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Diane Carazas
 Diane is a senior level bilingual (English, Spanish) professional with over twenty-five years of international and national experience working in or consulting to international development organizations, with extensive experience working in Latin America. She excels in working to optimize the potential of those around her to accomplish organizational mission and professional goals. She has managed large country offices with more than 200 staff. She believes in the collective wisdom of a group and coaches senior leaders to develop high performance teams. She inspires and provides methodologies for teams to focus on strengthening collaboration with all stakeholders through identifying a shared vision and a plan for realizing results. Her clients include Plan International, CARE, and Management Sciences for Health, Ghana Health Service, Casals, and Dana Farber Institute. Diane holds a Master’s in International Administration from the School for International Training and is a candidate for a coaching certification through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC). She also holds a certificate in strategic human resources from Wharton University. Diane is married to a Bolivian public health obstetrician and has four adult children. She enjoys indigenous dance, tennis, and gardening.
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Jim M. Davy
 James Davy provides organizational consulting expertise in the areas of performance improvement, team building and strategic planning. He is a facilitator who helps organizations develop and align vision and mission with strategic goals and action plans. Jim’s areas of focus are the not-for-profit, higher education, governmental and business sectors. For nearly 30 years, he led small to large, complex organizations in the public sector. As Commissioner of New Jersey’s largest cabinet agency he introduced such organizational change strategies as “Appreciative Inquiry” and “Open Space Technology” to create collaborative, inclusive approaches to planning and implementation. His innovative strategies led to nationally recognized human service system reforms. He also served as Chief of State Government Operations in the Office of the New Jersey Governor and before that spent 25 years as a city manager. Jim is the author of Noble Paths: Stories of People Who Serve…Discover Your Noble Purpose Through Appreciative Life Reflection.
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Loretta Donovan
 Loretta L. Donovan is a cutting edge, versatile contributor to organizational development and corporate learning. She brings perspective and professional commitment from a wealth of experience as an executive and consultant, including strategic leadership for large scale change, leadership development, performance assessment, employee engagement, and elearning.
Loretta is the Corporate Director of Organizational Learning and Leadership at Health Quest System, and has held senior internal consulting roles at St. Francis Hospital – The Heart Center, Girl Scouts of the USA, ClientSoft, Inc., Sungard HE/SCT, and the March of Dimes. As an author, her work has been published in the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, the Proceedings of the Academy of Management, the Academy of Human Resource Development Annual Proceedings, and the AMA Handbook of eLearning. She has presented at regional, international and national conferences on leadership, change management, and social media.
Loretta’s doctoral studies in Organizational Learning and Leadership at Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity are culminating in research on her original framework for organizational change, Appreciative Transformative Learning.
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Lisa Hirsh
 Lisa thrives on improving organizational performance and spirit. She integrates the business and interpersonal sides of leadership and teams so that people accomplish their goals and deepen their working relationships. Lisa concentrates on the interconnection and impact of each part of a system, leveraging the strengths of individuals, teams and the organization.
In her 28 years of organizational change experience in large and small businesses, healthcare and education, Lisa has harnessed the power of stories and uses film to capture the impact of a change initiative and a team’s learning, especially in health care.
Lisa is known for helping clients navigate thorny conflicts and has facilitated both sensitive small meetings and company-wide sessions. She has led strategic planning processes, coached senior leaders and middle managers, designed innovative approaches to mobilize organizations for change, and helped clients develop learning cultures. Lisa has led leadership development programs, and taught consulting skills and organizational change courses.
Her clients include The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pfizer, State Street, and The Government of Newfoundland.
Lisa taught the Leadership Journey at Oberlin College and has been a guest lecturer on culture change at Boston College Leadership for Social Change. She holds a C.A.S from Harvard University with a focus on organizational change, and an M.ED from Lesley University and B.A. from Oberlin College.
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Christine Whitney Sanchez
 Christine Whitney Sanchez has collaborated with leaders across four continents to build the capacity for distributed leadership and strategic collaboration.
The creator of Methods for Strategic Collaboration™, Christine has coordinated dozens of large-scale change events for corporate, government and social sector groups and has trained hundreds of facilitators around the world in strength-based approaches for self-organizing in their own communities.
Her background in depth psychology and experience in cross-sector work has positioned Christine to inspire diverse groups of collaborators to deep levels of co-learning and high performance on behalf of a meaningful cause. She has worked with executive leadership teams, has coordinated system-wide capacity building and strategic change, has facilitated intense work with intact groups, and has guided multi-party stakeholders in resolving thorny issues and generating new opportunities to increase the triple bottom line - people, prosperity and the planet.
Christine holds a B.A. from the University of Hawaii and a Master of Counseling from Arizona State University. She has brought strategic collaboration to clients such as La Liga de La Leche de Latino America, Facilitators Network Singapore, Appreciative Inquiry Network UK, KaosPilots Business School in Denmark, American Red Cross, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Northrop Grumman, Motorola, Make-A-Wish Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, the cities of Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, AZ and Aspen, CO, Digital Equipment Corporation, Arizona Diamondbacks Sales, Girl Scouts of the USA, and the United States Postal Service.
