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Aaron is the owner of ClockworkWP. He has built sites for companies of all shapes and sizes, ranging from small nonprofits to Fortune 100 companies, since beginning his work with WordPress in 2008. An organizer for WordCamp Atlanta and the Atlanta WordPress Meetup, Aaron provides leadership and speaks regularly at events throughout the WordPress community.

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https://www.eosworldwide.com/stas-balanevsky

Stas Balanevsky

As a seasoned entrepreneur and Certified EOS Implementer, Stas Balanevsky has aunique understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by business owners.With over 30 years of experience across diverse industries, including healthcare, digitalmarketing and media, sporting goods, and international finance, Stas has developed awell-rounded skillset and a passion for helping others succeed.

Starting his first business at just 13 years old, Stas has nurtured a lifelong love forentrepreneurship and the drive to push others to achieve their goals. In addition to hiswork as a Certified EOS Implementer, Stas is a highly sought-after speaker, a memberof the Western New York Vistage trusted advisor group, an Entrepreneurial LeapCollaborator and serves on the board of the Holimont Ski Club.

When Stas is not working, he can be found on the slopes of said Holimont Ski Resort oron the water, enjoying his passions for skiing and sailing. He is married with two adultchildren and loves traveling the globe with his family and friends.

Stas brings a unique combination of expertise, passion, and entrepreneurial spirit to hiswork, making him a valuable asset to any organization seeking to achieve its goals andreach new heights.

David Gurteen is a keynote speaker and conversational facilitator specializing in knowledge management, organizational learning, and conversational leadership. He gives keynote talks, organizes knowledge cafés, and conducts workshops globally.

He is best known for creating the Gurteen Knowledge Café. This conversational process brings people together to learn from each other, share experiences, and make sense of a rapidly changing, complex world.

He also publishes a monthly Knowledge Letter, which has been running for 24 years.

Currently, he is developing a website and writing on an online book (a blook) on Conversational Leadership.

Conversational leadership is an emerging discipline that recognizes the power of conversation and takes a conversational approach to working together effectively in a complex world.  It embraces principles like distributed leadership, skilful conversation, and nurturing community, seeing leadership as a choice and conversation as critical for sensemaking, relationships, decisions, and action.

An Introduction to Conversational Leadership

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Joost Visser

There’s an African proverb that says it takes a whole village to raise a child. Likewise, it takes a whole community to build a successful business that can grow and contribute to a healthy economy, people and planet.This is the motto of CONNECTS/TIAO, a specialist in the enabling technology and collaborative capabilities needed for business engagement and collaboration co-founded by Joost in 2016.Joost started his career in fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) where he developed a broad expertise in the areas of sales, marketing, strategy development and general management in executive roles in various countries around the world.Since 2006 Joost has been helping small, medium and large organizations in private, public and non-profit sectors to transform their organizations to become more efficient and effective and more sustainable.

Doug Smith

Doug Smith is the architect of Performance-Driven Change and Cohort Approach to scaling change. He is a former McKinsey & Company partner and author of books ranging from 19th century African history to the birth of the information age to managing change to the classic text about teams to a moral philosophy for the 21st century. Performance-Driven Change, like Strategic Doing, is grounded in core principles required to address complex problems and collaborations. The tools and methods have been used to drive both performance (real results) and change (new capabilities) across more than sixty different industries and fields – at both the enterprise as well as entire field level.

Ed Morrison

Ed Morrison is co-CEO of Strategic Doing Networks and Senior Research Fellow of The Conference Board. He developed Strategic Doing, a discipline to accelerate collaboration and innovation in open, loosely connected networks. He is co-author of the book, Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership (Wiley, 2019).

Ed started his career in Washington, DC, where he was legislative assistant to an Ohio congressman, staff attorney in the Office of Policy Planning for the Federal Trade Commission, and a staff member for the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. In that role, he managed floor legislation involving tax, trade, and competitiveness.

He then joined a corporate strategy consulting firm, where he conducted strategy studies for large companies like Ford, Volvo, and General Electric. After this work, Ed consulted with communities and regions on how to tackle the complex challenges of building a prosperous economy in an era of globalization. Frustrated with existing approaches to these issues, more than 25 years ago he began working on Strategic Doing. Over 2,000 practitioners have taken the basic course, and the discipline, which can be taught in multiple languages, is spreading globally.

Ed began his academic career in 2003 as director of the Center for Regional Economic Issues at Case Western Reserve University. In 2005, he moved to Purdue University, where he was a member of the professional staff at the Purdue Center for Regional Development. In 2016, he founded the Agile Strategy Lab at Purdue. In 2020, he founded the Agile Strategy Lab at the University of North Alabama. He received his B.A. degree cum laude with Honors from Yale University and both his J.D and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Virginia. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at the University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia). His dissertation details his journey to develop and deploy Strategic Doing.

Susan Hanley is a business analyst and information architect specializing in the design, development, and implementation of successful knowledge management, collaboration, and intranet solutions based on SharePoint and Microsoft 365. She is a Microsoft M365 Apps and Services MVP and the co-author of the Essential SharePoint book series. She also writes the Essential SharePoint blog for https://www.computerworld.com

Prior to establishing an independent consulting practice, Sue led the Portals, Collaboration, and Content Management practice for Dell Professional Services and was the Director of Knowledge Management for American Management Systems. Follow Sue on Twitter @susanhanley.

