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Harlene Anderson,
Ph.D., is founding member of the Houston Galveston
Institute, the Taos Institute, and Access Success.
She is recognized internationally as being at
the leading edge of postmodern collaborative practices
as a thinker, consultant, coach, and educator.
She takes her tools -- her insights, her curiosity,
her engaging conversational style, her leadership
skills and her keen interest -- to help professionals
turn theory into new and often surprising possibilities
for their clients, students, and organizations.
She embodies her own belief in learning as a lifelong
process -- inviting, encouraging and challenging
people to be inquisitive, creative, authentic,
and open to the ever-present possibilities for
newness in others -- and in themselves.
Harlene has authored and co-authored
numerous professional writings including her book
Conversation, Language, and Possibilities --
A Postmodern Approach to Therapy. She is a
member of the editorial review boards of several
journals, has presented at numerous national and
international conferences and has consulted with
a variety of organizations.
Among her many awards are the prestigious
2000 Outstanding Contributions to Marriage
and Family Therapy Award from the American
Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and
the 1998 Lifetime Achievement Award from
the Texas Association for Marriage and Family
Therapy.
Address: Houston Galveston Institute,
3316 Mount Vernon, Houston TX 77006, (713) 526-8390;
and Collaborative Consultations, office (713)
522- 7112, fax (713) 528-2618, home/personal (713)
522-7971; email: harleneanderson@earthlink.net;
webpage: www.harlene.org
and www.talkhgi.com
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David Cooperrider,
Ph.D., a founder and board member of the Taos
Institute, and is a Professor and Chairman of
the Department of Organizational Behavior at the
Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western
Reserve University in Cleveland.
Dr. Cooperrider is widely recognized as the
"thought leader" of Appreciative
Inquiry, a body of work that focuses on developing
an organization's positive core to inspire
collaborative action that serves the whole system.
AI is today's most recognized name describing the
powerful new paradigm for strength-based
organizational transformation and has been
recognized as the most innovative approach in
organizational development in the last decade.
University of Michigan Professor Robert Quinn , in
his acclaimed book Change the World writes:
" Appreciative Inquiry is currently
revolutionizing the field of organizational
development."
Dr. Cooperrider was named a "Top Ten
Visionary" by Training Magazine in
2000 and is the 2004 recipient of ASTD's
Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning
and Performance award. He has written over 50
articles and eight books in the areas of leading
change. His exciting work has been cited in Fast
Company , Forbes , Fortune ,
The New York Times and many other
publications. He has lectured and taught at
Stanford University , MIT, University of Chicago ,
Pepperdine University , Cambridge , and others.
Among his highest honors, His Holiness the Dalai
Lama invited David to design a series of dialogues
among 25 of the world's top religious leaders.
Additionally, in 2004, the United Nations sought
out Professor Cooperrider's expertise to
facilitate a meeting of 500 invited world leaders,
company CEOs, heads of international labor and
civil society organizations for the Global Compact
Leaders Summit to promote U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi Annan's vision of responsible global
corporate citizenship.
Dr. Cooperrider serves as adviser to many
organizations including Yellow Roadway
Corporation, the U.S. Navy, the EPA's Office of
Research and Development, Parker-Hannifin, Green
Mountain Coffee, and the American Red Cross.
Dr. Cooperrider has published seven books and
authored over 40 articles and book chapters.
Cooperrider's most recent volumes include Collaborating
for Change : Appreciative Inquiry (coauthored
with Diana Whitney, Berrett-Kohler 1999); No
Limits to Cooperation: The Organization Dimensions
of Global Change (coauthored with Jane
Dutton, Sage Publications 1999); Organizational
Wisdom and Executive Courage (coauthored with
Suresh Srivastva, Lexington Books 1998); and Appreciative
Leadership and Management (coauthored with
Suresh Srivastva, Williams Custom Publishing 1999
); Global and International Organizational
Development (coauthored with Peter Sorenson,
Stipes Pub Llc. 2004 ). David has been named
editor of a new Sage Publication Book Series on
the Human Dimensions of Global Change and
an academic book series Advances in
Appreciative Inquiry (with Michel Avital)
published by Elsevier Science.
David lives in Chagrin Falls , Ohio with his
wife Nancy, an artist. His daughter Hannah is in
school at Miami University of Ohio and son Matt is
in school at Case Western Reserve University and
his oldest son Daniel is a graduate from the
University of Chicago.
