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Peter
M. Senge
(The Fifth Discipline, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, The Dance of
Change, and Schools That Learn )
Peter Senge is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology He is also Chairperson of the Society for
Organizational Learning (SoL), a global
community of corporations, researchers, and consultants dedicated to the
"interdependent development of people and their institutions."
He is the author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The
Learning Organization (1990), identified by the Harvard Business Review
in 1997 as one of the five most influential management books of the past
two decades.
Peter has lectured extensively throughout the world, translating the
abstract ideas of systems theory into tools for better understanding of
economic and organizational change. His work articulates a cornerstone
position of human values in the workplace; namely, that vision, purpose,
reflectiveness, and systems thinking are essential if organizations are
to realize their potentials. He has worked with leaders in business, education,
health care, and government, and has authored many articles in both academic
journals and the business press on systems thinking in management. He
received a B.S. in engineering from Stanford University, and an M.S. in
social systems modeling and Ph.D. in management from MIT.
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Photo by Tom Sobolik
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Art
Kleiner
(The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, The Dance of Change, Schools That
Learn )
art@well.com
Art Kleiner is a writer, consulting editor, educator, and the editorial
director for the Fieldbook projects. His new book, Who Really Matters,
was published in 2004. book The
Age of Heretics (Doubleday, 1996) was a finalist for the Edgar
G. Booz award for most innovative business book of 1996. A faculty
member
at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, he has
a Master's of Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley.
Writing on technological, cultural, management, and environmental topics,
he has contributed to Wired, the New York Times Magazine,
Fast Company, the Harvard Business Review, Across the
Board, and many other publications. He was a contributing editor
to
Garbage, for whom he wrote an ongoing series on corporate environmentalism,
and a former editor of the Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly.
He is also a developer, with George Roth, of the learning history form,
and coeditor of the new learning history series at Oxford
University Press. He is president of the learning history/scenario
planning consulting firm, Reflection
Learning Associates. He lives outside New York City. You can
learn more about Art's work by reading his
Ghost Stories column, and by checking out
The Future of the Infrastructure, a course he teaches at New York
University's Interactive Telecommunications Program which uses the techniques
of Scenario Planning to examine "the ramifications of knotty, large-scale
problems."
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Nelda
Cambron-McCabe
( Schools That Learn)
admin@fieldbook.com
Nelda Cambron-McCabe is a professor at the Department of Educational Leadership
at Miami University of Ohio. She is currently an advisory board member
and a coordinator of the Forum for the American School Superintendent,
a ten-year effort supported by the Danforth Foundation. She works closely
with forum superintendents as they pursue initiatives on leadership development,
school-linked services for children and families, and early childhood
program development. She teaches courses in leadership and public school
law and is coauthor, with Martha McCarthy and Stephen Thomas, of Public
School Law: Teachers' and Students' Rights, 4th ed. (Needham Heights,
MA: Allyn &Bacon, 1998). In recent years Professor Cambron-McCabe
has focused her attention on the reform of administrative preparation
programs. Her work with the Danforth Foundation Professors of School Administration
Program led to the publication of Democratic Leadership: The Changing
Context of Administrative Preparation, coedited with Thomas Mulkeen
and Bruce Anderson (Stamford, CT: Ablex Publishers, 1994). She has served
as president of the Education Law Association and the American Education
Finance Association, and has served as editor of the Journal of Education
Finance. She serves as a member of a number of editorial advisory boards.
She lives in southwestern Ohio.
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Janis
Dutton
( Schools That Learn)
jldutton@iac.net
Janis Dutton is a freelance editor, writer, and educational consultant
who is also active in community and school change efforts. She uses the
learning organization principles in her community to build individual
and collective capacities as change agents by serving on the city council,
planning and environmental commissions, adult education committee, and
chamber of commerce community leadership initiatives, and a variety of
grass-roots initiatives. She was the managing editor of The Fifth Discipline
Fieldbook, has remained with the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook Project
as senior editor, and is a learning history pioneer. She managed production
for and copy-edited two anthologies that link architectural and educational
theory and practice. She has also coordinated production projects for
the Miami University of Ohio Department of Architecture, the Cincinnati
Environmental Awareness Center, and Catalyst, a magazine for children.
Her writing has appeared in Garbage Magazine, The Burbank Daily
Review, and The Cincinnati Enquirer. She lives in southwestern
Ohio.
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Tim
Lucas
(Schools That Learn)
admin@fieldbook.com
Timothy Lucas has been a teacher and administrator in public education
for the past twenty-seven years. He has taught at the elementary, middle
school, high school, and college level. He has worked at the district
level in curriculum and instruction, gifted and talented education, and
has been chairperson of a child study team and a principal. He has also
been on the development committee for the New Jersey State standards for
science instruction. From 1997 through 2000, he was the superintendent
of the Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, school district. Throughout the past decade,
as a practitioner on a variety of levels, Tim has focused his attention
on integrating the concepts of the five disciplines into curriculum, staff
development, and school leadership. He has been a recognized innovator
for developing systems thinking tools in classroom and school administration
work. He continues to support and encourage schools and educators in North
America in their work with the five disciplines. He lives in northern
New Jersey.
