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 Malcolm
J. Odell, Jr.,
International Advisory Group Coordinator
Mac Odell has worked for over 25 years in
community mobilization, team-building, participatory
research and conflict resolution. He has
is widely known for the development of Appreciative
Action and Planning (APA), a short, simplified
AI methodology now used by over 3000 participants
from 33 countries. His APA methodology is
also being used in women's empowerment and
savings-led microenterprise programs reaching
almost over 100,000 women in 8 countries
of Asia, Africa. He has carried out over
50 policy level and grass roots development
assignments in 16 countries for Africare,
Winrock, Pact, World Bank, USAID, NORAD,
IFAD, and CARE.
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 Sue
James
Sue James works with her partner
Chris Bennett in BJ Seminars International,
as a facilitator, consultant and speaker.
Their work involves inspiring and connecting
people through Appreciative Inquiry, Tai
Chi, storytelling and humour. They call
their approach AQ-KQ - a mix of appreciative
and kinaesthetic intelligence.
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 Henrik
Kongsbak
Henrik Kongsbak is
a trained psychologist with over 10 years
of experience as an organisational development
and leadership trainingconsultant. He has
worked as a facilitator and as a coach for
leaders and executives His clients include
companies such as BRFkredit, Carlsberg,
CSC, Danske Bank, Danisco, Novo Nordisk,
NNE Pharmaplan and Windoor. Henriks work
focuses on how groups and individuals can
reach solutions faster and with more commitment
by using strengths based approaches such
as Appreciative Inquiry, Positive Organisational
Scholarship and Positive Psychology.
Henrik is a
facilitator at SIMI’s Executive MBA
and is on the International Advisory Board
at the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology.
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 Ada
Jo Mann
Ada Jo Mann,
a partner in Innovation Partners International,
has 35 years of experience collaborating
with clients on strength-based approaches
to strategic planning; organization
design; whole system change; program
development and evaluation; inter-organizational
partnerships; team building, and training.
She has advised and trained over 1500
leaders in more than 50 countriesusing
practical, strength-based and participatory
management approaches. She is a pioneer
in the field of Appreciative Inquiry
in the international development and
social change arena and is a Founder
and former Managing Co-Owner of Appreciative
Inquiry Consulting, LLC. For seven
years she was Director of The GEM
Initiative, a multi-million dollar
grant from the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID) to improve the
leadership and organizational capacity
of non-governmental organizations
across the world. Ada Jo is a co-author
of Positive Family Dynamics: Appreciative
Inquiry Questions to Bring Out the
Best in Families (Taos Institute Tempo
Series, 2008)
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 Joep
C. de Jong
Joep C. de Jong is Director of BT's
division for eLearning Solutions
and based in the Netherlands. He
is the European 'Thought Leader'
for BT’s eLearning proposition,
which investigates the (blended)
learning of people with the use
of new technologies. He is particularly
interested in the sustainable use
of AI in organisations and AI’srelevance
in every day processes (leadership,
coaching, appraisals etc.). He is
one of the founding members of AI
Consulting, and an Associate of
the TAOS Institute, New Mexico,
USA. As a consultant, he has advised
the organisations (Inveon, Keynote,
KPC and NQA).He has worked for the
Dutch Ministry of Agriculture and
was involved in training activities
with the International Agricultural
Centre (IAC) in Wageningen. Joep
was Apple Computer’s Business
Unit Manager for their Education
division.
Recently he co-authored the first
Management Handbook on AI in Dutch
(Waarderend Organiseren), which
is well received in the Dutch market.
Another recent publication is an
article ‘A New Business Model’.
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 Anastasia
Bukashe
Anastasia Bukashe (nee White) has
been an Appreciative Inquiry practitioner
since the early 1990’s. Over
the years she has used AI in a number
of different settings and countries.
Included in this is work with the
Educational, Corporate, Government,
Religious and Not for Profit Sector.
