Our Principals & Associates

President and Founding Director
Barry W. Stevenson, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.Sc.(HSP)

Based on his extensive leadership, consulting and teaching experience, Barry applies his expertise in complex adaptive systems in the areas of team development, leadership coaching and mentoring and organizational development and design. He also designs and facilitates systems thinking and scenario planning workshops. Over the past few years, a substantial portion of Barry's consulting practice has been focused on supporting clients who are dealing with the challenges of change and transition, particularly in the health care and quasi-government sectors. His expertise is applied in helping teams and project groups bring coherence and accountability to their work, using a variety of systemic approaches and organizational development practices.

Barry has over 25 years of senior executive experience in the health care and high technology sectors with over 10 years as a senior provincial government official in both the Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. Barry brings strong practical organizational and planning skills, which compliment his leadership expertise in addressing challenging and complex organizational and strategic leadership issues.

Barry is an Associate Faculty member of Royal Roads University and Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia. He teaches leadership and systems/complexity theory and supervises master's level students. Barry has served as a Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Complexity and Emergence (ISCE). He is accredited in the use of the Process Enneagram © and a Supporter of the Center for Self-Organizing Leadership based in Niagara Falls, New York.

Barry has published papers on complexity and self-organizing leadership in the Journal of Emergence, in the ISSS Conference 2002 Proceedings and through the Center for Self-organizing Leadership. He is currently exploring leadership issues in relation to strategic, operational and self-organizing leadership practices. Barry's primary consulting interest is in the areas of self-organizing leadership, organizational development, systems/complexity and structured dialogue. His clients include many large and medium sized private sector firms, large provincial government related organizations and community agencies.

The Associates Group

Marilyn Hamilton, B.A., C.G.A., Ph.D.

Dr. Marilyn Hamilton, Founder of TDG Global Learning Connections, is an organizational learning and wellness catalyst. Marilyn encourages healthy ecologies in people systems at all levels of scale: leadership, team, organization, community, country, globe. Marilyn is a Member of the Integral Institute and is a Certified Spiral Dynamics II Facilitator and Canadian sponsor of Spiral Dynamics in the Integral Age. She is a Royal Roads University Associate Faculty for Master's Residencies, Online Courses, Major Projects and course development. Marilyn is Alumna of the Foundation for Community Encouragement and Past-CEO/Chair of Consulting Resource Group International Publishers. She has authored and co-authored learning and leadership assessments, several books on leadership and wellness, and a discovery learning game. She is a popular workshop and seminar speaker for: ASTD, BCODN, Professional Consultants Association of BC, BC Association of Facilitators.

www.globallearningconnections.com

William H. (Bill) King, B.A.

Bill King's professional practice is in the field of Human Relations and Organizational Development consulting. His primary focus is on the development of individuals and teams in preparing them for leadership responsibility. He designs and facilitates customized workshops on leadership, change management, competency-based training, labor relations as well as board governance. Complementing his consulting practice, Bill has significant experience in the field of Human Resources as well as line management and has held a number of senior management positions at Air Canada including Director of Employee Relations & Development, General Manager-In Flight Service and Director of Labour Relations. His career spanned assignments in major cities across Canada as well as internationally. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and he also received his Bachelor of Arts Degree as well as a Certificate in Personnel and Industrial Relations from the University of Toronto.

www.nova1.ca

Bev Behrman B. A., M. Sc.

Bev Behrman is a specialist in organizational development with over twenty-five years of experience in assisting people to optimize their personal and professional goals. She has provided coaching, consulting and training to entrepreneurs, senior, middle and supervising managers and frontline staff. Organizations with whom she has worked include those in the telecommunications industry, health care sector, not-for-profit organizations, educational institutions, governmental agencies and entrepreneurial enterprises. Her leadership roles in the corporate environment have included responsibility for transformational change, team building, group effectiveness, conflict resolution and learning. She has directed a Woman's Program and a Professional Studies/Industry Program as well as taught Organization Development in educational institutions. Bev also maintains a psychological counseling practice and is well versed in multi cultural and gender issues. Bev has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and has completed post-graduate work with some of the United States' leading experts in organization development. She holds both Canadian and US citizenship. The essence of Bev's work has been to facilitate learning and bring people's "whole self" to their life and work. Her experience with team development brings a wealth of perspective to the interrelationship of individual and group behaviour.

Richard N Knowles Ph.D.

Dr. Richard N. Knowles retired from DuPont after 36 ½ years of service, culminating in his role as Plant Manger, Belle, West Virginia. He is active in a variety of board level activities, including the Board of the Berkana Institute. He has been the recipient of numerous civic and professional awards and has helped establish and chair industry/community dialogue groups, advisory panels and commissions. Dick's work in Belle is featured in Tom Petzinger's The New Pioneers, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1999 and Roger Lewin and Birute Regine's, The Soul at Work, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2000. In September of 1996 he formed his own consulting company based in Niagara Falls, New York, focusing on organizations as living systems. He has published a number of papers on community outreach and self-organizing systems. Bringing all this together he and his partner, Claire E. F. Knowles co-founded the Center for Self-Organizing Leadership in November 2001. The Center is a learning community of people drawn together around this emerging way of leading. The Center for Self-Organizing Leadership is focused on helping organizations develop coherence and significantly improving their performance. Dick latest book, The Leadership Dance", available through www.centerforselforganizingleadership.com, speaks to his personal journey towards self-organizing leadership and the need to see people, teams and organizations as living systems.

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