Barbara Pennington creates transformational, systems-based, high engagement learning models for use in training and education locally and internationally. She has been a pioneer in the development of a systems approach to curriculum design that focuses on construction of conceptual architecture, transformational strategies, and artistry to spark imagination.
Barbara works with organizations to scale-up capability in a multi-tiered approach that integrates various training strategies: intensives, one-on-one sessions, mentoring, coaching, suitcase lessons, self-instructional programs, some of which involve the use of trans-media.
She has designed and presented Training of Trainers to thousands of educators in numerous countries in how to offer participant-centered lessons that are in accord with neuroscience, encourage the involvement of multiple intelligences, and empower participants to make significant changes in their lives and environments.
Barbara has worked with the US Agency for International Development, World Bank, the Department of Labor, corporations such as McKesson, Universities including UCB, and numerous non-profits.
Mary Ann Gallagher designs, manages, and implements Training Institutes, Conferences, Training Programs and learning events that open up dramatic opportunities for communication, interaction, skill acquisition and organizational change.
Mary Ann is also an artist.
Mary Ann’s work has been informed by an evolving user-centered learning system rooted in neuro and cognitive science. In a participant-centered design each segment of learning progressively and actively builds on the last. A highly interactive sequence of warmups, presentations, discussions and activities catalyze high level, visionary brain capacities.
Participant-centered designs create opportunities to creatively demonstrate new behaviors and ways of being. Participants come away acknowledged, feeling smart and creative and having gained enduring skills.
Mary Ann has created and managed learning development projects and trained trainers globally using this system. Current content focus of her work is on initiatives related to sustainability and regenerative design and on developing leadership for business innovation and global transformation.
Mary Ann has worked with or for the World Bank, US Forest Service, US Labor Department, US Navy, University of California, West Coast Green, City of Cleveland, McKesson Corporation, numerous non-profits and coaches or mentors dozens of individuals.
Sharon Mulgrew generates sophisticated models for enhancing complex performance.
These models feature innovative concepts of leadership, teamwork, networks and Partnering agreements.
Sharon focuses on the collaboration skills and behaviors necessary for effective performance. She has developed the infrastructure for Internal Service Agreements; Work Group Effectiveness, Labor/Management Partnering; and Social Network Analysis. Sharon is also a poet.
Sharon earned her M.P.H. from the Yale University Medical School, EPH, in Health Services Administration. In their Department of Psychiatry, she found her talent as a systems diagnostician of ‘unresolvable’ problems, each supported by a web of historical and current causes, and, all of which needed to be addressed. She left many calmer and productive programs and organizations in her wake.
Sharon has developed large training programs for Bayer Pharmaceuticals (Compelling Message for Change), Genentech (Cascaded Training Process to raise Accountability of 4000 employees), Kaiser Permanent Medical Care (Internal Service Partnering Process), Safeway (Resolution of critical production problem), several Internet companies, and many nonprofits.
She has published two e-books for Get to the Point Books, on Creating Internal Service Agreements: Book 1, Steps 1-3 Preparation, and Book 2, Steps 4-8 Implementation.