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MSLOC Elective - Transformational Consulting
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Foundations I
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Foundations II
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| John Bausch is a principal with Strategic Talent Solutions, following a 19-year career at Hewitt Associates. At Strategic Talent Solutions, John is working with clients to ensure they have the right people in the right roles so that the business can achieve its desired results. At Hewitt Associates, John worked in both the firm’s consulting and outsourcing lines of business. He was one of the leaders of the firm’s communication practice and coordinated a national sales team for its consulting business. In addition, John frequently led internal training classes at Hewitt in sales, consulting skills and project management. |
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Introduction to Organizational Theory
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Capstone Project II
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Capstone Project III
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Advancing Learning & Performance Solutions
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| Gail Berger brings academic and professional experience in the areas of organizational behavior, conflict resolution and organizational leadership. After receiving her doctorate in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, she consulted to small firms and Fortune 500 companies in the areas of executive assessments, leadership development, and teambuilding. Her research interests include organizational communication in the contexts of negotiation, performance appraisal, decision making and teamwork. |
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Learning Orgs for Complex Environments
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Designing Sustainable Strategic Change
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Executing Strategic Change
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| Dorie Blesoff runs an independent consulting practice that specializes in strategic leadership development and designing and facilitating sustainable change. Her work includes leading practice areas such as appreciative inquiry, participatory methods for strategic planning and employee engagement, strengthening leadership, and executive coaching in facilitating change. Until 2002, Dorie served in Human Resources and Organizational Development leadership roles in multiple industries: healthcare, manufacturing, and professional services, most recently at PricewaterhouseCoopers as an HR executive for Business Process Outsourcing, North America. Her current client base includes a wide range of organizations, including Fortune 100, mid-size family businesses and non-profits. |
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Foundations II
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Foundations I
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| Cecelia Burokas’ expertise centers around consulting, coaching, training, and board development. Since 1996, she has been a principal with Working with Groups at Work. Prior to that, she spent eleven years with Hewitt Associates, specializing in large-scale change, performance management, compensation, cross-cultural team building and training and development. Previous experience includes serving as VP for learning and development for a large regional financial institution. She has served as an officer on a number of non-profit art and service boards, including nandanse, a Chicago-based dance company, in which she was the founding board president. and Community TV Network, an after-school learning program for at-risk youth. |
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MSLOC Elective - Cognitive Design
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Foundations I
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Foundations II
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| Mark Clare has 20 years of experience in knowledge management, technology and business strategy with leading Fortune 500 companies that include 3M, Allstate and a Silicon Valley start-up. He is also active as an independent researcher, teacher, writer and consultant. Mark is author or co-author of many publications including the book Knowledge Assets (Harcourt, 2000) and holds a patent, with several others pending, for innovations in the cognitive design of financial products. Currently, Mark is the Vice President of Knowledge and Informatics Management at Parkview Health, a five-hospital non-profit health system serving northeastern Indiana. |
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Tools for Studying Organizations
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Studies in Org Change
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Capstone Project II
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Capstone Project I
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Capstone Project III
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MSLOC Elective - Social Network Analysis in Learning & Organizational Change
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| Mindy Douthit brings both professional and academic expertise in the areas of organizational development and change and social network analysis. She spent several years with Anderson Consulting working in the areas of organization analysis and design, human-computer interaction, and training design and development. As Manager with The International Forum, she designed senior executive educational programs for a global clientele. She holds a PhD in Organization Theory and Strategy from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Her research and teaching interests include organizational change and innovation, entrepreneurship, competitive strategy and cooperative behavior within organizations. |
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| Jennifer Green is artistic director at the nationally acclaimed Piven Theatre Workshop, where she was previously director of educational programming and a senior faculty member for the past 10 years. Jennifer has been actively engaged in the Chicago community as a director and teacher working in arts consulting and curriculum development in public and private schools through the Illinois Arts Council and Urban Gateways Center for Arts Education. She was selected as a participant in the Theatre Communication Group’s Leaders of Tomorrow Program and has contributed during the past six years to Piven Theatre’s professional production season and Performance Lab series. |
