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Aaron [email protected]
Evanston, IL, USAUnited States
Amalia [email protected]
+1 619-977-2066San Diego, CA, USA
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Antonio [email protected]
Canterbury, Kent, UK
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Bernard [email protected]
Portland, ME, USA
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Adam [email protected]
Montreal, QC, CAN
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Amy Hillyard [email protected]
Oakland, CA, USA
Armando [email protected]
Bert [email protected]
Bowen Island, BC, CAN
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Antonio [email protected]
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Bénédicte [email protected]
+1 514.341.3261Mont Royal, QC, CAN
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Betty [email protected]
Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
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Alex [email protected]
Antonio [email protected]
Benny [email protected]
Holsbeek, Vlaams- Brabant, BE
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Adam Redshaw [email protected]
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Andy [email protected]
+1 514.815.6370Montreal West, QC, CAN
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Aurelia [email protected]
Montreal, QC, CAN
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Betsy [email protected]
Oakland, Ca. USA
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Alan [email protected]
Carlye [email protected]
+1 514.807.2203Verdun, QC, CAN
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Carolyn Fairman [email protected]
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Brandy [email protected]
Montreal, QC, CAN
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Bill Pasmore
Christiane Sels [email protected]
Kessel-Lo, Belgium
Dena [email protected]
+1 514 219-6897Montreal, QC, CAN
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Puyallup, Washington, USA
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Christopher Warren Michael [email protected]
Diana [email protected]
Keene, CA, USA
Ellen [email protected] Pleasanton, CA, USABiography
Catalina [email protected]
Montreal, QC, CAN
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Dana [email protected]
Montreal, QC, CAN
Doug [email protected]
Indianapolis, IN, USA
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Chantal [email protected]
Ottawa, Ontario, CAN
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David [email protected]
Florence, MA, USA
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Doug [email protected]
Maryville, TN, USA
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Craig [email protected]
Fort Collins, CO, USA
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Don De [email protected]
+1 514.214.1692Montreal, QC, CAN
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Eric-Hans [email protected]
Zoetermeer, Zuid Holland, NL
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Ellen Scully [email protected]
Carolyn [email protected]
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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Cricelia [email protected]
Tacoma, WA, USA
Daniel [email protected]
Florence, MA, USA
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Fiona [email protected]
Larkspur, CA, USA
Fatima [email protected]
Erik [email protected]
+1 206.255.5774Tacoma, WA, USA
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Ezra [email protected]
Leuven, Vlaams Braant, BE
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Cindy Calhoun [email protected]
San Francisco, CA, USA
Héctor [email protected]
416.705.8095North York, ON, CAN
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Jacinthe [email protected]
Montréal, QC, CAN
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Jeanette [email protected]
Fremont, CA, USA
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Helen [email protected]
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CAN
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James [email protected]
St-Remi, QC, CAN
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Geert Van [email protected]
Leuven, Vlaams Braant, BE
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Indira [email protected]
Tacoma, WA, USA
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Jean [email protected]
Montreal, QC, CAN
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Hakim [email protected]
Leuven, Vlaams Braant, BE
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003.150.595.2133Groningen, Groningen, NL
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Jean [email protected]
London, UK
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Friso Van der [email protected]
TNOLeiden, ZH,NL
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3161.058.4595Amsterdam, N-Holland, NL
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Jamie [email protected]
+1 661.993.0993Tacoma, WA, USA
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J. Dewey [email protected]
PISCATAWAY, NJ,USA
Judith [email protected]
London, Middlesex, UK
Josée Blaquiè[email protected]
St-Armand, QC, CAN
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Jo Steuns [email protected]
Sittard Netherlands
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+1 404-790-1667Mableton, GA, USA
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Joe Cassa
+1 206.850.4780Spanaway, WA, USA
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Fode [email protected]
Ottawa, ON, CAN
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Heather [email protected]
Lander [email protected]
Leuven, Belgium
Mark [email protected]
31.654.638.9490Maastricht, Limburg, NL
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Kenton [email protected]
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Laura [email protected]
Herent, Vlaams Braant, BE
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Marleen Limbourg [email protected]
Ternat, Belgium
Khurshida [email protected]
Montreal, QC, CAN
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Lawrence [email protected]
Annapolis, MD, USA
Kristin [email protected]
+1 415-310-6400San Francisco, CA, USA
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Marcela [email protected]
514.677.7143North York, ON, CAN
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Kevin [email protected]
+1 541 754 4012Corvallis, OR, USA
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Lauro [email protected]
Mary [email protected]
Palo Alto, CA, USA
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Kate Nash knash1@ me.com
Luis [email protected]
Marylu [email protected]
Maria E Osorio
Neil Watson [email protected]
Michael Allison [email protected]
Emeryville, CA, USA
Michael Drennan [email protected]
Victoria, Australia
Merijn [email protected]
The HagueNetherlands
Michèle [email protected]
Montréal, QC, CAN
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Matthijs Moorkamp [email protected]
Heelsum, Netherlands
Jung Ook [email protected]
Karym Moskowitz
Pierre Van [email protected]
Leuven,Vlaams-Brabant, BE
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Rasa Juciūtė-Rotomskienė[email protected]
Vilnius, Lithuania
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Peter [email protected]
+1 75261-0245Dallas, TX, USA
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Richard Ordowich [email protected]
Peter [email protected]
Lympstone, Devon, UK
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Peter Aughton [email protected]
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+1 416 675 6622 x4521Toronto, ON, CAN
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Sabrina [email protected]
+1 250.634.4738Montreal, QC, CAN
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Rick Vanasse [email protected]
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Norma Encinas [email protected]
Spanaway, WA, USA
Pamela [email protected]
Everett, WA, USA
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Patty [email protected]
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Peter Lazes [email protected]
Nina [email protected]
Maryville, TN, USA
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Neville Ogden [email protected]
Peter Nexon
Phela [email protected]
Rebecca [email protected]
Sonja K Drown [email protected]
Seth [email protected]
Heverlee, Vlaams-Brabant, BE
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Shelly Anderson [email protected]
Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, BE
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Sonia [email protected]
Teresa Romero
Teresa Romero
Yennef Vereycken [email protected]
Leuven, Belgium
Yoram [email protected]
Givat haim Meuhad, Israel
Wim Sprenger
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Sylvie [email protected]
Belgium
Steven Alter [email protected]
Susan [email protected]
Princeton, NJ, USA
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Stu Winby
Pebble Beach, CA, USA
Steven Francy [email protected]
Tristan [email protected]
Montreal, QC, CAN
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Will [email protected]
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Adam [email protected]
I was born in Montreal, Quebec, raised in Ottawa, Ontario, one of two children in a family of four. After graduating from high school, I completed an undergraduate degree in Science at the University of Ottawa in 2008. After several years away from academia, I am currently completing an MA in Human Systems Intervention at Concordia University in Montreal. I am currently a serving member of the Canadian Military, as a member of the primary reserve, having recently completed twelve years of service.
