Michael Jones
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As an author, speaker, pianist composer, seminar leader, and dialogue facilitator Michael has brought his work to a variety of leading forums including; The Greenleaf Centre for Servant Leadership, The Milwaukee Business Performance Network, The Minneapolis Masters Forum, Dialogos Inc., Southern California Edison, The Academy of Management, Innovation Groups, The United Methodist Convention, Hershey Medical Centre, Canadian Tire, The Canadian Association for Pastoral and Practice Education and many others. In this capacity he has appeared alongside such leading thinkers as Peter Senge, Carol Pearson, Margaret J. Wheatley, Peter Koestenbaum, and Colin Powell. Michael is currently a Senior Fellow with the James McGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland; external leadership faculty with the Executive MBA Programs, College of Business, University of Texas, San Antonio; and a Charter Consulting Member with the Society for Organizational Learning. He was also a Senior Associate with the MIT Dialogue Project and Dialogos Inc. for several years where he served as a core faculty member in their programs on the Art of Thinking Together and their yearlong program Leadership for Collective Intelligence. Michael is the author of two books; an award winning personal memoir on creativity titled; Creating an Imaginative Life (Conari Press, 1995) and Pianoscapes, 2006; Awakening the Commons of the Imagination (forthcoming early 2006). He has also published numerous articles on leadership and creativity in various publications including, most recently, From Performance to Presence, The Organic Nature of Learning and Change in Reflections; The Sol Journal published by the MIT Press for the Society for Organizational Learning and Creating Liveable Communities published in Innovation Group’s quarterly member newsletter on Transforming Local Government. He holds a BA in Music and Psychology from Mount Allison University in Atlantic Canada and an MA in Adult and Organizational Learning from the University of Toronto. Michael lives with his partner Judy, a healing practitioner, teacher and fine artist in a lakeside community north of Toronto. For more information visit Michael's Web site. |
Michael Jones