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The World Café

Juanita Brown
Founder
Whole Systems Associates
Co-Founder
The World Café
415-383-0129

JUANITA BROWN, PH.D.
WHOLE SYSTEMS ASSOCIATES
THE WORLD CAFÉ
inquiry@theworldcafe.com
http://www.theworldcafe.com/

BIOGRAPHY
Juanita, with her partner, David Isaacs, is a co-originator of the World Café. She collaborates as a thinking partner and design advisor with senior leaders across sectors, creating and hosting innovative forums for strategic dialogue on critical organizational and societal issues.

Juanita’s keynotes and seminars have attracted a broad range of leaders, including members of Fortune 100 companies along with government, health, education and community based organizations in the U.S., Latin America, Europe and the Pacific Rim.

As a Senior Affiliate with the MIT Sloan School’s Organizational Learning Center (now the Society for Organizational Learning), Juanita participated as a member of the core research team with the MIT Dialogue Project and as co-faculty for SOL’s Executive Champions’ Program. She has served as a Research Affiliate with the Institute for the Future and is a Fellow of the World Business Academy.

Her new book, The World Café: Shaping our Futures Though Conversations that Matter co-authored with David Isaacs and the World Café is now available from Berrett Koehler publishers, Amazon.com, and other leading booksellers. Juanita and David make their home on Tomales Bay, California, a pristine ecosystem north of San Francisco.

BOOKS
The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Converstations That Matter

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