Amalia [email protected]
Amalia Zimmerman-Lommel is the Director of Social Responsibility and Human Resources at Andrew and Williamson Sales Co. an international grower, shipper and distributor of fresh produce with corporate offices in San Diego, CA. Amalia is a graduate of San Diego State University, where she completed her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Finance emphasis) and a Master of Business Administration.Through Amalia’s leadership, Andrew & Williamson is the first company in the world to become certified under the rigorous standards of the Equitable Food Initiative (EFI) program. She is blessed to work with a magnificent group of people that take stewardship seriously, with a goal to serve the customer in a sustainable way and to positively impact the communities they do business in. As a result, Andrew & Williamson recently received the first Fair Trade Certification for strawberries in the world.Amalia resides in Chula Vista, CA with her husband Paul Lommel, Commander, United States Navy (retired) and has four children.
Andy [email protected]
Andy is a consultant in organizational development. He guides organizations towards becoming exceptionally productive work places. His approach encourages employee participation and fosters genuine commitment.As a certified life coach, his 30 years of business experience has fostered an appreciation for the key components that energize people to work at peak performance and to live meaningful lives.Andy is on the Board of the Father Dowd Foundation and the 21st Century Catholic Community Campaign. The community organizations support organizations that strive to enhance the quality of life and promote the independence and well-being of the Montreal English Catholic community’s senior citizens.
Antonio [email protected]
I am a qualified organisational consultant and experienced lecturer in organisational theory and practice in health and social care organisations. I have been working with statutory, voluntary and educational institutions, mainly in EU countries, increasing individual and organisational awareness in the relations between organisations and their environments. In order to support this main activity I have been involved in project/service designs, summative and formative evaluations, organisational change projects, design and delivery of educational events and knowledge exchange activities.
Ann Majchrzak,[email protected]
Ann Majchrzak is the Associates of USC Chair of Business Administration for the Marshall School of Business at the USC. She is a Professor of Digital Innovation in the Department of Data Sciences and Operations. She is a Senior Scholar and Fellow of the AIS, awarded for “making an outstanding contribution to the I.S. discipline in research, teaching, and service”. In 2015, she received a lifetime service award from the OCIS Division of the Academy of Mgmt. She has been a member of 3 National Research Council Committees. She is the longest running Senior Editor for Organization Science, and has held editing positions with MIS Quarterly. She publishes in top academic (Mgmt. Science, Organization Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly) as well as top practitioner journals (HBR, Sloan Mgmt Review, California Mgmt. Review). She has held concurrent appointments as a research mentor and visiting professor at Esade Business School, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona; LUISS University, Rome Department of Business and Mgmt. in the areas of Innovation and Organization; and Stevens Institute of Technology.She is also an external expert for the Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Mgmt. at the London School of Economics.
Adam Redshaw [email protected]
Adam started in January 2013 as a Documentation Specialist and is now a Senior Support Consultant working with the OTM Consultant team all across the globe. Adam plays a key role in designing tools and templates for customers to use, based on OTM’s proprietary content and methodology. He plays an important role working with the Senior Consultants and customers on their business transformation programs.
Adam’s University education was in history and he applies what he learnt from the subject, which he calls ‘the study of change over time’, to his everyday collaboration with customers and their change initiatives. The nature of OTM’s work involves a lot of travel. This allows Adam to combine work with his love of travel. When he is at home you will most likely find Adam in the kitchen cooking up a delicious meal.
Bénédicte [email protected]
Benedicte Monroe MA, M SC has been working 30 years in the vocational training area in the industry.I am very enthusiast about Collective learning and the Agility principles in organization. I am looking for all occasions to experiment with other keen practitioners.I wish to get implied in various types of working environments, enterprises, networks or social organizations in order to initiate and sustain learning and collaborative practices. I believe in the fertility of interaction and of mutual assistance in a spirit of reciprocity. Beyond strict technological or
economic progress, I believe that Reel Progress is based on developing abilities to live and thrive together, with large opening to diversity.
Benny [email protected]
Benny Corvers is owner and co-founder of Prepared Mind, a European consultancy focused on Total Workplace Innovation. He has a background in strategy, management and advisory services with enterprise services organizations. His current focus is on organization design and change management. Benny studied theoretical and computational linguistics at the K.U.Leuven and holds an MBA in international management from Vlerick Leuven Ghent Business School. He is also a certified senior advisor on STS-based organization design (Flanders Synergy and Antwerp Management School).
Bernard [email protected]
Bernard Mohr is co-founder of Innovation Partners International – a consultancy specializing in positive, high engagement innovation of business models, culture, governance and work systems in healthcare, post-secondary education, pharmaceuticals, government and other complex professional service organizations. Bernard helps clients bring multiple (and often opposing) stakeholders together in ways that create breakthrough implementations of how things get done – the who, the how, the why and where – while building capability for sustainable value creation. His work integrates Sociotechnical Systems Theory, Design Thinking, Complexity Science and Appreciative Inquiry. He believes that high performance and joy at work go hand in hand and can be intentionally designed.