Address: Weatherhead School of Management,
Case Western
Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave., Cleveland,
Ohio, 44206-7235, office (216) 368-2121, fax (216)
368-4785, (216) 368-2005,
home office: (440) 338-1546. Email: david.cooperrider@case.edu;
webpage: http://weatherhead.cwru.edu/wsom/profiles/cooperriderd.html
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Cottor, M.D. has recently closed
his clinical and forensic practice after more
than 40 years of professional work in Minnesota,
California and Arizona. He is continuing education
and coaching with groups, businesses and organizations
seeking creative and effective change. Bob also
has become involved in the newly emerging field
of pediatric palliative care and respite care
for the families who are caring for children with
life limiting conditions. He has partnered with
his wife, Sharon Cottor, L.C.S.W., in his professional
practice since they moved to Arizona in 1971.
Bob and Sharon founded the Institute for Creative
Change in Phoenix in 1980 to provide a forum for
practicing professionals to explore and create
effective change practices in their work with
individuals, couples, families and organizations.
Over the past 30 years, Bob has taught and trained
a large number of mental health professionals
as well as professionals from other disciplines
in a constructionist, collaborative, appreciative
and relational-based approach to creative change.
He received a special citation for Outstanding
Contributions to the Field from the Arizona Association
of Marriage and Family Therapy in 1992.
Bob received his medical education
and trained as a child and adolescent psychiatrist
at the University of Minnesota. At the completion
of his child psychiatric training, he specialized
in community and family psychiatry. He later developed
specialties in forensic psychiatry with divorcing
families and their custody conflicts as well as
consultation with family businesses regarding
their relationship and succession issues. Bob's
current professional emphases are on positive
living, positive aging, relationship enrichment
and, overall, creating effective change. Bob and
Sharon co-authored a chapter, Relational Inquiry
and Relational Responsibility: The Practice of
Change, in the book Relational Responsibility:
Resources for Sustainable Dialogue, edited by
Sheila McNamee and Ken Gergen and published by
Sage in 1998. Bob also co-authored Experiential
Learning Exercises in Social Construction: A Field
Book for Creating Change, published by Taos Institute
publishing in 2003.
Bob serves on the Board of
Advisors to the Spirit of Enterprise Center at
the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona
State University. He also serves on the Medical
Advisory Council and the Program Services Committee
of Ryan House, a nonprofit organization in Phoenix
that will be offering an innovative program of
pediatric palliative care, end-of-life care and
respite care in a home-like facility for families
with children with life limiting conditions.
Address: Cottor Associates,
Ltd., 15029 North Thompson Peak Parkway, Suite
B111-625, Scottsdale, AZ 85260-2223. Office phone:
480-365-6071. Home phone: 480-513-7748
email: rscottor@cox.net,
webpage: http://www.cottorassociates.com
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Kenneth J. Gergen,
PhD, is a founding member and Board President
of the Taos Institute, and the Mustin Professor
of Psychology at Swarthmore College. Gergen also
serves as an Affiliate Professor at Tilburg University
in the Netherlands, and an Honorary Professor
at the University of Buenos Aires. Gergen received
his BA from Yale University and his PhD from Duke
University, and has taught at Harvard University
and Heidelberg University. He has been the recipient
of two Fulbright research fellowships, the Geraldine
Mao fellowship in Hong Kong, along with Fellowships
from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Japanese Society
for the Promotion of Science, and the Alexander
Humboldt Stiftung. Gergen has also been the recipient
of research grants from the National Science Foundation,
the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Barra
Foundation. He has received honorary degrees from
Tilburg University and Saybrook Institute, and
is a member of the World Academy of Art and Science.
Gergen is a major figure in the
development of social constructionist theory and
its applications to practices of social change.
He also lectures widely on contemporary issues
in cultural life, including the self, technology,
postmodernism, the civil society, organizational
change, developments in psychotherapy, educational
practices, aging, and political conflict. Gergen
has published over 300 articles in journals, magazines
and books, and his major books include Toward
Transformation in Social Knowledge, The Saturated
Self, Realities and Relationships, and
An Invitation to Social Construction. With
Mary Gergen, he publishes an electronic newsletter,
Positive Aging (www.positiveaging.net)
now distributed to 20,000 recipients.
Gergen has served as the President
of two divisions of the American Psychological
Association, the Division on Theoretical and Philosophical
Psychology, and on Psychology and the Arts. He
has served on the editorial board of 35 journals,
and as the Associate Editor of The American
Psychologist and Theory and Psychology.
