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T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder
In 1998-99, she developed and directed an executive education program on the applications of complexity science to business for the Colorado Center for Chaos and Complexity at the University of Colorado. As Visiting Professor (2005-2007) in the Doctor of Management program at the CTU Institute for Advanced Studies, she taught online courses on creative, critical and strategic thinking. She has also developed and presented educational programs for the CIA, the University of Lecce (Italy) and the Smithsonian Institution. She is the founder and creative director of Sanders & Company, a strategic planning, executive education and change management firm founded in Washington, DC in 1986. Earlier in her career Ms. Sanders originated and hosted a series for public television, and served as legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Sam Nunn. In addition to her work with major corporations, she has worked with a number of committees and individual members of the U.S. Congress, agencies of the U.S. intelligence community, the U.S. Armed Forces and with two cabinet secretaries. She is a graduate of Duke University and the Medical College of Georgia, and she completed a fellowship in Leadership and Organizational Change at Johns Hopkins University. She is currently serving on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Complexity in Leadership and Management. Among the organizations that have invited her to speak are:
Her work has been featured in a wide-range of publications including: Art Education, Christian Science Monitor, Continental, Management Review, Foresight, The InnerEdge, The Rocky Mountain News, Urban Land and The Washington Post. Click here for a complete list of her publications. Read Irene's interview about the applications of complexity to legal practice at the following syndicated blog for lawyers, Idealawg, written by Stephanie West Allen, JD http://westallen.typepad.com/idealawg/2006/12/interview_of_ir.html Scientific Advisory BoardMichael C. Grant, PhD(PhD, Botany, Duke University, 1974) Dr. Grant is Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education and Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In addition to his administrative duties he is an active research scientist with consistent national funding for nearly three decades and more than four dozen refereed publications covering a wide-range of topics including acid rain research, ecological and population genetics, evolutionary theory, nonlinear dynamics and cellular automata modeling. Through the Faculty Teaching Excellence Program he is actively involved in improving the quality of classroom teaching and science education, and has served as scientific consultant to a wide-range of public and private-sector organizations. He has won numerous teaching awards, is a much-requested speaker for both scientific and nonscientific audiences and is a U.S. Air Force Vietnam Era Veteran. Andrew Ilachinski, PhD(PhD, Theoretical Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1988) Dr. Ilachinski, senior research analyst and project director at the Center for Naval Analysis, is a pioneer in the applications of complexity science and agent-based modeling to military thinking and twenty-first century battlefield scenarios. He pioneered the development and application of a multi-agent-based model (EINSTein) to the study of emergent properties of land combat as a complex adaptive system. It is currently being used by over three hundred academic, commercial and military operations researchers worldwide. He is the author of numerous articles and monographs as well as two books, both published by World Scientific Publishing Company: Artificial War: Multiagent-based Simulation of Combat (2004); and, Cellular Automata: A Discrete Universe (2001). In the forward to his most recent book, U.S. Marine Corps General Paul K. Van Riper (retired) says, "When histories of this era are written Dr. Andrew Ilachinski is likely to emerge as the 'Father of Military Complexity Research'.Those in positions with responsibility for planning and conducting the Nation’s defense today and into the foreseeable future ignore this book at great peril for it offers deep and meaningful insights into war on land." Dr. Ilachinski is also an accomplished photographer and you can see samples of his work here: http://tao-of-digital-photography.blogspot.com/ Judith A. McCabe, PhD(PhD, Cultural Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1995) Dr. McCabe is a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has worked as a health and social sciences research consultant to public, private non-profit and academic institutions for over twenty years. Her areas of expertise include ethnographic and qualitative research; group and institutional cultures; organizational capacity building and change; non-profit management; fundraising and grant-writing; program evaluation; community analysis and planning; and policy research and development. Board of AdvisorsRandolph G. FloodRandolph G. Flood is currently the Co-Founding Board Member of the Green Jobs Alliance; a national nonprofit partnership of Labor and management; educational institutions and workforce investment boards; veterans’ groups and environmental organizations; community-based organizations and local governments that form the workforce training infrastructure to provide education, training and green jobs placement to American workers. The founder of Randolph G. Flood & Associates, a Washington, DC-now Williamsburg- based government relations firm which has specialized in defense and maritime issues from 1983 to 2000, the firm now focuses on energy and environmental policy, legislation, and regulations. Mr. Flood served on the professional staff of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, chaired by Senator Jennings Randolph (D) of West Virginia; and later as a legislative advisor to Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (I) of Virginia. A well-known Virginia political analyst with a keen insight into national affairs, Mr. Flood was the founder, first chairman and president of the Virginia Chapter of the Democratic Leadership Council (1992-1995), which began as a state affiliate of the then "New Democrat" think tank for the Clinton-Gore Administration. A graduate of Shepherd College, he was a founder of the New Economy Gateway Council in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia; an organization established to promote technology and economic development Walter F. LaMendola, PhDDr. LaMendola is Director of Technology and Professor for the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver, and Professor of Informatics at the University of Colorado. As a pioneer in the integration of technology, human services and education, Dr. LaMendola was co-founder of Denver FreeNet, a public Internet computer network; designed a 21st century technology-enhanced educational building (construction scheduled to start in 2003) and a "classroom of the future" for graduate social work education; and, has developed numerous interactive software programs for use by consumers, educators and program evaluators. Dr. LaMendola is the author of four books and seventy-five articles, and serves on the editorial boards of Computers in Human Services, Journal of Teaching in Social Work, and New Technology in the Human Services. He received his BA in English from St. Vincent College, an MSW in Community Organization from the University of Pittsburgh, a diploma in Sociology and Social Welfare from the University of Stockholm, and his doctorate in Social Work from the University of Minnesota. |
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Ms. Sanders, executive director and founder of the Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy and author of 