| Robert Kenny’s
research interests are collective wisdom,
collaborative creativity, shared leadership
and leaderful™ teams, reflective practice
in teams and organizations, and the relationship
between diversity and team wisdom. He is
a member of the Adjunct Faculty at CIIS,
where he teaches Transformative Ways of
Relating. He is a Fellow of the Fetzer Institute,
a private, nonprofit operating foundation,
which sponsors research on cutting-edge
topics.
Robert is the founder of Leaderful™
Teams Organizational Consulting, specializing
in executive coaching, leadership development,
and the building of creativity and wisdom
in teams and organizations. Robert and his
wife, Julie Glover, run Bluff House Retreats,
where they design and facilitate individual
and team leadership and visioning retreats,
and help teams learn to work with collective
wisdom and creativity.
Prior to beginning his consulting work and
teaching, Robert worked for 30 years in
nonprofit and business organizations; in
managerial and executive positions at the
Federal Reserve Bank; Deloitte, Touche &
Kohmatsu; Citicorp; and the International
Center for Integrative Studies (ICIS), where
he coled a comprehensive youth development
program and community health and mental
health center.
Through the High Tor Alliance for Community
and Organizational Renewal, a nonprofit
association of more than 20 organizational
consultants, Robert has cofacilitated the
Leaders’ Dialogue Project. The project
has involved a nationwide, applied research
program, together with dialogue and training
programs regarding the impact of reflective
practice upon team and organizational effectiveness,
productivity, and creativity.
Robert is writing a book, Change Your
Work, Change Your Life: The Transformative
Power of Reflective Practice and Inspired
Action. The book contains exercises
and processes designed to enable individuals,
teams, and organizations to introduce reflective
practice in their workplaces and to achieve
greater balance in their work, family, and
community lives.
In addition to this book, Robert has published
a number of articles, chapters, and mongraphs
on collective wisdom and collaborative creativity.
Some of these are listed below and can be
read online:
The Science of Collective Consciousness
http://wie.org/j25/kenny.asp
Calling Out Our Potential: The Synergy
of Collective Effort
http://www.collectivewisdominitiative.org/papers/glover_callingout.htm
What Can Science Tell Us About Collective
Consciousness?
http://www.collectivewisdominitiative.org/papers/kenny_science.htm
Creating Healing Teams, Organizations
and Societies
http://www.noetics.org/research/ch_book/files/Kenny.pdf
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