A highly sought-after conference presenter, Christine has facilitated some of the largest intergenerational conversations in the world. At the 2005 and 2008 Girl Scout National Conventions, she invited over thirteen thousand girls and adults to use their voice to create the future of the Girl Scout Movement.
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Bill Scott
 Bill is an innovative trainer with a unique blend of business and social services training. He stresses the use of strengths-based, appreciative and collaborative processes that enhance individual and organizational effectiveness. His focus is on helping others to understand what they want to achieve as opposed to what they want to avoid.
Bill is a skilled facilitator with an acknowledged ability to develop individualized, non-traditional answers to client queries while creating learning opportunities that emphasize the development of hands-on knowledge and skills that can be immediately applied. He uses adult learning techniques, including experiential exercises, group discussions, and role plays, in his work with clients. His workshops have been described as invigorating, fast-paced, and fun!
Bill’s interests cover a variety of settings including people and program valuations, community capacity building, and organizational change and renewal. Bill also assists social profit organizations in the development of self-generated revenue streams by taking advantage of social entrepreneurship opportunities and innovative financing schemes.
Bill has a BSW, an MBA and extensive training in appreciative processes, negotiation, mediation, and conflict resolution.
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Cheri Torres
 With a significant commitment to learning and innovation, Cheri is motivated by the notion that on the other side complexity there is radical simplicity and that just maybe, if we stop long enough to listen and inquire together, it will emerge! In keeping with this, she helps people and organizations work together to respond creatively and effectively to rapid change, invite positivity and high engagement into the workplace, and achieve both sustainable and evolving results. Her strong belief in the inherent capacity of people makes her focus on leadership, teamwork, culture, and organizational design a natural.
Cheri has more than 30 years experience working in the public and private sectors in the US and around the world. She has trained thousands of trainers, facilitators, and teachers in the use and practice of Appreciative Inquiry and Experiential Learning with a particular focus on shared leadership, teamwork, creativity, learning and innovation.
Cheri holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with a specialization in Collaborative Learning, an MBA, a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology, and level II certification in Spiral Dynamics Integral. She has authored or co-authored a number of books and articles including The Appreciative Facilitator: Accelerated Learning Practices, From Conflict to Collaboration, and Dynamic Relationships: Unleashing the Power of Appreciative Inquiry in Daily Living. She also co-designed and patented Mobile Team Challenge, an award-winning, portable low ropes course.
Diane Carazas
Diane is a senior level bilingual (English, Spanish) professional with over twenty-five years of international and national experience working in or consulting to international development organizations, with extensive experience working in Latin America. She excels in working to optimize the potential of those around her to accomplish organizational mission and professional goals. She has managed large country offices with more than 200 staff. She believes in the collective wisdom of a group and coaches senior leaders to develop high performance teams. She inspires and provides methodologies for teams to focus on strengthening collaboration with all stakeholders through identifying a shared vision and a plan for realizing results. Her clients include Plan International, CARE, and Management Sciences for Health, Ghana Health Service, Casals, and Dana Farber Institute. Diane holds a Master’s in International Administration from the School for International Training and is a candidate for a coaching certification through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC). She also holds a certificate in strategic human resources from Wharton University. Diane is married to a Bolivian public health obstetrician and has four adult children. She enjoys indigenous dance, tennis, and gardening.
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Jim M. Davy
James Davy provides organizational consulting expertise in the areas of performance improvement, team building and strategic planning. He is a facilitator who helps organizations develop and align vision and mission with strategic goals and action plans. Jim’s areas of focus are the not-for-profit, higher education, governmental and business sectors. For nearly 30 years, he led small to large, complex organizations in the public sector. As Commissioner of New Jersey’s largest cabinet agency he introduced such organizational change strategies as “Appreciative Inquiry” and “Open Space Technology” to create collaborative, inclusive approaches to planning and implementation. His innovative strategies led to nationally recognized human service system reforms. He also served as Chief of State Government Operations in the Office of the New Jersey Governor and before that spent 25 years as a city manager. Jim is the author of Noble Paths: Stories of People Who Serve…Discover Your Noble Purpose Through Appreciative Life Reflection.
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Loretta Donovan
Loretta L. Donovan is a cutting edge, versatile contributor to organizational development and corporate learning. She brings perspective and professional commitment from a wealth of experience as an executive and consultant, including strategic leadership for large scale change, leadership development, performance assessment, employee engagement, and elearning.
Loretta is the Corporate Director of Organizational Learning and Leadership at Health Quest System, and has held senior internal consulting roles at St. Francis Hospital – The Heart Center, Girl Scouts of the USA, ClientSoft, Inc., Sungard HE/SCT, and the March of Dimes. As an author, her work has been published in the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, the Proceedings of the Academy of Management, the Academy of Human Resource Development Annual Proceedings, and the AMA Handbook of eLearning. She has presented at regional, international and national conferences on leadership, change management, and social media.
