Kimberly Bain is Senior Partner in Bain Group Consulting, based in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Kimberly is an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator, is Past-Chair of the International Association of Facilitators and holds the appointment of visiting scholar in facilitation at Queen’s University. Ms Bain also holds certificates in strategy, mediation and dispute resolution, an Honours Degree from Queen’s University and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Carleton University.
As an expert facilitator, Kimberly works with groups numbering 5 to 500, helping them reach consensus and achieve a sense of common purpose. She has facilitated community groups, professionals, volunteers, academics, hospitals, medical professionals, government departments and stakeholder groups. She is well known for her facilitative and consensus building style, her innovative approach to strategic planning, her expert conflict resolution techniques and her innovative facilitation techniques and processes.
Lawrence (Larry) Philbrook. Certified ICA ToP Facilitator (CToPF) and Assessor. IAF CPF 2007-2011. 2013 -2017. Named to the IAF Hall of Fame. He designs processes for teams and leaders in varied cultural settings for over forty years. Larry joined the ICA in 1972 and worked outside the US since 1977 doing extensive company and community-based projects in over 30 nations including 25 years as director of ICA Taiwan. Larry’s key skill is in tailoring designs and facilitation processes to specific needs while helping to recover a sense of respect and trust as a basis for transformation.
Evelyn Philbrook joined ICA in 1972 and was on the board of ICA International, as Vice-President of Asia 2006-10. Evelyn was part of the UNDP Leadership for Social Artistry program in 2009 under the Jean Houston Foundation, USA and continued sharing Social Artistry work in Taiwan and across Asia. She is helping to guide and design a new program, the Profound Journey Dialogue with ICA Taiwan and “Wizard of Us” Mythic Facilitation Journey utilizing Social Artistry mind, body, spirit exercises.
Vinay is a Director at C2C Organizational Development Pvt. Ltd a global organizational development consulting firm. A facilitator and consultant, Vinay has run training programs, coached senior executives and facilitated sessions for organizations, across Asia, Europe, Middle East and North America. Vinay has over 18 years of experience in working in the intercultural and management development fields. With his background of being born in India, High school in the Middle East, Undergraduate studies in the Mediterranean Europe and Graduate studies in the US, Vinay is a true global nomad. His areas of specialization are in facilitating groups to achieve increased effectiveness and enabling them to reach their desired outcome.
Vinay has presented papers at SIETAR USA 2007, 2009, Sietar India 2007 and 2008 as well as at International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Asia 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015 conferences.
Barbara MacKay, CPF®, MS, is a Canadian American, of the baby boomer generation, lives in Northwest USA and founded her facilitation business in 1995. She has designed and led thousands of meetings, conferences and workshops around the world. Barbara is an assessor with IAF. Barbara offers multiple courses in facilitation skills and has spent the last 20 years researching and practicing a variety of tools and approaches with all sectors. She blogs extensively about facilitation. Her core work is based in the Technology of Participation (ToP®) approach and this is supplemented with a rich infusion of accelerated learning techniques (the neuroscience of learning), presencing practices, cross cultural and non-violent communication methodologies.
Jackie is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) by the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) and an Assessor to IAF. She is also the Board Director and Core Facilitator of C.P. Yen Foundation. Prior to obtaining her CPF status, Jackie accrued more than 17 years of professional experience working in the field of public relations. Jackie applied a variety of facilitation methodologies for catalyzing organizational change, and also provide facilitation training to clients as required.
Rhonda Tranks is a CPF and IAF Assessor and has trained and mentored hundreds of facilitators across many countries. Rhonda sat on the IAF Global Board for nearly 3 years in different roles. She has been Chair of the Victoria Chapter and was recently granted the IAF’s Hall of Fame Award. Illuma Consulting acts as a catalyst for positive change through facilitation, training and coaching. Rhonda’s 30+ years working in Management, OD, L&D and Consulting have taken her on a journey of development and reflection on the complexities and challenges for group facilitators. She has recently developed her own model of facilitation. Her relevant experience spans Australia, Asia, Europe, USA and Mexico. She has run workshops at 15 IAF conferences across Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania Regions.
