Womens Retreat
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Barbara Cecil
works as a thinking partner, coach and guide for leaders in
organizations which are involved in renewal processes. She
teaches core leadership skills for senior executives who are
interested in new forms of team governance. Since 1987, Barbara
has pioneered the discipline of dialogue as a foundational
capacity for large systems change. Barbara developed The Symbols
Way process, a tool for discerning one's path forward in a
way that reflects calling at current stages of one's life.
Barbara specializes in community dialogue, corporate and
non-profit change initiatives, and support for women in transition.
Prior to her work as a consultant, Barbara was Executive Director
of the American-Soviet Film Initiative, established to dissolve
stereotypes sustained by top image makers in the media, (Moscow/Los
Angeles); She was Associate Dean of the School of Humanities
at California State University, Long Beach. Barbara is also
an artist.
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Dorian Baroni
is an executive coach, leadership programs and retreats faculty,
and organizational advisor. Her business experience has spanned
a variety of industries - investment banking, global energy,
consumer goods and art retail - and a number of countries
- UK, US, Venezuela, Italy, and Belgium.
One of her core beliefs is that a leader's individual journey
towards wholeness is critical to addressing today's global
challenges. And as a business woman, she is particularly passionate
about the role and power of feminine leadership to support
the evolution of global mindsets, social systems and models
of economic impact. "I work with both individuals
and organizational teams. I help individuals develop a higher
quality of transformational self-awareness, so as to enable
courses of action in which the truth of one's individual calling
and the power of one's true gifts can more clearly 'show up'.
When working with organizations, I look for the patterns in
the organizational culture, systems or structures - whether
hidden conflicts or self-defeating strategies - which are
getting in the way of the creative potential of collective
endeavors. Bringing to light such patterns allows for a different
level of conversations in which the truth about such 'stuckness'
can be seen, voiced and ultimately transformed."
Dorian currently lives in the US and resides in Los Angeles,
California.
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Peri Chickering
currently works as a Senior Consultant for Dialogos. Historically,
she spent years as a professional mountaineer, guide, and experiential
educator. With the outdoors as the classroom, she traveled to
many parts the world creating and leading wilderness based leadership
experiences for individuals and groups. Much of this worked
centered around creating multicultural leadership development
programs for both youth and adults, including bringing the first
group of Soviet youth into South Africa and the first tri-lateral
exchange between Soviet, Hungarian, and Americans in the United
States. As an outgrowth of these pursuits, she went on to raise
the funds, train and develop local staff, and start new leadership
schools in several countries including Brazil, Bulgaria, and
South Africa. She holds a Masters Degree in Human Development
and a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems from the Fielding
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Glennifer Gillespie
is an organizational development practitioner specializing in
organizational learning, women's leadership and the practice
of Dialogue. Born and educated in South Africa, she was part
of a large systems change project to shift apartheid education
to a nonracial system following Mandela's release from prison
in 1990. She continues to spend part of each year in South Africa.
Glennifer serves as faculty and coach on the 10-month Leadership
for Collective Intelligence Program for global executives offered
by DiaLogos. As a writer, research projects include co-authoring
a learning history of national scenario projects in Guatemala
& South Africa for the UN Development Program and a chapter
on the transforming power of women's circles for the book "Fabric
of the Future" (Conari Press 1998). She has been a teacher,
a journalist, a film & theatre critic, and a development
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Beth Jandernoa
is an organizational learning consultant whose work includes
leadership development, dialogue, large-scale participative
change interventions, and development for women leaders. Beth
established and directed a Corporate College for Executive
Leadership for a $3 billion company with 48,000 employees.
She has over 20 years of experience with business, healthcare,
education, government, and community non-profits. Her clients
have included Hewlett-Packard, Intel, BP, Oregon Adult &
Family Services, and the U.S. Federal Government Graduate
School. Beth has taught the Society for Organizational Learning
Core Course with Peter Senge since 1995, the 10-month Leadership
for Collective Intelligence Course offered by DiaLogos, and
currently facilitates Presencing: Leading for Profound Change
and Innovation with Otto Scharmer.
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Yolanda Nokuri Hegngi
is committed to the growth and development of leaders, especially
female leaders in global organizations. For over eight years,
she headed learning and development at the International Finance
Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group. Yolanda's career
has focused on facilitating the exchange of experiences and
knowledge through dialogue, and by providing high quality global
learning and leadership experiences in public, private, academic
sectors and local communities in several continents. She has
most recently been consulting for the African National Bank
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Ann Canham
retired from BP with the intention of doing only work that was
personally meaningful and stimulating. She now feels she is
close to that intention and has a varied portfolio of work which
includes coaching senior executives; facilitating leadership
programmes and dialogues; transferable skills training for postgraduate
students. In the not for profit sector Ann is Chair of a charity
that supports the families of drug and alcohol abusers; trustee/governor
of an independent school; mentor to young female African leaders;
lay member of a Lord Chancellor's sub committee assessing suitability
of candidates for the magistracy. Much of this work draws on
Ann's work experience in the corporate world where she held
a variety of global executive roles in both Marketing and HR,
her last role being VP HR for Russia, Africa, Caspian, Middle
East and South Asia. She has a first degree and Ph.D. in Psychology.