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Executing Strategic Change
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| As the founder and principal of Hollister Consulting, Inc., Rose Hollister brings 20 years of strategic business experience to her projects. She is dedicated to partnering with clients in the areas of leadership development, change management, executive coaching and team alignment. Clients include McDonald’s, Jones Lang LaSalle, Edward Hospital, University Health Consortium, WW Grainger, PS Office Parks, Classified Ventures and Nicor Gas. Rose has alternated between internal and external consulting since 1990. Before founding Hollister Consulting, Rose served as Vice-President, Learning and Development, for Equity Office Properties. While at Equity, the change work done during a major restructuring won the Chicago Organization Development Change Impact Award. Rose was also a principal at Perrone-Ambrose Associates, one of the pioneer firms in building coaching capacity in cultures and leaders. In this capacity, Rose taught leadership and organizational skills to thousands of employees around the US including organizations such as the Federal Reserve Bank, Smith-Kline Beecham and Caremark. She also worked at the University of Chicago Hospitals as an OD specialist, launching their first leadership curriculum. |
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MSLOC Elective - Social Network Analysis in Learning & Organizational Change
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Creating & Sharing Knowledge
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Independent Study
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Practicum
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| Jeff Merrell has more than 20 years of business experience as both a consultant and corporate leader in learning and development, recruiting and marketing. He is founder of Purple Line Associates, a consultancy and research practice established in 2001 to help organizations define learning and knowledge management strategies and implement new technologies and practices. His consulting work includes projects for global leaders in the pharmaceutical and retail industries as well as not-for-profit and federal government organizations. |
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Accelerating Learning & Performance
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Capstone Project II
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Capstone Project III
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SEARLE Gateway Class
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Currently an associate director at Northwestern’s Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Marina works with faculty and students and engages in research to advance teaching and learning at the University. Her recent projects address student approaches to learning, learning-group dynamics, and experiences of underrepresented students in higher education. Outside of academia, she worked for nearly ten years as a writer and editor, specializing in employee education and workforce diversity. Marina is particularly interested in the ways in which communication, gender, and culture affect learning experiences in the classroom or workplace. She has taught courses in cross-cultural communication and multicultural education, educational research methods, and program evaluation. Marina holds an M.A. in communication and a Ph.D. in education, both from the University of Minnesota. |
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Foundations II
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Foundations I
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Org Planning & Analysis
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| Kevin Murnane has over 20 years of experience in Human Resource consulting, training, teaching, marketing and business development. He is a Senior Associate with Interaction Associates (IA), a Human Resource firm that is dedicated to empowering corporations to realize their most noble aspirations by transferring the skills of collaborative action. Previously, Kevin founded Behtrics, Inc., which provides executive coaching, consulting, software and training. He was SVP and Director of two HR software startups and expansions. Kevin is an eight-year veteran of Development Dimensions International (DDI), where he was a senior selection specialist and start-up team leader. He was responsible for tracking systems, international manufacturing start-ups and global succession management. |
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Foundations II
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Leading with Strategic Thinking
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Foundations I
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| Aaron Olson is the leader of Consulting Talent Programs at Hewitt Associates, where he has led Human Resource initiatives related to mergers and acquisitions, sales force effectiveness, executive development, manager effectiveness, strategy alignment and online learning. He is also the co-owner of HiP Media LLC, an online publishing group that applies online media and social networking models to niche communities of interest. Prior to Hewitt, Aaron taught classroom and co-curricular leadership development programs for North Park University in Chicago, Illinois. He is specifically interested in the action learning application of technology to social networks and peer learning. |
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Foundations II
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Accelerating Learning & Performance
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Jeanne Marie Olson is an independent consultant with 15+ years of experience in the fields of participatory design, organizational learning, and knowledge management.
Prior to building her own consulting practice, she led the Chicago User Research Lab for Scient Corp. She helped to establish the knowledge management practice at Hewitt and was a charter member of Hewitt’s Center of Expertise for the Learning and Development Practice.
She was an inaugural member of the Doubletake Summer Documentary Institute for applied documentary studies in education, social activism and human development led by Dr. Robert Coles.
She has also served as a Design Coach for the Design for America Summer Fellows Program at NU's Segal Design Institute, collaborating with faculty from other schools at NU, professionals from across many industries, and coaching multidisciplinary student teams in user research and human-centered design projects that produce social impact.