Kristina Mirchuk has experience in continuous education, employee and organizational development, mainly, and experience in the automotive and mechanical engineering sectors. She has a with strong background in international knowledge management and talent management at international level, with 16 years of experience in:

Conducting competency-based assessments

Talent acquisition

Developing and implementing talent management programs.

Kristina has experience in designing and delivering training programs and coaching sessions, collaborating with other consultants and professionals, and staying up-to-date with developments in the field of knowledge management and talent management.

Current technical activities include:

One of the founders of Geist consultancy ( www.geistconsultancy.com ), a strategic consultancy company, with focused on competence-based knowledge management

Vice president of the Knowledge Management association of knowledge (D-A-C-H) GfWM ( www.gfwm.de )

Member of the board of the knowledge Management association at KMGN ( www.kmgn.com )

Head of a research group focused on knowledge management and resilience,

connecting with and building relationships with other knowledge management practitioners, and contributing to the creation and sharing of knowledge, resources, techniques, and strategies related to knowledge management.

The co-author of the international study: BLUE BOOK-state on actual KMer profile 2023: https://sites.google.com/view/km-global-network/future-view/state-of-km-2023-globallocal-survey-results

A study of the status of knowledge managers at international level.

EU Year of Skills

Michael Gates is Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School and owner of Michael Gates CrossCulture.

He is an internationally recognised teacher and writer on cross-cultural management and speaks regularly at large corporate and government events.

At Saïd Business School, Michael is a regular contributor to the Oxford Programme on Negotiation. He has also taught on many custom programmes for organisations including China Construction Bank, Equinor, the European Patent Office and Bank of China. He is a regular contributor to open enrolment programmes at the Royal Swedish Technical University. He has provided cross-cultural training in more than 40 countries to corporations and organisations such as Nokia, the World Bank, Microsoft, Rolls-Royce, Statoil, the UN,Takeda, King, ByteDance (owner of TikTok), the EU and the Finnish and Swedish governments as part of their preparations for the EU presidency.

Michael was previously with Richard Lewis Communications from 1990, first as Managing Director of the Finnish company and subsequently as Nordic Regional Director. He was appointed Group Managing Director in 2000 and Vice Chairman in 2012. He previously worked for Linguarama in Finland, and prior to that, as production assistant and producer at Piccadilly Radio in Manchester, with many presenters who went on to become household names in the United Kingdom, including Chris Evans, Timmy Mallett, Nick Robinson and Brian Cox.

In 1997 Michael came up with and implemented a concept for the world’s first online cross-cultural assessment and cultural data resource, CultureActive. It currently has a database of over 100,000 users. He has been published in dozens of newspapers and magazines on cross-cultural matters, including the Daily Telegraph, La Tribune, People Management and the HR Director. Michael has also contributed chapters to books published in the United Kingdom, Finland, Denmark and India. In 2002 he received the Most Innovative Technology Award for CultureActive at the US Center for International Business and Education conference, hosted by Duke Fuqua Business School and the University of North Carolina. Two recent programmes he worked on for Video Arts, on remote teams and cross-cultural teams, both won awards from World Media Festivals – the latter getting the Grand Award for best training video overall.

Michael has an MA in English Language and Literature from St Catherine’s College, Oxford. He was awarded a college scholarship for being placed in the First Class in Honour Moderations.

Article on DEI and Cross-Culture: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelgatescrossculture/recent-activity/posts/

Anglo-Saxon pragmatism v French Cartesian logic: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/oxford-answers/negotiating-brexit-cultural-perspective

Clark Quinn, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of Quinnovation, Co-Director of the Learning Development Accelerator, and Chief Learning Strategist for Upside Learning. With more than four decades of experience at the cutting edge of learning, Dr. Quinn is an internationally known speaker, consultant, and author of seven books. He combines a deep knowledge of cognitive science and broad experience with technology into strategic design solutions that achieve innovative yet practical outcomes for corporations, higher-education, not-for-profit, and government organizations.

consult: quinnovation.com

blog: learnlets.com

society: ldaccelerator.com

role: upsidelearning.com

advise: elevator9.com

books: quinnovation.com/books.html

revolution book: quinnovation.com/books/revolutionize.html

Award-winning knowledge manager and researcher with proven expertise developing and delivering corporate knowledge services that spotlight global industry insights and trend observations, and open windows of innovation opportunities. Dedicated project team leader and collaborator who motivates diverse teams to achieve outstanding results.

Andrew is recognized globally across Arup www.arup.com as a subject matter expert on Knowledge Management especially around capturing and applying Lessons Learnt and Communities of Practice (COP). Andrew has designed and delivered numerous innovative and engaging workshops with employees from numerous disciplines up to executive level.

He engages with a number of respected KM (Knowledge Management) Networks globally to listen, learn and contribute to the debates around all aspects of KM

He’s also delivered talks around the world at KM Conferences mainly discussing how to capture experiential knowledge but also how it can be applied in day to day project work and through COPS

Outside of his family, he loves Cricket, the TV Series West Wing, the writings of Tolkien, Early Music, Japan and its culture and the mighty Pink Floyd.

Andrew retains a passionate curiosity about the world and want to challenge employers to deliver better KM for knowledge workers to fulfill their dreams.

https://www.kyotojournal.org/culture-arts/shokunin-and-devotion/

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