Ann lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband Richard. She has
two grown up daughters, Kate, 26, and Charlotte, 24, who remain
a source of challenge, learning and enormous enjoyment and fulfillment. |
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Nicola Shearer
is an Executive Coach and a Facilitator of team meetings and
bespoke learning interventions. She worked at BP for 10 years,
undertaking a series of executive roles in the UK, China and
Taiwan, starting in the commercial world negotiating contracts
with Chinese JV partners. Her most recent role was as Global
Diversity and Inclusion Manager in which she designed and delivered
inclusive leadership interventions and coached over 100 senior
global executives in role modeling inclusive behavior. Prior
to her corporate work, Nicola worked for an NGO in South Africa.
She holds a Masters degree in Engineering from Oxford University
and a MBA from Durham University. Nicola is married, has worked
and trained in the UK, China, Taiwan, South Africa, Malaysia,
Hong Kong and India. Her interests include Pilates, gardening
and exploring the mind-body connection. |
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Sarah Rozenthuler
has over 10 years experience working as an internal and
external consultant. Her skill lies in building bridges of
communication between individuals, teams and organizations
to enable them to flourish and perform at their best. A Chartered
Occupational Psychologist and accredited workplace mediator,
Sarah launched her career working for leading global consultancy
in psychometric testing followed by several years working
as a consultant psychologist in the UK Civil Service, including
the Cabinet Office. To broaden her experience, Sarah spent
4 years earning her living as a street circus performer juggling
fire in the fiestas of Spain and becoming fluent in Spanish.
Since 2003 Sarah has worked with diverse clients such as management
union committees, senior civil servants, advertising executives,
teachers and lawyers in organisations such as BP, American
Express, the UK Ministry of Defence and Medway Council. Sarah
holds a first class degree in psychology and postgraduate
qualifications in occupational psychology and spiritual development
and facilitation.
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Isabelle Pujol
is Founder and Director of Pluribus Europe, a consultancy
committed to develop individuals, teams and organisations
to succeed through diversity and inclusion. She provides strategic
consulting, designs and facilitates conversations with leaders
from various organisations (Sodexo, Sanofi Aventis, L'Oréal)
to create a truly inclusive performing culture.
Isabelle sees herself as a change agent who is determined
to create a positive contribution in the world. After 20 years
in the private sector, Isabelle has learned a lot about the
challenges and the opportunities facing large and global organisations.
She lived and worked in France, Belgium, UK and Germany with
cross-cultural teams and led international projects in various
parts of the world. She held various roles, from internal
communication, brand management to commercial and the last
8 years, as a Global diversity and inclusion manager at BP.
She was instrumental in building the first ever diversity
& inclusion strategy of the BP Group in 1999. She is a
Dialogue and Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner, trained and
accredited as a SIMA coach (System for Identifying Motivated
Abilities) and as an Insights Discovery Model Practitioner.
She is also certified as Gender Communication facilitator
and acts as the European Director for the Heim Group. Isabelle
is married to Jean-Marc and they have 2 children (Raphaël,
22 and Sarah, 16).
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Maria Carpenter Ort
is a professional facilitator and consultant helping people
and organizations shape their future. She spent years facilitating
strategic planning processes primarily in the nonprofit arena
spanning a wide variety of social sector organizations, associations
and universities. She is a master trainer/facilitator for
the Peter Drucker Foundation’s (now Leader to Leader)
Self-Assessment Process for Nonprofit Leadership and Management
and recently became a Fellow in the Oxford Leadership Academy
USA.
Six years ago Maria was introduced to work that emphasizes
leadership from the inside out – especially for women
leaders and girls as emerging leaders - discovering self,
purpose, callings and intention for the next chapter in one’s
life and work. This focus “feeds her soul” and
has led to facilitating Ashland Institute’s Coming Into
Your Own and Oxford Leadership Academy’s Self-Managing
Leadership seminars as frequently as possible.
Maria lives in Cave Creek, Arizona with her husband Don.
She has two grown children, Lani and Brian, and two delightful
grandchildren, Nicole and Christopher.
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Burcu Yalman
is an International Coach Federation certified professional
coach, working with individuals and corporations primarily
on change, development and transition. She practices her profession
under her company Yalman & Yalman Co. Her niche area is
women empowerment. Besides being the Turkey Representative
and Faculty for CIYO, she works as a faculty leader and executive
coach in Adler Turkey, an ICF accredited coach training institute
with HQ in Toronto.