He has also served as a consultant to Sandoz Pharmaceutical
Company, Arthur D. Little, Inc, the National Academy
of Science, Trans-World Airlines, Bio-Dynamics,
and Knight, Gladieux & Smith, Inc.
Address: Dept. of Psychology, Swarthmore College,
500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081, office
(610) 328-8434, fax (610) 892- 9825; email: kgergen1@swarthmore.edu;
website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/kgergen1
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Mary M. Gergen,
Ph.D., is a founder and Board member of the Taos
Institute and a professor of psychology affiliated
with the Women's Studies Program at Pennsylvania
State University, the Delaware County Campus,
Media, PA. She has positioned herself at the intellectual
convergence of feminist theory and postmodernist
thought, as a social constructionist. (Occasionally
she gets run down, but the locale is intriguing
all the same.) She has been involved in a great
variety of the Taos projects, including conferences,
organizational consulting and educational spheres.
Her recent publications include: Toward a New
Psychology of Gender, edited with Sara N.
Davis, Feminist Reconstructions in Psychology,
Narrative, Gender & Performance (Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage 2001) and Social Constructionism:
A Reader (London: Sage, 2003) (Edited with
K. J. Gergen). Among her earlier publications
is Feminist Thought and the Structure of Knowledge.
Address: Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania
State University, Delaware County Campus, 25 Yearsley
Mill Road, Media, PA 19063, office phone (610)
892-1431; email: GV4@psu.edu;
website: http://mary.gergen.socialpsychology.org/
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Sheila McNamee,
Ph.D., is Professor of Communication at the University
of New Hampshire. She is a founder and Board
Member of the Taos Institute. She is the 2001
recipient of the Class of 1944 Professorship and
the 2007/2008 recipient of the Lindberg Award for
outstanding Scholar/Teacher (both at the
University
of
New Hampshire
). Her
work is focused on dialogic transformation within
a variety of social and institutional contexts
including psychotherapy, organizations, education,
health care, and communities. She is author of Relational
Responsibility: Resources for Sustainable
Dialogue, with Kenneth Gergen (Sage, 1999).
Other books include, Therapy as Social
Construction, with Kenneth Gergen (Sage,
1992), Philosophy in Therapy: The Social
Poetics of Therapeutic Conversation, with
Klaus Deissler (Carl Auer Systeme Verlag, 2000), The
Appreciative Organization, with her
co-founders of the Taos Institute (Taos Institute,
2001) and The Social Construction of
Organization with Dian Marie Hosking (Liber
and Copenhagen Business School Press, 2006).
Professor McNamee has also authored numerous
articles and chapters on social constructionist
theory and practice. She actively engages
constructionist practices in a variety of contexts
to bring communities of participants with
diametrically opposing viewpoints together to
create livable futures. Professor McNamee lectures
and consults regularly, both nationally and
internationally, for universities, private
institutes, organizations, and communities.
Address: Department of Communication,
University of New Hampshire, 20 College Road.,
Durham, NH 03824, office (603) 862-3040, fax (603)
862-1913 home (603) 659-6145, email: sheila.mcnamee@unh.edu;
website: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~smcnamee/
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Sally
St. George, Ph.D.
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4
Phone: 403.450.3666 (home)
Email: calgary_home@shaw.ca
(home)
Sally St. George, PhD, is an Associate Professor
in the Faculty of Social Work at the University
of Calgary. Sally teaches marriage and family
therapy and social work courses and supervises
students who are in a field practicum. She is
also a therapist and supervisor with the Calgary
Family Therapy Centre at the University of Calgary.
Sally is extremely dedicated to studying and improving
teaching methods in higher education. In addition
to teaching, she is interested in examining people's
difficulties through the lenses of grand social
narratives. She is also a Co-Editor of The Qualitative
Report, http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/index.html,
a free online journal dedicated to publishing
creative and well-done qualitative research from
all disciplines across the world. In this position,
Sally reviews and edits manuscript submissions
by joining with reviewers and authors in creating
a positive and generative learning community.
Sally is interested in researching alternative
ways to fund "family work as community work,"
that is, accountable practices without the constraints
of an external funder. This dovetails with her
service on the Advisory Board for the Global Partnership
for Transformative Social Work in which Sally
joins other colleagues in educating, researching,
and practicing for greater social justice locally
and globally.
