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WORKSHOP PRESENTER PROFILES
These profiles are
based on information provided by presenters. Profiles are organised
alphabetically by surname and by the date on which workshop
sessions
are being presented.
Some sessions are still to be finalised and this information may
change.
See also Workshop Descriptions and Presenters
and Concurrent Workshops Program
Wed
26 November - Concurrent Sessions 1 & 2
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Martin Butcher has a PhD in Community
Engagement and Participatory Development. Martin has 20 years of
experience in working with communities around development projects and
in training government officers in community engagement. Martin was
part of the team that developed the Victorian Department of
Sustainability and Environment’s 'Effective
Engagement Kit' and the highly respected community engagement planning
training
package.
Brendan McKeague of the Open Space
Institute of Australia has worked, played and
experimented with
facilitation and nonviolent peace-making for the past thirty years. He
has
explored the potential for aligning the purpose of his profession with
his
purpose for being on the planet at this time in history – and he’s
enjoying
the space that continues to open!
Fr Brian Bainbridge has applied this way of facilitation
in many countries with all sorts of organizations and he continues to
be surprised how effective, efficient and constructive are the
outcomes. Some stories will show the depth and quality emerging
from 'letting- go' facilitation.
Glen Ochre and Ed McKinley have been
independent facilitators since 1984 and are co-founders of Groupwork
and Commonground which are committed to enabling a more just
and sustainable society. To complement our facilitation
work, we now offer a Year Long Diploma in Advanced Group Facilitation,
and offer twice per year a 2 day Introduction to Facilitation – which
our 180 min session is based on.
Nigel
Russell relishes engaging and helping others engage at a
distance. From a
decade in public broadcasting, to now helping people run engaging
webinars,
powerful online meetings, and hybrid events (eg online and physical
conferences),
Nigel is learning new tips and techniques every week on how to build
participation and interaction across distance and time. He draws on
experiences like introducing distance education in the Gobi desert, to
pushing webinars into the Simpson desert.
Carla Rogers’ boundless energy and curious mind have
seeded new approaches to coaching, facilitation and making large
meetings work
for a diverse range of people and clients in the business, public and
community sectors. Carla has created meeting marketplace™, an engaging
and highly
acclaimed approach to large meeting facilitation. She was on the board
of
the IAF for 6 years and created the Leading Lights series.
Nigel and Carla with a passion for the effectiveness and possibilities
for meeting at a distance have joined forces to create NoMAD
meetings
– for the nomad and for those who are equally excited about working at
a
distance for the triple bottom line – making economic, environmental
and
lifestyle sense, taking the madness out of it all!
Dr. Shankar Sankaran is an Associate Professor at University of
Technology Sydney and teaches Masters students in project management
using interactive methods such as drama, role plays and simulations.
Shankar has facilitated search conferences, open space technology
meetings, knowledge cafes and
‘rich picture’ sessions in soft systems thinking applications.
Dr.
Stewart Hase is a psychologist, academic and consultant. He is
largely involved in the application of psychotherapeutic principles in
understanding and improving working life.
Dr Tom Schwarz helps organizations, teams and people
unfetter and realize their aspirations and potential – focusing around
facilitative leadership and management development, and team
effectiveness
and creativity – as keys to enhanced organizational agility and
performance.
He is a Certified Professional Facilitator (International
Association of Facilitators - IAF), CPF Assessor, IAF Board
member and IAF ANZ Regional Representative with broad formal and
informal facilitation, training and consulting background and
experience across the Asia-Pacific region. His company group – Kinnogene
- uses participatory and values based approaches to bring about
enduring change. These are grounded in the core values embodied
in such practices as Future Search, World Café, the
Technology of Participation, Improv etc.
Rhonda Tranks of Telos Partners Australia Pty Ltd has over 24 years experience in:
consulting, management, HR, group facilitation, training and education.
She has particular expertise in: Organisational and Cultural Change,
Group and Conference Facilitation, Strategic Direction Setting and
Planning, Experiential Learning, Coaching and Executive Search. Her
management and consulting experience has been
developed in a variety of roles and industries in Australia, Mexico,
USA
and Europe.
