Andrea Dyer is a founder of Demeter Matrix Alliance, an alliance of senior practitioners who provide coaching, consulting, education, and facilitation to guide leaders and organizations in their efforts to create sustainable excellence.   Andrea has worked as a consultant with organizations for over 20 years.   One distinguishing aspect of her work is the ability to address the systemic relationship between organizational structure, culture, leaders and teams -- thereby creating conditions to produce lasting change.

Andrea works with her clients to recognize that they will not be as successful in the future operating from their assumptions of the past.   Some of her clients have included Agilent, Archstone Smith, The Coca-Cola Company, The Crowden Music Center, Hewlett Packard, Levi-Strauss & Company, The Minute Maid Company, Moody's KMV, Pillsbury Winthrop, Ploughshares Fund, and Sun Microsystems.   She has been a presenter at several conferences and workshops on the topics of integral coaching, leading strategic conversations, and organizational learning.

Andrea is credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation and New Ventures West, a premier and well established Coaching Organization.

Tony Kortens, Ph.D. has successfully led organizations across a broad range of leadership, team and organization change initiatives within several continents as an independent practitioner for twenty years. Early in his consulting career he achieved a 100% success rate with proposals to design and lead team leadership programs for the financial and insurance industry. Subsequent professional consultant training in Organization Development in the USA led to a broad range of consulting experiences with top teams; CEO annual conferences and complex system change efforts.

More recent client engagements have focused on helping executives deal with the emerging challenges of leading the knowledge intensive organization. In 2001 he became a professional member of the internationally recognized National Training Laboratories Institute of Applied Behavioral Sciences. He earned a mid-career professional doctorate in Human & Organizational Systems with the Fielding Graduate University in 1999. Current activities include executive coaching, the development of international consultants, supervising doctoral leadership projects and writing on current issues.

Alexander Laszlo, Ph.D. and Kathia C. Laszlo, Ph.D. are Co-Founders of Syntony Quest. They are tenured Core Faculty members at the Graduate School of Business Administration & Leadership (EGADE) of the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico, where they co-teach MBA and Doctoral courses on strategy, systems thinking, and sustainability. They taught as faculty members in both the MBA in Sustainable Business at Bainbridge Graduate Institute and the MBA in Sustainable Management at the Presidio School of Management since the first year of operation of each program. Currently, they are Adjunct Faculty Members in the MBA in Sustainable Entrepreneurship program of the Green MBA at Dominican University as well as in the Leadership of Sustainable Systems program at both the Master’s and Doctoral levels at Saybrook Graduate School & Research Center and at Sonoma State University in our Master’s in Organization Development program.

They serve on the Board of Directors of the Unity Foundation and on the Sages Advisory Panel of the Council for Global Education, are Members of the General Evolution Research Group, and are Fellows of the International Systems Institute where they have served as Representatives to the TransCultural Council. They Co-Chair the Special Integration Group on Evolutionary Development for the International Society for the Systems Sciences, of which they are past Vice-Presidents and former Board Members. In 2002, Kathia and Alexander received the Förderpreis Akademischer Klub award of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, for their work in social innovation and sustainable development, and were finalists for the 2003 Beyond Gray Pinstripes award of the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute for their academic work in sustainable business.

Visiting Resource Professionals

In addition to our regular faculty, a number of other organization development practitioners and educators provide a rich range of perspectives through short workshops, guest presentations in courses, internships and participation in students' culminating project committees:

Geoff Bellman worked inside major corporations (Ideal Basic Industries, Amoco, and G.D. Searle) fourteen years before starting his own consulting firm in 1977. His external consulting has focused on renewing large, mature corporations such as Booz Allen & Hamilton, U.S. Bancorp, Verizon, Intuit, Ernst & Young, Shell, Price Waterhouse Coopers, BP, SABMiller, Boeing, and Accenture.

Over 250,000 copies of Geoff’s books are in print in a dozen languages:

• The Consultant's Calling: Bringing Who You Are to What You Do (Jossey-Bass, 2002-2nd edition). FORBES cited this book as among their most popular small business books.
• Getting Things Done When You Are Not In Charge (Berrett-Koehler, 2001-2nd edition), a Fortune Executive Book Club selection.
• The Beauty Of The Beast: Breathing New Life into Organizations (Berrett-Koehler, 2000), is about successfully working in large organizations.
• Your Signature Path: Gaining New Perspectives on Life and Work (Berrett-Koehler, 1996) assists readers through significant life and career change.
• The Quest For Staff Leadership (Scott-Foresman, 1986), received the National Book Award from The Society for Human Resource Management.
• Finding the Magic: Why Some Groups Achieve Amazing Results, will be finished later this year. 

