
Steven M. Davis, M.S., M.A. is the founder of FacilitatorU.com, a virtual university offering training, tools, and resources to group leaders and co-founder of Living Giving Enterprises. Steve works with his clients to overcome their fear of presenting themselves, to resolve barriers to their creativity, to empower their under-performing teams, to enhance their facilitation skills, and to build their businesses online and offline. He also publishes a weekly ezine for facilitators, the Master Facilitator Journal, to over 5,000 readers in nearly 100 countries. He offers a unique and diverse skill set encompassing management, business and life coaching, group facilitation, training design and delivery, e-commerce, marketing, writing, and engineering. With his technical background as a former engineer, coupled with his passion and experience in personal development and group leadership, he’s well equipped to help individuals and teams get pragmatic results. Recent work includes delivery of live and virtual seminars in facilitation, coaching, collaboration, sustainable leadership, communication, change, and life management skills. He just completed a book to empower group participants called, “12 Courageous Acts of Leadership for Participants to Change Meetings for Good.” To learn more about Steve, visit his website at www.livingmastery.com.

Darin Harris is co-founder of Living Giving Enterprises, an organizational and leadership development company home of Journeyofcollaboration.com.
For over 25 years, Darin has led people, programs, and projects to unparalleled performance. Local, state, federal, and international public sector, non-profit, and private, for-profit organizations call on his expertise in organizational consulting and facilitation. He draws from a suite of professional skills including group facilitation and problem-solving, strategic planning, process improvement, project management, and policy analysis and evaluation.
His clients include: X4 Health; Menasha Corporation; Washington State Employee Credit Union; Friends of the Pheasant Branch Conversancy; Wisconsin’s Green Fire; University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; University of Vermont; WI Department of Human Services; Madison Metropolitan School District; Middleton-Cross Plains School District; Williamson Street Grocery Cooperative; American Players Theatre; City of Columbus; Middleton Chamber of Commerce; International Crane Foundation; WI Department of Natural Resources; River Alliance; Wisconsin Environmental Initiative; and the Environmental Council of States (ECOS).
In 2007, he teamed with FacilitatorU to create a comprehensive, week-long facilitative leadership program called Journey of Facilitation and Collaboration (JoFC)that has drawn nearly 800 participants from across the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Darin is a speaker, author and instructor who guest lectures at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Edgewood College in Madison, WI and Northland College in Ashland, WI. He held a distinguished prefix title for his work at UW-Madison, where he worked as an internal consultant at the Office of Strategic Consulting for over 15 years.

Harry Webne-Behrman. Harry Webne-Behrman has served as a facilitator and mediator for over 35 years. Along with his wife, Lisa Webne-Behrman, he is Senior Partner of Collaborative Initiative, Inc., a private consulting and mediation firm based in Madison, Wisconsin. Harry has worked with hundreds of businesses, schools, community groups and public agencies. Harry also worked for many years with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of Human Resources, teaching professional courses on conflict management, communication skills, facilitation skills, managerial mediation and other areas. In November 2006, Harry received the Wisconsin Association of Mediators Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his extensive contributions to the field. He is the author of The Practice of Facilitation (1998), Guardian of the Process (1994), and other training manuals in facilitation and conflict resolution. Harry currently lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
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![]() Barb Bickford is principal at Bickford Collaboration in the eastern metro area of Minnesota, where she trains and supports groups to collaborate for health and sustainability. Recently retired from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, she was subject matter expert in medical waste and was known for fostering collaboration among healthcare organizations, regulators, law enforcement, waste managers and others. Barb was a key partner in a three-year multi-state project to keep pharmaceuticals out of the Great Lakes and chaired a diverse group of stakeholders seeking to reduce the impact of pharmaceutical waste on Wisconsin’s environment and communities. She helped develop a mentoring program for DNR staff, spearheaded a program to help DNR staff get to know one another and what they do, and offered numerous interactive workshops for healthcare and DNR staff. In 2013, the DNR Board presented Barb with the DNR’s highest award (the Rebecca Wallace Award) for her leadership in mentoring and seeking collaborative solutions to environmental issues. Barb is a quiet yet strong leader with extensive group experience as diverse as leading a Girl Scout troop, founding and facilitating a support group for women in jail, hosting international students, leading wilderness canoe trips, offering healing retreats and playing bass in a “roots” style band. She is thrilled to be supporting leaders to greater collaboration through JOFC. |
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Sandy Salvo is Founder of Centered Connections, helping businesses and individuals seeking to reach their full potential. Recently retired from the healthcare industry where she served as an improvement coach, quality analyst, and program manager for patient and family-centered care, Sandy is currently focusing her time on the things she loves most: teaching JOFC; spending time with her grandchildren; facilitating Resilience and Thriving workshops; and organizing retreats aimed at promoting compassion, vitality and self-awareness through Qigong and meditation practices. In her career, Sandy has also served non-profits and the government sector as a trainer, facilitator and improvement coach. Sandy has a master’s degree in Human Resource Management and is certified through the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi. She is passionate about helping leaders discover new ways of acting and being that opens doors to healthy dialogue and results in new possibilities for them and their teams. |
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