Steven M. Davis, M.S., M.A. is the founder of FacilitatorU.com, a virtual university offering training, tools, and resources to group facilitators, trainers, consultants, coaches, and leaders. 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 J. Harris works as an organizational development consultant and facilitator at the UW-Madison Office of Quality Improvement (OQI) delivering services in strategic planning, meeting management, project management, and process improvement. He approaches each organization from a systems perspective by taking into account how processes, people, and content interrelate. Transforming plans into action is of particular interest to Darin. Since joining OQI in 2004, he has worked with dozens of academic departments and administrative units to achieve optimum results. Before coming to OQI, Darin spent 10 years as a policy facilitator, conflict resolution specialist, and organizational consultant for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. He is an alumnus of UW-Madison and enjoys exploring Madison’s rich community with his wife and two children. www.quality.wisc.edu
Harry Webne-Behrman is a Training Officer with UW-Madison’s Office of Human Resource Development. In that capacity, he coordinates professional development programs for campus managers and supervisors, and participates as an instructor in courses on conflict management, communication skills, facilitation skills, managerial mediation and other areas. Along with his wife, Lisa Webne-Behrman, he has served as Senior Partner of a private consulting and mediation firm, Collaborative Initiative, Inc., since 1991. Harry has worked with hundreds of businesses, schools, community groups and public agencies, and he maintains tremendous enthusiasm about the importance of learning to work collaboratively to build positive work environments. www.ohrd.wisc.edu/onlinetraining/resolution
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 Barb Bickford. As the long-time Medical Waste Coordinator at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Barb is 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, helped develop a mentoring program for DNR staff, and has offered numerous interactive workshops for healthcare and DNR staff. Until recently, Barb chaired a diverse group of stakeholders seeking to reduce the impact of pharmaceutical waste on Wisconsin’s environment and communities. 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. After retiring from DNR in January 2018, Barb will turn her full attention to teaching facilitation and supporting people who want to lead their groups more effectively. |
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Todd Brennan works for the Alliance for the Great Lakes as a Watershed Project Manager where he collaborates with communities to improve watershed health within the Great Lakes. Todd leads a team of colleagues and partners that are innovating outreach, planning and policy approaches to watershed pollution control. When done right, this typically requires fostering three expressed values: empathy, mutualism, and commitment. Todd came to the Great Lakes with salt water in his veins having worked on the North Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific oceans in expeditionary education, fisheries management and marine mammal research. Todd holds a Captains license to sail vessels up to 100 tons and sometimes acts as a relief Captain. Having sailed tens of thousands of miles on all coasts, Todd has said that there is nothing crazier than sailing for days through the heart of North America on the vast Inland Seas. Todd received his master’s degree in Water Policy and Planning at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, where he is now a member of the Alumni Board of Trustees.
