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| Arkansas | Alan Janske in Hot Springs is interested in starting a group. Email ajanske@janske.com | |
| California | Los Angeles/San Fernando Valley. Seeking or wishing to start a study group is Judi, at Spirit19@aol.com |  |
| San Fernando Valley. Elizabeth Fleming would like to join a study group in the San Fernando Valley area.ekflemin@pacbell.net | ||
| Orange County. A study group is starting that will focus on greater mastery of the concepts, methods and tools of organizational learning and development. Group may explore SoL membership. Contact Billie at BilliejBaker@aol.com | ||
| San Diego, with a special interest in ecosystem health: Fred Cagle at Fred.Cagle@sdsu.edu | ||
| Sacramento/Davis/Woodland/Chico/Marysville area. Suresh Tiwari would like to start a sutdy group on fifth discipline ideas.STiwari916@aol.com | ||
| Nathan would like to start a study group for Silicon Valley startups and the innovation culture. Contact him at zen@iarchitect.org | ||
| Colorado | Anyone interested in a study group in the Boulder/Denver area should contact mpacanow@wlgore.com | |
| Connecticut | Ann Lindenmeyer is interested in starting a study group around Schools That Learn.futuredreams721@earthlink.net | |
| Nancy is looking for others in the Connecticut area who would like to form a study group. jshapiro03@snet.net | ||
| Florida | a dialogue group is gathering at the College of Education University, to study the five disciplines plus the concept of community. e-mail palameta@coe.ufl.edu | |
| Georgia | Atlanta: Margaret McIntyre would like to connect with others in the Atlanta,Georgia area who are interested in organizational learning. MargMcI@aol.com | |
| An existing group. Gregg Burch reports that there is a study team, the Kon Tiki Team, at Georgia State University's EMBA program. For information contact: GreggBurch@msn.com | |
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| Illinois | Robert Hubbard of Change Management, Inc., is interested in starting a discussion group, 217 area code. Contact him by email at: drbob@rr1.net | |
| Indiana | Dr. Jack H. Papazian, at the Dept of Psychological Science at Ball State University (Muncie), is interested in joining a group. Contact him and other interested people at: Papazian@netusa1.net | |
| Kentucky | Jennifer Keller, an MBA student at Bellarmine College in Louisville, is interested in participating in a study group. Please inform her at: Kelsal97@aol.com | |
| Massachusetts | UMass/Amherst study group. Contact John Gerber at jgerber@umext.umass.edu | |
| Massachusetts /NH |
Newburyport area. Owner/director of large multidisciplinary private mental health group practice would like to start study group / support group in this area. RIAmer@aol.com | |
| Michigan | Detroit: Kathy Allour wishes to join a study group in this area: AllourK@detroitedison.com | |
| Troy/Detroit area: Joann Gadbaw is interested in connecting with a local group: joann.gadbaw@eds.com | ||
| Caledonia: Brenda Benedict is interested in applying fifth discipline concepts to public education K-12: bbene@iserv.net | ||
| Missouri | Eric would like to form a study group in the Kansas City area. he is a Paint Defect Analyst with Premier Manufacturing Support Services, working at General Motors - Fairfax plant. eric@vesselsfamily.com | |
| Vicki is seeking others in the St. Louis area who are interested in organizational learning and would like to form a study group. tardino@slu.edu | ||
| New Jersey | Northern: John Rafter, training director for Barr Laboratories (manufacturer and distributor of prescription drugs), is intersted in starting a study group. This would be open to business, health care, and academic professionals. Contact him at rafter@viconet.com | |
| New York | City or northern suburbs: Loretta Donovan would like to join a study group; her interests include team learning and dialogue. Contact her at: lorquest@aol.com | |
| City: Eric Cohen is interested in participating in a study group: Eric@Funderstanding.com Also see his website at: http://www.Funderstanding.com | ||
| North Carolina | Research Triangle Park Area: Matthew Kersey is interested in possibly establishing a Fifth Discipline study group in this locale. kersey~mt@glaxo.com | |
| Ohio | Columbus area: David Sherrod From, a lifelong learner, wishes to join or form a study group. Contact him at learning@enchanted-place.net | |
| Dayton area: Contact Emerson Whitacre, who is interested in joining or starting a study group, at eewhitacre@earthlink.net | ||
| Oklahoma | Tulsa area: Also interested in communicating with others who have an interest in using communities of practice to support a self-leadership development program. Russ Wirth. rwirth@entarga.com | |
| Oregon | Eugene area: Contact Ron Bramhall, who is interested in starting a study group, at higher_ground@bigfoot.com | |
| Pennsylvania | East: David Castro of the Institute for Leadership Education, Advancement and Development in Philadelphia ("our mission is to improve leadership in community-based organizations") seeks to join or form a study group in the Philadelphia area. davidcastro@bee.net | |
| Central: Christopher Lee of Diagnostics Plus in State College seeks to join or form a study group. He is also working on developing a Learning Organization survey: cgl104@psu.edu | |