Mr. Kazuaki Katori is OD consultant and experienced facilitator. During his 40 years business career in telecommunications industry, he experienced various top management positions. He is an author of several books on the World Cafe and other workshop metrics and facilitation (all in Japanese language) He also translated and published 'The World Cafe' (Juanita Brown, David Isaacs) and 'Future Search' (Marv Weisbord, Sandra Janoff) He presented concurrent sessions at IAF Seoul(2010) Shenzhen(2012) Singapore(2014) Mumbai(2015) and pre-conference session at Singapore(2014), post-conference session at Mumbai(2015).
Mr. Tomohide Oshima is CEO of Speakng-Essay Inc. His company offers variety of communication training programs to Government Agencies, local government, companies and individuals. He is a facilitator of meetings and workshops and he does help consultants and instructors to do how to manage lessons with facilitative method. He has been a member of FAJ (Facilitation of Association Japan) for 8 years and vice chairman of News Letter of the organization. He is an author of several books about “Communications” and a co-author of “Facilitator’s Tool Box”. He previously conducted concurrent sessions in China, in Singapore of past IAF Asia Conference.
Huang Kailin, the founder of Picture People Plan, is one of the rare Singaporeans who can capture your ideas as you speak and transform them into impactful and compelling visuals. She has close to 5 years’ experience in visually capturing ideas as they are shared verbally, at both public and private sector events in the region. Recent highlights include the inaugural Digital Government Exchange (DGX) 2016, Singapore Airshow Aviation Leadership Summit (SAALS) 2016, and the National Community Engagement Programme (CEP) Dialogue 2015. As a facilitator, Kailin has designed and led Senior Management levelengagements at Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore, including the MHA Senior Management Retreat 2013 & 2014, and MOE Work Plan Seminar 2012.
Gerauld Wong - Dip. Computer Studies, ACTA, Certified Behavioural Consultant (DISC), DCF, Graphic Recording/Facilitation, Coaching with TLC (K&P), Green Light Classroom Facilitator. Gerauld has more than 9 years of experiential training and facilitating experiences with youths and corporate clients. Gerauld is a fascinating and colourful person. He was an Events Manager, Scuba Diving Instructor, Drum Circle Facilitator, Challenge Course Facilitator, Logistic Specialist, IT Network Specialist and the list goes on. The vast exposure and experiences allow him to bring in unique perspectives from multiple angles into his dynamic and lively trainings to create deeper learning for his participants.
Ajit Kamath has been in the field of Lecturing, Training & Facilitation since 1993. He delivers programs primarily for senior & mid-level Leadership Teams across industries. He is certified to deliver various structured Global Leadership Programs. He coaches Leaders in Public Speaking & Presentation Skills. Drama & Story-Telling being his passion he has written, directed and acted in One-Act Plays and he uses drama and theatre concepts such as Improv, Forum Theatre, Role Plays etc. in his Leadership training & facilitation work. He is also a Founder IAF India Chapter member. He has in August 2014 been certified as a CPF and since Jan 2016 has been elected as the Asia IAF Regional Director. He has presented at Asia Conferences in 2014 Singapore and in 2015 Mumbai. He also presents regularly at IAF events in India and India Conferences.
Ann Epps is one of the originators and trainers of the Technology of Participation (ToP) facilitation and strategic planning methods. She is a past board member of the ToP USA network and has served as consultant, trainer, and facilitator to numerous organizations in Europe, Asia, and North America. She specializes in facilitator training, strategic thinking, organizational change and leadership development. A founding member of the IAF, a past board member, and one of the initial organisers of the IAF Asia conferences, Ann is an IAF CPF and a CPF Assessor. She was named to the IAF Hall of Fame in 2014.
