PRESENTERS

Anne Murray Allen is Director of Willamette University’s Executive Development Center located at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management.  She had a long career in high tech industry in a variety of executive  management positions that span manufacturing, strategic planning, strategic change,  IT and knowledge management.  She has also worked for years as a consultant to organizations in both the public and private sectors. Anne, Dennis, and Nick Zeniuk have offered retreats to global audiences on the nature of performance in social systems.    

Dennis Sandow is the president of his consulting firm, Reflexus. He will be co-instructing in both session two and session three. Since 1987 he has been developing social action research as a process to promote social, biological and financial well-being, and to study Dr. Humberto Maturana’s biology of cognition and biology of love. Dennis is a research member of SoL and has been conducting social action research in the U.S., Sweden, and China.  Dennis has worked with Fortune 100 organizations, non-profits, national, state, and local government organizations. He has published numerous articles on social systems, value creating networks, and social action research. Dennis has also created and  published a primer on The Accomplishment Model- a systemic tool to building coordinated action across organizations.

Nick Zeniuk is a former Ford executive who developed the 95/98 Lincoln Continental, the subject of the MIT case study, “Car Launch” and Goleman’s “Working with Emotional Intelligence”—he collaborated with Peter Senge and Dr. Edward Deming in building the Lincoln Team. Nick Zeniuk is also a founding member and former trustee of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) and a steward of the Knowledge and Innovation Network (KINSoL). After retiring from Ford in 1995, Nick began working as a consultant, executive coach, lecturer and research affiliate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nick is also an adjunct faculty member at Arizona State University, visiting Professor at Jinan University, China and member of the Advisory Board for the Confucius Entrepreneurial Institute, China.

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