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John Shibley has 30 years of experience leading complex organizational improvement efforts in a variety of industries, sectors, and settings. His practice focuses on the intersection of strategy, innovation and organizational learning. He is a flexible and imaginative consultant with a history of working successfully with a variety of clients and for moving nimbly between theory and practice, reflection and decision-making.
John enjoyed a 15-year career leading strategic Organizational Learning and Total Quality efforts in the profit sector. As the Manager of Training and Development at L. L. Bean he helped engineer that company’s system wide change to Total Quality Management. He was the lead consultant for an 8-year project in strategic product development at Harley Davidson through the Center for Organizational Learning at the Sloan School of Management/MIT, one of the longest running organizational learning projects of its kind in the world.
He was a founder of the Society for Organizational Learning and has published articles on systems dynamics, collaboration and consulting practice, and enjoys mentoring emerging organizational development consultants. John lives in Maine with his wife and a lot of guitars.
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