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| Virtual Organizational Development 2004 |
| Best Practices in OD that overcome time and space! |
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| Presenters |
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| World-class presenters will share their perspectives on key trends and developments
in technology and web strategies for nonprofits and non-governmental organizations. |
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| Presenters include: |
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Cindi Bergen
WW Customer Service Competency, Hewlett-Packard
Cindi Bergen is a learning program manager with Hewlett Packard, focused on customer service skills training development. She utilizes many training and performance analysis tools and processes in her work. Cindi is completing her master’s in instructional and performance technology at Boise State University. Appreciating what is and dreaming what can be has been a focus of her life and work for more than 20 years |
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David Cooperrider
Case Western Reserve University
David L. Cooperrider is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. Professor Cooperrider is past President of the National Academy of Management's OD Division and has lectured and taught at Stanford, University of Chicago, Katholieke University in Belgium, MIT, University of Michigan, Cambridge and others.
David has served as researcher and advisor to a wide variety of organizations including, for example, Yellow Roadway Corp., Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, McCann-Erickson, Nutrimental Foods, World Vision, Cleveland Clinic, American Red Cross, and United Way of America. Most of the projects are inspired by the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) methodology for which Professor Cooperrider is best known. His founding work in this area is creating a positive revolution in the leadership of change; it is helping companies all over the world discover the power of the strength-based approaches to planning and multi-stakeholder cooperation. Admiral Clark, the CNO of the Navy, for example recently met with David to bring AI into the Navy for a multiyear project on Bold and Enlightened Naval Leadership. And in June 2004 Cooperrider was asked by the United Nations Global Compact to design and facilitate a historic, unprecedented Summit meeting between Kofi Annan and 500 business leaders to unite the strengths of markets with the authority of universal ideals to make globalization work for everyone. Cooperrider's work is especially important because of its ability to enable positive change in systems of very large and complex scale.
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Rachael Hunt
Global Learning Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard
Rachael Hunt is a learning program manager with Hewlett-Packard. Her work focuses on implementing creative learning solutions. She is completing her master’s thesis on the use of AI in virtual work environments to discover how to support and enhance informal learning. Rachael co-hosts a virtual AI community of practice with Cindi. Her passion lies in looking beyond the possible, imagining the potential, and collaborating for future success.
She calls herself an Education Strategy Transformationalist.
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Fernanda iBarra
Internet-Mediated Communities,
Freelance Consultant
Fernanda is a consultant with a wide expertise in Computer-mediated-communication strategies and technologies, web publishing systems, Internet-mediated communities and online learning ecosystems (instructional design, interfaces, technologies).
She has served as a consultant for large corporations, major universities and institutions as well as government institutions and NGO`s in Mexico and Europe. Her most recent projects are growing a network of more than 2000 individuals interested in three dimensions of innovation organizations technologies and learning and the design and implemention of a Social Learning System for a Federation of 61 universities which together serve a community of 19,000 associates all over the mexican republic.
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Marie Jasinski
Director, Design Planet
Marie Jasinski, a Psychologist, is part of an emerging international network of educators, researchers and performance improvement technologists.
Marie is recognized across the Australian vocational education and training sector for her creativity, innovation and leadership in the field of flexible learning and new learning technologies. Since 1992, she has been a key player in a number of Australian National Training Authority elearning projects and has experience at strategic and operational levels in change management, professional development, resource development, program delivery and evaluation.
Her particular interests are the creative use of simple technologies, open source tools, reusable designs and all things related to chaos and complexity.
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Soren Kaplan
Co-Founder, iCohere
Soren Kaplan is a co-founder of iCohere, a software and consulting firm that builds collaborative online communities. He also designs, organizes and hosts iCohere‘s conference series that includes the Collaborative Learning, Collaborative Communities, and Collaborative Leadership conferences.