Bert [email protected]
Bert Painter is an independent consulting social scientist and documentary filmmaker. He has facilitated organization design and relationship-building by employers, unions, and communities across Canada and internationally since 1970. Current consulting work involves the redesign of a pulp manufacturing process organization, and expansion of an in-situ oil sands operation. Meanwhile, an NSF-funded study of virtual organization of R&D activities is just being completed with colleagues from the STS Roundtable, while a new film series on The Future of Work is in development
Betsy [email protected]
Betsy is the founder of Merck Consulting, Inc., a San Francisco Bay Area consulting firm that over the past 15 years has carried out organization transformation work with all levels
of business enterprises in a variety of industries and sectors. Betsy facilitates strategy development and organizational alignment using a broad range of participation-based change technologies to enable all relevant stakeholders to effectively realize success. As a member of a small team, funded by a three year National Science Foundation grant, Betsy’s focus for the past three years has been research on the impact of virtuality on key deliberations/conversations and the coordination mechanisms necessary to facilitate those conversations across different stages of innovation.
Aurelia [email protected]
Aurelia Roman is an organizational consultant and applied social researcher with several networks. She is a PhD (c), holds a master in human systems interventions and degrees in law and applied human sciences. She currently lives in Montreal and teaches at Concordia University.
Brandy [email protected]
Brandy Jugandi is currently completing her Masters in Human Systems Intervention where she is developing her expertise in the psychosocial dynamics that inform whole organizations, groups, and individuals. In this role of process consultant her skills include facilitation, strategic planning, leadership development, team development, and individual coaching. She is deeply interested and engaged with activities that foster a new paradigm of innovative human collaboration that result in happier, healthier, and sustainable well being both collectively and individually.
Carlye [email protected]
Carlye has been working as a facilitator and change agent of different varieties for the past ten years in community organizations within and outside of Montreal. Her passion for process consulting was sparked by an MA in International Development Studies (Saint Mary’s University, Halifax), which left her thirsty for more concrete skills in bringing about sustainable change in communities and workplaces. She explored and refined this interest in community change projects for five years, eventually pursuing an MA in Human Systems Intervention at Concordia University, which she completed in September 2013. One exciting area of new growth is the professional coaching certification she is undertaking with Mozaik International this Fall. At present, she works in the downtown west Montreal neighbourhood of Peter McGill, accompanying groups of community partners in building collaborative projects for youth and families, based on the principles of Socio-Technical Systems, Open Systems Theory, Appreciative Inquiry, among others.
Carolyn [email protected]
Carolyn Ordowich has been a practitioner for 30 years and founder of STS Associates, Inc. in Princeton, NJ. Using capabilities in strategic organization design and participation-based change technologies, Carolyn facilitates large system transformation work with all levels of enterprise and a wide diversity of stakeholders. Her focus is on the adaptation of organizations through self-design of network organizations, self-managing teams, coalitional deliberations and participative governance systems. Her current focus is on the intersect of ICT (big and small data) and organization design.
Catalina [email protected]
After several years of consulting the Government of Moldova on aspects of development and EU integration, I moved to Canada where I registered for a Masters in Human Systems Intervention with Concordia University. During the program I discovered Emery and Trist and the Open Systems Theory, which shed light on some of successes and failures of my previous work. I am currently in the process of setting up a private practice to promote democratic organizations and healthy workplaces
Carolyn [email protected]
Carolyn Fairman has worked in senior leadership in the non-profit sector for 17 years. Her work involves collaborating through supply chains in coffee and other agricultural commodities to help ensure transparency and zero risk from the consumer to the farm worker. Carolyn is utilizing STS and workplace design to help increase performance, communication and impact both internally and externally with all stakeholders in supply chain distribution. She has an MA from the University of New Mexico in Latin American Studies and lives in Tacoma, WA.
Chantal [email protected]
Chantal Boutin is a Human Resources and Organizational Development expert with more then 15 years of experience as an executive in the not-for-profit and public sector. She is currently a senior consultant serving Canada School of Public Service (CSPS). She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from HEC Montréal, a Certified General Accountant (CGA-CPA) designation and master’s degree in organizational development from Concordia University. She specialises in leadership development, organizational effectiveness as well the improvement of workplace relationships and climate. She also teaches at St-Paul University and La Cité Collégiale in Ottawa and lectures at Concordia University in MTL.
Betty [email protected]
Betty Barrett is the Director of Education for the MIT Skoltech Initiative at MIT. She received her PhD from Michigan State University in 2000. Her research interests include the reform of engineering education, sociotechnical systems, and organizational dynamics. She has worked at the U.S. Postal Service, Michigan State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne. At Illinois she was the Director of the SocioTechnical Systems Program and was a Fellow in iFoundry for the College of Engineering. She has authored academic papers and co-authored the book, Knowledge-Driven Work.
David [email protected]
Along with Cris Criswell, Bill Duffy, and Ann Majchrzak, Dave Roitman schemed up the STS Roundtable in his Ann Arbor office in 1984. After Ann Arbor, Dave worked with Cris at Digital Equipment Corporation to create an STS-based consulting group in the heart of a technology engine. As DEC died, Dave left and over the years has worked for several consulting companies, always striving to foster healthy, humane, and innovative work organizations. While often selling out, Dave occasionally has been part of the magic that happens when mind, heart, and spirit combine in workplace collaborative design. Most of his consulting is under the guise of “change management consultant” to corporations. A long-time activist, he is now focused on Climate Justice and systemic corruption in the U.S. political system. Dave’s wife is one of the world’s greatest mothers, cooks, and gardeners. His son is currently touring Quebec with Vague de Cirque as juggler, Russian bar & Banquine base, and all-around great guy.
