Dr. Judith Parker
Dr. Judith Parker has over 20 years experience in leadership positions within business organizations emerging into the global market and has been instrumental in leading them toward becoming global learning organizations. For the past decade she has worked extensively with technical managers and technical employees in Asia, Europe, Latin America and South Africa in management education and training and technical employee skill development. This included developing and implementing global corporate education plans for assessment and delivery of courses on leadership and state of the art technologies. Dr. Parker's academic experience includes teaching leadership, organizational development, and adult learning theory and practice in doctoral programs at Teachers College/ Columbia University and St. Mary's University of Minnesota using totally on-line format, totally classroom format and blended delivery. She also teaches college physics and astronomy. She has presented numerous papers at conferences globally including the Academy of Management, American Association of Physics Teachers, American Society of Training and Development, College Industry Education, Quality and Productivity Management Association, Business and Multimedia Conference in Ireland, Lisbon 2000 European Conference on ODL Networking for Quality Learning, and World Open Learning for Business Conferences in the UK. She has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has received the American Association of Physics Teachers Innovative Teaching Award, the Park College Educational Partnership Award, and the Silver Award by the International Compact Disc Interactive Association
Mr. Tommie J. Johansson
Mr. Tommie J. Johansson is an experienced international consultant, teacher and project manager in field of Business Development, Competence Management, Project Management and Change Management. He currently serves as or is a member of: Senior Vice President and Corporate Adviser of the Swedish Postgraduate Institute of Technology, Founder and Director of Sighard Consulting (consulting firm registered in Molndal, Sweeden),..Member of SIS (Swedish Standards Institute) technical committee for Quality Management, Project Management and Education & Training, Sweden's national expert on Education & Training to ISO TC 176, Sweden's representative in ISO TC 176 Chairman's Strategic Advisory Group, strategic plan task force and member of ASQ - American Society for Quality. He has had various international projects as a consultant, adviser and trainer in countries such as Ireland, UAE, Botswana, South Africa, Lithuania, Kuwait, Vietnam, Switzerland and Thailand. He is also a ISO 9001 Quality Systems Auditor and is proficient with multi-cultural affairs and an expert in communicaions.
RS Moorthy
RS Moorthy, MS, Former Vice President & Director for Global Accounts Operations and Knowledge Management, Motorola. RS consults in strategy and new business development, business transformation, developing organizational capabilities, business ethics, knowledge management and organizational learning. He was instrumental in initiating and leading the knowledge management effort at Motorola 1995-2002 and focused on implementing and leveraging the application of knowledge management practices to systematically address critical business issues and build organizational capabilities to support strategic initiatives. RS has a wide range of professional experience including senior leadership responsibilities in strategy and business development, knowledge management, customer relations management, organizational learning and development, business reengineering, business ethics, transcultural competence, leadership development and manufacturing operations.
Dr. Blue Woodridge
Dr. Blue Woodridge is a recognized expert on Principles of Public Administration, Governmental Financial Management, Public Human Resource Management, Assessing the Performance of Government Organizations, Advanced Topics in Revenue and Taxation, Public Administration Theory, Public Sector Budgeting, Strategic Management in Higher Education, Micro-Computer Applications in Human Resource Management, Increasing Public Sector Productivity, Advanced Public Financial Management, Advanced Public Policy Design and Evaluation among many others.
Victoria J. Marsick
Victoria J. Marsick is a Professor of Adult & Organizational Learning, Department of Organization and Leadership, Columbia University, Teachers College. She co-directs the J.M.Huber Institute for Learning in Organization at Teachers College with Martha Gephart. Prior to joining Teachers College, she was a Training Director at the United Nations Children's Fund. She holds a Ph.D. in Adult Education from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.P.A. in International Public Administration from Syracuse University. Victoria hosts a bi-annual Workplace Learning Institute at Teachers College for human resource and organization developers that focuses on "best practices" in the learning organization.
Dr. Vijay Padaki
Dr. Vijay Padaki received his education and professional training from Madras University and All India Institute of Mental Health, Bangalore (now NIMHANS). His formal training is Social and Clinical psychologist, with a thesis in the area of personality assessment.
He is on the Faculty of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, from inception in 1974, and is specialized in Organizational Studies oriented to rural development and institutional development.
Prof. Ken Murrell
Prof. Ken Murrell is Professor of Management and Management Information Systems at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida. He is a management consultant working both independently and with internationally recognized consulting organizations. He has extensive international experience in Organizational Development and Management Development in improving organizational effectiveness and has travelled in over 60 countries working with a wide variety of Management Education Centers, the United Nations Development Program, several host governments and a wide variety of global corporations including Motorola, Pfizer and Toyota.
Prof. Carol Huang
Prof. Carol Huang is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of Southern Illinois at Edwardsville. She has been very active in academia as Teaching and Research Assistants in various positions as well as several journalistic projects both on the small screen and in Daily newspapers. Her publications include "Politics, Media and Immigration Policies on Chinese Women in the American West, 1864-1920" a chapter in a upcoming book Acting for Change: Chinese Women in Media and Politics, University of Illinois Press, 2002; "Changing View on the Educational History of Chinese American in the Progressive Era", a chapter in the upcoming Harvard Educational Review, 2002.