Thur
27 November - Concurrent Sessions 3, 4, 5 & 6
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Sue
Bull is a trained teacher who has spent the past 20 years in adult
education facilitation especially in the area of developing parent and
community partnerships. Sue
has worked with a range of community organisations, facilitating
programs
with Centacare Catholic Welfare, Community Aid agencies, Holsworthy
Army
Barracks and Mulawa Goal. In the education sector Sue has worked
with TAFE Colleges and two Catholic Education Offices where she has
held
the positions of Parent Liaison Officer.
Sue is passionate about the dynamics of ‘good’ facilitation and
enabling and empowering participants in their learning journey.
Ian Colley, Chia Moan, Monica Redden & Annie Talvé
of Make Stuff Happen are a team of highly experienced,
eclectic, curious, multi-skilled, relentlessly experimental
facilitators with over 100 years of facilitation experience between
them. From the board room to street kids at risk; from the art gallery
to the steel mill – they’ve done it all.
Helen Colman was a secondary teacher before moving into
consultancy work and her current role as Education Officer -
Professional Learning. She is an Accredited facilitator of ‘The 7
Habits of Highly Effective People’; leadership programs for school
executive teams, mentors, teacher supervisors, early career teachers;
and coordinator of facilitator network for colleagues in the Catholic
Schools Office.
Global
Learning designs, develops and works with interactive technology
that supports events where groups of people are gathering to share
ideas, raise key issues, plan and make decisions. These sessions can be
run virtually or face-to face. This work has involved groups of 6 to
more than 400. They have designed and facilitated learning
programs since 1988. A key element of their approach is use of
interactive web technology to provide a blended learning approach to
facilitating program design and delivery. This approach has
been applied to large-scale change programs, organisation-wide
leadership development, and team programs.
Dr. Dale Hunter is a group facilitator, mediator, coach,
and author in the field of facilitation. Dale is co-founder of Zenergy
Ltd. which is a co-operative enterprise based in New Zealand
working to achieve a vision of Whole people co-operating in a
sustainable world.
Dale also co-championed the IAF Code of Ethics and has been involved at
board
level with the IAF.
Stephen Thorpe is a facilitator specialising in the
online domain and trains others in online facilitation. Working with Zenergy,
he has been researching ways to enhance the effectiveness of online
groups. His PhD explores facilitation as a vital domain in assisting
online groups with a focus on the benefit of story and narrative in
online relationship development. Stephen is the Secretary of the
International Association of Facilitators (IAF) and the Editor-in-Chief
of the IAF’s Group Facilitation: A Research and Applications Journal.
Glen Ochre
and Ed McKinley have been independent facilitators since 1984
and are co-founders of Groupwork and Commonground which
are committed to enabling a more just and sustainable society. To
compliment their facilitation work, Glen & Ed now offer a Year Long
Diploma in Advanced Group Facilitation, and offer twice per year a 2
day Introduction to Facilitation.
Joan Firkins of Facilitation Works is an Adelaide based facilitator
with over 25 years experience in facilitation both in Australia and the
U.S. and has worked extensively with community groups enabling
participative planning towards effective governance at a local level.
Joan is a psychology graduate with a focus in the field of
organisational psychology and human resources. Joan has also
worked with Dale Hunter and Stephen Thorpe to co-champion the IAF
Statement of Values and Code of Ethics as part of
a two year international task force. Her work supports just and
sustainable change processes.
Greg
Jenkins has 10 years experience as an independent change
agent/facilitator.
Greg works with business, education and community organisations using a
universal
toolkit across all sectors. Greg is founder of TinCAN Learning
which
develops and delivers blended learning programs including QUEST |
Change
Track (intermediate to advanced level) and Frontline Leaders Intensive
(everyone).
Greg is coordinator of the Sydney Facilitators Network and Co-Convenor
of
the 11th International conference in Experiential Learning.
