CONFERENCES
Convergence 97
Convergence 1997
A. Beeler Gauz
- President of the Quality College, Phillip Crosby Associates
- Vice President of Research and Development for Proudfoot
Alex N. Pattakos, Ph.D.
- Author of Innovating Through Public/Private Sector Partnerships
- Contributing author to many works focused on learning organizations, innovation and change in organizations
- A Convergence 97 Director
Alison Strickland
- Co-founder of Applied Creativity, Inc.
- Co-developer of the Diversity Game
- A Convergence 97 Director
Amy Kraushaar
- Partner, IdeaLab, Leo Burnett Company
Anne Durrum Robinson
- President of Creativity, Communication and Common Sense
Ann Herrmann-Nedhi
- Ned Herrmann Group, Inc.
- Whole Brain Business
- A Convergence 97 Director
Arthur (Andy) VanGundy, Ph.D.
- President of VanGundy & Associates, Inc.
- Author of 9 books on creativity including Techniques of Structured Problem Solving, IdeaPower, and Brain Boosters for Business Advantage
Betty Edwards, Ed.D.
- Author of the best-selling Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and Drawing on the Artist Within
- Director of the Brain-Ed Center, California State University, Long Beach
Bobby M. Phillips, Ph.D.
- Research Fellow with Eastman Chemical Co.
- Holds 40 patents
- Has managed many major, multi-million dollar programs.
Charles W. Prather, Ph.D.
- President of CW Prather Associates, Inc.
- Author of Blueprints for Innovation
- A Convergence 97 Director
Charlie Hawkins
- President of Seahawk Associates, Inc.
- Author of First Aid for Meetings
- Instructor at the Chicago Graduate School of Business
Christine Valenza
- President of Art4Change
- Noted graphic recorder
- A Convergence 97 Director
Craig Ellerbroek
- Director, Strategic Planning & Technology, Integrated Business Solutions, Lockheed Martin
- A Convergence 97 Director
Daniel Aronson
- Systems thinking consultant with Gould Kreutzer Associates
- Host of the Thinking Page
Dan Poynter
- Author of 70 books including Is There a Book Inside You? and The Self-Publishing Manual
David M. Horth
- Program Manager, Creativity, Center for Creative Leadership
Deanna Berg Ed. D.
- President of Innovation Strategies International
- speaker
- trainer
- consultant
- A Convergence 97 Director
Deborah Potts, Ph.D.
- President, Deborah Potts & Associates
Gary Muszynski
- President and founder of One World Music
G. Lynne Snead
- Developer and Program Director of Franklin Quest's "Creating Results" program
- Co-author of To Do, Doing, Done! A Creative Approach to Managing Projects and Finishing What Matters Most
Gordon MacKenzie
- Author of Orbiting the Giant Hairball, A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace
- Former Creative Paradox with Hallmark Cards
Grace McGartland
- Author of Thunderbolt Thinking
Ian Wigston
- President of Ian Wigston & Associates
Jack Johnson
- Internal organizational management consultant for the Smithsonian Institution
James M. Higgins, Ph.D.
- Author of Innovate or Evaporate and 101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques
- A Convergence 97 Director
Jeff Miller
- 4-H Youth Development, North Dakota State University Extension
Jennifer Kirby
- Human Resources Supervisor, Washoe Health System
Jerry McNellis
- President of The McNellis Company
Jerry Rhodes
- Director, Joint Development Resources
Jim Miller
- Executive VP/CFO, Washoe Health System
Jim Pierce
- St. Onge Company
- A Convergence 97 Director
Joe Miguez
- Principal of Expanding Thought
- Co-author of The Journey: A Fable
John J. Cimino
- CEO of Creative Leaps International
- Speaker, consultant and performer in the areas of creativity, innovation and the history, philosophy and cultural implications of science.
John E. Renesch
- Editor/publisher of The New Leaders newsletter
- Editor of several volumes on leadership and new business trends
- Serves on the World 2000 advisory board for the World Future Society
- He was recently featured in a four-page Industry Week article that stated, this California businessman is out to help business save the world ...
John Snyder
- Vice-President, Collaborative Action Associates
Jordan Ayan
- CEO of Create-It!, Inc.
- Author of Aha! - 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideas, speaker and consultant
- A Convergence 97 Director
Joyce Wycoff
- Executive Director, Innovation Network
- Author of Mindmapping
- Co-author of Transformation Thinking
Larry Axline
- Chief Operating Officer, Holt Consulting Group
Lars Kolind
- President of Oticon Holding A/S.
Leslie Hollander
- Expanding Thought
- A Convergence 97 Director
Linda Booth Sweeney
- Author of The Systems Thinking Playbook, Volume I and II
- Facilitator, and educator and researcher with the Organizational Learning Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lindsay Collier
- President of Creative Edge Associates
- Author of Get Out of Your Thinking Box, The Whack-A-Mole Theory, Organizational Mental Floss, and Quotations to Tickle Your Brain
- A Convergence 97 Director
Liz Monroe-Cook
- President, Monroe-Cook & Associates
- A Convergence 97 Director
Lynda Curtin
- Founder and President of The Opportunity Thinker
- Certified instructor of many de Bono thinking techniques
- A Convergence 97 Director
Marilyn Schoeman Dow
- Creative Strategist, ThinkLink
Nancy Myers
- President of Seeds for Change
- A Convergence 97 Director
Ned Herrmann
- Author of The Creative Brain and The Whole Brain Business Book
Ray Payn
- President of Consulting Force
- Author of Consultant's Little Instruction Book
- Developer of this Web site
- A Convergence 97 Director
Richard J. Sojka, Ph.D.
- Senior Engineering Specialist, Boeing
Richard Tait, Ph.D.
- President, RHTait Associates
- Founding member of DuPont's Center for Creativity and Innovation.
Rick Gutherie
- Manager, Ford (MP&L) Organizational Learning Center
- A Convergence 97 Director
Robert Alan Black
- President of Creative Leadership Services
- Author of Broken Crayons, Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines
Robert G. Tucker
- President of The Innovation Resource
- Author of Win the Value Revolution, Winning the Innovation Game and Managing the Future: 10 Driving Forces of Change
Rob Frankel
- President, Frankel & Associates
Suzanne Merritt
- President of InSightOut
- Developer of Polaroid's Creativity and Innovation Lab
Ted Coulson
- Co-Founder of Applied Creativity, Inc.
- Co-developer of the Diversity game
- A Convergence 97 Director
Terry Tallis
- Business Planning Manager, Hewlett Packard Inkjet Supplies Business Unit
Theresa Brelsford
- Senior executive at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Tim Richardson
- President, Total Development Resources, Inc.
- Co-author of Transformation Thinking
Tom Drucker
- President, Center for Corporate Innovation.
- A Convergence 97 Director
Tom Kasten
- Vice-President, Levi Strauss & Co.
- Held a variety of positions in his 30 years at Levi's, from marketing research to President of the Womenswear Division and from Executive Vice President of New Business Development where he led the leveraged buyout of his company to his current position in Business Reengineering and Customer Service Implementation
Tom Samsel
- Vice-President of Corporate Training, Springfield ReManufacturing Corp.
Warren Lyons
- Founder and director of the Joy of Singing! seminar
- Award-winning theatrical producer