founder of Art of the Future, a strategy firm which created Structural Dynamics to integrate systems thinking and scenario planning in the service of leadership. Michael holds a doctorate from Harvard in Organization Behavior and a BS from U Pennsylvania in Economics. Michael speaks in many venues including the SoL Academy, Pegasus, and the International Association for Product Development. He has published in the fields of strategy, systems thinking, psychology of religion, leadership and the management of closely held companies, including recent articles in Jossey-Bass' Leadership and Organization Development Readers and Strategy and Leadership.

Michael will facilitate Structural Dyanamics: Seeing and Using the Big Picture (RF1) with Anika Savage.

Dennis Sandow
Dennis Sandow has practiced social action research since 1976. Dennis was responsible for two Federal research grants at the University of Oregon. The first studied social connections in the workplace using quantitative, qualitative and social network research methods. The second grant studied human and social capital. It was during this time that Dennis discovered the work of the Chilean biologist Dr Humberto Maturana and began to apply it to his research.

Dennis is the owner and President of Reflexus Company whose purpose is to apply social action research to help companies and communities improve social collaboration in widely dispersed social networks and to understand how human communities create social, biological and financial wellbeing. He has conducted this research in the US, Latin America, Europe and China.

Dennis is the co-author of Integration at work: Multiple methodologies in research, The Integration Guide, The Nature of Social Collaboration: How work really gets done and The Accomplishment Model. Dennis is a research member and founding council member of the Society for Organizational Learning and a member of the Matriztic Institute.

Dennis will facilitate Reflections on Social Systems: Illuminating the Path of Well Being (RF2) with Anne Murray Allen and Nick Zenuik.

Anika Savage
Anika Savage is an MBA, strategist and architect. She worked in the technology and financial services industries as a Corporate Strategist for over two decades. Anika holds a BA from Pratt Institute, an MFA in Architecture from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from Babson College. She is an internationally recognized expert in scenario planning and consults to corporations such as AT&T on strategic planning using a scenario approach. She has conducted primary research at 33 companies on five continents to determine the impact of technology on work processes and workplaces. Anika is widely published on real estate strategy, workplace productivity, scenario planning and systems thinking. She is a contributing author (under her former name, Audrey Schriefer) to Learning from the Future: Competitive Foresight Scenarios. Anika is currently a principal and co-founder of Art of the Future, a strategic foresight consulting firm.

Anika will facilitate Structural Dynamics: Seeing and Using the Big Picture (RF1) with Michael Sales.

Fred Simon
Fred Simon is an independent consultant, a founding member and member of the governing council of SoL, and an adjunct faculty member of the University of Michigan. He draws on his extensive line leadership and program management experience, his collaborative work with Dr. Peter Senge and the late W. Edwards Deming, and his work in organizational learning to develop more effective leadership, organizational alignment, empowerment and interdependent operation. Fred is a consultant member of SoL.

Fred will facilitate Introduction to Organizational Learning (MF1) with Dave Flanigan.

Todd Slingsby
Todd Slingsby, VP of HROE at Clorox, has been instrumental in introducing to Clorox the foundations of Senge’s five disciplines and organizational learning practices, beginning with a heavy dose of personal mastery, mental models and shared vision, followed by team learning and systems thinking. Clorox’s early journey included regular, multiple day capability building workshops followed by integration of the key concepts into everyday work. Many of the key concepts are now part of the everyday vocabulary and behaviors at Clorox, including key collaboration skills (mental models, ladder of inference, advocacy and inquiry, dialogue, and left-hand column communications), thinking, speaking and acting more systemically (causal loop diagramming, understanding, and recognizing common system archetypes especially fixes that fail, shifting the burden and tragedy of the commons). Todd’s engagement in the Intentional Inquiry process with the Bay Area SoL community provided an experience that supports Clorox’s continued learning and offers reflections which will be shared with the participants who attend this SoL Academy session.

Todd will facilitate Intentional Inquiry: Collaborative Learning to Enhance Organizational Performance (TP1) with Nancy Southern.

Nancy Southern
Nancy L. Southern is Chair of Organizational Systems Programs at Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco, an organizational development consultant, and a steward of Bay Area SoL. Nancy developed the Intentional Inquiry process in the early mid 90’s to introduce graduate students to the principles of dialogue. She has used the exercise with many student groups over the years and during the last three years began using it with organizational leaders to support collaborative work. She has been integrating it into leadership development sessions in organizations and at conference presentations. She invited Todd Slingsby to participate in a session with Bay Area SoL members in November 2007 as a way to experience how the Intentional Inquiry process could support his efforts to introduce Employee Engagement as a culture shift in Clorox.

