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Informationen zum Autor Michael J. Marquardt, EdD, is known throughout the world for his knowledge and expertise regarding Action Learning and learning organizations. In addition to authoring 20 books, 4 on Action Learning, Dr. Marquardt has introduced Action Learning to thousands of leaders and hundreds of organizations around the world since 1995, including Marriott, DuPont, Alcoa, Boeing, Caterpillar, United Nations Development Program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, IBM, Nokia, Constellation, Samsung, Hong Kong Transit, and Siemens as well as government agencies in Singapore, Mauritius, Japan, Canada, Qatar, China, Korea, and Brazil. Currently a professor of human resource development and international affairs at George Washington University, Dr. Marquardt has held a number of senior management, training, and marketing positions with organizations such as Grolier, Association Management Inc., Overseas Education Fund, TradeTec, and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. his achievements and leadership have been recognized though numerous awards, including the International Practitioner of the Year Award from the American Society for Training and Development. H. Skipton Leonard, PhD, trained as a social and organizational psychologist. Dr. Leonard has devoted his career to helping individuals, teams, and organizations achieve their goals and accomplish their missions by learning how to be more adaptive, creative, and innovative. A noted authority on leadership and team development, he has coached and trained thousands of executives, managers, and professionals and their teams. Dr. Leonard's consulting clients have included Microsoft, Dell, HP, Boeing, Chrysler, Bechtel, AllState, United Services Automobile Association, American Express, Bank of America, Shell, AstraZenica, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and U.S. government organizations such as the Army, the Postal Service, the General Services Administration, the Department of Agriculture, and the Government Accountability Office. A leader in his field, Dr. Leonard is the author of 3 books and over 50 articles in refereed journals, is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), and past present of the Society of Consulting Psychology. He was also the founding editor of an APA-published journal, Consulting Psychology Journal. In addition to his role as executive director for the World Institute for Action Learning, Dr. Leonard is currently on the faculties of the Carey School of Business at Johns Hopkins University and the School of Human and Organizational Learning at George Washington University. Arthur M. Freedman, MBA, PhD, is a principal in Freedman, Leonard & Marquardt Consultancy and chair of the research committee for the nonprofit World Institute for Action Learning. He earned both his BS and his MBA at Boston University's College of Business Administration and his PhD in personality and clinical psychology at the University of Chicago. He has been a member of the NTL Institute since 1969. Dr. Freedman is a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He has consulted throughout North America as well as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Serbia, Sweden, Germany, Russia (and the former Soviet Union), Vietnam, Singapore, and Zimbabwe. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association's (APA's) Division 13 (Society of Consulting Psychology) and a fellow of APA's Division 52 (International Psychology). He is a past president of the Society of Psychologists in Management. Dr. Freedman is a member of the Board of Advisors for the National Hispanic Institute and cofounder of the Nieto–Freedman Center for Organization and Community Development. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and the Consulting Psychology Journal. Dr. Freedman received the Most Outstanding Article award from the editorial board of the Consulting Psychology Journal in 1998, for his article "Pathwa...
