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with Madelyn Blair, PhD., MBA
Salmon Rushdie says that we “live in a sea of stories.” Paul Costello, Founding Director of New Story Leadership, says “we are born into stories from before our birth.” What is it about stories that they exist in every culture, that they form our culture, that they even form ourselves. Take a step to understanding this form of communication that humans have used from earliest time (for example, myths) and begin to appreciate how we can form the stories as well as be formed by them.
The session will be an interactive one.
Madelyn Blair is founder and president of Pelerei, Inc. She is a facilitator, designer of learning experiences, and expert researcher, building her work on strength-based techniques. Her joy is in working with individuals and groups to bring them to another level of accomplishment. Her clients include Bank of Canada, The World Bank, Brookings Institute, Transamerica Reinsurance, American University, Smithsonian Institution, and the National Institute of Health.
She is a founding member of Goldenfleece, co-moderator of Worldwide Story Work on ning.com, an Associate of the Taos Institute, and co-director of the Center for Narrative Studies. Dr. Blair received her doctorate in organizational psychology from the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, and holds an MBA from The Wharton School.
Madelyn is the author of Riding the Current: How to Deal with the Daily Deluge of Data. She is a contributing author of Lessons from the Field and Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over. She is a wife and a mother and enjoys mountain climbing.
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