Craig [email protected]
Craig has over twenty-five years’ experience in the design and implemen- tation of high performance work systems. He has designed and implemented collaboration-based systems in a wide variety of organizations including Exxon, BHP, Xerox, Sybase, Nationwide Insurance and the Canadian Air Command. He works extensively in changing organizational cultures to support collaboration-based work systems. Complementary competencies included organization design, process improvement and organization transformation. Current professional interest involves exploring innovation and adaptive methodology to organization design. He is co-author of the book Beyond Teams: Building the Collaborative Organization (Jossey-Bass, 2002), and co-editor of the Collaborative Work Systems Fieldbook (Jossey-Bass, 2003). He is past President of the Organization Design Forum and active in numerous professional organizations. Craig lives in Fort Collins, CO. He is an avid cyclist, skier, and handball player. He is married to Jeanette, with a daughter and 2 grandsons (and a dog named Rio ☺ ).
Dena [email protected]
After obtaining her BA in East Asian Studies and Anthropology from Université de Montréal, Dena spent 15 years in China, where she worked as an English teacher, translator, cross-cultural facilitator, trekking guide and change agent. Her experience of living and working in collaboration with a wide cross-section of Chinese society, including social scientists, independent filmmakers, contemporary artists, NGOs and farmers within the context of a rapidly changing China led her to develop an interest in change, social structure and the construction of meaning. She is currently wrapping up an MA Human Systems Intervention (HSI) at Concordia University, in hopes of bringing her expertise in change to the workplace.
Don De [email protected]
After a distinguished international career as a consultant and manager working in the private, public service, and non-profit sectors, Dr. de Guerre is an Associate Professor at Concordia University. His major area of interest is the development of participative governance and organization and the further development of open systems theory. He teaches in the domains of human systems intervention and action research and consulting process.
Doug [email protected]
Douglas Austrom, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Professor with Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and co-founder of Turning Point Associates, an Indianapolis-based consulting firm that specializes in strategy deployment, organizational change, leadership development, alliance management, and organization and network design. Doug has over 25 years of consulting experience with a wide range of organizations. His research interests include multi-sector issues management alliances and adaptive enterprises.
Doug [email protected]
I am retired from the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees International Union (UNITE), where I worked on labor-management partnerships and workplace design and governance issues. I am on the Board of Directors of Manufacturing Renaissance (formerly Center for Labor and Community Research) in Chicago, which is developing local and national partnerships of labor, manufacturers, and government to encourage development of a high road advanced manufacturing sector. I was a steward of the STS Roundtable for six years.
My experience as an organization design consultant dates back to 1968 in Israel with a focus on the kibbutz, its services, and factories. I began study of STS at UCLA in 1976 and worked as staff on the QWL Short Course from 1977. My dissertation research was on the nature of human work. My current interests are in designing organizations for high reliability and designing communities for sustainability. I retired from teaching business in 2010. I have been Secretary-Treasurer of STS RT.
Eric-Hans [email protected]
Eric-Hans Kramer is associate professor Human Factors & Systems Safety at the Netherlands Defense Academy. His research focuses on Organizing and Safety issues surrounding the deployment of the Dutch Army in expeditionary missions abroad. At the Academy he teaches classes in both psychology, philosophy and organization science. He has furthermore worked as an internal organization consultant in the Army in various change projects for different divisions. His work has been published in (inter)national journals and in a 2007 book entitled Organizing Doubt. He furthermore co-authored a Dutch students handbook on the Sociotechnical tradition in organization science.
Ellen [email protected]
Ellen McGinnis is the senior principal at The Optimal Leader LLC. Ellen specializes in leadership development, team optimization and executive coaching.Ellen has helped dozens of teams and leaders face complex business challenges. Her approach involves a variety of assessment methodologies followed by development of action commitments and implementation of new behaviors. She leverages 16 years of work experience to help leaders, teams and organizations improve their performance. She also has the ability to put herself in the shoes of business professionals because she has held leadership roles in Fortune 500 Companies such as General Electrical Capital and ACS, Inc. as well as Silicon Valley start-ups.
Erik [email protected]
Erik Nicholson is National Vice President of the United Farm Workers (a labor union representing agricultural workers). He has worked with farmworker organizations in the United States for the past 24 years. In his current capacity, Erik oversees the expansion of the United Farm Workers internationally and is deeply involved in issues related to worker recruitment. He serves as the Chair of the Equitable Food Initiative and also is a member of the board of Fair Trade USA. Erik has traveled extensively across Latin America and Asia working with farmworkers and their employers to identify opportunities to create value. Prior to his work with farmworkers, he worked for two and a half years in Central America documenting human rights abuses.
Ezra [email protected]
Ezra Dessers is an assistant professor and a senior researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO) of the KU Leuven. He spent the past six months as a visiting researcher at the School of Public Health of the National University of Singapore. Ezra has been involved in various research projects in the field of sociotechnical systems, workplace innovation, organisational design, inter-organisational networks, and information technology. He is the project manager of CORTEXS, a 4-year, multidisciplinary and multi-method research project on integrated care in Flanders (Belgium). Ezra is also involved in KIO, which is a consortium of universities and university colleges entrusted with the scientific support and evaluation of ‘living lab’ projects in the domain of elderly care.
Fode [email protected]
Fodé Beaudet is a learning advisor at the Centre for Intercultural Learning (CIL) which is part of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada. He designs and facilitates workshops in several countries based on experiential and adult learning approaches.Previously, Fodé has also been involved with the Berkana institute, namely through a project assuming that life-affirming leadership was already present in Africa. He has a B.A. in Finance, a certificate in Adult Education and completing a M.A. in Human Systems Intervention (Concordia University). He has authored two books; an essay, A Caminho de Mim (2004),
published in Portugal and a collection of short stories, Dormons, l’éveil sera brutal (2011).
Friso Van der [email protected]
I work for TNO, an independent Dutch research organization. My field of expertise is sociotechnical ICT: how to design information systems that really support knowledge workers in their daily work. I also work on a TNO research project about Workplace Innovation, currently focusing on intrapreneurship.