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West: Val Schirmer is seeking others who wish to fom an organizational learning study group in the Harrisburg area. valmari_schirmer@yahoo.com |
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| Texas | El Paso: Looking for a study group. Polymert95@aol.com | |
| Dallas: Scott Trent is interested in starting or participating in a study group. Contact him at strent@flash.net. | ||
| Austin: Sergio Villareal would like to start a group, and is particularly interested in looking at narcotic groups within police organizations. Contact him at svrranger.stud.gov@worldnet.att.net | ||
| Houston: Jessyna M. McDonald, PhD at Clemson University (the Houston Center for the Study of the Black Experience), is interested in participating in a study group. Contact her at: jmcdnld@CLEMSON.edu | |
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| Houston: John Phelps is interested in starting or participating in a study group. Contact him at jlph elps@netropolis.net | ||
| Houston: Also interested in starting or joining a group: Dena Ladner at deedee900@aol.com. | ||
| San Antonio: Two people seek to form or join a group here, particularly interested in institutions of higher education. Contact Maria Garcia at mgarcia@accdvm.accd.edu | ||
| Washington |
Seattle: James Kessack manages a business unit of 60 people at Boeing and would like contact with other managers, or those who are also trying to implement learning organization principles. james.kessack@pss.boeing.com I am a school superintendent and am interested in linking to those in the Seattle, WA area involved in developing learning organizations in the context of learning communities. I need people for dialogue.Email Gene Medina |
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| Washington, D.C. | Joseph Logan would like to start a D.C. study group. josephn@loganlearn.com | |
| Wisconsin | Jim would like to be in touch with others interested in organizational learning and change. campbell@mailbag.com | |
| West Virginia | Eatern Panhandle. I run an LLC of 7 independently owned retail companies across the US. Functioning through 16 teams we work collaboratively on purchasing, marketing, and training. Would love to find a group or attend lectures. ecgcemay@mail.acninc.net | |
| Western US (Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana) |
Dave Thomas would like to start an organizational learning group for folks in the Western United States. The themes for the study group can be expansive or narrow, covering each of the disciplines. "I'm looking for any resonant partners in the area of OL; a group of people who can learn and grow together." vanya42st@aol.com | |
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| Banff, Alberta |
Kim Bater, a facilitator with the Day Care Society of Banff, is interested in a study group. Contact at: daycare@agt.net |
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| Carribean | Garret Manwaring lives in Trinidad and Tobago and would like to participate in a study group. manniedane@hotmail.com | |
| Vancouver, B.C. | Holly Keon, a teacher and consultant specializing in systems thinking, is interested in forming a study group. Contact her at hollykeon@home.com: | |
| Mexico (Mexico City) | Luis Arturo Torres is interested in starting a study group, either in person or electronic. Contact him at: latorres@iserve.net.mx He also has a web page at: www.angelfire.com/la/torresmange/index.html | |
| Nova Scotia | Krista Fraser, of the Direct Marketing Centre, is interested in learning with a group of people in Halifax: kfraser@mtt.ca | |
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| France | John Gaynard would like to start a study group in Paris. He uses systems thinking extensively in his consulting and MBA teaching. Contact him at J.Gaynard@syre.com or look at his web site: http://syre.com | |
| Germany | A nationwide existing group, "specialized in different fields of the learning organization": Wolfgang Kraschinski, Hamburg, at Kraschinski@t-online.de | |
| Ireland | Cork. "As a consultant/midwife in this field, I would be very interested in an Irish LO study group." Contact Joe O'Keeffe, 100307.3672@compuserve.com | |
| Italy | Giampaolo M. Assoni,Facolta' di Giurisprudenza,
at the Dipartimento di Diritto Romano, is interested in an Italian study
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assoni@IPV36.UNIPV.IT http://www.unipv.it/deontica |
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| Netherlands | We are interested in forming a French-speaking L.O. study group in Belgium. Adalis is a consulting company specializing in coaching and team building located close to Louvain-La-Neuve. Myriam at myriam.ladeuze@skynet.be | |
| Piet J. Rodenhuis is particularly interested in hearing from others involved in education. pietjrodenjuis@wxs.nl | ||
| Portugal | Joao Vieira da Cunha, university student in General management, wishes to found a study group there. Contact him at joaovieira@geocities.com | |
| Spain | Jose Alarco, who teaches Human Resources in ESCUELA DE ORGANIZACION INDUSTRIAL-MADRID (one of the first business schools in Spain), is interested in forming or finding a study group in Spain. JoseAlarcos@eoi.es or sanchez-alarcos@msn.com | |
| Sweden | Adam Cowburn would like to hear from anyone interested in starting a study group anywhere in Scandinavia. Tag your email to his name (in the subject line) and send it to: reception@its-nor.se | |
