People – Pioneer Knowledge Services®

Luis Suarez is a well-seasoned Social / Open Business strategist and 2.0 practitioner with over 26 years of working experience on Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Learning, Online Communities, Remote / Distributed Work and Social Networking for Business, I’m currently focusing on helping organizations make the most out of their own change management initiatives and digital transformation programs (including Social Business) by making sense of their own data analytics visualizations. In a nutshell, work smarter, not necessarily harder. Luis works for panagenda as a business developer, Digital Transformation and Data Analytics doer.

Connect with Luis on Mastodon at @elsua or via LinkedIn

Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson is a Full Professor and Director of The Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University. Her research focused on the intersection of leadership and diversity and she works with the best companies to implement evidence-based practices to develop inclusive leaders across organizations.  

She has received $3.8 million in external grant funding and presented her work at over 170 meetings around the world including the White House for a 2016 summit on diversity in corporate America. Media outlets featuring Stefanie’s work include: The Economist, Newsweek, Time, and Wall Street Journal. She has appeared on Fox, ABC, NBC, and CNN.

Dr. Johnson was recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the top 30 thought leaders in management for 2020 and named as the “authoritative voice on inclusivity and diversity.” The book was released by Harper Collins in June and is a Wall Street Journal National Bestseller and Wall Street Journal’s Book of the Month for September. Forbes, Business Insider, HRPS and SHRM listed INCLUSIFY as a must read for leaders.

“In INCLUSIFY, Stefanie Johnson takes the conversation beyond diversity, moving us closer to real inclusion and equality. Her positive spin on what we can achieve by working together will change the workplace.”

Billie Jean King. Founder, Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative

Cover-art of Because You Need To Know

Céline is a global Engagement Influencer, and helps leaders and organizations succeed and grow by engaging their clients, partners and employees.Engagement is the active mobilization of many talents, to deliver value together. This requires new leadership methods, tools and behaviors.Thanks to a rich experience in the corporate world acquired over 3 continents in large and small organizations Céline has driven award-winning engagement innovations in business and industrial environments.

Book page (publisher’s website): https://www.figure1publishing.com/book/dare-to-un-lead/

Book page (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Dare-Lead-Relational-Leadership-Fragmented-ebook/dp/B09QBRYQ6H/ref=sr_1_2

Book page (my website): https://weneedsocial.com/the-book

#leadership #unleadership #DareToUnLead #WeNeedSocial

Amit Taneja serves as the inaugural senior vice president and chief inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) officer at Chautauqua Institution. He provides leadership on several institutional priorities to make Chautauqua more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible, including the creation of the IDEA strategic plan, training, policy issues and practice updates. Amit engages with the leadership of various Chautauqua community groups and all Chautauquans on IDEA related initiatives. He consults with Chautauqua Institution groups or individuals that want to create their own IDEA related goals that support the larger IDEA strategic plan. He is especially passionate about engaged dialogue and partners with several institutional offices and personnel to infused IDEA principles and practices in the work of the staff, board and community organizations.

In his personal time, Amit enjoys gardening, flying kites, and making bow-ties, and he is a techno DJ with his own podcast. He put his bow-tie-making efforts on hold during the pandemic and made and donated more than 200 masks to essential workers, those working in health care facilities, and those at higher risk of COVID-19. He and his husband, Christopher live with their two feline overlords – Calvin and Hobbes.

John Antill is currently a Knowledge Manager at US Army Expeditionary Civilian Workforce. With over 14 years of progressively responsible knowledge management experience in complex technical roles – both military and civilian – requiring exceptional project coordination, problem solving, and management skills, John has established a track record of success by leveraging a collaborative leadership style to accomplish all short- and long-range objectives. An engaging and articulate communicator, he is able to clearly convey complex technical information and propose novel solutions to build consensus with key project stakeholders, including high-value clients and executive leadership. Furthermore, his consistent focus on remaining at the forefront of rapidly evolving technology allows him to drive enterprise-wide innovation and maintain a competitive advantage. He is an accomplished international author, writing 58 articles on knowledge management. John has spoken at several conferences nationally and internationally.

 John is on the Board of Minority Empowerment Through Technology which provides under-served college STEM students to get the technology they need to be successful in their course-ware and projects. John holds a Master of Science in Knowledge Management from Kent State University and a Master of Certified Knowledge Management from the KMInstitute.

https://realkm.com/author/john-antill/

Kevin Moffatt, Co-Founder and CEO of Valencor, is a hands-on executive leader with over 20 years of experience leading multi-national teams providing innovative enterprise solutions and services in challenging operational environments. His focus on enabling and aligning high performing teams and evolving technical approaches has consistently delivered results across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including targeting, Counter-IED, strategy and assessment, national capacity building, ISR operations, and intelligence analysis, in support of US Government and Multi-National Coalition operations around the world. He spent over two years, cumulatively, deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan during this time, working directly with stakeholders to understand and meet critical operational needs with agile solutions—credited by senior commanders with saving lives and resources.

As comfortable in the boardroom as he is in the field, Kevin led organic revenue growth of a new business portfolio in a small company to over $60M per year in seven years, which was instrumental in the company’s success. Following an acquisition by private equity in 2016 and subsequently by a large defense integrator in 2018, Kevin led successively larger business units in the C5ISR domain, ultimately managing a Profit & Loss center with over $600M in annual revenue, providing full lifecycle software development and engineering services to the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.