Geoff's consulting and workshops have taken him to five continents.  He serves as guest faculty for university graduate programs including Pepperdine, Fielding, Antioch, and Bowling Green and Sonoma State. In 2006, Geoff was chosen to receive a national award from Organization Development Network for his contributions and generosity in advancing the profession. 

Geoff grew up in Washington state, completed his undergraduate work at Gonzaga University and graduate work at the University of Oregon.

Saul Eisen, Ph.D. is the OD Program Coordinator, and one of the founders of this program at SSU. His international consulting practice integrates strategic planning, whole system redesign, and organization development. His work has been widely published in professional journals and books on organization development, and he is a frequent presenter at regional and national conferences.

Saul's research interests focus on how organizations can become more effective, sane, and continually self-renewing through dialogue and inquiry into their own ways of working and communicating. His paper, Redesigning Human and Global Systems; A Conceptual and Strategic Framework describes his approach in consulting and training consultants.

Saul provides consulting and facilitation to organizations and communities in the US and abroad. Among his clients have been educational institutions such as Rancho Cotate High School, Instituto Centro-Americano Administración de Empresa (Costa Rica), and the Jerusalem Academy of Art; Fortune 500 companies such as Bank of America, Texas Instruments, and Hewlett-Packard; and community organizations such as the City of Sebastopol, the Napa County Department of Health and Human Services, the School Board and Town Council of Windsor, and the Oregon Symphony.

Lee Glickstein is founder of Speaking Circles © International and author of Be Heard Now! Tap Into Your Inner Speaker and Communicate with Ease (Broadway Books). An authority on presence, ease and authenticity with groups, he is a keynote speaker and a leadership communications consultant and trainer. He delivers programs and coaching sessions with a unique combination of inspiration and step-by-step innovation to clients ranging from top professional communicators and business leaders, to "non-speakers" with severe stage fright.

A lifetime of stage fright motivated Lee to develop a gentle, elegant approach to break through epidemic fear of being fully oneself in public. This process of discovery led him to a thorough understanding of the principles of authentic presence. Lee has been a member of the Northern California Chapter of the National Speakers Association since 1990. In 1996, he was awarded the Athena Award for Excellence in Coaching and Mentoring.

He lives in Woodacre, California, with his wife Audrey and three cats, and his hobby is constructing crossword puzzles for the New York Times.

Lisa Heft is a facilitator and interactive learning specialist known internationally for her resources, trainings, tools and workshops on Open Space Technology and other dialogic and interactive methods for engaging deeper reflection, learning and dialogue. Whether facilitating international conferences, consulting on conflict resolution processes for teams working in Northern Iraq and East Timor, engaging interdisciplinary thinking between housekeepers, hospitality managers and CEOs for the future of a luxury resort facility, teaching interactive learning methods to health monitoring specialists from developing nations, or facilitating learning and dialogue with prison inmates -- Ms. Heft is known for her thoughtful design, clarity of communication and ability to bring diverse people together in dialogue and co-creation.

Clients on five continents include the International AIDS Conferences, U.S. Departments of Labor and Transportation, National Forum for Geosciences Information Technology, One Ocean Marine Forum, U.S. Scholar-Athlete Games, Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Inc., Family Health International, Bernardus Lodge and Winery, Quail Lodge Resort and Golf Club, International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies, Canadian National Council for Tobacco Control, Heifer International, San Quentin state prison and Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution (with whom Ms. Heft is a Fellow).

Ms. Heft is Vice President of the U.S. Open Space Institute, author of The Open Space Idea Book and chapter author for "Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Grassroots Peace Building Between Israelis and Palestinians" and many papers on facilitation, interactive learning and community health. Ms. Heft's resources and papers for facilitators and educators - as well as more information about Open Space - are available at her website.

 Tony Petrella has consulted to key executives in major corporations in the United States and internationally for over 40 years.  His work has always focused on developing greater commitment and accountability through restructuring work and improving relationships in organizations as well as creating a more trusting and risk-taking approach on the part of management.

Tony brings considerable experience, perspective, and insight to his clients about business strategy, leadership, individual and team behavior, how organizations work and how to bring about change.  His approach is collaborative, using and releasing the energy, knowledge and wisdom of his clients to achieve improved organizational performance.

The primary focus of his current work is advising key executives and consulting on issues of the management of organizational change. He consults with a few select clients and teaches in executive programs at both Columbia and Pepperdine University.  He has been a guest lecturer at The Brookings Institution and Queens University. 

In 1968 Tony co-founded Block Petrella Weisbord, Inc., and served as its managing partner until 1995. From 1975 to 1985 he also served as the Executive Director of the National Organization Development Network, a professional organization dedicated to the humanization of work and the enhancement of organizational effectiveness.  Tony has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and a Master’s Degree in Industrial Relations, both from the University of Minnesota.