Professor of Leadership and Organization Development
Beedie School of Business*
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, Canada
*A top 100 business research university

Phone: 1-778-782-4104
Email: bushe@sfu.ca
Websites:
www.gervasebushe.ca
www.clearlearning.ca
www.sfubusiness.ca

Gervase Bushe (pronounced Jervis Bush) wants to create a world in which collective intelligence is more potent than collective emotion; a world in which the diversity of experiences in any group are a source of collective good, not collective strife. His research, consulting and writing have sought to develop models and tools that help people co-construct a social reality where collective intelligence, collective creativity and collective wellbeing are common experiences. Based on a belief that business is the one institution that is able to consistently create collaborative relationships across conflicted or impenetrable boundaries, his work has focused on business organizations. If we can create highly developed business organizations, perhaps these processes will seep into the world at large.

Gervase has 30 years of experience in a wide range of organizational change and development projects. Early in his career he focused on large companies making the transition from command and control bureaucracies to team based organizations. Later he worked primarily with technology-based, high growth companies helping them retain their team cultures while becoming more structured. Most recently he's been working in the most complex and difficult to change organizations of all: healthcare and public education.

Gervase primarily consults to executives and internal change teams in two areas:
1) developing more effective executive teams and
2) designing transformational change processes. He is internationally known for his contributions to evolving the theory and practice of Appreciative Inquiry, and is currently developing the practice of Dialogic Organization Development.

Gervase's skills in leadership development are widely sought. His bestselling book, Clear Leadership, is now in its second edition. Using a social constructivist approach, it identifies what gets in the way of collaborative working relationships and the skills required to sustain them. Through his company, Clear Learning Ltd. (www.clearlearning.ca), he licenses others to deliver his highly experiential and developmental training programs that significantly improve people's ability to lead people and facilitate change. He has trained managers and consultants on four continents.

As a writer he has won numerous awards for his research, including the Douglas McGregor Memorial Award twice in both 2007 and 2009. A list of his writings is available at http://business.sfu.ca/fac_cvs/bushe.pdf and links to his articles on appreciative inquiry can be found at his website, www.gervasebushe.ca.

Gervase received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University. He was trained in laboratory education methods at the Sir George William's Centre for Human Relations and Community Studies in Montreal and is a certified T-group facilitator and OD consultant. He is a member of the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science, Director of Professional Development and a past Co-Chair of Human Systems Development Professionals (an association of expert organizational consultants in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia). He is a principle with the Big Rapids Group in the United States and an associate with numerous international consulting companies, including Provins Fem in Scandinavia, nCompassHR in Australia and New Zealand and VeMajor SC in Latin America.

Gervase Bushe's manuscripts on Appreciative Inquiry are available for downloading at http://www.gervasebushe.ca/appinq.htm