Kevin has an MS in Management Information Systems from Bowie State University and a BS in Legal Studies from the US Air Force Academy, where he was a Distinguished Graduate. He previously served as a US Air Force intelligence officer.

Moya (Deacon) Radley serves as Manager of Technical Capability at IAG New Zealand and is an experienced data, information and knowledge management professional, with a track record of leading teams and delivering projects. She is passionate about developing people, and encourage a collaborative and safe culture to help team members become the best that they can be, which helps to enable the delivery of valuable outcomes for organizations.

Moya started her career as a social anthropologist – and worked in that field for around 10 years in South Africa. She was particularly interested in African Philosophy, indigenous healing, and indigenous knowledge networks. After the closure of the Social Anthropology department at the university where she was teaching. Then Moya up-skilled into computers and completed an MCSD.

Her career has included both knowledge and information management roles, especially understanding that knowledge management critically needs to support what we teach our people in the corporate environment. It is a key enabler for people to be setup for success in their roles. Moya has been fortunate to have had opportunities to grow in other domains too, such as business analysis, agile, data governance and learning design and change management. Moya stated, "These skills all work together and intersect to aid my passion for adding value to people and helping to set them up for success – no matter the role I am in."

Kelly Barrett has worked for the IRS for 23 years, starting as a Data Entry Transcriber and worked his way up to a Human Resources Education and Knowledge Management Specialist.  Kelly has over 15 years of training project management experience with an expertise in eLearning course development and is a certified Instructional Designer (ISD) and Online Training Professional (COTP).

In 2014 Kelly began researching MicroLearning Videos and how they can increase retention of training. With his Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcasting, he started a program called Self-Help Online Tutorials (SHOTs).  He has since grown the program to an enterprise-wide initiative with nearly 700 SHOTs videos for all 84,000+ IRS employees to view, anytime they need to.  Kelly designed these videos to be 3-minutes or less, which are narrated, and either demonstrate a specific process or action, or they provide information or overviews on a wide range of topics. Kelly recently won the Training Officer Consortium’s Innovation Award for his SHOTs program, and he also personally won the Federal Government Distance Learning Association (FGDLA) Pioneer Award for SHOTs.

MicroLearning IRS SHOTS

Kelly met his wife while working in Data Entry at the IRS and now has two children.  He also is the head volleyball coach for the local Jr High School and coaches his daughter’s Club Volleyball team.  Kelly and his wife enjoy cooking and even published their own cookbook with over 190 recipes and are currently working on their 2nd cookbook.

https://www.govloop.com/author/kellyb94 12 Articles I wrote for GovLoop.  It’s basically a brain dump of my SHOTs program.

Dr. Cynthia “Cindy” J. Young is the Founder/CEO of CJ Young Consulting, LLC, a knowledge management consulting firm, as well as a curriculum developer and instructor with Leidos. About a decade ago, she retired as a Surface Warfare Officer after 23 years in the U.S. Navy which is where her love for knowledge management began.

She holds professional certifications as a Project Management Professional, a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and as an ASQ-Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence. Cindy is a past-Chair of ASQ Tidewater, Section 1128 in Virginia Beach as well as having held terms as the Vice Chair and Secretary.

Her doctoral study, Knowledge Management and Innovation on Firm Performance of United States Ship Repair, provided her the opportunity to gain additional professional and academic expertise to facilitate improvements in organizational knowledge management.  In September 2020, she gave a TEDx Talk called “A Knowledge Mindset: What You Know Comes from Where You Sit."

Pioneer Knowledge Systems has my permission to download and share on their site the following free Knowledge Management Short Guides as resources located at: https://www.cjyoungconsulting.com/kmshortguides/ as delineated below:

A Short Guide Using Your Email to Improve Your Organizational Knowledge Management Practice (Without Being Obvious)A Short Guide to Help Organizational Leaders Have the Potentially Uncomfortable Conversations About Knowledge HoardingA Short Guide to Reusing Knowledge That In The End Buys You Time To Do More Important Things to Pay Those BillsA Short Guide to Managing Organizational KnowledgeA Short Guide to Starting a Knowledge Management Program in Support of Organizational Goals and Demonstrating Proof of ConceptA Short Guide for Identifying the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Needed for Knowledge Transfer in Support of Succession PlanningA Short Guide to Help Organizations Identify, Share, and Transfer Knowledge After Getting the Dreaded Two-Weeks Notice"

Ana Neves

Ana is the founder and managing director of Knowman, a consulting company focused on knowledge management and enterprise social networks.

Prior to this, she has worked with public and private sector companies in different countries. In the UK, she was Knowledge Network Manager at the NHS Modernization Agency and Cultural Change Manager at Abbey National.

She is the organizer of the Social Now conference, responsible for portal KMOL, coauthor of the Social Collaboration Maturity Benchmark and author of the biannual study on Knowledge Management in Portugal and Spain.

She is passionate about people and is always seeking better ways for people to learn and interact with each other, building better organizations and a better society.

Jaap Linssen

Jaap is founder and owner of OrangeTrail and coauthor of the Social Collaboration Maturity Benchmark.

He shows organizations, teams, and individuals the benefits of social collaboration and communication. He assists multinational organizations such as Nestlé, Heineken, Booking.com, or ING bank. He specializes in large scale change programs and driving employee engagement.

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