However, her specialization is using
AI in conflict settings, working with
issues such as peacebuilding, reconciliation
and healing.She obtained her doctorate
at the Weatherhead School of Management
at Case Western Reserve University
under the supervision of Dr. David
Cooperrider. Anastasia’s thesis
focus was on a social constructionist
reading of ethnic, religious and political
conflict with a view to developing
new approaches to these intergenerational
and endemic conflicts. She currently
serves as the Executive Director of
Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre, a church-based
not for profit organization located
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 Jacqueline
Wong
Jacqueline Wong is the founder and
Director of Sequoia Consulting and
co-founder of the Sustainability Institute,
Singapore. Sequoia is an Organisation
Development (OD) firm and its mission
is to help create organisations that
are truly worthy of people’s
commitment. She has designed and facilitated
many strategic planning meetings,
leadership development initiatives
and organisation development interventions
in the past 12 years as a lead consultant
and facilitator. Her clients include
Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard,
Temasek Holdings, Pacific Internet,
the National Trades Union Congress,
Singapore Armed Forces and numerous
public sector organizations in Singapore.
Jacqueline holds a Masters of Science
in Positive Organization Development
(MPOD) from Weatherhead School of
Management of the Case Western Reserve
University. She is an a certified
executive coach, AI facilitator, and
facilitator for Partnership Coaching
Inc.; adjunct coach and faculty of
the Center for Creative Leadership;
and external faculty to Sun Microsystems
in Asia Pacific. She has been involved
in several coach-development programmes
for the professional coaching community
in Singapore and also conducts in-house
coaching skills programmes in China,
Hong Kong, India, the United States,
Japan, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia,
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 Myriem
Le Ferrand
Myriem Le Ferrand, M.S., is a third
party neutral with over ten years
of experience in mediation, consensus-building,
and strategies that strengthen public
participation. Cases include regional
water planning, regional energy development,
localization, and county land use
planning. She is a roster member of
the U.S. Institute for Environmental
Conflict Resolution(ecr.gov).
She serves as the principal of CALATHUS
LLC, a public policy facilitation
firm specializing in appreciative
inquiry. She uses a range of large
and small group techniques. Her approach
builds on best practice, celebrates
success and energizes “what
does even better look like?”
She is founder and director of ECONOMICS
FOR PEACE INSTITUTE. The Institute
advances neutral, science-based, participatory
research strategies to reveal community
well-being and ecosystem stewardship.
The Institute provides Participatory
Action Research (PAR) training and
project development for Federal, state
and local planners. |
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 Belien
Philippe
Belien Philippe specializes in personal
coaching, team development and Organisational
change. He is a certified AI practitioner,
andworks across the fields of sustainable
personal development, organisational
development and society development
- Operational tasks in Project management,
Marketing & Sales and Organisational
Development (Philips Electronics)
He has
a Ph.D in Physics, a Master’s
certificate in Organisational Development
(CIGO K.U. Leuven - Belgium), and
a Certificate in AI for positive business
and society changein collaboration
with Weatherhead school of Managment,
OHIO US. |
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 Nadya
Zhexembayeva, Ph.D.
Nadya serves as an Executive MBA Director
at IEDC-Bled School of Management,
Slovenia. Nadya's research, teaching,
andconsulting centers around leadership,
organizational design, changemanagement,
whole-system approaches to managing
multi-stakeholder issues, and sustainability
as business strategy. She teaches
courses inLeadership, Organizational
Design, and Sustainability Strategy
forgraduate students and executives.
She authored a number of articles
and book chapters, and serves as aregular
columnist in business periodicals,
such as GreenBiz.com. Nadyaalso belongs
to the Positive Organizational Scholarship
movement, mostlywith her work on Appreciative
Inquiry and Sustainability. In 2007,
Dr.Zhexembayeva joined Sustainable
Value Partners, one of the oldestsustainability
and social responsibility consultancies
in the world. In2008, Nadya was elected
Vice-President of the United Nations
GlobalCompact Slovenia, an association
of businesses dedicated to sustainablevalue
creation and corporate citizenship,
and was invited to join TaosInstitute
as an Associate. Nadya earned her
doctorate degree inOrganizational
Behavior at the Weatherhead School
of Management, CaseWestern Reserve
University, USA.
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