Nancy will facilitate Intentional Inquiry: Collaborative Learning to Enhance Organizational Performance (TP1) with Todd Slingsby.

Karen Stratvert
Karen Stratvert has been an independent graphic recorder since 1990. She has worked with businesses, government agencies, nonprofits, and educational groups in meetings around the world.

Karen’s work focuses on enriching the experience of meeting participants and providing a tool for productive, effective meetings. She listens intensely to each speaker, extracts the essence of the verbal contribution, and then displays key ideas on large mural paper using words and pictures. The murals form a visual memory of the meeting which participants can use both during and after the meeting (via digital photographs). Large charts can enable participants to work in a collaborative manner, see connections and themes, and wrap their arms around complex issues. The displayed wisdom of the group can spark new ideas, insights, and thoughts. The creativity and color of large murals transforms a meeting room (a parallel might be to think about how advertising uses color, design, and layout to communicate rather than a list of black and white text points).

Karen has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of New Mexico and an M.B.A. from San Francisco State University. Before becoming a graphic recorder, Karen worked in finance and high tech. She lives in Napa, California.

Karen will facilitate Putting it All Together: Integrating our Learning as Practice (FA1) with Linda O'Toole and Jon Vogen.

David Peter Stroh
David Stroh developed a systems thinking approach to organizational assessment that enables managers to increase motivation, collaboration, and focus for change. His combined experience in change management and systems thinking also led him to develop a capacity building program in Leading Systemic Change that has been used by diverse organizations including the Amalgamated Bank of South Africa, Coca Cola, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. He has enabled organizations such as Johnson & Johnson, Woolworths UK, and the Home for Little Wanderers to hone their business strategies using systems thinking. David is well known throughout the organization development profession as a speaker and author. He has published over 20 articles which have appeared in the books Transforming Work and Organizational Learning for All Seasons as well as numerous journals. He is an initial member of the Society for Organizational Learning and a director of the Global Action Network Net. David is also a Principal in Bridgeway Partners.

David will facilitate Leading Systemic Change (RF3) with Michael Goodman.

Jon Vogen
Jon Vogen is a consultant focusing on learning, leadership, valuing differences and organization design. He brings a combination of work experiences that include a 22 year career with Intel Corporation where he held roles in manufacturing, facilities operations and human resources/organizational development. He is a collaborator on the work of Vital differences which focuses on internal functioning of individuals and how their unique gifts can be brought forth more fully in work and personal relationships, communication and learning. Jon has an MSOD degree from Pepperdine University. He resides in Phoenix, Arizona. Jon is a consultant member of SoL.

Jon will facilitate Vital Differences: An Approach for Exploring and Using Individual Differences (TA2, WA1), Vital Differences: Building Collaborative Partnerships (WP1), and Putting it All Together: Integrating our Learning as Practice (FA1) with Linda O'Toole and Karen Stratvert.

Nick Zeniuk
Nick Zeniuk is an internationally recognized consultant and lecturer on organizational performance and learning. He focuses on strategy, leadership and organizational development. As a founding member of SoL, Nick collaborated with the late W. Edwards Deming and Peter Senge in building the 1995-1998 Lincoln Continental, which set company performance records in multiple measures of quality, timing, and cost savings.

As a senior executive of Ford Motor Company, Nick Zenuik directed up to $5 billion of luxury car business and investment worldwide. His work was the subject of an MIT case study and subsequent book, Car Launch: The Human Side of Managing Change. Known for his “results oriented” approach, Nick’s story has been featured in Fortune, Personnel Journal, Automobile and on PBS Television and National Public Radio. In addition, Nick’s role in creating high performing teams through organizational learning was depicted in Working With Emotional Intelligence.

Nick is also the co-author of Project Based Learning and contributor to The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook and The Dance of Change. He has written numerous articles appearing in Managing the Rapids, The Systems Thinker, Reflections, and Ford’s Engineering World.

Nick will facilitate Reflections on Social Systems: Illuminating the Path of Well Being (RF2) with Anne Murray Allen and Dennis Sandow.