 Ken Homer
Ken Homer, Founder, Collaborative Conversations – Include More Voices, Make Better Choices, and Advisory Director, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open)
Ken Homer Founded Collaborative Conversations – Include More Voices, Make Better Choices, in 2007. Conversations are the medium through which we accomplish work, yet bringing together the right people at the right time in the right conversation with the right tools still eludes many people and organizations.
The Collaborative Conversations approach offers a map and a set of practices for creating the conditions whereby people can discover what is important to them, explore a range of possibilities for action, and plot a successful course towards their mutually desired outcomes while dealing effectively with the inevitable breakdowns that occur along the way. Collaborative Conversations are scalable, reliably producing powerful results whether the number of people involved is two, or two hundred.
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Prior to founding Collaborative Conversations, Ken worked for ten years as an integral member of the core team that developed the World Café dialogue process. In 2011 the Institute of Noetic Sciences tapped him to design the learning architecture that forms the core of their Worldview Explorations project. He served as the head of R&D for Sustainable Strategies Inc., and was the first Director of the New Ventures West School of Professional Coaching’s Graduate Department, where he received a certification in Integral Coaching® in 2000.
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Ken has been a featured speaker at conferences including: The New Ventures West UnConference, the National Coalition on Dialogue and Deliberation, the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, Pegasus Systems Thinking In Action (now Leverage Networks), Engaging the Other, and the Taiwan Society for Organizational Learning (pdf).
Ken Homer's client list includes: Genentech, NASA's Ames Research Center, U.S. National Park Service, University of Southern California at Santa Cruz (UCSC), the Center for Interfaith Relations, Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, the Malibu Foundation for Youth and Family, Gracenote, and Salesforce.com. |
Listen as Ken Homer, Principal, Collaborative Conversations and David Hodgson, Founder, Hummingbird Labs, explore the transformative value of collaborative conversations.
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A lifelong learner, Ken lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area where he enjoys hiking, live music, cooking, and reading.
Ken currently serves on the Circle of Stewards for The Bay Area Society for Organizational Learning. Ken currently serves as a Director, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open). |
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