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Jane Magruder Watkins, MSOD
Appreciative Inquiry Unlimited
233A Woodmere Drive
Williamsburg, VA 23185
Phone: 757-259-9942, Cell: 757-897-0404, Fax:
757-259-9943
email: jane@appreciativeinquiryunlimited.com
website: http://www.appreciativeinquiryunlimited.com
Jane Magruder Watkins has worked in the field
of Organization Development for 40 years. She
has worked in and consulted to organizations in
the business, government and not-for-profit sectors.
Her work in over 50 countries has grounded her
work in a global consciousness that values the
diversity and possibility. Since the mid-1980's,
she has worked with David Cooperrider to develop
and spread Appreciative Inquiry (AI) around the
globe. As an early innovator in the use of Appreciative
Inquiry, she has experimented with its application
in all aspects of organizational life in multiple
settings and cultures, as well as in personal
growth and human development. She is especially
intrigued with the emerging global environment
that is calling for new and innovative processes
and approaches to change. She sees Appreciative
Inquiry as a bridge that enables organizations,
communities, individuals and couples to embrace
the emerging paradigm, recreating themselves and
their realities by imagining and living into their
own unique visions of the future.
Jane has held director level positions in two
International Development Agencies, served on
the director's staff of the Action Agency, and
has owned her own business.
Jane served as Chair of the Board of the NTL
Institute for Applied Behavioral and is an Emeritus
member of NTL. She has established an Appreciative
Inquiry Certificate Program with a partnership
between NTL and the Weatherhead School at Case
Western Reserve University. She is a Founding
Partner of AI Consulting and a principal in the
firm of Appreciative Inquiry Unlimited.
She teaches Appreciative Inquiry in Pepperdine
University's MSOD and EdD programs and with the
OSR Masteršs program at the University of Seattle.
She also teaches AI through NTL, the Taos Institute,
and in client organizations. She has published
several articles about AI and is co-author with
Bernard Mohr of the best-selling AI book: "Appreciative
Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination."
Jane has an MA in English Literature; an MS in
Organizational Development and 2 years of post
graduate research and study at Cambridge University,
UK.
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Dan
Wulff , Ph.D.
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4
Phone: 403.450.3666 (home)
Email: calgary_home@shaw.ca
(home)
Dan Wulff, PhD, is an Associate Professor in
the Faculty of Social Work and family therapist/supervisor
in the Calgary Family Therapy Centre at the University
of Calgary. He works to integrate the professions
the family therapy and social work in his classes,
in publications/presentations, in program development,
and in practice. Dan also serves on the Advisory
Board for the Global Partnership for Transformative
Social Work, an international organization focused
on education, research, and practices that support
social justice locally and globally. Dan has a
passion for qualitative inquiry, particularly
the more participatory forms. He is Co-Editor
of The Qualitative Report (http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/index.html),
an open-access online journal dedicated to publishing
creative and well-done qualitative research in
all disciplines worldwide. In practice, research,
and teaching endeavors, Dan enjoys the improvisational,
the artistic, and the relational.
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Suresh Srivastva,
Ph.D., is Professor of Organizational Behavior
at Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio. Dr. Srivastva
is a founder of the Taos Institute and current
member of the Board of Advisors.
His research and teaching interests include:
Management of work, Management of power, Organizational
analysis and development, Administrative strategy
and planning, Appreciative inquiry, Foundations
of organizational thought, Organizational analysis,
Group theory and group work.
His publications include:
- Appreciative Management & Leadership:
The Power of Positive Thought and Action in
Organizations, Revised Edition (with D.
Cooperrider & Associates), Euclid, Ohio:
Williams Custom Publishing, 1999
- Organizational Wisdom & Executive
Courage (with D. Cooperrider), San Francisco,
CA: New Lexington Press, 1998
- Organizational Hope: Reaffirming the Constructive
Task of Social and Organizational Inquiry (with
J. Ludema and T. Wilmot), Human Relations, 50(8),
1997
- Executive & Organizational Continuity:
Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future (with
R. Fry & Associates), San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,
1992
Address:
Case Western Reserve University
Weatherhead School of Management
10900 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44206-7235
Phone: 216/368-2055
Email: Suresh.Srivastva@case.edu
Webpage: http://weatherhead.cwru.edu/wsom/profiles/srivastvas.html
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Diana Whitney, Ph.D.
is Founder and President of Corporation for Positive
Change and a Founder and Board Member Emeritus
of the Taos Institute.