Loretta’s doctoral studies in Organizational Learning and Leadership at Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity are culminating in research on her original framework for organizational change, Appreciative Transformative Learning.
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Lisa Hirsh
Lisa thrives on improving organizational performance and spirit. She integrates the business and interpersonal sides of leadership and teams so that people accomplish their goals and deepen their working relationships. Lisa concentrates on the interconnection and impact of each part of a system, leveraging the strengths of individuals, teams and the organization.
In her 28 years of organizational change experience in large and small businesses, healthcare and education, Lisa has harnessed the power of stories and uses film to capture the impact of a change initiative and a team’s learning, especially in health care.
Lisa is known for helping clients navigate thorny conflicts and has facilitated both sensitive small meetings and company-wide sessions. She has led strategic planning processes, coached senior leaders and middle managers, designed innovative approaches to mobilize organizations for change, and helped clients develop learning cultures. Lisa has led leadership development programs, and taught consulting skills and organizational change courses.
Her clients include The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pfizer, State Street, and The Government of Newfoundland.
Lisa taught the Leadership Journey at Oberlin College and has been a guest lecturer on culture change at Boston College Leadership for Social Change. She holds a C.A.S from Harvard University with a focus on organizational change, and an M.ED from Lesley University and B.A. from Oberlin College.
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Christine Whitney Sanchez
Christine Whitney Sanchez has collaborated with leaders across four continents to build the capacity for distributed leadership and strategic collaboration.
The creator of Methods for Strategic Collaboration™, Christine has coordinated dozens of large-scale change events for corporate, government and social sector groups and has trained hundreds of facilitators around the world in strength-based approaches for self-organizing in their own communities.
Her background in depth psychology and experience in cross-sector work has positioned Christine to inspire diverse groups of collaborators to deep levels of co-learning and high performance on behalf of a meaningful cause. She has worked with executive leadership teams, has coordinated system-wide capacity building and strategic change, has facilitated intense work with intact groups, and has guided multi-party stakeholders in resolving thorny issues and generating new opportunities to increase the triple bottom line - people, prosperity and the planet.
Christine holds a B.A. from the University of Hawaii and a Master of Counseling from Arizona State University. She has brought strategic collaboration to clients such as La Liga de La Leche de Latino America, Facilitators Network Singapore, Appreciative Inquiry Network UK, KaosPilots Business School in Denmark, American Red Cross, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Northrop Grumman, Motorola, Make-A-Wish Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, the cities of Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, AZ and Aspen, CO, Digital Equipment Corporation, Arizona Diamondbacks Sales, Girl Scouts of the USA, and the United States Postal Service.
A highly sought-after conference presenter, Christine has facilitated some of the largest intergenerational conversations in the world. At the 2005 and 2008 Girl Scout National Conventions, she invited over thirteen thousand girls and adults to use their voice to create the future of the Girl Scout Movement.
Back to top
Bill Scott
Bill is an innovative trainer with a unique blend of business and social services training. He stresses the use of strengths-based, appreciative and collaborative processes that enhance individual and organizational effectiveness. His focus is on helping others to understand what they want to achieve as opposed to what they want to avoid.
Bill is a skilled facilitator with an acknowledged ability to develop individualized, non-traditional answers to client queries while creating learning opportunities that emphasize the development of hands-on knowledge and skills that can be immediately applied. He uses adult learning techniques, including experiential exercises, group discussions, and role plays, in his work with clients. His workshops have been described as invigorating, fast-paced, and fun!
Bill’s interests cover a variety of settings including people and program valuations, community capacity building, and organizational change and renewal. Bill also assists social profit organizations in the development of self-generated revenue streams by taking advantage of social entrepreneurship opportunities and innovative financing schemes.
Bill has a BSW, an MBA and extensive training in appreciative processes, negotiation, mediation, and conflict resolution.
Back to top
Cheri Torres
With a significant commitment to learning and innovation, Cheri is motivated by the notion that on the other side complexity there is radical simplicity and that just maybe, if we stop long enough to listen and inquire together, it will emerge! In keeping with this, she helps people and organizations work together to respond creatively and effectively to rapid change, invite positivity and high engagement into the workplace, and achieve both sustainable and evolving results. Her strong belief in the inherent capacity of people makes her focus on leadership, teamwork, culture, and organizational design a natural.
Cheri has more than 30 years experience working in the public and private sectors in the US and around the world. She has trained thousands of trainers, facilitators, and teachers in the use and practice of Appreciative Inquiry and Experiential Learning with a particular focus on shared leadership, teamwork, creativity, learning and innovation.
Cheri holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with a specialization in Collaborative Learning, an MBA, a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology, and level II certification in Spiral Dynamics Integral. She has authored or co-authored a number of books and articles including The Appreciative Facilitator: Accelerated Learning Practices, From Conflict to Collaboration, and Dynamic Relationships: Unleashing the Power of Appreciative Inquiry in Daily Living. She also co-designed and patented Mobile Team Challenge, an award-winning, portable low ropes course.
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