Chae, Hong Mi (Seoul,Korea) is managing director of Inpeople Consulting and a CPF. She has served as facilitator and trainer to various organizations like Samsung, Hyundai, KIA and foreign companies based in Seoul. She was certified Six Sigma Black Belt in GE and later worked as an innovation consultant for 5 years. She specializes in facilitator training, vision shaping, strategic planning, problem solving and organizational development. She is a founding member of Korean Facilitators’ Network and organizing team of IAF Asia conference in 2010. Hong Mi has facilitated several IAF conference sessions in Korea and Japan.
Noel (Singapore based) is a CPF and the current Board Chair of the IAF. He has presented sessions at IAF Asia and Oceania conferences since 2010, at OD World Summit (2010) , as well as Appreciative Inquiry Summits (2010,2015).
As a group process consultant/designer/facilitator& mediator since 2000, Noel’s best work is in melding Organisational Systems with the Human Spirit; employing profound change approaches -enabling leaders, their organisations and communities to thrive in times of Disruptive Change. He partners clients to build collaborative capacity by renewing their common purpose, shared vision - developing co-creative paths and adaptive strategies that come with clarity of hindsight, insight, and foresight.
Shawn has been a full time organization development consultant, professional meeting facilitator and leadership development trainer since 2002, and a coach since 2007. He is based in Taipei, Taiwan and works in Greater China. He has a great deal of experience in designing and facilitating workshops to help clients develop their organizations as well as their own leadership capability. Besides being a facilitator, he is a trainer of facilitators, helping other facilitators develop their skills. He also devoted to promotion of facilitation, has co-translated and published 4 books on facilitation, and runs a monthly facilitators’ forum in Taiwan. He is: CPF, CToPF, ToP Method Trainer. WIAL Coach. Certified DISC trainer.
Tom is an IAF inaugural HoF award recipient, a previous IAF Board member, and a CPF /CPF Assessor. He has regularly presented at IAF Asia, Oceania and EU conferences since 2005 sharing how he works with organisations facilitatively, embracing depth to enable transformative responses to the VUCA environment of today and tomorrow. Tom employs a diversity of approaches including Adaptive Leadership, Positive Deviance , Action (depth) Methods et al to build organisation resilience and capacity to thrive.
Laura Hsu, CPF, CToPF, CToPF, Chairperson of Open Quest Facilitation Technology and co-founder of Open Quest Facilitation in Shanghai. She is the first Asian Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) and also an assessor for IAF certification program. She is certified in the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) Technology of Participation methods as a practitioner and trainer. She specializes in facilitating sustainable organizational development to the fast-changing environment and catalyzing desired change. She had been a board member of Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) International representing Taiwan, and the Asian regional representative (2003-2005) for IAF. She has a certificate in Positive Social Change in Appreciative Inquiry from the Management School of Case Western Reserve University. She received DISC trainer certification from Persolog and is an accredited consultant for Human Synergistics assessment tools.
Toshiko Kikkawa, Ph.D. is a professor in the School of Business and Commerce at Keio University. She teaches social psychology and organizational psychology and is a member of “Team Crossroad”, the research group that originally developed the game. As a member of the International Simulation and Gaming Association, she is interested in and experienced with designing games and using them as facilitation tools. As a psychologist, she is interested in communication, in general, and risk communication, in particular. Her work covers a wide range of topics (e.g., disaster-prevention education, environmental education, career development, etc.), and she is currently focused on using analogue games for educational purposes.
Natsu Iwaki--As Senior Researcher of Qualia Inc., Ms. Iwaki has been involved in planning, development, investigation, analysis, and assessment of programs on various themes including diversity & inclusion, leadership, facilitation, and Organizational development. Her meticulous program design to precisely meet customer needs and themes, and her unique approaches that incorporate aspects of “Learning Organizations,” Theory U, and Action Learning have been highly recognized. Ms. Iwaki has been a chair of IAF Japan chapter (2015- ), a CPF (2013- ). And a Global Action Learning Coach certified by WIAL (World Institute for Action Learning) (2011- ).