She is an internationally recognized consultant,
speaker, and thought leader on the subjects of
Appreciative Inquiry, positive change, and spirituality
at work.
She is the author or editor of five books and
dozens of articles, and chapters including Appreciative
Inquiry Handbook (with David Cooperrider and
Jackie Stavros), The Appreciative Inquiry Summit
(with James Ludema, Bernard Mohr and Thomas
Griffin) and The Power of Appreciative Inquiry
(with Amanda Trosten-Bloom). In addition,
she has edited three collections on Appreciative
Inquiry including: Appreciative Inquiry and
Organization Transformation, and Appreciative
Inquiry: Rethinking Human Organization Toward
a Positive Theory of Change.
Diana teaches and consults in the Americas, Europe,
and Asia. She has lectured and taught at Antioch
University, Case Western Reserve University, Ashridge
Management Institute in London, Saybrook University,
Eisher Institute in India and others. The focus
of Diana's consulting is strategic planning, mergers,
large-scale transformation, and service excellence.
Her clients include British Airways, Hunter Douglas,
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Accenture, GTE-Verizon,
GE Capitol, Johnson & Johnson, Sandia National
Labs, NY Power Authority, PECO, Veterans Affairs,
and the Department of Labor. Her work with GTE
led to the 1997 Best Organization Change Award
by ASTD. Diana serves as a consultant to the
United Religions Initiative, a global interfaith
organization dedicated to peace and cooperation
among people of different religions, faiths, and
spiritual traditions. She lives in Taos, New Mexico.
Address: President, Corporation for Positive
Change, 1010 Camino del Monte, P.O. Box 3257,
Taos, NM 87571, Phone: 505-751-1232, email: positivechange1@aol.com
or diana@positivechange.org.
Website: http://www.corporationforpositivechange.com
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Board of Advisors
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Dian Marie Hosking,
Ph.D. is devoted to social constructionism and
related methodologies of inquiry and transformation.
She is Professor of Organisational Psychology
- with special reference to organisational development
and change - in the Organisation Studies Department
at the University of Tilburg in The Netherlands.
Dian Marie is on the advisory board of the Taos
Institute, a member of Cintress (Center for Research
in Organisational Intervention and Change), and
a member of the Odyssey Group. With the Taos Institute,
and her Tilburg University colleague Prof. John
Rijsman, she supervises practitioners who wish
to make a Ph.D. out of their reflections on their
practice. Through Cintress (with Prof. Dr. Arie
de Ruiter, Prof. Dr. Jac Guerts, and members of
Research Based Consulting) she also provides possibilities
for practitioners to do a Ph.D. on their work.
The Odyssey group is a nomadic network that helps
to amplify voices through the construction of
websites, along with exploring and publishing
work on new information and communication technologies.
She
is especially interested in critical relational
constructionisms and in related approaches to
inquiry, development, and changework. Visit her
website at relational-constructionism.org
to go through a doorway to take a "Relational
tour" which introduces you to relational constructionism
and to some other relevant websites which you
might like to wander around. Another route will
take you to places where you can read all about
discursive, narrative, and postmodern approaches
to e.g. (community) development, change and therapies.
Finally she provides some pages about subjects
such as: Appreciative Inquiry, Large Group Interventions,
and Etnhography.
Address:
Tilburg University
Warandelaan 2
PO Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
Email: D.M.Hosking@kub.nl
Telephone: (013) 466 3326
relational-constructionism.org
Additional E-mail: d.m.hosking@uvt.nl
Tilburg University
site: www.tilburguniversity.nl
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Jim Ludema,
Ph.D, is Associate Professor of Organization Development
at Benedictine University, an internationally
recognized organizational consultant, and a Founding
Owner of Appreciative Inquiry Consulting, a global
firm that includes several of the world's leading
thinkers and practitioners on appreciative inquiry.
Jim has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, Europe,
Latin America, and North America and has served
as consultant to a variety of organizations in
the profit, non-profit, and government sectors
including BP, McDonald's, John Deere, Ameritech,
Northern Telecom, Square D Company, Essef Corporation,
Bell and Howell, Kaiser Permanente, World Vision,
the City of Minneapolis, and many local and international
NGOs. Jim's areas of expertise include appreciative
inquiry, organizational redesign and whole system
change, large group interventions, the people
side of mergers and acquisitions, human motivation,
and organizational storytelling.
