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Gary
Austin
For more than 24 years Gary has been a facilitator and consultant
with clients across all industries, in the private, public and
third sectors. He worked as a senior consultant in an in-house
consultancy before co-developing/founding circleindigo in 1999.
Gary has wide experience of group, collaborative and participative
working and has specialised in the design and facilitation of
change based workshops and interventions including strategic,
business and project planning, requirements definition, problem
solving/issue resolution, project lifecycle, partnering, change
and transition, team development and Joint Application Development
(JAD) workshops.
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Gilbert Brenson-Lazan
Social
Psychologist with thirty-three years of international experience
in facilitation, training and consulting, he has pioneered professional
facilitation in Latin America. He is author of 28 books, founder
of the Neo-Humanist Foundation, former Vice-Chair International
of the International Association of Facilitators - IAF and Co-Founder
and Past President of the Global Facilitator Service Corps. As founder
and principal of Amauta International, he optimizes the effectiveness
of those who facilitate, lead and manage processes of sustainable
cultural transformation in organizations and communities.
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Izzy
Gesell
Izzy
Gesell, MS Ed, CSP is an "organizational alchemist." As
a keynote speaker, workshop leader, professional facilitator and
presentation coach his skill is in transforming something commonplace
into something special.His humorously serious and seriously humorous
programs help people thrive and prosper during these difficult,
changing times as they become more confident, positive, spontaneous
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Mirja Hanson
Mirja
P. Hanson is a facilitator, trainer and management consultant specializing
in organizational development, participatory decision-making, strategic
planning, policy consensus building, and community and leadership
development. She develops collaborative processes to enable groups
to transform input and discussion into shared decisions, working
agreements, and focused action. Among her many civic activities,
Mirja was the first president of Global Facilitator Service Corps.
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Viv
McWaters
"I
once wanted to be an astronomical photographer but settled for agricultural
journalist. I worked in government for many years doing publicity,
community education, training and strategy development. One thing
led to another and now I blog, work with groups doing leadership
and other development programs, play with process, deliver some
interactive training and mentoring and generally love being alive...I
also offer some training courses for others who want to learn how
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Sybil
Stershic
Sybil is a nationally known marketing & organizational advisor
and leading authority on engaging employees through internal marketing.
She is the author of Taking Care of the People Who Matter Most:
A Guide to Employee-Customer Care and the Quality Service
Marketing blog. She founded Quality Service Marketing in 1988
to provide internal marketing, customer-focused marketing training,
and mission-focused strategic planning to clients in service-based
industries. Active in leadership and professional development,
Sybil is a former Chairman of the American Marketing Association
(AMA) and served on a U.S. Census Bureau Advisory Committee. In
addition to serving on the GFSC Advisory Council, she is a member
of BoardSource and the International Association of Facilitators.
"Since
I first learned about GFSC, I've been impressed with the work
its dedicated volunteers do to enable communities to help themselves
in the wake of crises or change. I feel strongly about GFSC's
mission and am honored to serve on its Advisory Council."
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Stephen Thorpe
Stephen
Thorpe is a group facilitator, researcher and trainer who specialises
in online groups. With a background in researching and teaching
computer assisted group work. Stephen assists leaders, facilitators
and groups in online communication and group process to bring about
change through the bringing together of community organisation and
the internet....Working with Zenergy (New Zealand), Stephen 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 benefits of story in online relationship
development.
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Julia
Young
Julia
Young is a co-founder of Facilitate.com, developer of web meeting
software whose signature product, FacilitatePro, offers collaboration
tools for innovative thinking and decision making. Julia has over
20 years of experience as a facilitator and process consultant,
the last fifteen of which have been focused on the integration of
collaboration technology into group processes. Combining the logical
mind of an engineer and a facilitator's attention to group dynamics,
Julia seeks to explore how technology can augment the effectiveness
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