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Capstone Project III
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Capstone Project II
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| John Philbin has been a psychologist and organizational consultant since 1991. John is a founding partner with Strategic Talent Solutions where he works in the areas of executive fit, alignment, development and engagement. His strategy-driven view of leadership performance and potential enables him to advise senior leaders on the talent needs of their organizations. He has developed and delivered cutting-edge executive development programs at organizations including Health Care Services Corporation, Sears, Guardian Life and Whirlpool. He provides one-on-one executive coaching to CEOs, senior leaders, and high potentials at Fortune 500 companies, including Motorola, Baxter, Great Plains Energy, and Estee Lauder. John also consults with executives at a number of privately held, entrepreneurial companies. John holds a PhD. in clinical Psychology from Loyola University. |
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Accelerating Learning & Performance
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Advancing Learning & Performance Solutions
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Capstone Project III
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Independent Study
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Foundations I
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Capstone Project II
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Foundations II
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Research Apprenticeship
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MSLOC Elective - Social Network Analysis in Learning & Organizational Change
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Practicum
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| Kimberly Scott is Assistant Professor within the School of Education and Social Policy, and Director of the MS LOC Program. She has worked with a variety of Fortune 500 companies for over ten years in consulting and management as an organization effectiveness expert. She worked for Hewitt Associates as a consultant and project leader for its “Best Companies to Work For” studies in the United States, Brazil, Canada, Australia and other regions around the world. She then joined the Wrigley Company to create and lead its organizational development function and help transform the organization to achieve its new strategic objectives for growth and innovation. Kimberly serves on the Board of Directors for Winning Workplaces, a national not-for-profit that helps small and midsize enterprises create great workplaces. |
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Leading with Strategic Thinking
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Management Consulting Expertise
B.K.’s areas of expertise include strategic planning, leadership development, organization development, and change enablement. He has helped develop and implement a strategic plan for a $6 billion professional services firm; led integration teams for the merger of two petrochemical industry giants; helped develop the consulting model and a consulting “toolkit" for a leading professional services firm; established consulting organizations in two leading health care systems; helped lead an internal consulting organization within a $40 billion oil and gas company; served as a global HR leader in a top-tier professional services firm; and helped two branches of the military transition through wide-scale (“flag-to-flag”) change.
B.K. has consulted throughout the United States, and in the Netherlands, Canada, Italy, Argentina, Mexico, Germany, Bermuda, France, and Iraq.
Executive Coaching Expertise
B.K. has over 20 years of experience conducting executive coaching and executive team building sessions in public- and private-sector organizations. In terms of public-sector organizations, he has worked with Federal agencies, tertiary care medical centers, State criminal justice agencies, municipal police departments, public safety agencies, fire departments, colleges, and universities. In terms of private-sector organizations, he has recently conducted such interventions in a holding company, a manufacturing company, an engineering and consulting firm, an industrial goods company, a heavy construction machinery company, and a “top tier” professional services firm.
B.K. has provided executive coaching and executive team building sessions in situations in which: cockpit dynamics were jeopardizing flight crew safety; interpersonal tension was adversely impacting the problem solving and decision making of executives responsible for global operations; faulty communication was interfering with a leadership team’s ability to garner needed support; conflict between members of a surgical team, officers assigned to a 2-person patrol unit, and HR department heads was jeopardizing patient, citizen, and stakeholder confidence; ineffective decision making was prohibiting a global management team’s ability to make and subsequently execute strategic decisions.
Industries Served
B.K. has provided consultation, training, and executive coaching to government agencies and all branches of the U.S. military and to clients in the automotive, heavy construction, consumer electronics, commodities, industrial supplies, heavy machinery, rubber, paper, medical devices, engineering, and electronics industries, and to leading professional services firms. |
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Creating & Sharing Knowledge
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| Margaret Sullivan has 20+ years in designing, program managing and delivering large-scale initiatives in the areas of knowledge management, organizational development, facilitating and technology innovation. She is the Director of HR and Organizational Effectiveness for Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. Prior to her current role, she was the Director for the Knowledge Management Development Center at Accenture and responsible for the array of KM services, technologies and metrics delivered to the firm’s internal and external clients. |
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Learning and Understanding
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Cognition and Emotion: Basic Processes
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Foundations I
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Foundations II
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Jill Wachholz has 15 years experience as facilitator, executive coach and organizational development consultant specializing in leadership development, team effectiveness and creativity. Through her company GroupStir, Jill works with clients including Four Seasons Hotels worldwide, Boeing, and the Executive Development Center. She sparks groups to think collaboratively, generate new options, and unite around a future focus. Jill was a manager, facilitator and coach at the renowned Center for Creative Leadership, and before that produced communication programs for Burson-Marsteller and Disney. Jill’s interests include health and fitness, emotional intelligence, artistic expression and international travel.
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Advancing Learning & Performance Solutions
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| Rob currently serves as Director of the “Experiment in Congregational Education” for the Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion. This significant change project encompasses all aspects of a national synagogue transformation designed to create “congregations of learners” and “self-renewing congregations.” He also works as an independant consultant in organizational change and non-profit strategic planning with clients including the Reform Pension Board, the National
Association of Temple Administration, the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Arie and Ida Crown Memorial Foundation. Prior to this, he was with Hewitt for twelve years, most recently as a Partner for the Midwest Organization
Effectiveness Practice. Rob is a frequent speaker at national conferences and think tanks.
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