Jim & Jori Manske - For more than 37 years, Jim and Jori Manske have partnered both in life and work. As co-creators of PEACEWORKS, they offer training, mediation, facilitation, organizational development, consulting and mentoring. They have been working with a variety of businesses, community groups, government, NGO's, private groups and individuals for decades. They are both Certified Trainers for and have been leaders in the international Center for Nonviolent Communication. For the past two years they have supported the transformation of that organization through the New Future Process. They co-authored Pathways to Liberation along with two colleagues, a self-assessment tool used globally by those seeking to become certified trainers. Currently living in Haiku, Maui, Jim and Jori contribute to Hawaii NVC and the Network for Nonviolent Communication. They offer weekly practice groups in Maui and via teleconference, and enjoy contributing to the growing NVC communities of Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
Mark Pixley is an IAF-CPF and a Certified ToP facilitator. Mark is a Director of the GFSC Global Facilitators Serving Communities. Past Board member IAF. Facilitation approaches include Technology of Participation, Open Space Technology, Future Search, Dynamic Facilitation, World Cafe, and Appreciative Inquiry.
Amy Lenzo has been hosting online engagement for well over a decade with some of the most influential thinkers and social-change agents of our times. A pioneer in her field, Amy is passionate about online interaction that can re-connect people to their senses, each other, the natural world, and the sacredness of all Life. She is an experienced World Café practitioner & director of The World Café signature learning programs, as well as the author of “the art of online hosting”, published by The Systems Thinker (March 2011).
Masato Tahara has focused online education of physics for 10 years and made online community for educators “Flipped Class Study Group” 3 years ago. Facilitation is one of the important topics in our community, because the teacher's roll change to facilitator in the flipped classroom. To improve flipped learning method, they had online workshop and online world cafe for many times. He published “Have fun studying High School Physics by understanding Differential Calculus” and other 9 science books for high school students and university students.
Yateen Gharat have been using facilitation since 2012, completed his CPF in 2015 Mumbai. In past 3 years have facilitated more than 68 workshops with diverse target audience such as, Education (Teachers, Professors, and Students). Corporate (Senior Management Teams, Leadership Teams, Sales and HR Teams.), NGO and various communities. Focus area of Facilitation – Meetings that work, Consensus building, Conflict resolution, Visioning and Strategic Planning, Leading with Facilitative Approach, Team Bonding, Communication Dynamics, and Action Planning.
Farah Shahed is a CPF. She brings her rich experience of having worked with various cultures and her openness translates this with ease and confidence. She has over 17+ years of experience and has shaped her career from Aviation in the Middle East to the learning and development sector in a new liberalized economy. Working with a wide variety of clients in India and overseas, Farah is adept at developing talent. Her focus is to deliver results based interventions which move both individuals and organizations towards their goals. She is recognized for her work in the field of leadership, cross cultural management, virtual teamwork and emotional intelligence.
Makoto Max Watanabe has deep experience on Appreciative Inquiry and Dialogic Organizational Development: more than 180 workshops. Deep experience on Positive Phycology on business: more than 120 trainings and workshops. AI practitioner: Diana Whitney named me as Distinguished Faculty. Published 4 books in Japanese language on Appreciative Inquiry and Positive Phycology. Many articles in magazine on Positive Phycology and AI.
Dr. Rajini is a psychologist and practicing learning and development professional with a little over 20 years of experience across industries including education, manufacturing, logistics, IT, ITES and healthcare. She is currently employed with Hospira Healthcare and leads learning and development for Hospira India. Rajini has presented research papers in various national conferences and facilitated over 100 sessions across India, US, UK and Middle and South East countries and covered more than 3000 people in these sessions. Rajini is an expert in learning design, learning technology, methods, learning management and delivery. Rajini speaks 5 languages which complements her facilitation skill.