Shirley
O'Toole has a BA:Social Sciences, M.AppSci:Social Ecology with 20
years
in human services, facilitating occasionally throughout those 20 years,
more focused in the last few years
Leading his own consulting company for 20 years Peter Rennie of
Leadership
Australia has worked with dozens of
companies ranging
from BHP Billiton to Zurich Insurance as well as with many government
departments
and universities. His background has been in medicine, psychotherapy
and
family therapy. He has been a national award winner for his work with
feedback
systems and is the author of "The Power Of Feedback". He is currently
writing
a book on the role organisational structure plays in shaping
behaviour.
Cindy Tonkin is the Consultants' Consultant. She has
a background in Linguistics, NLP and more than 20 years experience as a
corporate consultant and trainer. Cindy has been improvising for 8
years,
and formed Ludic Creative in 2006 to help organisations use
impro to build new ways of working when they restructure or change
leadership
teams. Her client base is broad ranging, and in 2008 includes
CBA,
Toyota Financial Services, the Cancer Council of Victoria, NSW Police
and
DOCs.
Fri
28 November - Concurrent Sessions 7 & 8
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Hedy Bryant
currently works and practices facilitative leadership in the area of
organisational culture, change management and leadership development at
Charles Sturt University. Hedy is a Certified Professional
Facilitator (International Association of Facilitators - IAF),
has completed Modules 1-5 of Facilitative Leadership, Technology of
Participation (ToP) and is a member of the Institute of Cultural
Affairs. Hedy has a diverse background in natural resource
management with a Masters in Environmental Management, corporate
governance, community education and development, and most recently
organisational development. It is this broad background that informs
and assists her facilitation practice
Andrew Gaines has 25 years experience as a creativity
trainer, psychotherapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. He is
trained in The Natural Step. He has written Creative
Conversations and Evolving a World That Works. Andrew is the
convener of the Alliance for Sustainable Wellbeing.
Graeme Gibson of Real Options has been a consultant for more
than 10 years and has extensive experience in adult education. Graeme
has a strong interest in small group discussion and the sort of
learning that takes
place accidentally or incidentally along with community engagement in
public
policy issues.
Greg
Jenkins has 10 years experience
as an independent change agent/facilitator. Greg works with business,
education
and community organisations using a universal toolkit across all
sectors.
Greg is founder of TinCAN Learning which develops and delivers
blended
learning programs including QUEST | Change Track (intermediate to
advanced
level) and Frontline Leaders Intensive (everyone). Greg is coordinator
of
the Sydney Facilitators Network and Co-Convenor of the 11th
International conference in Experiential Learning.
Shirley
O'Toole
has a BA:Social Sciences, M.AppSci:Social Ecology with 20 years in
human
services, facilitating occasionally throughout those 20 years, more
focused
in the last few years
Carla Rogers’
boundless energy and curious mind have seeded new approaches to
coaching, facilitation and making large meetings work for a diverse
range of people and clients
in the business, public and community sectors. Carla has created
meeting
marketplace™, an engaging and highly acclaimed approach to large
meeting
facilitation, and has been recognized for the quality and originality
of
her work through international, national, state and ministerial Awards
for
excellence. Her interest in and deep commitment to helping people
discover
and develop their unique talents, strengths and confidence is at the
heart
of her business, EVOLVE Facilitation and Coaching.
Dr Tom Schwarz of Kinnogene (Australia) helps
organizations, teams and people unfetter and realize their aspirations
and potential – focusing
around facilitative leadership and management development, and team
effectiveness
and creativity – as keys to enhanced organizational agility and
performance.
He is a Certified Professional Facilitator (International
Association of Facilitators - IAF), CPF Assessor, IAF Board
member and IAF ANZ Regional Representative with broad formal and
informal facilitation, training and consulting background and
experience across the Asia-Pacific region.
Fri
28 November - Closing
Event and Evaluation
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Dr
Jessica Dart is a recognised world leader in
evaluation and has over 15 years of involvement in evaluating natural
resource programs in Australia and overseas. She specialises in the
evaluation of projects
with complex, intangible outcomes. She has a PhD in program evaluation,
an
MSc in Sustainable Agriculture, and an honours degree in Botany.
