Facilitators

Sara Schley

is a founding and senior partner at Seed Systems, a company dedicated to promoting sustainable development in business. Seed employs a cutting edge approach that views sustainability strategies and practices as key to competitive advantage for business. With partners Joe Laur and Peter Senge, Ms. Schley founded and leads the Sustainability Consortium at the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL). This is a group of industry leaders from BP, Shell, Nike, Ford, Worldbank and others who are actively engaged in projects and research in organizational learning and systems thinking for sustainable business. Ms. Schley is an elected member of the Council of Trustees for SoL. She has led numerous organizational learning and change initiatives at such companies as Nike, EDS, Shell and Philips Electronics Together with Mr. Laur she is co-author of "The Sustainability Challenge," published in The Systems Thinker and "Creating Sustainable Organizations." published in Pegasus Communications Innovations in Management Series. Ms. Schley has an MBA from the University of Massachusetts and a BA from Brown University. She lives with her husband and family in Western Massachusetts

Robert Hanig

is a vice president for DIA logos, Inc. as well as maintaining a private consulting practice. He was formerly a vice president with Innovation Associates, Inc. and Arthur D. Little, and the director of the Leadership Practice. At ADL, Robert directed both the companies' public training offerings and in-house programs for clients focused on large system change. His client list includes Motorola, British Petroleum, Intel, Nike, AT&T, UNOCAL, Shell Oil, and the World Bank. He also works extensively with Peter Senge and is a member of the governing council of the Society for Organizational Learning. Prior to joining Innovation Associates, Mr. Hanig was president of D.M.A., Inc., an international training company, working at the leading edge of human creativity and personal effectiveness. He has also held senior management positions in areas of information management and manufacturing managementat companies including Apollo Computer, High Voltage Engineering and Erewhon Foods.

Mr. Hanig designed and led a multi-year intervention using the tools and methodologies of organizational learning to transform a mix of refineries into a world class manufacturing system for a global oil company. Through the design and delivery of educational sessions, individual coaching, and side-by-side consulting with the refineries managing directors, Mr. Hanig helped the company move from a hierarchy to a team-based structure, produce better business results, and develop the capacity to accelerate learning into the future. After only a short period of time, the successful transfer of learning organization tools and know-how is already evident at both the corporate and refinery level.

Mr. Hanig attended the City University of New York. He has written various articles as well as contributed to books such as The Dance of Change co-authored by Peter Senge. He has lectured throughout North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia on leadership, applied creativity, communication, and personal and organizational effectiveness.