Geert Van [email protected]
Geert Van Hootegem is co-founder of Prepared Mind, a consulting firm specialized in Total Workplace Innovation. He is a senior full professor of Sociology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), teaching organizational design and change management. Van Hootegem is highly regarded as an organizational advisor, supporting companies and social profit organizations in complex redesign and change programs. He is the founder of Flanders Synergy, a Belgian network of organizations that promotes workplace innovation.
Hakim [email protected]
Hakim Benichou graduated with honours in 2013 as a Master in Public Management. His thesis was about the application of workplace innovation in a government agency focusing
on preventive treatment and guidance of young children. He is currently working as a doctoral researcher in the field of workplace innovation in elderly care. His research takes place in ‘Care living labs’ that wants to support care initiatives which treat all aspects of care for the elderly, including prevention ( e.g. prevention of social vulnerability, increasing living quality), awareness, detection, intervention and care. Care living labs have an economical and/or societal goal. It is important to keep the welfare system sustainable , while keeping the same quality level of care for individual elderly people. Hakim is also a student partner in the RCRC, Relational Coordination Research Collaborative, headed by Jody Hoffer Gittell.
Héctor M. [email protected]
Héctor is a Creative Advisor, Art Director and co-founder of IMIXcoCREATION. He is interested in sustainability, the planet, and ethics. Héctor enjoys finding different ways to re-cycle, re-use, and re-purpose all kind of objects. He holds a Bachelor degree in Graphic Design and has extensive experience in teaching creativity, graphic design and graphic communication. His experience as creative consultant, graphic designer, graphic recorder, and group facilitator has brought him to create cultural campaigns for international companies as well as corporate image campaigns for several national and international companies and organizations in Mexico and Canada.
Helen [email protected]
Helen has a Masters in Applied Social Psychology and for over 25 years has helped people and businesses come to life around the world. Helen transforms individuals, enterprises and communities through collaborative, engaging and consensus-building process design. She enables clients to balance a quadruple bottom line--people, purpose, planet and prosperity. Helen facilitates whole person and whole system strategic transformation by jointly optimizing social and technical requirements to obtain sustainable outcomes and to create happy, healthy, humane workplaces and communities.As a transformational coach, organization consultant, writer and speaker, Helen has an uncanny ability to see what lies around the corner in business. A long-time yoga and meditation practitioner, Helen blogs weekly on ‘transforming fear to Joy.’
Since 4 years, Ike Overdiep is working in a small research and consulting bureau ‘Opus 8’, focusing on qualification and work. Before she worked in in a larger consultancy bureau, for the national government (education department), in politics and in the trade union. Her main experience and knowledge is on themes concerning qualification and social dialogue on qualification and labour market policy. Currently working on a new (intersectoral) examn programme for pre-vocational education (vmbo) as independent chair; sectoral programme on employability, training and work- to work schemes in the metalindustry (anti-crisis program); new collective agreement in primary education, independent chair in the process of innovation of the collective agreement. Especially interested in principles and methods of decision making in complex processes; the dynamics between process and content in organizational changes and in concrete experiences of colleagues.
Indira [email protected]
Indira Trejo, is the new addition to the United Farm Workers (UFW) team as the Global Impact Coordinator. She joined the UFW after graduating with a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and a minor in Human Rights - from the University of Washington, Tacoma (UWT).She was born in Riverside, CA and raised in a small town in Veracruz, Mexico. She worked for six years in the Insurance industry, and later took time off from her career to complete her bachelor’s degree In her college career she discovered her dedication and enthusiasm for human rights and justice. As a result, she founded the Latino Student Union (LSU) at UWT, in which she helped empower and organize students, bringing them together, engaging them in discussions, and putting forward innovative ideas about issues that impact Latinos in our communities including immigrant labor rights.Her passion, competence and spirit brings new ideas to the UFW team, helping improve the lives and working conditions of farms workers globally. Indira, currently resides in Tacoma, WA with her mom Maria, and her dog Xuxa.
I am an associate professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen and a full professor at the Hanze University of Applied Science in Groningen. I work on organization and job design from a sociotechnical perspective (as developed by Ulbo de Sitter). My research concerns the application of these principles in SME’s, the healthcare sector and higher education. I’ am interested in integrating operations management, lean and sociotechnical systems theory from a system theoretical perspective. At the practical level I designed instruments that help teams (1) to monitor work pressure and (2) to monitor competence development (a simple alternative for the complex standard forms of competence management).
Jacinthe Bergevin [email protected]
Jacinthe Bergevin draws on 30 years of experience providing prompt, informed and pragmatic services to organizations from the private and public sectors as well as from the non-profit sector across Canada. She holds a master’s degree in Organizational Development from Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, California. She blends proven methodologies and tools with innovative approaches to respond proactively to the new organizational and leadership challenges and to deliver results.Jacinthe has managed and supported teams and organizations in small and large scale transformation initiatives impacting anywhere from 10 to 14,000 employees. Some of her past projects include strategic planning, implementation of ERP’s, implementation of new technologies, new management culture, modernization of work places and tools, organization redesign, new business processes, etc. Jacinthe has played key leadership roles on a number of project teams.
James [email protected]
Dr. James Lapalme is an enterprise architecture and engineering scholar and consultant. Through his work, he strives to help leaders and workers achieve innovative and sustainable enterprises. Dr. Lapalme possesses a multidisciplinary background in computer science, software engineering, organizational transformation and community development
Jamie [email protected]
She is the Global Impact Advocate, United Farm Workers of America. Jamie Padilla has been on staff with the United Farm Workers since January of 2009. She has played a key role in the union’s growth strategy, researching California’s most labor-intensive agricultural industries and relevant policy issues in order pave the way toward successful worker organizing where it is most needed. She currently collaborates with her teammates in the UFW’s Alternative Representation Models department to devise innovative ways to empower farm workers across the globe and create added value in agricultural supply chains.