As a speaker and authority on collaboration, web communities and online learning, Soren has presented at conferences, institutes and universities including the Organization Development National Conference, the American Society of Training and Development, the e-Learning Forum, the Creative Education Foundation, Alliant University, and the Harvard Business School. Quotes and articles from Soren have appeared in numerous publications including Fast Company, Collaborate, ASTD‘s Learning Circuits, Strategy & Leadership, the Journal of Creativity and Innovation Management, and the Journal of Strategic Change. Prior to founding iCohere, Soren held numerous positions at Hewlett-Packard Company including Manager of Business Strategy Services where he led an internal consulting group that assisted management teams across the company with strategic planning and organizational development. Before joining HP, Soren was a consultant with Cambridge, MA based IdeaScope Associates and consulted to global 500 companies, including Kodak, Siemens, Nestle, Avery Dennison, and 3M. Soren holds Master‘s and Ph.D. degrees in Organizational Psychology. |
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Angelo John Lewis
The Game of Games
Angelo John Lewis is a coach, consultant and organization development practitioner whose work emphasizes challenge, creativity and discovery. As a coach, he works primarily with leaders, entrepreneurs, and values-oriented individuals. As a consultant, he specializes in creative meeting and retreat management, group problem solving, and team and community building. Angelo is the co-designer of the Game of Games ( www.game-of-games.com); the creator of the Dialogue Tell-Story Method, and a widely published writer. He is the author of the forthcoming books, Notes for a New Age and Thirty Poems in Thirty Days, both scheduled for publication in early 2005. His clients have included Verizon, The Rockefeller Foundation, ACNielsen, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Princeton University. He lives in Lambertville, NJ and on the web at www.angelojohnlewis.com. |
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Frances Long
Virtual Team Leader, knowplace.ca
Frances Long has worked online since 1995 when she first helped set up the online community workinfonet.bc.ca. This vibrant career and labour market information community is still going strong!
Frances has guided others to work online since 1998. She works virtually in the online learning community: knowplace.ca. She works behind the scenes with the virtual knowplace team, knowplace partners, friends and colleagues, and with the knowmates (students) who are taking one of eight online certificate programs offered through the private/public partnership with Capilano College in North Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Using leading edge open source programs, and freeware tools, Frances rarely sees the faces of the people who live and work in knowplace. She rarely hears their voices.
Frances has worked as a continuing education administrator in rural colleges and school districts in BC, Canada, and has in-depth, long-term understanding of the barriers and opportunities that are encountered daily, when working at a distance.
She presents regularly (online and in-person) at international, national and provincial conferences, about working effectively with others online. She has her MA in Higher Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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Claire Sookman
Principal/Consultant, Virtual Team Builders
As the driving force behind the training/consulting firm Virtual Team Builders, Claire Sookman brings to the table over a decade’s worth of corporate training experience. Specializing in virtual team building and communication strategies, Claire’s unique, targeted approach has helped her clients increase productivity and efficiency of project teams.
Claire’s polished communication and training skills were honed though both practical and educational channels. Formal education includes certification in numerous areas. These include Project Management people skills courses through the U.S.-based firm of Provant-Project Management and Langevin Learning Services (Master Trainer). Claire’s technical expertise in training is complimented by a long-standing association with Toastmasters International and the Canadian Association for Professional Speakers.
Actively involved in community and charitable organizations and events, Claire has donated her time to support activities on behalf of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the Children’s Wish Foundation. She also derives great personal satisfaction mentoring those seeking to enhance their communication abilities. When not traveling for business or pleasure, Claire enjoys equestrian pursuits and other physical activities. |
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| "I was surprised at how much enthusiasm
was generated by the participants in this on-line format, and impressed at both
the tools and techniques used to bring us into a community quickly and easily." |
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Barbara Densmore,
President, Working Smarter SP Ltd. |
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| "The iCohere Collaborative Learning conference
changed the way I think about conferences. It was easy, engaging and best of all,
collaborative!" |
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Greg Davis,
Director, eEngagement
American Express |
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