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Doug Kerr

Doug Kerr

Based in Vancouver on the west coast of Canada, Doug Kerr is an experienced trainer and management consultant who specializes in:

  • Appreciative Inquiry workshops
  • Instructional skills development and training program design
  • Management development – from front-line supervisors to senior executives
  • Facilitation of group processes with intact management and work teams
  • Executive coaching and training executive coaches
  • Commercial negotiation skills training and consulting.

Over the past 30 years Doug has worked across the continent with a broad range of clientele, including all levels of business and industry, post-secondary institutions, public health organizations, and non-profit organizations. Doug has been certified by Company of Experts.net as both an Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator and an Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (AIFT©) Trainer.

The Instructional Skills Workshop Program (ISW)

Doug is known internationally as the original developer of the Instructional Skills Workshop program (ISW), an intensive, video-based micro-teaching training program for post-secondary instructors. Since its inception in 1978, the program has trained over 5,000 post-secondary instructors in British Columbia, as well as thousands more across Canada. It has been conducted in the UK, several African countries including Zimbabwe and Ghana, the United Arab Emirates, and a number of Caribbean countries. The program has been implemented state-wide in California, and has been conducted in over 20 states in the USA.

Training for Trainers

Since going private in 1981, Doug has trained thousands of workshop participants to design and deliver training within their own organizations – health professionals, tradespeople, managers, retail clerks, academics, engineers, technicians, firefighters – people from all walks of life, from sea to sea to sea.

Leadership Development/Management Development

The three four-day Supervisory Skills Workshops Doug began designing in 1994 for the Yukon Territorial Government have become recognized as the standard training program for entry-level supervisors and managers across the territory. Doug has also custom-designed training programs for a broad range of both public- and private-sector middle managers and senior executives for over 25 years.

Facilitation

Doug Kerr is a master facilitator. Over the past thirty years Doug has designed and facilitated workshops and conferences for a broad range of leadership teams and work teams in both the public and private sector. Doug brings to his facilitation work a sense of timing, an understanding of the need for both engagement and detachment, an appreciation of the capabilities of groups, and a sense of humor. Doug custom designs every workshop he facilitates, based on input from the group and the organization. Some of the types of workshops and conferences Doug has facilitated are listed below:

  • Appreciative Inquiry
  • Fundamental Change Processes
  • Contemporary First Nations Governance, Leadership, and Management – for politically elected leaders and senior managers in First Nations communities
  • Strategic Planning – for Boards of Directors of not-for-profit organizations and senior managers in a variety of private and public sector organizations
  • Effective Self-Management Skills – workshops for troubled managers – i.e., managers in difficulty within their own organization
  • Team Development – workshops designed to help management teams and work teams increase their effectiveness

Executive Coaching

In his work as a trainer and facilitator, Doug has coached hundreds of executives, professionals, managers, board members, and political representatives. He is a graduate of the Senior Level Intensive Certificate Program of The Center for Executive Coaching, Professional School of Psychology, Sacramento, CA, and a co-trainer of the program with Dr. William Bergquist. As a certificated executive coach, Doug brings an appreciative approach to his work with his coaching colleagues.

Negotiation Skills Training

Over the past 10 years Doug has designed and conducted intensive, experiential training workshops in negotiation skills for cleintele ranging from First Nations treaty negotiators to purchasing agents, salespeople, consultants, managers, and executives.

Doug holds a Master of Education degree in adult education from the University of British Columbia, and a professional teaching certificate from Notre Dame University in British Columbia. His Bachelor of Arts in English and philosophy was earned at Bishop’s University.

Doug Kerr is an energetic, enthusiastic consultant and trainer who brings integrity, perspective, and over 30 years of experience to every consulting assignment he takes on.