Jean Fuller
I am a practitioner that uses STS, OST and VSM methodologies as the basis for the improvement of organization performance toward the triple bottom line – needs of customers, employees and shareholders. I combine the above with lean/six sigma, dialogic organisation development, change management, union/management relations and management and leadership development. I’ve been developing this practice since 1980. My academic training is in sociology and organisation development.
Jean [email protected]
Jean Neumann operates as both practitioner and academic in those fields that blend organisational development and change, consultancy, and related change management careers. Currently Senior Fellow in Scholarly Practice for The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) in London, Jean was a founding faculty on their advanced organizational consultancy programme (1992-2008). After serving as Assistant Editor of TIHR’s Human Relations (1989-1998), Jean subsequently accepted a role as Associate Editor for NTL Institute’s Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. Visiting Faculty at Cranfield University’s School of Management, she researches dynamics of leading change from the middle. Jean’s publications enact her dual intentions of using practice to inform better organizational change theory, and using academe to improve quality and integrity of consultancy and change management inside social systems. In private practice, Jean provides individual consultation for other consultants and change managers, drawing on her accumulated experience with over 450 change projects since 1971.
Jeanette [email protected]
Jeanette Blomberg is Principal Research Staff Member at IBM Research and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. Her research explores social aspects of technology production and use, ethnographically-informed organizational interventions, participatory design, critical assessments of data analytics, and practice-based service innovation. Prior to assuming her current position, Jeanette was a member of the Work Practice and Technology group at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Director of Experience Modeling research at Sapient Corporation, and Industry-affiliated Professor at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden where in 2011 she was awarded an honorary doctorate. Jeanette is well known for her research on ethnography in design processes with two recent publications Positioning Ethnography within Participatory Design and Reflections on 25 Years of Ethnography in CSCW. Her recent book, An Anthropology of Services, explores how services are being conceptualized today and the possible benefits resulting from taking an anthropological view on services and their design. Jeanette received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Davis and before embarking on her career in high tech she was a visiting professor and lecturer in cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics at the University of California, Davis.
Joe Martinez is currently the International Labor Advocate/Mexico Program Director for the United Farm Workers (UFW). He coordinates and directs all the union’s activities in the country of Mexico and assists in coordinating the UFW’s international work directly under Erik Nicholson. Joe Martinez has coordinated and participated in the project Jornaleros SAFE which is dedicated to identifying and documenting the problems relating to recruitment and dispatch of H-2A workers in Mexico. Joe has used this information to push for legislation change in Mexico and the United States. He has worked closely with NGOs, the US and foreign governments to address issues related to how farm workers are recruited and dispatched to the United States and establish labor agreements between Mexican State governments and the United Farm Workers. This has led Joe to create CERT which is an international recruitment, training and dispatch center for farmworkers. He is based in Tacoma, WA.
Joseph J. Norton, Ph.D. is an Organization and Talent Development Professional in Atlanta, GA. Joe has 20+ years of experience leading large scale organizational change as an internal and external consultant. He has led the design and execution of integrated supply chains, high performing work systems, leadership development and succession systems, targeted selection systems, and numerous business process, work and organizational redesign efforts. Prior to joining Coca-Cola in 1997, Joe worked for Unilever North American Foods, Lipton, and Monsanto. He is a member of the Socio Technical Systems Round Table, Society of Organizational Learning, and the American Psychological Association.
Josée Blaquiè[email protected]
With over 30 years’ experience as an internal and external organizational development consultant, trainer and executive coach, Josée has worked with various functions and levels of management in public organisation and private industries. Her areas of expertise include strategic planning and organizational learning, transformation and change management, leadership and team development, employee engagement, performance management and enhancement. Josée graduated from American University (Washington D.C.) in Organization Development and from Montreal University in Industrial Relations.
Joseph [email protected] Born on September 12th, 1958Living in: Limbricht, the Netherlands.Study: Business & Economics (University of Tilburg), Information Management (University of Amsterdam) Software Design (Technical High school Eindhoven)Work: Managing Consultant & Account Exec at Capgemini
Kenton [email protected]
Kenton Harmer is Director of Certification for the Equitable Food Initiative (EFI). He manages the multi-stakeholder process responsible for the ecosystem of standards, policies and relationships that allows EFI to certify farms for industry best performance in labor-management cooperation, food safety, and pest management. Kenton has an MBA in Sustainable Management and previously led the sustainable agriculture practice at Milepost Consulting.
Kevin [email protected]
Kevin Boyle is principal of Boyle & Associates and current President of Board of Stewards for STS Roundtable Inc. Kevin has done International organization consulting in various industries, labor, nonprofit and governmental organizations. With 30 years of trade union leadership experience Kevin works to balance the interests of management, labor and communities. Kevin resides in Corvallis, OR where he enjoys fly fishing, hiking, skiing and biking.
Khurshida [email protected]
Khurshida Mambetova is an organizational development consultant. She has many-year experience in strategic planning and organizational development, monitoring and evaluation, qualitative data collection and analysis, training development, research and report writing. Prior to launching my independent consultancy practice, Khurshida has worked for such international organizations as UNESCO, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Doctors without borders (MSF). She has also volunteered and worked as an organizational development consultant for some Montreal-based nonprofits. Khurshida was a Board Member of the Centre for community organizations (Montreal). Khurshida has the graduate diploma in Human Resource Management from McGill University and she is currently doing my second year of the master’s degree program (Human System Interventions, Concordia University).
Kristin [email protected]
Kristin Cobble is a co-founder and president of Groupaya. She has 20+ years’ experience helping C-level leaders , teams, organizations, and multi-stakeholder groups realize their potential through thinking bigger about what’s possible and then making it a reality.Prior to founding Groupaya, Kristin spent four years at Monitor and Global Business Network, helping clients to re-perceive and embrace uncertainty in order to achieve sustainable success through scenario thinking. She also spent two years as the Director of Strategic Change for Banana Republic, partnering with the president to create a high-performing leadership team as well as a more innovative and collaborative organizational culture. Her organizational development career began at Innovation Associates, co-founded by Peter Senge.Kristin is a Wellesley graduate, studied at the London School of Economics, and is certified as a New Ventures West Coach. She has authored articles on organizational learning, systems thinking, conflict and coaching. She is also an emeritus board member of Global Footprint Network, an international environmental NGO.