Jenny currently president of the International Forum of Visual Practitioners and own two businesses that offer consulting services. Same Page People is a strategic planning & visual facilitation consultancy and Same Page Partners is a marketing communications consultancy. Prior to becoming a visual practitioner and IAF Certified Professional Facilitator, Jenny was a technology executive for 25 years in the media and software industries. Jenny’s formal education includes a Master’s degree in business and a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
Jenny’s facilitation training includes:
• Visual Facilitation and Advanced Visual Group Process training from Christina Merkley
• Strategic Visualization and Advanced Visual Facilitation from The Grove International
• The Effective Consultant and Effective Facilitator training from Leadership Strategies
Deborah is a CCF (Certified Competent Facilitator), an individual coach and (ORSC) Organization Relationship System Coaching practitioner. Deborah provides customized solutions to various enterprises in her present freelance consultant role in her focus areas such as Change Management and Leadership Development, etc. In facilitation projects she delivered, Deborah worked with clients in their cultural transformation, merger and acquisition, organization restructuring and partnership/team building. Deborah’s over 20 years’ of career experiences span the industries of education, consultancy, logistics and chemicals. She worked with business organizations such as BASF, DHL and Wall Street English, with more than 10 years in senior leadership positions.
Jeff, a Certified Integral Coach and a Facilitator, is pursuing certification in Organization & Relationship System Coaching (ORSC). His focus is executive leadership team development and collaboration. In his nearly 25 years in Asia, Jeff has worked with clients from a wide variety of organizations. His typical clients are China and Asia-responsible CEOs, Managing Directors/Partners, and their teams, leaders who mainly ask Jeff to help them take the next step in their development: a new role, dealing with a new culture, meeting a specific business objective. With clients, Jeff maintains a strong results focus – highly leavened with humor, practicality, and energy!
Lindsay Sumner have been facilitating for over 25 years, starting in the corporate IT world and working with clients to help with their consensus-based decision making no matter what the topic. Originally based in the Aerospace engineering industry, I moved into a global organization which enabled me to facilitate for clients in the Defence, Banking, Government, Retail, Entertainment and Automotive industries before moving to manage a European Client Reference Centre. My practice is now even wider in that I have expanded into community projects whilst still retaining corporate clients and I also provide facilitation and interpersonal skills training and event management. Lindsay is the Director of Certification Operations for the IAF and manage the CPF program, and am a CPF Assessor and Process Manager for the program.
Jorie is a bilingual Group Facilitator. She is certified by IAF as a professional facilitator and assessor. She is also certified by The Institute of Culture Affairs as facilitator, assessor and trainer. (ICA-CToPF). Jorie is the executive director of CP Yen Foundation. The foundation’s mission: Foster the Art of Dialogue to Facilitate Positive Social Change. Its community dialogue project “ Imagine Taiwan” won the 2009 IAF- Asia Community Outreach award. Jorie’s clients include government organizations, not -for -profit organizations and members of the corporate sector. She has facilitated programs in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, Vietnam and Kenya.
Janet Fang, Ph.D -- Adult educator, scholar, coach for community worker and educator for NGO organizational development, as well as an invited consultant for life-long learning, experimental education and the community regeneration committee of local government. Janet is specialized in community organizing and planning, adult education, participatory approach of public/community engagement and multi-stakeholders' collaboration.
Keke is a certified Holacracy Practitioner by Holacracy One, Executive coach/facilitator/consultant, and entrepreneur who focus on sustainability and social development. In 2002, she founded Kinnogene (KI). It offers facilitation services to promote reflective intelligence, and a crowd-sourcing platform for institutional learning with partnerships and programs. Before founding KI, Keke worked in Australia and Asia. She now focuses her works in China and Taiwan, where she is heavily involved in leadership, startups, and social innovation.
Lynda Lieberman Baker, principal and founder of MeetingSolution, a group process consultation and meeting facilitation firm in Austin, Texas, USA. She has served on the executive board of directors of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) and as a past president of the Austin, Texas chapter of the Association for Talent Development. Her co-authored chapter on facilitator competencies appears in the landmark publication, IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation, (Jossey-Bass, 2005). She also served on the editorial hoard of Group Facilitation: A Research and Applications Journal, published by IAF.