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Specialties:

  • Appreciative Inquiry
  • Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training
  • Change Management
  • Delegation
  • Executive Coaching
  • Instructional Design
  • Instructional Skills Workshops (ISW)
  • Instructional Skills Workshops (ISW) Facilitator Training
  • Leadership Development
  • Learning Organizations
  • Management Development
  • Negotiation
  • Organization Development
  • Performance managment
  • Presentation Skills Workshops (PSW)
  • Sales Training
  • Strategic Planning
  • Strength Deployment Inventory and Relationship Awareness Theory (TM)
  • Supervision
  • Team Development

Carolyn Weisenberger

Carolyn Weisenberger

Carolyn Rainey Weisenberger, BS, LPN, is an educational consultant. Carolyn brings 28 years of facilitating wellness and growth for others; 22 of those years have been in the field of experiential learning.

She has worked with hundreds of corporations, community organizations and schools to develop individual and organizational excellence.

Carolyn uses the integration of Appreciative Inquiry, other strength-based tools, and experiential education as a dynamic method for helping clients move forward with motivation toward their vision and goals.

She co-designed and patented an award winning, innovative, high performance portable low ropes course. Carolyn has co-authored From Conflict to Collaboration and the Facilitator Manual for the Low Ropes Course.

Carolyn is an Associate Member of AI Consulting, LLC, and a member of the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), the Positive Change Corps (PCC), and the Association for Experiential Education (AEE).  Carolyn is a certified Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Trainer

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Specialties:

  • Appreciative Inquiry
  • Appreciative Inquiry in the mental health field
  • Brain-based learning
  • Collaborative Decision Making
  • Communication Skills Development
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Emotional Intelligence in the workplace
  • Experiential Learning
  • Forte Facilitator
  • Leadership Development
  • Life Skills Facilitator
  • Management Development
  • Parallel Thinking
  • Team Building
  • Relationship Building

Cheri Torres

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What might be possible if community and organization members were fully engaged and using their strengths to collectively achieve shared visions?

This is the question that motivates Cheri Torres and has her focused on collaboration. Given current global challenges, Cheri uses strengths-based organizational design practices to help clients respond effectively to increasing levels of complexity in their environments and growing demand for innovation and change. Her strategy is to expand collaborative capacity in communities and organizations using Appreciative Inquiry, Sociotechnical Systems Design, and Experiential Learning.  She does this by partnering with her clients to intentionally design workplace environments, multi-stakeholder conversations, organizational systems and individual and team training to maximize value for all stakeholders.

Her experience has taught her that systems and events that are intentionally designed for collaboration elicit our inherent collaborative capacity, regardless of our differences in background, views, or values. Expanding that capacity through lessons and intentional practice leads to increasing competence in thinking and working together with joy and creativity, resulting in sustainable innovation and ever-evolving excellence.

Cheri believes people are capable of extraordinary contributions when given the opportunity; consequently, she works with organization and community leadership to design for full engagement, and she provides strategies for people to expand their capacity to take advantage of new opportunities.  Her training and coaching programs are uniquely designed for immediate and long-term impact, focusing on changing workplace practices rather than people.

Cheri has worked in education, healthcare, manufacturing, service industries, government, military, and community services thoughout the United States as well as in Mexico, Canada, Ireland, and Great Britain. She has trained thousands in the practice of Appreciative Inquiry and Experiential Learning and she has authored or co-authored numerous articles and books, including Dynamic Relationships: Unleashing the Power of Appreciative Inquiry in Daily Living, The Appreciative Facilitator, and From Conflict to Collaboration. In 1996 she co-designed a patented, award winning, innovative portable challenge course training using Appreciative Inquiry, which is used in hundreds of schools, community youth programs, military training programs, and corporations around the world.

Cheri holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with a specialization in Collaborative Learning from the University of Tennessee. She also holds an MBA, a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology, Level II certification in Spiral Dynamics Integral, and training in the Sociotechnical Systems Design Process.

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Specialties:

  • Appreciative Inquiry
  • Appreciative Process
  • Collaborative Decision Making
  • Communication
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Leadership
  • Learning Styles
  • Management Development
  • Myer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
  • Service Learning
  • Team Building