| Lena Hammarbäck would like to join a group in Stockholm. Email her at: lena.hammarbaeck@swipnet.se. | ||
| Finland | Hannu Linturi of Internetix Campus is a researcher of the Academy of Finland (network learning, virtual team learning) who would like to form or join a study group. hannu.linturi@ofw.fi | |
| United Kingdom | Katy Phipps of Dun & Bradstreet is interested in forming or joining a study group in the UK. 100447.1137@compuserve.com | |
| Michael Young, an Education Practice Manager is interested in a stufy group in the UK. MYoung@Universalmail.com. | |
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| Ian Good is an MBA student who would like to join a study group. Ian_Good@BAA.co.uk | ||
| Coventry region: Kirana Limpaphayom, post-grad at the University of Warwick, is interested in joining or forming a study group. Contact at cepcz@csv.warwick.ac.uk | ||
| Trevor Anderson is based in South Wales, UK as a Production Manager and would be interested in joining a study group. Contact him at Trevor.Anderson@wl.com | ||
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| Brazil | Alberto C.L. Jasmin wishes to start a study group in Rio de Janeiro. His email: jasmin@rio.nutecnet.com.br | |
| Professor Marcos Wunderlich is part of a study group in Florianopolis. His email: marcos@holos.org.br | ||
| Chile | At the Universidad de la Frontera, Juan M. Quintana William and other industrial engineering students seek to form or join a group. His email:jjavbian@entelchile.net | |
| Martin Schaffernicht, in the facult of management science ("systems theory" the philosophy of language, and organizational transformation) at the University of Talca, would like to help a group form in Chile or nearby. Contact martin@pehuenche.secom.utalca.cl | |
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| Australia | An informal study group now exists in Sydney, based at Iris Communications. Contact Jayant Joshi at jayant@iris.com.au | |
| Ken Blair would be interested in meeting others interested in learning disciplines. Contact him at kenblair@melbpc.org.au | ||
| Patrick Murphy in Ballarat, Australia, would like to meet with others to learn more about learning organizations and the five disciplines. Contact him at beefline@netconnect.com.au | ||
| Ruth Morgan wishes to join a study group in Sydney. Contact her at: nadal@msn.com | ||
| Asia |
(General): Dr. Tuck-Wai Koh, an international OD/change management consultant, would like to start discussion groups in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Singapore, Hongkong, and Jakarta (Indonesia.) Contact him at: twkoh8@pc.jaring.my. He adds: I'll share my working paper on "Mind-body-spirit development in Personal Mastery" with those who are interested. CHINA: We are a group of entrepreneurs based in Shanghai, China. We meet every two weeks to discuss and support each other for practicing organizational learning in our companies. We need new blood to join us in expanding our understandings of organizational learning practices. Please contact Frank Zen at data_scrubber@hotmail.com.
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| Guam | Also looking for suggestions on how to start the group: Therese Hart Certeza at tcerteza@ns.gu | |
| Indonesia | Andreas Winarno is "studying OL in our second program for Senior Personnel SPATI. All participants required to review and discuss application of the theory into Indonesia context. Participants always asked, "Will it be suitable to Indonesian culture?" Contact him at sespanas@rad.net.id | |
| Malaysia |
Andrew Wong, of Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia, an "Organization Oberver and Thinker" welcomes anyone to join in his study group. Email him at andrewwhs@hotmail.com. Andrew also started "QuaSyLaTic Virtual Community." Muhammad Zainuddin in Kuala Lumpur would like to start a study group.019-329-0486 or khairiltitov@hotmail.com |
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| India |
Atul would like to start a study group in the area of system dynamics and learning organizations. Email to: tripathi.a@pg.com |
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| The Phillipines | The Fifth Discipline is "very much a central concept in Management Education" at the Asian Institute of Management in metroManila. For information, one contact is Pablo M. Sarmiento, Jr. at oscarms@webquest.com | |
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| South Africa | Belinda van Wyk, a lecturer at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, together with colleagues from six other universities, would like to form a study group in South Africa: Belinda@consultus.sun.ac.za | |
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| Non-geographic | Ron Huxley would like to start an on-line study group. His website is called the Parenting Toolbox. Contact him at 559-960-2751. | |
| Spanish language | Rosario Llanos proposes a study group on learning organization and management ideas in Spanish, presumably online. Contact him at rllanos@unac.edu.co | |
| Non-profits |
Interested in any study groups related to non-profits and systems change between organizations: Cindy Myers, Executive Director, Coordinated Youth Services Council: clmyers@well.com |
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