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Charlotte
Roberts
(The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, The Dance of Change)
admin@fieldbook.com
Charlotte Roberts is an executive consultant, speaker and writer. She
specializes in working with executives on creating a learning culture
and modeling learning. Her articles have appeared in the Journal for Quality
and Participation; the Journal of the American Compensation Association;
and in a variety of academic and business publications and newspapers.
She serves on the board of trustees of Guilford College, a private liberal-arts
college in Greensboro, NC. She has also served on the advisory council
of the American Compensation Association. She is currently a project facilitator
for a five-year research study by the Danforth Foundation on the new leadership
model for public school superintendency. She has worked with a wide range
of organizations, from manufacturing to hardware and software design to
healthcare to local community groups. She completed post-graduate work
in management at the Wharton School of Business and has served on the
faculty of the International Institute for Management Development in Geneva,
Switzerland. She is one of the pre-eminent storytellers and innovative
designers in the learning organization movement. A native of North Carolina,
she lives near Charlotte, N.C. Leading
Authorities is a speaker's bureau that coordinates many of her engagements.
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Richard
Ross
(The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, The Dance of Change)
RossPartnr@aol.com
Richard Ross is a motivational speaker, trainer, and organizational consultant
who consults to numerous Fortune 500 and international corporations. Rick
has been a member of the faculty at the University of Southern California
in Los Angeles; his published research in psychology concerned the neural
substrates of cortical learning. He has been licensed as a clinical psychologist
in California, and has also held senior line management positions. His
work focuses on the ways in which teams and organizations can gain competitive
advantage by increasing the organization's intelligence through knowledge
management. Rick's speaking topics range from "Winning in the Global Knowledge
Economy" to "Leading Winning Teams" and "Applying the Principles of the
Learning Organization." He received his doctorate in neuro-physiological
psychology from the University of London. He lives near San Diego, and
is on the board of directors of The Women's Resource Center.
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George
Roth
(The
Dance of Change)
GeoRoth@aol.com
George Roth is a researcher and lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management,
and Executive Director of the Ford/MIT Collaboration-a multi-million dollar
alliance between MIT and Ford, emphasizing learning, change and knowledge
creation activities in environmental policy, engineering education, and
research. He is also a faculty member at the University of New Hampshire,
and a past Research Director for the MIT Center for Organizational Learning.
Founder of Reflection Learning
Associates, he co-developed the learning history form. He is the author
of numerous academic and professional journal articles on learning and
change, and is (with Art Kleiner) co-editor of a series of learning histories
published by
Oxford University Press. Prior to his academic career, he spent ten
years at Digital Equipment Corporation. His work experience included advanced
product development, strategic planning, business development, operations,
marketing, and sales in the U.S. and Europe. He has an MBA in finance,
BS in Mechanical Engineering, and Ph.D. in Organizational Studies from
MIT. Born in Germany, he currently lives in Southern Maine.
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Bryan
Smith
(The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, The Dance of Change, Schools That
Learn )
bsmith@broadreachinnovations.com
Dr. Smith is an internationally recognized author, speaker and consultant
to business, education and government on leadership and innovation within
the context of global sustainability. Prior to founding Broad Reach Innovations,
Bryan was a Senior Partner for eighteen years at Innovation Associates,
a firm that has pioneered in the field of Organizational Learning.
Bryan
has been a central contributor to the development
of the organizational learning field, and the creation of innovative
tools and strategies for building inspired learning organizations. He
has successfully facilitated many challenging strategic dialogue sessions,
including four meetings of ambassadors and chief negotiatiors on climate
change from 15 developing countries and seven OECD countries in Gilon,
Switzerland. Dr. Smith played a key role in bringing together member
companies for the global Sustinable Cement Industry initiative to create
alignment, focus, and common vision for their work together. He also
carried out similar work in the early stages of the Sustainable Mobility
Project (global automotive and energy companies).
He has worked with executives from IBM, AT&T, Procter and Gamble,
Dow, Dupont, GE, Intel, Shell, BP, Xerox, the Bank of Montreal, Suncor,
Coca-Cola, BASF, MeadWestvaco, Lanxess, Pitney Bowes, Dofasco, Zenon
Environmental, Grant Forest Products, and many other small and medium
sized firms. His work with larger firms has almost always been at the
lively, entrepreneurial edges of the enterprise, focused on creating
and implementing innovative growth strategies while carefully managing
downside risks.
He consulted with President Vicente Fox and his Cabinet as they formed
a new government in Mexico, and has worked with the UN Foundation
and the UN Office of the Secretary-General. Bryan is committed to
supporting
the growth of leadership and broad community capabilities in developing
countries. He is a member of the core faculty for the Sustainable
Enterprise Academy at York University.
A central focus of his current work is to help client firms apply
organizational learning tools to the global challenges of environmental
and social/community
sustainability, to create significant opportunities for innovation
and growth in both developing countries and Western markets.
His doctoral research focused on charismatic leadership in business,
which has informed his extensive work with leaders on six continents.
Bryan received his MBA and PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University
of Toronto and lives in Toronto, Canada. He can be reached at 905.764.0948,
or bsmith@broadreachinnovations.com
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