Laura [email protected]
Laura Jacobs has a Masters Degree in Sociology and a Masters Degree in Management. She was a researcher for 4,5 year at HIVA, a research institute which is part of the University of Leuven. Within this institute she was involved in labour market themes, especially social economy, employment measures and health care. In April 2014 she started working with Flanders Synergy as junior project leader, where she is involved in a project within health care, as well as a project concerning inter-organisational co-operation/temporary teams.
Marcela [email protected]
Marcela Urteaga is an organizational consultant passionate about learning and change, co-founder of IMIXcoCREATION. She holds a BA in Human Relations and an MA in Human Systems Intervention, as well as certificates in Organizational Development, Coaching, Leadership, and Sustainable Happiness. Marcela has 20 years of corporate experience in Organizational Development, Training, Change Management and Human Resources, in large multinational companies such as Monster, Panasonic and FEMSA (now partner with Heineken and Coca-Cola), where she led the teams responsible for HR planning, talent management, organizational transformation and customer service. Marcela has been facilitating workshops and group sessions (live and online) since 1994, in Mexico, U.S.A. and Canada, to help individuals, communities and corporations develop their competencies and access their inner wisdom. Marcela is currently working at York University as an Organizational Development Consultant.
Mark [email protected]
Dr. Mark JG Govers (1967) is an out-of-the-box thinker from The Netherlands with a PhD in management sciences. He works at the intersection between developing, applying and teaching knowledge focused on socio-technical issues. Since 2006, he is an academic scholar at Maastricht University. As visiting professor, he lectures information, management and organizational science in The Netherlands and in Colombia and Peru. Besides his academic work, he is a senior advisor at his own consultancy firm called Archypel Consulting. Projects are related to re-balancing the intersection between structures, cultures, people and IT systems. Besides projects, he enjoys helping managers and leaders with organizational and managerial issues. He is well known for giving challenging and entertainment lectures and workshops, which he calls “knowledge-tainment”.
Mary [email protected]
Mary is a seasoned organization development consultant with deep expertise in change management. Her work spans multiyear global initiatives to more focused program execution. She has worked in a variety of industries and functions, including IT, services, sales, marketing, and HR. Her specialty is helping executives and their teams.Mary holds a Bachelor’s degree from University of Rochester, a PhD from Stanford University, and an MSOD degree from Pepperdine University.
Michèle [email protected]
I live and work in The Hague, The Netherlands. I am a consultant at a company called BridgeHead. This company is an established player in the political and governmental arena in The Hague. Our services range from strategy consulting, sourcing support to lobbying and public affairs. We support companies in doing business with the government. Most of the companies and government institutions I work with offer services in the corporate real estate, facility management and IT domain. I am on the board of the Ulbo de Sitter Kennisinstituut and I am co-founder of “Veranderen met ruimte” a network organization of professionals that have specialized in workplace design and organizational change in the public sector.
Nina [email protected]
Nina has worked for 20+ years with community and social justice organizations, unions, and educational institutions to create opportunities for organizational learning, strengthening capacity for collaboration, inclusion, adaptation and sustainability. She uses action-learning, popular education and participatory approaches to organizational change, governance, strategy, group process, planning, evaluation, and leadership. Nina has served on numerous STS Roundtable Design Teams, was part of the STS RT Phoenix project, and was the first coordinator of the STS Writing Roundtable. Recent clients include the National Coalition for Literacy, Highlander Research and Education Center, Berea College, and AFSCME District Council 57. Nina is a member of the United Association for Labor Education and US Coordinator for the International Ethics & Responsibility Forum. She has also worked as a summer camp kitchen helper, housekeeper, mailroom manager, co-director of a community organization and university professor.
Pamela [email protected]
Pam Is founder and principal of Eyes on Performance in Everett, WA. She has been consulting in strategic planning, alignment and organization design for over 25 years. She has worked in manufacturing, service sector, and not for profits. She is widely published in a variety of journals, including Harvard Business Review. Her current focus in is education systems where she supports strategic alignment of organizational processes and systems.
Peter Aughton [email protected]
Peter was appointed CEO of The Cadel Group in January 2016. He leads the Cadel team that specializes in designing and implementing Business Ecosystems, which are the new drivers of customer value in today’s connected World.Using participative planning and design methodologies, and an ecosystem IT platform developed by Cadel partner WaiveNet, he works closely with business ecosystem constituents, usually organisations and individuals that cannot on their own scale or create differentiated products, to design and implement high performance business ecosystems.Peter is also a director of AMERIN Pty Ltd., which he cofounded in 1993. It is an action research consulting firm that applies Open Systems Theory and Socio-technical Systems to develop sustainable ecosystems and organisations characterised by high levels of motivation, innovation and performance.Before becoming an AMERIN director, Peter held various research and management positions with the Exxon and Mars Corporations. Peter has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Chemistry) and Post Graduate Qualifications in Education and Business Science from the RMIT, Melbourne, and Victoria Universities respectively.