Address:
Benedictine
University, Benedictine Hall 362
5700
College Road
Lisle, IL 60532
Phone: 630-829-6000 ext. 6229, fax: 630-829-6211
email: jludema@ben.edu
webpage: http://www.ben.edu/faculty/jludema/
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Michael D. Martin,
Esq.
The Martin Law Firm, LLP
2203 Timberloch, Suite 100
The Woodlands, TX 77380
Phone: 281-419-6200, Fax: 281-419-0250
Cell: 832-465-2241, VM
1 (888) 613 1497
Email: mdmartin218-c@sbcglobal.net,
Website: www.themartinlawfirm.com
Michael
is a licensed Texas attorney engaged in the general
practice of law and is Board Certified in Estate
Planning and Probate by the Texas Board of
Legal Specialization.
He earned his Bachelor of Journalism in
1973 from the University of Texas at Austin, and
his J.D. in 1979 from South Texas College of Law.
He continued post-graduate studies in Estate Planning
at The American University in Bryn Mawhr, PA.
He received clinical training in Marriage
and Family Systems Therapy, as well as Organizational
Dynamics and Consulting, at the Houston-Galveston
Institute. He is a member of the
State Bar of Texas, the Montgomery County and
The Woodlands Bar Associations and the American
Bar Association.
Mr.
Martin counsels families, individuals, corporate
executives and small business owners on tax,
trust, estate and financial planning issues as
well as on probate and trust matters. Since
January of 1991, Mr. Martin has provided legal
and financial counsel to affluent families with
closely held businesses, focusing on wealth transfer
and preservation strategies, that minimize income
and transfer tax costs.
Other
services include international tax and business
planning, foreign trust planning, business asset
restructuring and business consulting.
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Bernard Mohr,
M.Ed., (Co-Founder, Innovation Partners International
and President, The Synapse Group, Inc.,) has 35
years experience as a manager and consultant with
collaborative approaches to complex organizational
change in diverse multi-stakeholder situations.
He specializes in a whole systems/socio-technical
framework for the implementation of High Performance
Work Systems, Cultural Change, Strategy Development
and Business Process Innovation. Bernard completed
his undergraduate studies in Organizational Psychology
(University of Waterloo), and his graduate work
in Adult and Organizational Learning (University
of Toronto) and Organization Design (Columbia
University). In addition to full time consulting,
Bernard serves on the Advisory Board of the Taos
Institute, and contributes as a senior faculty
member of NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral
Science as well as an adjunct faculty at Concordia
University.
Address:
211 Marginal Way - Suite 761
Portland, ME 04101
Phone: 207-874-0118
Fax: 207-874-0456
email: bjmsynapse@aol.com
or bjMohr@innovationpartners.com
webpage: http://www.innovationpartners.com
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Jane Galloway Seiling,
MOD, PhD.
Business Performance Group
1501 Riverview, Lima, Ohio 45805- 1852
419-227-7979
fax (419) 222-2002;
email: jseilingl@aol.com
website: www.membership.org
Jane is a consultant, writer and speaker. Her
main interests in her work stem from her concerns
about labor-management relationships and how these
relationship issues impact opportunities for organizations and
their members to grow and to achieve. Jane is
Founder of Business Performance Group in Lima,
Ohio and has a master's degree in organization
development. She is a graduate of The Taos Institute - Tilburg University Doctoral program in Social Sciences and Advisor of The
Taos Institute. She is the lead editor for the Taos Institute's
Focus Book Series. www.taospub.net
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Executive Director
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Dawn
Cooperrider Dole, MSOD,
M.Ed. is Executive Director of the Taos Institute.
She is also the Associate Director of the
Institute for Advances in Appreciative Inquiry at
Case Western Reserve University and Knowledge Manager of the Appreciative Inquiry
Commons website http://ai.cwru.edu.
Dawn consults with organizations,
non-profits and schools utilizing
the strength-based approach to organization development:
Appreciative Inquiry. Dawn has 20 years
experience designing and facilitating
experiential teambuilding and leadership programs.
She has held leadership positions in non-profits,
healthcare and community education. Dawn has
taught elementary school and worked with children
of all ages.
She is currently developing an
Appreciative Parenting program which utilizes AI
for parents. Her degrees include: MSOD from CWRU and a M.Ed.
from John Carroll University both in Cleveland,
Ohio.
Address:
Taos Institute Administrative Center
63 Maple Hill Drive
Chagrin Falls, OH 44022
Phone: (toll-free)1-888-999-TAOS, 1-440-338-6733
email: info@taosinstitute.net
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