Terence Thong is at present a freelancer. He was a co-owner of a management consultancy company for 30 odd years. He has a BA in Psychology and an MSc in Counselling and is a trained teacher. He is a life member of the Association of Psychological and Educational Counsellors of Asia(APECA) and the Asian Regional Association of Vocational and Educational Conference(ARAVEC) - Asian based associations actively involved in guidance and counselling and educational career counselling respectively. He was a member of the International Association of Facilitators(IAF) and will always be an ardent supporter!
Evan has extensive experience in the field of education and facilitation, having worked as a university lecturer locally and overseas, where his creativity in designing programmes is enhanced by his experience in syllabus and curriculum design, having designed numerous programmes and pre-university course and first year undergraduate courses in Malaysia and Australia.. He has presented at the IAF Asia Conference in Bangalore back in 2011 and the FNS Conference in Singapore in 2012.
• Executive Director, ORP Institutes
• IAF CPF
• Certified AI Practitioner (CPC)
• 2010-2013, President, Iran Petrochemical Commercial Company’s Liaison office in Korea
• 2007-2010, Manager, Iran Petrochemical Commercial Company’s Liaison office in Korea
• 2004-2007, Manager, Ngee Enterprises Pte Ltd, Singapore
• President of ORP Institute
• Ph.D Industrial & Organizational Psychology
• Certified Top Facilitator(CTF:ICA)
• Certified AI Practitioner(CPC)
• KFACPF, Assessor
Douglas Gerber -- IAF CPF, C-Suite Advisor & Master Coach, Douglas Gerber has been building High Performance Leadership Teams and coaching Executive Talent over 30 years. Douglas has served in Senior Executive Corporate Roles for global corporations and has motivated thousands of individuals and teams to operate at peak performance, and achieve success. Douglas is an certified Facilitator and executive coach with over 8000 hours of facilitation, coaching and teambuilding engagements.
He founded his own Company in 2003. He runs facilitation based business for over ten years in Japan. He has been involved in professional facilitation for 12 years in Japan and have conducted numerous facilitation sessions, well experienced and well trained. And he experienced many global facilitation sessions, under multi-cultural situations. He is a spokesperson of WBAI (Whole Brain Architecture Institute) that intends to invent general artificial intelligence with high-profile AI scientists in Japan. You can check out these previous conducted workshops on YouTube linked below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLaz7f0tNZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOAvDUhSeic
Eri had taught at a technical college and other schools in Japan for many years. After getting a certificate of Certified Public Tax Accountant, she has made efforts to support her clients who are individuals and companies for 13 years. She is now self-employed as the director of her accounting firm, and is running three companies as the CEO. She facilitates taxation system awareness class in public schools in Japan every year. She is also currently involved in conducting facilitation to clients about management and on how to enhance their businesses to successfully achieve goals.
He is a human resource manager of Mitsui Chemicals Inc.(＝MCI) who has been working for MCI from 2002 and experienced in human resource Div. for over 14 years. He is so interested in developing his ability as a HR professional. So he participated the IAF conferences in Tokyo, Singapore, and Mumbai. Now, he is looking forward to learn facilitator’s competencies, the latest study of AI and unknown capability of human nature at the IAF conference in Hualien with delegates from all over the world.
Pepe’s mission is to create and provide facilitation and management tools for use by organisations around the world. Pepe is the developer of the “Idealogue” method, author of the Handbook of Facilitation (published in Finnish, Russian and Chinese) and Handbook of virtual facilitation (Finnish). In the course of his long international career, this seasoned professional has provided facilitation in over 20 countries and trained over 10,000 facilitators.
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IAF Taiwan Conference Organizing Team
IAF Taiwan Chapter Chairman: Eric Tseng
Conference CEO Jackie Chang
Program Team: Jorie Wu
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