Peter [email protected]
Pete is an independent strategic organization design and change management consultant, coach, and social entrepreneur.He is known for his ability to see the big picture, make sense of messes, and lead teams through the resolution of complex issues. He relates well to people from all stations of life, speaks frankly, and has a practical eye for getting things done.Pete’s consulting and coaching practice focuses on crafting strategy, intentionally designing organizations (with webs of intangible assets), creating change, and assessing what works. Pete also designs and facilitates meetings and coaches executives to support those practice focus points. As a social entrepreneur Pete also works to create economic and social self-reliance for individuals, families, and organizations in both the developing and developed world. BA Behavioral Sciences - University of Washington (1976). MA Organizational Behavior Brigham Young University (1979). Certified Management Consultant® (CMC®) (2002)
Peter [email protected]
Peter T. has over 30 years of experience of applying behavioural psychology in a business context. He is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist who has worked with, and held senior HR Director positions in, leading organisations in the UK, Mainland Europe, and the USA.Peter brings a unique blend of knowledge and experience to the design, planning and deployment of change strategies, which deliver measurable and sustained improvements to business performance.Peter’s expertise is in the development of innovative strategies that change organisational capabilities and behaviours. He has brought this to bear in organisations addressing; major M&A activity, large-scale IT implementations, liberalisation of their market place, product and service substitution, significant cost challenges. Peter is in demand as a speaker on postgraduate business psychology programmes, and as an individual coach to senior business leaders.
Pierre Van [email protected]
Pierre van Amelsvoort was inspired during his study by Ulbo de Sitter about STS and quality of working life. Since 1980 he is working as a consultant and academic researcher in implementing the STS philosophy in different industries such as care and cure, education, services and manufacturing in the Netherlands and Belgium. He wrote several books and articles about STS practices. Now he is partner in the Sociotechnical consulting group, professor at the University of Leuven and chairman of the Ulbo de Sitter Institute, the STS roundtable in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Rasa Juciūtė-Rotomskienė[email protected]
Dr. Rasa Rotomskiene currently works at Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius, Lithuania. Before returning to Lithuania at the end of 2010, she has completed a 1 year longitudinal case study research (work place innovation, healthcare sector and technology) in the UK as part of her joint Ph.D. studies at Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius and Kingston University in London. In the UK she has also worked for a research and consulting company for 3 years mainly delivering EU wide studies and reports for the European Commission. At present Rasa is lecturing and is involved in number of research projects at Mykolas Romeris University; at the end of August this year she has finished her 2 years’ work at UNDP in Lithuania as a project manager of a national project. Her research interests cover workplace innovation, change management and management of technology innovations and similar.
Ray Dyck is a design practitioner who has worked in both line management and senior Organization Design capacities across a number of industries including: oil & gas, electronics, contract manufacturing, and retail. His focus is on practical, people-centered approaches to enable significant and sustainable improvements in both business performance and quality of working life. In particular, Ray led one of the largest concurrent STS implementations in North America. He now helps run and grow an innovative natural vitamin/supplement business.
Rick Vanasse [email protected]
Rick has over 30 years experience in organization design, leadership/team development and executive coaching. Rick is one of the founding consultants with the SPRING Network in Palo Alto, CA.SPRING Network is a strategic innovation and organization design firm who for the past 12 years has focused on solving complex strategic and organization issues in healthcare and high tech at the company CEO, state, and national levels. Recent healthcare engagements include Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Sutter Health, Catholic Health Initiatives, City of Hope, and Bon Secours Health System.Other industry companies include Google, Cysco, Kimberly Clark, Proctor and Gamble, and Assurant. (www.spring-network.biz)
Wim Sprenger spent many years in the trade union movement as a trainer/consultant, policy officer and researcher. Main fields of interest and activity were: union policies on changing organizations, quality of work, qualification and employability, flexibility and security. From 2000 to 2015 he was an independent researcher focusing on labour market developments, corporate restructuring, continuous qualification, innovation of workplaces and (eco-)systems. Favourite themes: unions boxing and dancing, from management to anticipation of restructuring, how to involve small companies and the value chain in analysis and design. He was president of the IRENE network (Innovative Restructuring European Network of Experts - active since 2003) and fascinated about the various relations and parallels between (improvised) music and workplace design. Wim left us in 2015
Sabrina [email protected]
Sabrina is a process consultant, helping organizations and communities work democratically to: engage with their vision, improve meetings, connect better internally and with stakeholders, do participatory planning and harness dynamic tensions to achieve goals.
Sabrina is passionate about transformational change – in people, organizations and society. She has over 17 years of experience as a community organizer and facilitator working on social, cultural and ecological issues in diverse settings, including work with First Nations communities. Sabrina identifies as a queer woman, committed to creating inclusive spaces.
Sam Pless attained his Master in Sociology (KU Leuven) in 2013. He specialized in the majors Social Policy and Culture & Religion. His master thesis concerned the history of madness and its scientization, with specific attention for its validation. Since November 2013, he has been working for the Centre for Sociological Research, division Work and Organisation. Sam focuses on the structure of care- and work processes within and between care organisations for CORTEXS. CORTEXS is a multidisciplinary research project concerned with integrating care for people with complex and chronic diseases.
Seth [email protected]
Seth Maenen has obtained a doctoral degree in social science. He wrote a doctoral dissertation on the organization and project management of offshore software development projects. From 2002 to 2012 he worked at Geert Van Hootegem’s research section ‘sociology of work and organization’ (KU Leuven, Belgium). Since 2012 he is working at Flanders Synergy, which is a public-private partnership for promoting workplace innovation in the Flemish economy. In his work Seth aspires to encourage organizations rethink their organizational design and to assist consultants who work to implement streamlined organizations and healthy workplaces.
Susan [email protected]
Susan Larson Bouwer is working toward a Master’s Degree in Organization Development. For twenty five years, she has been working in the non-profit sector in organization design, training, and leadership. She is currently engaged in action research, process consultation, and strategic planning projects with a particular interest in corporate culture and the future of work. Susan believes that a laughing mind is more open, and likes to weave humor into her training and facilitation practice. We spend thirty percent of our lives at work, can’t we try to make it fun?
Tristan [email protected]
Tristan works at Concordia University helping employees move through large-scale change initiatives, and is also a yoga teacher. After his undergraduate degree in Commerce, he is now finishing his Masters degree in Human Systems Intervention. Some of Tristan’s interests include acrobatic yoga, somatic learning experiences, breathing in Rocky Mountain air, and thinking and reading about human system dynamics..
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