Jessica is from the UK and before coming to Australia she worked in the
field of sustainable farming systems development in the U.K., Mexico
and
India. In Australia, Jessica worked for three years with the
Evaluation
Support Team, Victorian Department of Primary Industries, helping to
develop
the Department's evaluation capability. In this work Jessica
experimented
with a wide range of evaluation approaches and techniques in addition
to
developing evaluation training packages. Jessica made significant
contributions
to the award winning evaluation framework that is used by the
Agriculture
Division.
In May 2003 Jessica became a partner of Clear Horizon and is
an independent consultant. Her recent clients are from the Australian
public sector and international development organizations. Jessica
works mainly in
the natural resource and community development sectors, but recently
has been
invited to talk to audiences from diverse sectors including
international health and education.
Sat
29 November - POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS Cancelled
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Marie Martin and Anna Alderson are Directors of Learning
Conversations, a company that works with organisations, schools and
community groups to learn through conversations. They have co-facilitated in
a variety of ways over the last 21 years. Marie undertook a study of
co-facilitation for her PhD, using our experience and that of 26 other
co-facilitators. During and since the completion of her thesis
'Understanding the Nature of the Lived Experience of Co-facilitation: a
Phenomenological Study', we have talked, lived, argued and laughed
about our co-facilitation experiences.
Dr Tom
Schwarz helps organizations, teams and people unfetter and realize
their aspirations and potential – focusing around facilitative
leadership and management development, and team effectiveness and
creativity – as keys to enhanced organisational agility and
performance.
He is a Certified Professional Facilitator (International Association
of Facilitators - IAF), CPF Assessor, IAF Board member and IAF ANZ
Regional Representative with broad formal and informal facilitation,
training and consulting background and experience. These are
derived from corporate roles (over 20 years with DEC, Apple, HP –
Training, Consulting, Sales, Marketing & Strategic Planning) and
then running his outcome-focused practice over the Asia-Pacific region
- with almost a decade of living in Asia - Singapore, Hong Kong,
Shanghai. His company group – Kinnogene - uses participatory
and values based approaches to bring about enduring change. These
are grounded in the core values embodied in such practices
as Future Search, World Café, the Technology of Participation,
Improv etc.
Tom has facilitated at many Australia and Asia IAF and AFN conferences
- his Asia-Pacific partial client list includes the Australian
Government NRM Facilitator Network, the Royal Australasia College of
Dental Surgeons, Arup (Australia), Siemens, Danone, Maersk,
Andarko, Kodak, Pirelli etc, in interventions and capacity development
roles.
He also contributes to the NGO sector, and in 2006 worked with the ICA
(Institute of Cultural Affairs) as part of a 7- person team to assist
and capacity develop East Timorese NGO and Government bodies, and with
AIESEC youth leadership development in China.
Stephen
Thorpe is a facilitator specialising in the online domain and
training
others in online facilitation. He has been researching ways to enhance
the effectiveness of online groups. His PhD explores facilitation as a
vital domain in assisting online groups with a focus on the benefit of
story and narrative in online relationship development.
Stephen is the Secretary of the International Association of
Facilitators (IAF) and the Editor-in-Chief of the IAF’s Group
Facilitation: A Research and Applications Journal. He is on the
Advisory Panel of the Global Facilitators Service Corps (GFSC),a member
of Heart Politics, The New Zealand Computer Society, Toastmasters
(District 72: Club 7686) and the Participation Community of Practice -
part of New Zealand's E-government Strategy.
Stephen holds a Zenergy Diploma of Facilitation and a Bachelor of
Business with first class honours from Auckland University of
Technology (AUT) where he has a background researching
computer-assisted group work. He is a part-time lecturer at AUT
teaching on the Human Computer Interaction paper in the Bachelor of
Business degree.
Stephen has recently written a chapter on 'The Use of Storytelling in
Building Online Group Relationships' in the Handbook of Research
on Computer Mediated Communication, and a chapter entitled
'Facilitation Online' in The Art of Facilitation by Dr. Dale
Hunter and has previously co-written a chapter with her on 'Facilitator
Values and Ethics' in the IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation.
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