Prior to coaching and training, during her 13 years in finance,
Burcu worked at various positions in international and local
financial institutions, such as the World Bank, Global Securities
and Europhoenix; and as an entrepreneur in her firm Fora Corporate
Finance, a boutique corporate finance advisory firm working
primarily with SMEs and private equity funds. Burcu has substantial
experience in cross-cultural environments: she has worked
and managed projects in Turkey, USA, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria,
Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Kazakhstan.
Burcu holds a BA degree in Business Administration from Bogazici
University (Istanbul) and an MBA from George Washington University
(Washington DC). She speaks English fluently and has a good
command of French. She enjoys music, reading and traveling.
As a mother of two children, she likes to spend her spare
times with her family in the nature and on the sea.
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Ann Acheson
With the background of a B.A. in Psychology from Rutgers University,
and massage therapy training several years after that, Ann has
combined her deep interest in health, the unfolding of one's
personal growth process, and accessing information from the
collective unconscious, to form a unique bodywork practice that
she has been building for the past 20 years. She delights in
being part of and facilitating woman's circles, and takes great
joy in witnessing women expand into their capacity to live a
fully engaged life. She lives with her husband and cat in southern
New Hampshire.
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Laurie le Douarec
Laure enjoyed 10 years experience in large multinationals in
HR and Corporate Social Responsibility roles between London,
Chicago and Paris.
In 2009, she decided to leave the corporate world to found a
social enterprise -2d4b- tackling what she senses to be the
most pressing need for the world: empowering all citizens to
feel co-responsible of what is happening to us, and enabling
collective intelligence to emerge. She is convinced that none
of us has the solution and she is no longer waiting for THE
saviour, or THE cure. Instead, she is keen to encourage all
citizens to roll up their sleeves, work together, dialogue with
each other, so we find many small solutions to local issues,
and help step by step the world become a better place.
Laure is also a Board Trustee of a Microfinance NGO -Don Boule
de Neige- collecting funds in France to allocate them to Social
Microfinance partners in Madagascar, Benin and Cambodia.
Women have been at the heart of her work through and through
(for dialogues, for microfinance, ...) even when she was working
in the largely male dominated multinationals. She is heavily
enthused by the chance she took to expand the CIYO offer in
French in France and in francophone developing countries.
Laure is 35, happily married and blessed with 3 children. She
also practices martial art and flower art arrangement.
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Ìpek Arcan
Individual and organizational transformation and development
is at the core of Ìpek Arcan’s business focus.
She defines her approach as being a bridge in client’s
journey to transform into individual or organizational dreams
and potentials. She fulfills this focus by professional coaching,
teams and systems coaching, training, workshop design and
facilitation and management consulting.
Ìpek is an ACC, ACPC Professional Coach and ORSC Trained
Team Coach who is a firm believer in change and development.
Her consultancy approach which she has been exercising in
the last 13 years of her career is being reshaped towards
thinking together and creating together by the touch of her
coaching practice. She had the privilege to work with institutions
pioneer in their industry in various projects such as Tani,
Arçelik, Petrol Ofisi, Tirsan, KOSGEB, Borusan Boru,
SEK Süt amongst others.
Ìpek is a graduate of Izmir Bornova Anatolian High
School (BAL) and Middle East Technical University, Business
Administration. Speaks fluent English. She is married and
has 3 lovely children. She loves to read, think and write
that feeds her soul, she enjoys various sports that activates
her energy.
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Gabrielle Donnelly
Gabrielle Donnelly, founder and director of the consulting firm
Sage Social Design, is a community development practitioner
who has been involved in creative, collaborative, grassroots
change efforts from Canada and the US, to Ethiopia and beyond.
A strong relationship cultivator and big-picture thinker, Gabrielle’s
strengths are in the areas of facilitation and social technologies,
evaluation and research methodologies for complexity, as well
as the use of narrative and story approaches in community revitalization
efforts. Lately, her work has been centred on building leadership
capacity in women and in 2011 she was part of the design team
that launched the Coady International Institute’s Indigenous
Women in Community Leadership Program, a curriculum that assists
First Nations, Métis and Inuit women in creating change
in their communities. Alongside her work – fueled by her
passion for a more equitable, engaged and vibrant world –
Gabrielle is pursuing a Ph.D. at the California Institute of
Integral Studies (CIIS) in Transformative Inquiry. Her dissertation
research is focused on women’s leadership and restoring
the Feminine.
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Marguerite Drescher
Marguerite Drescher is a visual artist and graphic recorder/facilitator,
trained in cultivating vivid expressions for learning. As
a second-generation Shambhala Buddhist, she is dedicated to
fostering community and culture, and to bringing mindfulness
and compassion into everyday activities.
Marguerite is actively engaged with a range of women’s
communities and initiatives, including high-school women’s
circles, grassroots mother’s groups, and feminist and
queer community movements. Through her work with the ALiA
Institute and Windhorse Farm she has developed skills in leadership,
communication, and sustainability.
Marguerite is an unwavering Nova Scotian, with deep roots
in this raw and magical place, and currently lives in Halifax
with her husband Noel and their two children, Gabriel and
Esmé.
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