Who's Who
The field of organizational learning has been influenced by practical scholars, scholarly practitioners and all those who have translated and implemented their work. Here are some of our heroes.
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Prominent Practitioners, Researchers & Consultants
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Peter Senge is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and the Founding Chair of SoL, the Society for Organizational Learning. He is the author of the widely acclaimed book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990), which has sold a million copies worldwide and was identified as one of the seminal management books of the last seventy-five years by Harvard Business Review in 1997. He is coauthor of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook (1994), with colleagues Charlotte Roberts, Rick Ross, Bryan Smith, and Art Kleiner; a second fieldbook on sustaining change, The Dance of Change (1999), with George Roth as an additional coauthor; and the award-winning Schools That Learn (2000), coauthored with Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Timothy Lucas, Bryan Smith, Janis Dutton, and Art Kleiner.
C. Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a founding co-director of ELIAS, a joint leadership development initiative the UN Global Compact, and SoL, along with leading multinational companies, international institutions, and NGOs. ELIAS uses the U process of presencing to help next-generation executives co-create profound systems innovations for a more sustainable world. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Center for Innovation and Knowledge Research, Helsinki School of Economics. An international action researcher, he is a co-founder of SoL and has consulted with multinational firms, international institutions, and NGOs in the United States, Europe, and Asia. With his colleagues, Otto has used presencing to facilitate profound innovation and change processes both within companies and across societal systems. He lives with his wife and their two children in Boston, Massachusetts. More information can be found at www.ottoscharmer.com.
Beth Jandernoa is an organizational learning consultant who divides her time between the U.S. and South Africa. The scope of her work includes leadership development, dialogue, large-scale participative change interventions, as well as mentoring programs for emerging women leaders. Beth established and directed a Corporate College for Executive Leadership for a $3 billion company with 48,000 employees. She has over 20 years of experience with business, healthcare, education, government, and community non-profit clients. Her recent clients have included Hewlett-Packard, Intel, BP, and Detroit Edison. Beth has taught the SoL Core Course since 1995 and has served on the faculty for Columbia University and University of Michigan's Advanced Program in Organization Development, and for the 10-month Leadership for Collective Intelligence Course offered by Dialogos.
Arawana Hayashi is Chair of the Shambhala Art Council and is a senior meditation teacher in the Shambhala tradition. She was recently a senior teacher in residence at Karme Choling meditation center in Vermont. Arawana is also Artistic Director of the Jo Ha Kyu Performance Group in Cambridge, which presents contemporary and Bugaku dance concerts nationally. As co-director of Naropa University's Dance Program from 1975-1980, she was asked by Chogyam Trungpa to study and incorporate Bugaku into the body of Shambhala Arts.
Joseph Jaworski is founder of the American Leadership Forum, a nongovernmental agency responsible for developing collaborative leadership; cofounder of the Global Leadership Initiative; and founding partner of Generon Consulting. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed book Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership and co-author of recently released Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future.
Adam Kahane, cofounder of Generon Consulting, is an expert in the design and facilitation of processes that help diverse groups of people work together to sense and actualize emerging futures. He has worked with corporate, civil society and government leaders in more than 50 countries and is author of Solving Tough Problems, An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities.
Robert Hanig currently maintains a private consulting practice. He was formerly a partner with Dialogos International, LLC., as well as a Vice President with Innovation Associates, Inc. and Arthur D. Little, and the Director of the Leadership Practice. At ADL, Robert directed both the companies’ public training offerings and in-house programs for clients focused on large system change. Robert’s client list includes Motorola, British Petroleum (BP), Intel, Nike, AT&T, UNOCAL, Shell Oil, SABIC, and the World Bank. He also works extensively with Peter Senge and was a member of the governing council of the SoL.
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