Advisory Board

And, the real advisors are …

Ade Mabogunje

Dr. Ade Mabogunje serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Design Research at Stanford University. Born in Nigeria, Ade Mabogunje is a design engineer who redefines both design and engineering. “Creating the framework and space for a village community to help itself design sustainable ventures” is Ade’s vision of design engineering. His quiet intensity is at once inspiring and challenging. If you walk into one of his classes, you could see him throw objects at the students to see how they catch it and follow it with a lecture on, “Design begins with play.”

Charlie Seashore
A pioneering consulting social psychologist to government agencies and the health care industry, Dr. Charlie Seashore served as Board President of National Training Laboratories (NTL) from 1988-1990, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the national Organizational Development Network in 2004. Charlie has also served as faculty member of American University/National Training Laboratories Master’s Program in Human Resources Development, faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University Program in Applied Behavioral Science, and as Faculty Chair for the School of Human and Organization Development, Fielding Graduate University.

Chris Messina

Chris Messina, aka FactoryJoe, currently residing in San Francisco, is employed as an Open Source Advocate at identity company Vidoop. Messina was formerly co-founder of marketing agency Citizen Agency. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003 with a BA in Communication Design. Messina is best known for his involvement in helping to create the coworking movement, BarCamp,  and spread Firefox. Messina is an active proponent of Microformats and OAuth.

Messina co-founded Citizen Agency, a company which describes itself as “Internet consultancy that specializes in developing community-centric strategies around product research, design, development and marketing” with Tara Hunt and Ben Metcalfe, who has since left the company.

Messina was featured with Hunt, also his ex-girlfriend, in “So Open it Hurts”, in San Francisco Magazine (August, 2008). The article detailed their very public and open relationship shared on the internet, and the lessons they derived from that experience.

Dan Frederickson

Dan Frederickson, former President of Kinko’s for 11 years, oversaw Kinko’s transformation from that of a local copy shop to an international business-services provider, offering the latest in high-tech, state-of-the-art business services. While he was president of the company’s headquarters, Kinko’s experienced its most aggressive growth and expansion. The company’s retail network increased to 850 locations in six countries from some 180 branch offices in the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea and Australia. Frederickson is a resident of Ventura, where he lives with his wife CiCie, who is a co-worker at Kinko’s headquarters. A native of Missouri, Frederickson attended Central Missouri State University where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in music education and a master’s degree in education. He served in Vietnam with the United States Marine Corps.

Don Bushnell
Dr. Don Bushnell is the Founding Chair of the School of Human and Organization Development at Fielding Graduate University, and a founder of the Institute for Social Innovation.  For the past thirty five years, Dr. Bushnell has been both an international management consultant with NGOs in Central Europe and in Africa, and an educator who has pioneered distance learning practices in professional education in the U.S. and abroad. Don served as a board member of Dreamfish.

Mary Ann Huckabay

Dr. Mary Ann Huckabay has been a significant force at Stanford Graduate School of Business in shaping the Interpersonal Dynamics course, as well as the Group Facilitation Training Program and the Women in Management Student Group Program. Dr. Huckabay is probably best known in the field of Organization Development as the mentor of hundreds of group facilitators and for establishing a West Coast style of T-group facilitation. Mary Ann’s work has focused on micro-organizational behavior: the dynamics of small groups and interpersonal effectiveness. She espouses the integration of the personal and the organizational domains of human behavior since it is the separation of these two spheres that has been so profoundly costly to the effectiveness of the organizational systems we all inhabit. This emphasis on integrating the organizational and the personal runs through the programs she has cultivated at Stanford.

Nancy White

Nancy White is an international practitioner in understanding and practicing online group facilitation of distributed work, learning and community groups (presenter, writer, teacher, coach, facilitator, rapporteur). Nancy has been listed as one of the “top influencers” in the industry.  She is a technology steward, designer and builder of online interaction spaces (events, teams, learning groups) with extensive work with “web 2.0” tools and approaches and community and instructional design. A frequent guest speaker and presenter, Nancy is the founding partner of Full Circle Training, and guest faculty for Etienne Wenger’s Communities of Practice workshop, guest adjunct faculty at Royal Roads University’s Knowledge Management Program, Victoria, BC, Antioch University, Seattle (Whole Systems Design Program), and former faculty for CoIl’s Knowledge Ecology University’s Online Facilitation course.

Teddy Zmrhal

Teddy Zmrhal is a serial social entrepreneur with 15 years’ experience in business formation and strategy, technology, product development, board directorship and teaching/learning sciences. He has co-founded 4 companies and non-profits/boards.

His career encompasses work with Fortune 500 executive teams, startup management teams, corporate and non-profit boards of directors, regional and national leadership networks, and “authorized” and “emergent” communities of practice. (but he is still and always will be most a fan of upstarts and underdogs)

His corporate assignments include Strategy and Product Development for SmartForce, LLC, Consultant at Accenture and Deloitte Consulting, Financial Research Consultant for the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Trainer and Consultant for Motorola Inc, Founder and Vice President of Product Development for Learning Productions LLC and Partner at Congruity, a boutique strategy and leading edge technology and social architecture consultancy in Silicon Valley. He was the Founder and Chief Operating Officer at B!, a health and wellness startup in Silicon Valley.

Teddy also sits on the Board of Trustees for San Francisco based foolsFury theatre, and the Advisory Board of Sound Goods, LLC a New York City based startup looking to ‘green’ the retail apparel supply chain.

Originally from Chicago, Teddy earned a Masters in Learning Sciences from Northwestern and MBAs in Strategy and Organizational Behavior from Columbia and London Business Schools and was a Visiting Scholar in Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford. He has studied in the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America, lived in Chicago, New York, Madrid, London, and San Francisco and traveled to nearly a quarter of the world’s countries.
Specialties

strategy, management/organizational behavior, culture, entrepreneurship, design thinking, economics, learning design, social architecture, social software, social network analysis, cognitive psychology, HCI, experience design, social psychology, innovation, business models, execution, project/process management, high performance teams, Trust, Integrity, Sociology, Anthropology, User-Centered Design, Ethnography, network visualization, Social-Centered Design, Reputation Systems